Effects of socioeconomic status and health care access on low levels of human papillomavirus vaccination among Spanish-speaking hispanics in California

S. Chando, J.A. Tiro, T. Robert Harris, S. Kobrin and N. Breen

American Journal of Public Health, 2013, vol. 103, issue 2, 270-272

Abstract: Little is known about the effect of language preference, socioeconomic status, and health care access on human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. We examined these factors in Hispanic parents of daughters aged 11 to 17 years in California (n = 1090). Spanishspeaking parents were less likely to have their daughters vaccinated than were English speakers (odds ratio [OR] = 0.55; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.31, 0.98). Adding income and access to multivariate analyses made language nonsignificant (OR = 0.68; 95% CI = 0.35, 1.29). This confirms that health care use is associated with language via income and access. Lowincome Hispanics, who lack access, need information about free HPV vaccination programs. Copyright © 2012 by the American Public Health Association®.

Keywords: Wart virus vaccine, adolescent; adult; article; child; communication disorder; economics; ethnology; female; health care delivery; health care survey; Hispanic; human; language; male; middle aged; papillomavirus infection; parent; social class; statistics; United States; uterine cervix tumor; vaccination, Adolescent; Adult; California; Child; Communication Barriers; Female; Health Care Surveys; Health Services Accessibility; Hispanic Americans; Humans; Language; Male; Middle Aged; Papillomavirus Infections; Papillomavirus Vaccines; Parents; Social Class; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms; Vaccination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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