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Beyond the Ability to Pay: The Health Status of Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders in Relationship to Health Insurance.
Hawai'i Journal of Medicine & Public Health : a Journal of Asia Pacific Medicine & Public Health 2017 March
Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders (NHOPI) suffer from a number of poor health outcomes, such as high rates of overweight status, obesity, hypertension, and high rates of asthma and cancer mortality. In addition to a disproportionate burden of illness, barriers to health care access and utilization also exist. This study examines the effect of health insurance coverage on the health status of NHOPI in comparison to Asians. To analyze this relationship, the study uses the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) 2012 data and logistic regression. Findings show insured NHOPI were significantly more likely than insured Asian Americans to report poor or fair health after sequential cumulative adjustments of socioeconomic, lifestyle and behavioral factors, history of diagnosed diseases, and access to care (OR: 1.66, 95% CI:[1.34, 2.05]). Health insurance alone will not eliminate the present disparities experienced by NHOPI. Other barriers prohibit health care access for NHOPI that should be considered in the investigation and development of strategies to increase healthcare access and eliminate health disparities for NHOPI.
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