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Health Care Use Among Undocumented Latino Immigrants: Is free health care the main reason why Latinos come to the United States? A unique look at the facts.
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Using data from a 1996/1997 survey of undocumented Latino immigrants in four sites, we examine reasons for coming to the United States, use of health care services, and participation in government programs. We find that undocumented Latinos come to this country primarily for jobs. Their ambulatory health care use is low compared with that of all Latinos and all persons nationally, and their rates of hospitalization are comparable except for hospitalization for childbirth. Almost half of married undocumented Latinos have a child who is a U.S. citizen. Excluding undocumented immigrants from receiving government-funded health care services is unlikely to reduce the level of immigration and likely to affect the well-being of children who are U.S. citizens living in immigrant households.
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- Berk, M. L., Schur, C. L., Chavez, L. R., & Frankel, M.
- Venue
- Health Affairs
- Publisher
- Health Affairs Publishing, LLC
- Published
- 2000-07
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 51-64
- ISSN
- 0278-2715 (ISSN-L)
- 1544-5208
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- W2016599343
- Cited by
- 278
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- FWCI
- 4.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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