Trends in Uninsurance Among Rural Minority Children.

摘要

The societal and personal benefits of health insurance coverage for children are well documented. Contemporary efforts to reduce the number of children lacking health insurance, such as SCHIP, have demonstrated much success. Nonetheless, disparities in health insurance coverage for both minority and rural children persist, with children who are simultaneously minority race/ethnicity and living in rural areas being particularly disadvantaged. We used twenty-one years of data from the National Health Interview Survey, a nationally representative household survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to explore trends in health insurance and health services utilization for children between 1980 and 2001. In this research, rural is defined as living in a county that is not in a metropolitan area. Due to data limitations, we cannot analyze the experience of children of all race/ethnicities, but focus on non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic African American, and Hispanic children.