Findings from Texas A&M University Update Understanding of Health and Medicine (Inequities in Forgone Medical Care and Health Insurance in a Key Geopolitical Area Along the US-Mexico Border): Health and Medicine

2025 OCT 06 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at CDC & FDA Daily -- Researchers detail new data in Health and Medicine. According to news reporting originating in College Station, Texas, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Residents of the US-Mexico border face cost-related barriers in accessing necessary medical care. Given the potential for individualized or broader tailoring of solutions to reflect community needs, we sought to identify risk factors for being uninsured and forgoing necessary medical care due to cost among a largely Hispanic adult population residing along the US-Mexico border.”

Financial support for this research came from National Institutes of Health (NIH)-National Cancer Institute.

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Texas A&M University, “Surveys among adults in a major US-Mexico border area were used to investigate cost-related forgone medical care and lack of insurance. Binary Logit models were employed to model multiple binary outcomes informed by our theoretical frameworks. Lower education, Hispanic ethnicity, being younger, lacking underlying illness and/or having obesity, forgoing medical care due to cost, and having lower income were associated with a higher likelihood of being uninsured; while being female, being younger, having underlying illness and/or having obesity (potential increased risk of severe illness due to COVID-19), lacking insurance, and having a lower income were risk factors for forgone medical care due to cost.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “This study adds novel insight into existing health inequities facing those residing along the US-Mexico border region, thereby holding timely public health implications.”

For more information on this research see: Inequities in Forgone Medical Care and Health Insurance in a Key Geopolitical Area Along the US-Mexico Border. Healthcare, 2025;13(18):2295. Healthcare can be contacted at: Mdpi, St Alban-Anlage 66, Ch-4052 Basel, Switzerland. (CSIRO Publishing - www.publish.csiro.au; Healthcare - http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/241.htm)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Wei Li, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, United States. Additional authors for this research include Samuel D. C. Towne, Chanam Lee, Minjie Xu, Jiahe Bian, Leah D. Whigham and Marcia G. Ory.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13182295. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

The publisher of the journal Healthcare can be contacted at: Mdpi, St Alban-Anlage 66, Ch-4052 Basel, Switzerland.

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