Table 5 Racial/ethnic differences in health status, special healthcare needs, access to healthcare, unmet healthcare needs, use of health services, parental out-of-pocket costs of health services, parental satisfaction with pediatric care, and parental-reported financial burden of child’s healthcare among uninsured minority children eligible for but not insured by Medicaid or CHIP (N = 267)a
Measure | Latinos (N = 174) | African-Americans (N = 93) | P |
|---|---|---|---|
Health status | |||
 Worry about child’s health more than other people | 89 % | 73 % | <.01 |
Special healthcare need | |||
 Asthma | 10 % | 25 % | <.01 |
 ADHD | 4 % | 12 % | .02 |
Access to healthcare | |||
 Has no PCP | 70 % | 52 % | <.01 |
 No usual source of preventive care | 51 % | 23 % | <.01 |
 Source of sick care and preventive care different | 60 % | 45 % | .02 |
 Usual source of care has no night or weekend office hours | 93 % | 79 % | <.01 |
 Doesn’t have 24-hour phone coverage for sick care | 95 % | 75 % | <.01 |
 No access to same-day sick-care visit without appointment | 27 % | 43 % | .01 |
 Never/sometimes receive help or advice over phone | 3 % | 11 % | .01 |
Unmet healthcare needs | |||
 Didn’t receive all needed acute care | 5 % | 18 % | .01 |
 Didn’t receive all needed prescription medications | 7 % | 15 % | .03 |
Use and out-of-pocket costs of health services | |||
 Mean out-of-pocket cost per doctor visitb | $153.2 | $119.5 | <.01 |
 Mean out-of-pocket cost per preventive-care visitc | $50.0 | $40.4 | .03 |
 Mean out-of-pocket cost per sick visitd | 210.3 | 160.5 | .01 |
 Mean number of sick visits in past year | 1.8 | 1.7 | .04 |
 Mean number of ED visits in past year | 0.5 | 1.5 | .03 |
Parental satisfaction with care | |||
 Doctor never/sometimes understands how I prefer to raise my child | 21 % | 37 % | .01 |
Parental-reported financial burden | |||
 Need additional income to cover child’s medical expenses | 39 % | 55 % | .02 |