The Unauthorized Residency Status Myth: Health Insurance Coverage and Medical Care Use among Mexican Immigrants in California

Enrico A. Marcelli

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dc.creator	Enrico A. Marcelli
dc.date	2004
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-22T17:45:19Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-22T17:45:19Z
dc.identifier	http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=15102401
dc.identifier.uri	http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/87294
dc.description	Informed by recent developments in the behavioral model of medical care use and social epidemiology, this article employs survey data to estimate whether unauthorized residency status among non elderly Mexican and other-Latino immigrant adultsin California influenced the probability of having had health insurance and havingreceived medical care. Unauthorized residency status is estimated to have decreased the probability of having been insured, and augmented the probability of havingrelied on public health insurance. However, after controlling for other individual characteristics, neighborhood context, and social capital, neither insurance nor residency status appears to have influenced whether a person obtained needed medicalcare. Rather, neighborhood context, difficulty locating a medical care facility, andcivic engagement appear to be more important for understanding use of medical services.
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, A.C.
dc.relation	http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=151
dc.rights	Migraciones Internacionales
dc.source	Migraciones Internacionales (México) Num.4 Vol.2
dc.subject	Demografía
dc.subject	International migration
dc.subject	medical care
dc.subject	undocumented migrants
dc.subject	Mexico
dc.subject	United States
dc.title	The Unauthorized Residency Status Myth: Health Insurance Coverage and Medical Care Use among Mexican Immigrants in California
dc.type	artículo científico