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August 2006, Vol 96, No. 8 | American Journal of Public Health 1449-1455
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.069500

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Parental English Proficiency and Children’s Health Services Access

Stella M. Yu, ScD, MPH, Z. Jennifer Huang, MB, PhD, MPH, Renee H. Schwalberg, MPH and Rebecca M. Nyman, MPH

Stella M. Yu is with the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Rockville, Maryland. At the time of the study, Z. Jennifer Huang was with Children National Medical Center, Washington, DC. Renee Schwalberg is with Health Systems Research, Washington, DC. Rebecca Nyman was with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc, Washington, DC.

Correspondence: Request for reprints should be send to Stella Yu, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, 5600 Fishers Lane, 18A-55, Rockville, MD 20857 (e-mail: syu{at}hrsa.gov).

Objectives. We examined the relation between parents’ level of English proficiency and their children’s access to health care.

Methods. Using the 2001 California Health Interview Survey, we conducted bivariate and multivariate analyses of several measures of children’s access to health care (current health insurance status, usual source of care, emergency room visits, delayed or forgone care, traveling to another country for health care, and perceived discrimination in health care) and their association with parents’ English proficiency.

Results. Compared with English-speaking households, children in non–English-speaking households were more likely to lack health insurance, to not have doctor contact, and to go to other countries for health care and were less likely to use emergency rooms. Their parents were less likely to report their children’s experiencing delayed or forgone care or discrimination in health care.

Conclusion. English proficiency is a strong predictor of access to health insurance for children, and children in non–English-speaking families are especially likely to rely on other countries for their health care. English proficiency may mitigate the effects of race/ethnicity commonly observed in health care access and utilization studies.




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