Barriers to Health Care Access Among Vietnamese Refugees in Tarrant County, Texas.

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dc.contributor.advisorChiehwen Ed Hsu
dc.contributor.committeeMemberSue Lurie
dc.contributor.committeeMemberRaghbir Sandhu
dc.creatorLe, Tuan D.
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-22T21:10:50Z
dc.date.available2019-08-22T21:10:50Z
dc.date.issued2004-05-01
dc.date.submitted2013-05-16T13:24:07-07:00
dc.description.abstractLe, Tuan D., Barriers to Health Care Access among Vietnamese Refugees in Tarrant County, Texas. Master of Public Health (Health Management & Policy), May 2004, 88 pp., 17 tables, 11 illustrations, bibliography, 56 titles. The refugee community is the most vulnerable community due to existing medical conditions without proper treatment and many barriers in accessing the health care system, including different language, cultural conflict, legal restrictions, and socioeconomic status. The purpose of this study is to determine the nature of these barriers that keep the Vietnamese refugees from accessing the health care system in Tarrant County. The study found that 45.8% have no health insurance, 17.4% received Medicaid, 53.7% have no primary care physician, and 57.14% of Vietnamese elderly refugees, who have been living in the U.S. between seven and ten years, and have lost SSI and Medicaid. These findings are significant at p [less than] .001. Vietnamese refugees perceived factors that kept them from accessing the health care system as major barriers, including language (14%), legal issues (17%), misunderstanding of the medical system (15%), lack of insurance (14%), and different culture (11%). These results may assist social service providers, health care providers, and policy activists to enhance their services and advocate for legal issues, in order to remove these barriers and help refugees to access health care better.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12503/29133
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectAsian American Studies
dc.subjectClinical Epidemiology
dc.subjectCommunity Health
dc.subjectCommunity Health and Preventive Medicine
dc.subjectHealth Communication
dc.subjectInequality and Stratification
dc.subjectInsurance
dc.subjectLaw and Society
dc.subjectMedicine and Health Sciences
dc.subjectPublic Health Education and Promotion
dc.subjectSocial Welfare Law
dc.subjecthealth care access
dc.subjectbarriers
dc.subjectVietnamese refugees
dc.subjectpublic health
dc.subjectTarrant County
dc.titleBarriers to Health Care Access Among Vietnamese Refugees in Tarrant County, Texas.
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentSchool of Public Health
thesis.degree.disciplineHealth Management and Policy
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Public Health

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