Legal status and health insurance among immigrants
Legal status and health insurance among immigrants
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DOI：
10.1377/hlthaff.24.6.1640
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发表时间：
2005-11-01
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影响因子：
9.7
通讯作者：
Sood, N
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作者：
Goldman, DP;Smith, JP;Sood, N
在没有医疗保险的非老年美国成年人中，外国出生的人占了不成比例的比例。使用来自洛杉矶县的数据，我们发现，大多数外国出生的和本地出生的保险差异可以用传统的社会经济因素来解释。然而，即使在控制了一系列因素之后，无证移民的私人和公共保险覆盖率也较低。将洛杉矶县的比率应用于美国人口意味着，在1980年至2000年期间，无证移民占美国无保险成年人总数增长的三分之一。
The foreign-born represent a disproportionate share of nonelderly U.S. adults without health insurance. Using data from Los Angeles County, we find that most of the insurance disparities between the foreign-born and native-born can be explained by traditional socioeconomic factors. Undocumented immigrants, however, have lower rates of coverage-both private and public-even after a wide array of factors are controlled for. Applying Los Angeles County rates to the U.S. population implies that undocumented immigrants account for one-third of the total increase in the number of uninsured adults in the United States between 1980 and 2000.