Health insurance, healthcare utilization and language use among populations who experience risk for tuberculosis, California 2014-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Background

California tuberculosis (TB) prevention goals include testing more than ten million at-risk Californians and treating two million infected with tuberculosis. Adequate health insurance and robust healthcare utilization are crucial to meeting these goals, but information on these factors for populations that experience risk for TB is limited.

Methods

We used data from the 2014-2017 California Health Interview Survey (n = 82,758), a population-based dual-frame telephone survey to calculate survey proportions and 95% confidence intervals (CI) stratified by country of birth, focusing on persons from countries of birth with the highest number of TB cases in California. Survey proportions for recent doctor's visit, overall health, smoking, and diabetes were age-adjusted.

SUBMITTER: Readhead A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9129044 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature