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  • Women’s Health Policy: Are the Times Really A-Changing? – Editorial

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    Women's Health Policy: Are the Times Really A-Changing? - Editorial This editorial describes the current state of key women's health policy issues, including reproductive health, long-term care, and Medicaid, and assesses how policymakers might address these issues in the future. The piece was written by Kaiser Vice President and Director of Women's Health Policy, Alina Salganicoff, and was published in the journal Women's Health Issues. Editorial (.pdf)

  • Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care for Low-Income Non-Citizen Adults

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    This brief analyzes health insurance coverage and access for low-income non-citizen adults and discusses provider insights into the obstacles this population faces in obtaining coverage and receiving care. Overall, non-citizen adults account for just under one-fourth of all non-elderly uninsured adults. Low-income uninsured adults are at particularly high risk for being uninsured due to very limited access to both private and public coverage. The brief finds that, largely due to their high uninsured rate, low-income…

  • Giving Voice to the People of New Orleans: The Kaiser Post-Katrina Baseline Survey

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    This house-to-house survey of people living in the New Orleans area examines the ongoing struggles of residents seeking to recover from the Hurricane Katrina disaster, including a detailed look at differences in views and experiences by race. Designed and analyzed by researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation, the survey provides a portrait of the enormous needs of the population in order to inform recovery efforts and policy development on the Gulf Coast and in Washington.…

  • Report: Giving Voice to the People of New Orleans: The Kaiser Post-Katrina Baseline Survey

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    This May 2007 Kaiser Family Foundation report is the first of several that will track the progress and challenges facing people living in the New Orleans area in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. To conduct the study, a team of 41 interviewers visited 456 randomly selected census areas, documented the physical condition of nearly 17,000 housing locations and completed interviews with 1,504 randomly chosen adults living in the four parishes between September and November 2006.…

  • The Health Status of African American Men in the United States  

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    The Health Status of African American Men in the United States This fact sheet provides an overview of the health of the nation's 17.3 million African American men, including mortality rates, health status, insurance coverage and access to care. It also looks at the population's socioeconomic factors that relate to health status. Fact Sheet (.pdf)

  • Study Shows Uninsured Receive Less Care and Experience Worse Outcomes

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    A new study commissioned by the Kaiser Family Foundation and authored by Dr. Jack Hadley of The Urban Institute and featured in the March 14, 2007, Journal of the American Medical Association theme issue on Access to Care documents that people who are uninsured receive less care and have worse outcomes following an accident or the onset of a new chronic condition than those with insurance. The study -- based on analysis of eight years…

  • Key Facts: Race, Ethnicity and Medical Care

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    The Kaiser Family Foundation's updated version of Key Facts: Race, Ethnicity and Medical Care, 2007 Update, serves as a quick reference source on health disparities, presenting the best available data and analysis. This report includes data on the uninsured and access to care by race/ethnicity as well as information about the disproportionate effect that specific conditions such as diabetes, HIV/AIDS, and asthma have on racial and ethnic minority populations in the U.S. New in the 2007…

  • Covering the Uninsured:  Growing Need, Strained Resources

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    Covering the Uninsured: Growing Need, Strained Resources This summary of key findings provides an overview of studies examining trends in health coverage and federal spending on the health care safety net. Fact Sheet (.pdf)

  • New Publications Examine SCHIP Experience; Trends in Access to Medicaid and SCHIP Coverage

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    Maintaining and expanding health coverage for children and parents will likely be in the forefront of health care policy debates in Washington and state capitols in 2007. With states generally in better financial shape since the fiscal crisis earlier in the decade, many have expressed interest in improving access to their Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP). A new 50-state survey shows that one-third of states (17) increased access to health coverage in…