Amanda E. Tanner|Beth A. Reboussin|Lilli Mann|Alice Ma|Eun?Young Song|Jorge Alonzo|Scott D. Rhodes
Factors Influencing Health Care Access Perceptions and Care-seeking Behaviors of Immigrant Latino Sexual Minority Men and Transgender Individuals: Baseline Findings from the HOLA Intervention Study
little known immigrant latino sexual minorities health seeking behaviors study examined factors associated perceptions access actual care behaviors among population north carolinaa communitybased participatory research partnership recruited 180 latino sexual minority men transgender individuals within preexisting social networks participate sexual health intervention mixedeffects logistic regression models gis mapping examined factors influencing health care access perceptions use services hiv testing routine checkupsresults indicate perceptions access actual care behaviors low affected individual structural factors including years living nc reported poor general health perceptions discrimination micro meso macrolevel barriers residence medically underserved areato improve latino sexual minority health focus must placed multiple levels including individual characteristics eg demographics clinic factors eg provider competence clinic environment structural factors eg discrimination