1. Race, Ethnicity, and Health
- Author:
- Kenneth Finegold and Laura Wherry
- Publication Date:
- 03-2004
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Urban Institute
- Abstract:
- The creation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), combined with many states' decisions to expand Medicaid eligibility, increased public coverage of black, white, and Hispanic children between 1997 and 2002. Uninsurance rates fell among children in low-income white, black, and Hispanic families, remained constant among white and black children in higher-income families, and increased among Hispanic children in higher-income families. The health status of children, as reported by their parents, was stable for blacks, whites, and Hispanics, except for a decline in health among higher-income Hispanic children.
- Topic:
- Demographics, Health, Human Welfare, and Poverty
- Political Geography:
- United States