Barriers to Latino Warehouse Workers' Health Care: Survey Results from Inland Southern California and Policy Implications

This article uses original survey data to explore the barriers to health care access among Latinos who are low-wage warehouse workers, providing a window on health care vulnerabilities of workers of low wages that are especially acute among undocumented immigrants and contingent workers. About one t...

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Published inJournal of poverty Vol. 21; no. 5; pp. 389 - 410
Main Authors Emmons Allison, Juliann, Huston, Mila, Pinedo, Hali Monserrat, Reese, Ellen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Binghamton Routledge 03.09.2017
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Barriers
Constraints
Employers
Health care access
Health care industry
Health care policy
Health insurance
Health services
Health services utilization
Hispanic Americans
immigrants
Immigration policy
Latinos
public policy
Respondents
temporary workers
Undocumented immigrants
Wages & salaries
warehousing
Workers
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Summary:This article uses original survey data to explore the barriers to health care access among Latinos who are low-wage warehouse workers, providing a window on health care vulnerabilities of workers of low wages that are especially acute among undocumented immigrants and contingent workers. About one third of respondents had visited a doctor in the past year, whereas about two thirds lacked health insurance. Results from our logistic regression analysis show that, controlling for other factors, unemployed workers, direct hires, and those with health insurance had significantly greater odds than those without these characteristics to have visited a doctor in the past year. Along with changes in immigration and health care policies, reducing employers' reliance on temporary staffing agencies is imperative for improving these and other low-wage workers' health care access.
ISSN:1087-5549
1540-7608
DOI:10.1080/10875549.2016.1204645