3155.0 Barriers and Challenges to Health Care Access

Monday, October 29, 2012: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
Session Objectives: -Identify predictive factors that impact the use of supplemental health care services in vulnerable populations. -Describe the effects of perceived barriers to care on delayed or unmet medical needs. -Differentiate preference of safety net care provider(community health centers compared to emergency departments)by nativity status.
Organizer:
Sudha Xirasagar, MBBS, PhD
Moderator:
Sudha Xirasagar, MBBS, PhD

10:30am
Supplemental Health Care Services for Poor and Homeless Women: A Cross-Sectional Study
Kym Williams, MBA, MPH, Roseanna H. Means, MD MSc and Rachel Kaufmann, BA
     
10:50am
Lyme disease-related stigma among persons with persistent symptoms
Cheryl Koopman, PhD, Alexandra Aylward, BA, Wendy Adams, Kristie Newby, MS, Yvonne Lin, PA-C, Susanne Lee, MPH, Adelaida Castillo, MS, Christine Green, MD, Ralphael Stricker, MD and Daniel Cameron, MD
11:10am
Delayed and foregone care among low-income insured adults: Does the magnitude of perceived problems create barriers to accessing healthcare?
Pamela Jo Johnson, MPH, PhD, Kathleen Thiede Call, PhD, Jessie Kemmick Pintor, MPH, Tetyana P. Shippee, PhD and Timothy J. Beebe, PhD
     
11:30am
Preferred source of safety net care among Hispanic immigrants: Community health centers compared to emergency departments
Erin Carlson, DrPH, Nuha A. Lackan, PhD, Sejong Bae, PhD and José A. Pagán, PhD
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Medical Care
Endorsed by: Ethics SPIG

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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