Studies Conducted at Oakland University on Primary Care and Community Health Recently Published (Disparities in Health Insurance Among Middle Eastern and North African American Children in the US): Health and Medicine – Primary Care and Community Health

2024 JUN 04 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Data detailed on primary care and community health have been presented. According to news originating from Rochester, Michigan, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “To estimate and compare the proportion of foreign-born Middle Eastern/North African (MENA) children without health insurance, public, or private insurance to foreign- and US-born White and US-born MENA children.”

Financial supporters for this research include Maternal And Child Health Bureau.

The news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Oakland University: “Using 2000 to 2018 National Health Interview Survey data (N = 311 961 children) and 2015 to 2019 American Community Survey data (n = 1 892 255 children), we ran multivariable logistic regression to test the association between region of birth among non-Hispanic White children (independent variable) and health insurance coverage types (dependent variables). In the NHIS and ACS, foreign-born MENA children had higher odds of being uninsured (NHIS OR = 1.50, 95%CI = 1.10-2.05; ACS OR = 2.11, 95%CI = 1.88-2.37) compared to US-born White children. In the ACS, foreign-born MENA children had 2.11 times higher odds (95%CI = 1.83-2.45) of being uninsured compared to US-born MENA children.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Our findings have implications for the health status of foreign-born MENA children, who are currently more likely to be uninsured. Strategies such as interventions to increase health insurance enrollment, updating enrollment forms to capture race, ethnicity, and nativity can aid in identifying and monitoring key disparities among MENA children.”

For more information on this research see: Disparities in Health Insurance Among Middle Eastern and North African American Children in the US. Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2024,15. (Journal of Primary Care & Community Health - http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jpc). The publisher for Journal of Primary Care & Community Health is SAGE Publishing.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/21501319241255542.

Our news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Florence J. Dallo, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, United States. Additional authors for this research include Kyrah K. Brown, Adebola Obembe, Tiffany Kindratt.

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