Healthcare Utilization and Health Outcomes: US-born and Foreign-born Elderly Asian Americans
Description:
In order to better understand variations of health behaviors between US-born and foreign-born elderly Asian Americans (65+) in the United States, the research aims to explore relationships among health outcomes, healthcare utilization, and sociodemographic characteristics. Data from the National Health Interview Survey 1998-2012 is used to construct structural equation models for the US born group and for the foreign born group. The results found that there is a reciprocal relationship between…
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Date:
August 2015
Creator:
Huang, Jacob Chao-Lun