Crossing the border for health care.

Abstract:

:A survey was administered to adults attending a health fair in south Los Angeles County, approximately 140 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. The survey revealed that 14 percent of respondents had crossed the border to seek medical care during the past year. Nearly 80 percent of respondents crossing the border for medical care were uninsured, while 70 percent reported the low cost of medical care obtained across the border as being the most common reason for seeking care there. Twenty-eight percent of respondents reported purchasing medication in Mexico, with antibiotics and pain medication being reported in highest frequency. Ninety percent of these respondents were uninsured. This study shows that the high cost of health care and lack of insurance compels the poor and uninsured to seek low-cost health care and medication in Mexico to meet their most urgent health care needs, despite the burden of cost and travel.

authors

Macias EP,Morales LS

doi

10.1353/hpu.2010.0643

keywords:

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-02-01 00:00:00

pages

77-87

issue

1

eissn

1049-2089

issn

1548-6869

journal_volume

12

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