Declining health insurance access among US Hispanic workers: not all jobs are created equal.

Autor: McCollister KE; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer, Miami, Florida 33136, USA. kmccolli@med.miami.edu, Arheart KL, Lee DJ, Fleming LE, Davila EP, LeBlanc WG, Christ SL, Caban-Martinez AJ, West JP, Clark JE 3rd, Erard MJ
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: American journal of industrial medicine [Am J Ind Med] 2010 Feb; Vol. 53 (2), pp. 163-70.
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20720
Abstrakt: Introduction: Approximately 18% of the U.S. population are uninsured, a proportion that may continue to rise, particularly among Hispanics, as the cost of medical care increases faster than the growth in wages.
Methods: Health insurance trends were analyzed by race-ethnic category, and among Hispanic workers by occupation type and industrial sector, using data on employed respondents > or =18 years from 1997 to 2007 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) (mean annual n = 17,392, representing 123 million US workers on average over this 11 year period).
Results: From 1997 to 2007, the relative decline in health insurance coverage for US workers was greatest among Hispanics (7.0%). Hispanic workers in the Construction and Services industries had the greatest overall decline in coverage (24.9% and 14.7%), as well as Hispanic blue collar workers (14.0%).
Conclusion: Hispanic workers in general, and those employed in blue collar, construction, and services sectors in particular, are at greater risk for poor access to health care due to a lack of health insurance coverage.
(Copyright 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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