Health, Well-being, and Health Care Access in Rural Communities: Comparing Latino and Non-Latino White Low-income Families

Fam Community Health. 2018 Apr/Jun;41(2):73-82. doi: 10.1097/FCH.0000000000000193.

Abstract

This study explores how low-income rural Latino children and their mothers differ from their non-Latino white counterparts in terms of health, well-being, and health care access. A subsample of non-Latino white (n = 201) and Latino (n = 157) children and their mothers was drawn from the Rural Families Speak about Health Project, a multistate, cross-sectional data set developed through mixed purposive sampling methods. Findings suggest that Latino children's families were disadvantaged in terms of child health and access to health care, whereas non-Latino white children's families were disadvantaged in terms of child behavior problems and maternal health and depression.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Female
  • Health Services Accessibility / trends*
  • Hispanic or Latino
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Poverty / ethnology*
  • Rural Population / trends*
  • White People