Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
Publication Title
Social Work in Health Care
Volume
Epub ahead of print
Keywords
Colon cancer care, gender, health care policy, health care reform, historical cohort, intersectionality, interaction effect, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, structural inequality, uninsured
Abstract
America is considering the replacement of Obamacare with Trumpcare. This historical cohort revisited pre-Obamacare colon cancer care among people living in poverty in California (N = 5,776). It affirmed a gender by health insurance hypothesis on nonreceipt of surgery such that uninsured women were at greater risk than uninsured men. Uninsured women were three times as likely as insured women to be denied access to such basic care. Similar men were two times as likely. America is bound to repeat such profound health care inequities if Obamacare is repealed. Instead, Obamacare ought to be retained and strengthened in all states, red and blue.
DOI
10.1080/00981389.2017.1373724
Funding Reference Number
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (grant no. 67161-2) and an Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Recommended Citation
Alberton, Amy M. and Gorey, Kevin M.. (2017). Profound barriers to basic cancer care most notably experienced by uninsured women: Historical note on the present policy considerations. Social Work in Health Care, Epub ahead of print.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/socialworkpub/56
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Community Health and Preventive Medicine Commons, Digestive System Diseases Commons, Epidemiology Commons, Geography Commons, Health Policy Commons, Health Services Research Commons, Inequality and Stratification Commons, Neoplasms Commons, Political Science Commons, Social Policy Commons, Social Welfare Commons, Social Work Commons, Women's Studies Commons
Comments
First published in Social Work in Health Care at https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2017.1373724