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  • The Gender of Politics: How (And How Much) Will Women Influence Election 2000?

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    Campaign 1992 was dubbed "The Year of the Woman" because more female candidates ran that year than any other in U.S. history. In 1996, "Soccer Moms" grabbed headlines as the group that candidates needed to win. What role will women have in 2000? How will Election 2000 be remembered? Who is the "woman voter?" What issues does "she" care about? How will women affect the 2000 campaign? A panel of experts, including Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, President,…

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    SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES MOLLYANN BRODIE, PH.D. Mollyann Brodie is Vice President, Director of Public Opinion and Media Research at the Kaiser Family Foundation. She directs a variety of public knowledge and survey-related projects. Prior to joining the Foundation, Dr. Brodie was a Health Policy Fellow and Assistant Director of the Program on Public Opinion and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she co-edited Volume IV of the series on The Future of American…

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    Online ResourcesKaiser Family Foundation Election 2000 ResourcesElection SitesMedia Organizations' Election SitesPolitical ResourcesPolitical Organization SitesWomen and the 2000 ElectionWebsites for WomenStatistics and PollsAdditional Resources Kaiser Family Foundation Election 2000 Resources League of Women Voters - Join the Debate: Your Guide to Health Issues in the 2000 Election (PDF Format) National Survey on Health Care and the 2000 Elections The Public, Managed Care, and Consumer Protection (PDF Format) Election Sites Federal Election Commission Freedom Channel: video views…

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    class=normal> The Gender of Politics:How (And How Much) Will Women Influence Election 2000? Tuesday, April 18th9:30 am - 11:15 amBroadway Millennium Hotel44th and Broadway, New York City 9:30 am Registration 9:40 am Welcome/Introductions Tina Hoff, Director of Public Health Information and Communications, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation 9:45 am The Gender of Politics: How (And How Much) Will Women Influence Election 2000? Who Is the "Woman Voter?" What Issues Does "She" Care About? Mollyann Brodie,…

  • Access to Care for Low-Income Women: The Impact of Medicaid

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    Health coverage is of critical importance to low-income women. This study was undertaken to assess how low-income women with Medicaid, private insurance, or no insurance vary with regard to personal characteristics, health status, and health utilization. Data are from a telephone interview survey of a representative cross-sectional sample of 5,200 low-income women in Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee, Florida, and Texas. On the whole, low-income women were found to experience considerable barriers to care; however, uninsured low-income…

  • Access to Care for Low-Income Women: The Impact of Medicaid

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    Health coverage is of critical importance to low-income women. This study was undertaken to assess how low-income women with Medicaid, private insurance, or no insurance vary with regard to personal characteristics, health status, and health utilization. Data are from a telephone interview survey of a representative cross-sectional sample of 5,200 low-income women in Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee, Florida, and Texas. On the whole, low-income women were found to experience considerable barriers to care; however, uninsured low-income…

  • The HPV Test: Coming Soon to a Doctor’s Office Near You?  Is It Better than the Pap Smear for Detecting Cervical Cancer?

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    The HPV Test: Coming Soon to a Doctor's Office Near You? Is It Better than the Pap Smear for Detecting Cervical Cancer? The most common sexually transmitted disease in the U.S. is one most Americans have never heard of: the human papillomavirus or HPV, the cause of almost all cervical cancer. Now that leading medical journals report that high-risk strains of HPV can be detected, there is debate over the best approach to fighting cervical…

  • Welfare Policy and Reproductive Health:

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    "Capping" a Family's Benefits Policy makers have long grappled with the complex questions of how to reduce poverty and promote economic self-sufficiency among the poor. Recent efforts have focused on how to influence key behaviors such as the decision to have children outside of marriage. One common legislative proposal has been to eliminate the traditional incremental increase in monthly benefits families typically receive after another child is born. This policy has been dubbed a "family…

  • Welfare Policy and Reproductive Health: Abstinence Unless Married Programs

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    In recent years, there has been an increasing federal role in supporting efforts to reduce the incidence of childbirth outside of marriage and decrease teen pregnancy rates through specialized programs. The 1996 welfare law provided a new incentive for states to use federal matching funds to establish educational programs that promote abstinence from sex unless married. This issue brief summarizes current federal and state policies on abstinence unless married programs, highlights the current state of…

  • Medicare and Women

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    As part of The Faces of Medicare, a collection of fact sheets profiling the characteristics and health needs of different groups of Medicare beneficiaries, provides descriptive information about women on Medicare, who constitute nearly seventy percent of Medicare's poor. Fact Sheet