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Title: Health Status and Prenatal Care Use among Women on Welfare Enrolled in Medicaid vs. Private Insurance: Impact on Infant Birth Weight
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Agre, Lynn A. |
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Health Status and Prenatal Care Use among Women on Welfare Enrolled in Medicaid vs. Private Insurance: Impact on Infant Birth Weight Presented: Chicago, IL, American Public Health Association Meeting, November 1999 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: American Public Health Association Keyword(s): Birthweight; Child Health; Educational Attainment; Insurance, Health; Marital Status; Medicaid/Medicare; Mothers, Education; Mothers, Health; Poverty; Pre-natal Care/Exposure Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. As the Medicaid program has been broadened to encompass vulnerable populations, debate has surrounded whether Medicaid recipients specifically women and children are as healthy as the non-Medicaid insured population. This paper then will address the impact of Medicaid before the implementation of CHIP on maternal-child health status using micro-level national data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) Child Supplement. |
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Agre, Lynn A. "Health Status and Prenatal Care Use among Women on Welfare Enrolled in Medicaid vs. Private Insurance: Impact on Infant Birth Weight." Presented: Chicago, IL, American Public Health Association Meeting, November 1999. |