Can universal access to health care eliminate health inequities between children of poor and nonpoor families?
In a setting of universal access to health care, children of poor and nonpoor families had similar rates of asthma emergency visits; the very poor children, however, continued to experience an excess risk. These findings suggest that a universal health-care system can reduce, but not fully eliminate, the disparities in emergency utilization of asthma across income categories.
Few direct data are available on the validity of the CIDI to assess RPA. Other definitions of RPA exist in the literature.