The Latino Health Insurance Program: a pilot intervention for enrolling Latino families in health insurance programs, East Boston, Massachusetts, 2006-2007

• Published in: Preventing chronic disease Vol. 6; no. 4; p. A129
• Main Authors: Abreu, Milagros, Hynes, H Patricia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 01.10.2009
• Series: Peer Reviewed
• Subjects: Boston; Community Case Study; Community Health Planning; Culture; Emigrants and Immigrants; Employment; Health Services Accessibility; Hispanic or Latino - psychology; Humans; Insurance, Health - organization & administration; Medically Uninsured - ethnology; Pilot Projects; Socioeconomic Factors; Boston

Thirteen percent of Latinos in Massachusetts lack health insurance, the highest rate of any ethnic or racial group. Families without health insurance are more likely to be in poor or fair health, to lack a regular medical provider, and to not have visited a medical provider in the past year. The Lat...