Methodological issues in health care surveys of the Spanish heritage population.
- 1 April 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 70 (4), 367-374
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.70.4.367
Abstract
This paper examines national survey data on access to medical care to explore methodological issues associated with conducting health care surveys of Spanish-heritage persons. These include problems of identifying and sampling such groups, achieving respondent cooperation, designing valid interview protocols, and controlling biases that may result from the cultural specificity of the concepts being studied. The findings suggest that more attention should be given to the following in designing health care surveys of Spanish-heritage individuals: cultural and economic heterogeneity of "Spanish-heritage" grouping, validity studies of health care utilization, and yea-saying tendencies related to health care attitude items. Given that there is a paucity of information available on methodological problems associated with health care surveys of Spanish-heritage persons, these analyses should serve to inform researchers of issues to be taken into account in designing such studies and to suggest useful hypotheses to explore in evaluating the validity of social survey data on minority (especially non-English speaking) populations' health care practices.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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