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- Fact Sheet This fact sheet is an update on emergency contraception (EC). It includes information on EC methods, safety and side effects, and access issues. The fact sheet also provides information women's knowledge and use as well as health care provider attitudes and practices. Fact Sheet (.pdf)
This brief policy analysis examines the relative roles of race/ethnicity, citizenship, and language on insurance coverage, access to care, and quality of care, with a particular focus on the low-income Latino population. Brief Policy Analysis (.pdf)
This report examines the roles that race, language and citizenship status play in insurance coverage, access to health care and quality of health care, particularly for the low-income Latino population. The findings demonstrates that citizenship status and language proficiency have a significant impact on insurance coverage, access to care and the quality of care received among the low-income population. Report (.pdf)
This fact sheet, recently updated with 2002 data, describes how long the uninsured remain without coverage, who tends to go without insurance for long spells of time, and what difference time without coverage makes in terms of access to and utilization of care. Fact Sheet (.pdf) Link to Policy Brief: Is Lack of Coverage a Short- or Long-Term Condition?
Women's Access to Care: A State-Level Analysis of Key Health Policies State policies play a critical role in shaping women's access to health care. With authority over several important policy issues and the power to legislate, regulate, and enact programs that address women's needs, state policymakers have tackled several issues of importance to women. Women's Access to Care: A State-Level Analysis of Key Health Policies, prepared by the National Women's Law Center and Kaiser Family…
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, Issue Brief An issue brief examining the legal and historical roots of health care for American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States. Issue Brief (.pdf)
Floor Plans and Capacities The Barbara Jordan Conference Center utilizes a variety of state-of-the-art audio and visual equipment. An automated ceiling-mounted projector platform and 3 built-in projection screens allow three simultaneously projected images to be viewed on walls of the conference facility. PowerPoint can be used with this system, as well as live Internet access and DVD. An AMX audio-visual touch panel allows the speaker to control A/V from any part of the conference space.…
Audio Visual Power and A/V Connections: Conveniently located floor boxes allow for A/V, data and power connections in a wide variety of seating and podium arrangements. Projection System: Automated ceiling-mount projectors send images to three screens located in the conference room. Media: PowerPoint, live internet access, and DVD media can be displayed through this system. An AMX control panel can be placed at the podium or other locations in the room to allow speakers to…
Improving access to prenatal care has been a public policy priority in the United States for the past 15 years. This report and issue brief, prepared for the Kaiser Family Foundation by Paula Braveman, M.D. of the University of California, San Francisco and others, examine the impact of the Medicaid pregnancy-related expansions and reforms in California during the late 1980s and 1990s on the use of prenatal care. Report Issue Brief
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