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Primary Language Spoken At Home And Children's Dental Service Utilization In The United States, Matthew Noyce, Aniko Szabo, Nicholas Pajewski, Scott Jackson, T. Bradley, Christopher Okunseri
Primary Language Spoken At Home And Children's Dental Service Utilization In The United States, Matthew Noyce, Aniko Szabo, Nicholas Pajewski, Scott Jackson, T. Bradley, Christopher Okunseri
T. Gerard Bradley
Objective: Language barriers have been well documented as a contributing factor to disparities in the receipt of medical services, especially for Hispanic children. However, there is a paucity of information on the effect of language barriers on children's dental service utilization. We examined the association of primary language spoken at home with the receipt of preventive and routine dental care for children in the United States. Methods: We analyzed data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (2002-2004), which contains data on 21,049 children weighted to represent 75.8 million children nationally. Results: Among children aged 1-18 years, 13 percent spoke a …