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Session: Providing Insurance and Removing Barriers to Health Care for the Uninsured
3301.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Providing Insurance and Removing Barriers to Health Care for the Uninsured
Abstracts in this session will describe: how transportation barriers impact EPSDT utilization, the estimates for 2004 uninsurance rates in states, etc., issues that determine how and where uninsured patients seek health care and the political alignment that made health care reform possible in Massachusetts.
Learning Objectives: Participants will understand: 1)how transportation barriers impact EPSDT utilization; 2)the estimates for 2004 uninsurance rates in states, etc.;3)issues that determine how and where uninsured patients seek health care and 4)the political alignment that made health care reform possible in Massachusetts.
Moderator(s):Riché C. Zamor, MS, MPH, PhD
2:30 PMNon-emergency medical transportation: A multi-dimensional look at this access barrier  [ Recorded presentation ]
Stephen Borders, PhD, Craig H. Blakely, PhD, Sherry Bame, PhD, Dennis Perkinson, PhD, Don Sweeney, PhD
2:45 PMA Boston teaching hospital's response to a state policy change restricting location of primary care for uninsured patients  [ Recorded presentation ]
Kim M. Simonian, MPH, Katherine Flaherty, ScD, Kristen Mason, MA
3:00 PMHealth care reform in Massachusetts: Politics, progress and impact on vulnerable populations  [ Recorded presentation ]
Michael Doonan, PhD
3:15 PMVariation in lack of health insurance coverage by state and metropolitan-areas in the United States among working age adults (18-64 years). Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 2004
Indu Ahluwalia, PhD, Julie Bolen, PhD, Ali H. Mokdad, PhD, Bill Garvin
3:30 PMExploring the relationship between state-level minimum wage policies and health-related outcomes: An analysis of 2004 BRFSS data  [ Recorded presentation ]
Kelly P. McCarrier, MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by:APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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