This Binational Health Week fact sheet documents the barriers Mexican immigrants encounter when attempting to access preventive health care. Their lower use of preventive services is due, in large part, to high rates of having no usual source of care as well as low rates of health insurance coverage. The information contained in this fact sheet is based on an analysis of the 2000 National Health Interview Survey.
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