TITLE

Latinos most vulnerable on health insurance

PUB. DATE

March 1993

SOURCE

Nation's Health;Mar93, Vol. 23 Issue 3, p10

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports that Latinos have the worst health insurance coverage of any ethnic group in the country and that their plight is unlikely to change under the health reform schemes now under consideration in Washington. Study in the `Journal of the American Medical Association,' by UCLA School of Public Health's R. Burciaga Valdez; The uninsured rate; Details.

ACCESSION #

9304060088

Tags: HISPANIC Americans -- Medical care

 

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