Access to Medical Insurance Among Migrating and Non-Migrating Farmworkers: A Case Study from Rural California
Author: Azvedo, Kathryn
Date Published: 2001
The low-income California residents who are the focus of this research are California's working poor--farmworker families. This occupational group is unique in that many safety regulations governing other occupational groups are not applied to agricultural labor. This research examines healthcare access, specifically defined under two labor patterns: 1) when farmworkers migrate, and 2) when they are working in homebase areas. More specifically, it aims to understand what processes most substantially impact both potential access and realized access to primary healthcare services. This research also examines how public, private, and charity health policies affect access to medical care of farmworkers and their children under these two conditions.