Many Women Missed Out on Preventive Care for All of 2020: Study medindia.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from medindia.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Pandemic disrupted the utilization of women’s preventive health services
The COVID-19 pandemic knocked many women off schedule for important health appointments, a new study finds, and many didn t get back on schedule even after clinics reopened. The effect may have been greatest in areas where such care is already likely falling behind experts recommendations.
The study, by health care researchers in the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, looks at screenings for breast cancer, cervical cancer and sexually transmitted infections (STI), as well as two types of birth control care: prescriptions for oral contraceptives and insertions of longer-acting devices.
From birth control to mammograms, many women missed out on preventive care for all of 2020 eurekalert.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eurekalert.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Even small bills for health insurance may cause healthy low-income people to drop coverage University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation | May 10, 2021
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Twenty dollars a month might not seem like a lot to pay for health insurance. But for people getting by on $15,000 a year, it’s enough to make some drop their coverage – especially if they’re healthy, a new study of Medicaid expansion participants in Michigan finds.
That could keep them from getting preventive or timely care, and could leave their insurance company with a sicker pool of patients than before, say the researchers from the University of Michigan and University of Illinois Chicago. They have published their findings as a working paper through the National Bureau of Economic Research, ahead of publication in the American Journal of Health Economics.
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Twenty dollars a month might not seem like a lot to pay for health insurance. But for people getting by on $15,000 a year, it s enough to make some drop their coverage - especially if they re healthy, a new study of Medicaid expansion participants in Michigan finds.
That could keep them from getting preventive or timely care, and could leave their insurance company with a sicker pool of patients than before, say the researchers from the University of Michigan and University of Illinois Chicago. They have published their findings as a working paper through the National Bureau of Economic Research, ahead of publication in the American Journal of Health Economics.