The Association of Health Reform and Infant Health: Evidence from Massachusetts.
Michel H BoudreauxRada K DagherScott A LorchPublished in: Health services research (2017)
We found no evidence that the Massachusetts reform was associated with improvements in individual low birthweights or county-level infant mortality rates, despite increasing health insurance coverage rates for adult women of child-bearing age. Because our mortality analysis was ecological, we are not able to draw conclusions about how an individual-level health insurance intervention for uninsured pregnant women would affect the mortality outcomes of their infants.
Keyphrases
- health insurance
- affordable care act
- pregnant women
- cardiovascular events
- healthcare
- mental health
- public health
- risk factors
- randomized controlled trial
- human health
- health information
- climate change
- type diabetes
- polycystic ovary syndrome
- cardiovascular disease
- risk assessment
- pregnancy outcomes
- metabolic syndrome
- insulin resistance
- weight loss
- childhood cancer