Children in large families receive less health care
Posted June 26th, 2006 by Tara Murray in Families, Health Care Policy, MEPSA study published in Health Services Research (article available online ahead of print) found that children in large families—those in households with more siblings or living with adults besides the parents—make fewer doctor visits and take fewer prescriptions than children in smaller families. The effects, attributed by the authors to limited parental resources, were similar to those of being uninsured and worse than those of poverty. (Health Behavior News Service, June 16, 2006)
