Access and Insurance

AHRQ Activities Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Address Health Care Disparities

MEPS Reports

MEPS Topics: Children's Insurance Coverage

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Research Findings

Child Health Research Findings: Access to Care

What Has Been Learned About Expanding Children's Health Insurance? Highlights from CHIRI™: Issue Brief No. 10

Research Activities, July 2012:
Having a usual source of care promotes preventive health counseling for children
Research Activities, May 2012:
Children whose parents lack a usual source of care are more likely to have unmet medical needs
Research Activities, February 2012:
Children's unmet health needs similar for low- and middle-income families with either public or private insurance
Research Activities, September 2011:
Children's underenrollment in State health insurance programs may be due in part to parents' confusion about coverage
Low- and middle-income children with public and private insurance have similar rates of unmet health care needs
Research Activities, August 2011:
Parents and primary care physicians are satisfied with children's use of nonurgent emergency department services
A usual source of care may be more important than insurance on children's receipt of preventive health counseling
Research Activities, July 2011:
Health insurance is necessary but not sufficient for children's access to care
Research Activities, March 2011:
Expert workshop discusses disparities in health care quality and role of health IT in underresourced settings
Research Activities, October 2010:
Most spending on children's health care in Medicaid and CHIP goes for children with chronic health problems
Research Activities, September 2010:
Public insurance linked to longer perception of disease burden among children with asthma
Physicians report care barriers for young adults with childhood onset chronic diseases
Research Activities, June 2010:
Black children are more likely to be hospitalized for a ruptured appendix than white children
Research Activities, May 2010:
Children with health insurance are less likely to receive needed services if their parents are uninsured
Research Activities, April 2010:
The stability of a usual source of care is important to the care of low-income children
Research Activities, October 2009:
Factors other than gender are associated with poor growth in urban children
Research Activities, July 2009:
Quality and accessible primary care is linked to fewer emergency department visits by Medicaid-insured children
Family and insurance factors are linked to poorer control of children's asthma
Research Activities, June 2009:
Minority children from disadvantaged families use more urgent care and less preventive care for their asthma
Research Activities, April 2009:
Design of the public insurance plan can reduce the time to a child's first dental visit after enrollment
Children in rural areas must travel far distances to receive pediatric specialty care
Research Activities, February 2009:
Minority children with asthma frequently use emergency departments for care

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