Oropesa R S, Landale Nancy S, Hillemeier Marianne M
Department of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, phone: (814) 865-1577, fax: (814) 863-7216.
Department of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802.
SSM Popul Health. 2017 Dec;3:730-739. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2017.08.009.
This research examines the relationship between legal status and oral health care among Mexican-origin children. Using the 2001-2014 California Health Interview Surveys, the objectives are: (1) to demonstrate population-level changes in the legal statuses of parents, the legal statuses of children, and the likelihood of receiving dental care; (2) to reveal how the roles of legal status boundaries in dental care are changing; and (3) to determine whether the salience of these boundaries is attributable to legal status per se. The results reveal increases in the native-born share and dental care utilization for the total Mexican-origin population. Although dental care was primarily linked to parental citizenship early in this period, parental legal statuses are no longer a unique source of variation in utilization (despite the greater likelihood of insurance among citizens). These results imply that future gains in utilization among Mexican-origin children will mainly come from overcoming barriers to care among the native born.
本研究考察了墨西哥裔儿童的法律身份与口腔保健之间的关系。利用2001 - 2014年加利福尼亚健康访谈调查，目标如下：（1）展示父母法律身份、儿童法律身份以及接受牙科护理可能性在人群层面的变化；（2）揭示法律身份界限在牙科护理中的作用是如何变化的；（3）确定这些界限的显著性是否归因于法律身份本身。结果显示，墨西哥裔总人口中本土出生人口的比例以及牙科护理利用率有所增加。尽管在此期间早期牙科护理主要与父母的公民身份相关，但父母的法律身份不再是利用率差异的唯一来源（尽管公民获得保险的可能性更大）。这些结果表明，墨西哥裔儿童未来在牙科护理利用率方面的提升将主要来自克服本土出生儿童获得护理的障碍。
