The risk typology of healthcare access and its association with unmet healthcare needs in Asian Americans. Academic Article

abstract

• Using data from the 2015 Asian American Quality of Life Survey (N=2,609), latent profile analysis was conducted on general (health insurance, usual place for care and income) and immigrant-specific (nativity, length of stay in the U.S., English proficiency and acculturation) risk factors of healthcare access. Latent profile analysis identified a three-cluster model (low-risk, moderate-risk and high-risk groups). Compared with the low-risk group, the odds of having an unmet healthcare need was 1.52 times greater in the moderate-risk group and 2.24 times greater in the high-risk group. Challenging the myth of model minority, the present sample of Asian Americans demonstrates its vulnerability in access to healthcare. Findings also show the heterogeneity in healthcare access risk profiles.

authors

• Huang, Ya-Ching

published proceedings

• Health Soc Care Community

altmetric score

• 0.25

author list (cited authors)

• Jang, Y., Park, N. S., Yoon, H., Huang, Y., Rhee, M., Chiriboga, D. A., & Kim, M. T.

citation count

• 17

publication date

• January 2018

publisher

• Hindawi  Publisher

keywords

• Access To Healthcare
• Acculturation
• Asian
• Asian Americans
• Female
• Health Services Accessibility
• Health Services Needs And Demand
• Humans
• Insurance, Health
• Latent Profiling
• Male
• Medically Uninsured
• Poverty
• Quality Of Life
• Risk Factors
• Unmet Healthcare Needs

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/hsc.12463

start page

• 72

end page

• 79

volume

• 26

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12463