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In Their Own Voices: Low-income Women and Their Health Providers in
Three Communities Talk about Access to Care, Reproductive Health, and
Immigration
A
new KFF report
highlights the perspectives of low-income women and their health care
providers about reproductive health, immigration, and access to care. It
draws from focus groups of 54 low-income, reproductive age women and 23
health care providers in San Francisco, Tucson, and Atlanta. Key findings
include:
Contraception:
Most women
who participated in the focus groups in the three cities said they were able
to get the contraception they seek. Some uninsured women did raise problems
affording contraceptive services.
Costs
and Coverage: Out-of-pocket
costs are a barrier to accessing care for uninsured and low-income women,
including for services like mammograms and diabetes screenings. Some
immigrant women in the groups said they went to their home country for health
care, including contraception, because it was more affordable.
Immigration:
Some
immigrant women in the focus groups report they and family members chose not
to sign up for public programs like food stamps, WIC, and Medicaid. Several providers
said they have seen a drop in the number of immigrant women who seek health
care for themselves and their children since new public charge rules were
proposed by the Trump Administration in 2018. The effects of the proposed
changes were already being seen in these focus groups, which were held prior
to the Trump Administration finalizing the rules on August 12, 2019.
The
focus groups also highlighted other challenges for low-income women, such as
unmet needs for mental health services, health care for survivors of intimate
partner violence, abortion access, and gaps related to the social
determinants of health beyond affordable and accessible care.
Filling
the need for trusted information on national health issues, the Kaiser Family Foundation is a
nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California.
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Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Low-income Women and Their Health Providers in Three Communities Talk about Access to Care, Reproductive Health, and Immigration
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