Undocumented Immigration Thesis
I. Background
As an immigrant and a student in Health Services Research course, this article caught my attention immediately. This article specifically focused on exploring and measuring variations in the use of health care services by undocumented Mexicans and other undocumented and their experiences with health care providers. The issue of undocumented immigrants has been the center of political debates for quite some time in the U.S. There are an estimated 11 million undocumented individuals in the United States and about 8 million are from Mexico and other Latin American countries (Passel, 2005). One of the main issues that are perceived to be caused by undocumented immigrants is the use of public services, including healthcare resource. …show more content…
This data was collected by “a random digit telephone survey of households selected from every county in California”. 42,044 adults responded and they were further dived into variation groups by immigration status. This was done by asking questions about their citizenship status participants were grouped into 4 Mexican groups: Us-born citizens, naturalized US citizens, Mexican-born immigrants with a green card, and Mexican-born undocumented immigrants. A separate but comparable group for Latinos not of Mexican origin was also prepared and used for comparison and analysis with US-born non-Latino white subjects (Ortega A, et al, …show more content…
Statistical analysis
Ortega A, et al used a software called SAS, version 9.1 for all the statistical analyses. This software provides comprehensive statistical tools for a wide range of statistical analyses, including analysis of variance, categorical data analysis, cluster analysis, multiple imputations, multivariate analysis, nonparametric analysis, power and sample size computations, psychometric analysis, regression, survey data analysis and survival analysis. The researchers have picked an effective state of the art software need to run an analysis on the data collected. Table 2 below displays finding of the analysis.
IV. Results
Tables 3 and 4 below show results of the multivariate analysis of both Mexican, Latino immigrants, and US –born White samples. In both groups, undocumented immigrants and green card holders had lower proportions of access to health care services and visit to an emergency department in the past year. Whereas the US-born and naturalized citizens had the highest proportions of at least 1 visit to an emergency department. Undocumented immigrants also experienced having difficulties understanding their physicians and think they would get better care if they were of a different race and ethnicity (Ortega A, et al,
As an immigrant and a student in Health Services Research course, this article caught my attention immediately. This article specifically focused on exploring and measuring variations in the use of health care services by undocumented Mexicans and other undocumented and their experiences with health care providers. The issue of undocumented immigrants has been the center of political debates for quite some time in the U.S. There are an estimated 11 million undocumented individuals in the United States and about 8 million are from Mexico and other Latin American countries (Passel, 2005). One of the main issues that are perceived to be caused by undocumented immigrants is the use of public services, including healthcare resource. …show more content…
This data was collected by “a random digit telephone survey of households selected from every county in California”. 42,044 adults responded and they were further dived into variation groups by immigration status. This was done by asking questions about their citizenship status participants were grouped into 4 Mexican groups: Us-born citizens, naturalized US citizens, Mexican-born immigrants with a green card, and Mexican-born undocumented immigrants. A separate but comparable group for Latinos not of Mexican origin was also prepared and used for comparison and analysis with US-born non-Latino white subjects (Ortega A, et al, …show more content…
Statistical analysis
Ortega A, et al used a software called SAS, version 9.1 for all the statistical analyses. This software provides comprehensive statistical tools for a wide range of statistical analyses, including analysis of variance, categorical data analysis, cluster analysis, multiple imputations, multivariate analysis, nonparametric analysis, power and sample size computations, psychometric analysis, regression, survey data analysis and survival analysis. The researchers have picked an effective state of the art software need to run an analysis on the data collected. Table 2 below displays finding of the analysis.
IV. Results
Tables 3 and 4 below show results of the multivariate analysis of both Mexican, Latino immigrants, and US –born White samples. In both groups, undocumented immigrants and green card holders had lower proportions of access to health care services and visit to an emergency department in the past year. Whereas the US-born and naturalized citizens had the highest proportions of at least 1 visit to an emergency department. Undocumented immigrants also experienced having difficulties understanding their physicians and think they would get better care if they were of a different race and ethnicity (Ortega A, et al,