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Factors Affecting Health Status in African Americans Living with HIV/AIDS

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dc.creator Stoskopf, Carleen H
dc.creator Richter, Donna L
dc.creator Kim, Yang K
dc.date 2019-08-14T14:59:23Z
dc.date 2019-08-14T14:59:23Z
dc.date 2001
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-20T08:39:14Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-20T08:39:14Z
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.13016/xxde-cckj
dc.identifier Stoskopf, Carleen H and Richter, Donna L and Kim, Yang K (2001) Factors Affecting Health Status in African Americans Living with HIV/AIDS. AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 15 (6). pp. 331-338.
dc.identifier Eprint ID 465
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1903/22559
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/117695
dc.description This study surveyed face-to-face 111 African American newly diagnosed and living with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) from the Washington D.C. area, to ascertain the use of, and need for, early intervention services. The survey instrument included sections on demographics, level of health functioning and health indicators, social and financial support, and needed services. This article constructs a health status proxy variable from survey items and examines its relationship to biological and social variables. Variables found to have a significant relationship with health status are gender, type of health insurance, employment, receiving Social Security Disability Income, and level of education. A log-linear model for selection of parsimony found that the type of health insurance was most highly predictive of health status, when controlling for other variables. Persons who receive Medicaid report no better levels of health status than those without health insurance. Having private health insurance is associated with a 5.3-fold greater chance of having good or excellent health status.
dc.description https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/108729101750279704
dc.subject Access To Healthcare
dc.subject HIV/Aids
dc.subject interventions
dc.subject studies
dc.subject health status
dc.subject African Americans
dc.subject blacks
dc.subject HIV
dc.subject AIDS
dc.title Factors Affecting Health Status in African Americans Living with HIV/AIDS
dc.type Article


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