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Retail clinics less likely to be located in underserved communities
May 25, 2009 |
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Despite reports indicating that placement of retail clinics are determined by physician shortages and higher uninsured populations, these clinics appear to be located in more advantaged neighborhoods, according to a report ...
Racial disparities in emergency department length of stay point to added risks for minority patients
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Sick or injured African-American patients wait about an hour longer than patients of other races before being transferred to an inpatient hospital bed following emergency room visits, according to a new national study published ...
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Health reform proposals could help 13 million uninsured young adults gain coverage
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Comprehensive health reform proposals now before Congress could help the more than 13 million uninsured young adults ages 19-29 gain coverage, and such reforms would also help ensure that those who now have coverage would ...
Young U.S. adults may lack health coverage
May 24, 2006 |
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Young adults are reportedly the fastest growing group of uninsured people in the United States, with 13.7 million lacking health insurance coverage.
Uninsured more likely to die after trauma
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Americans without health insurance appear more likely to die following admission to the hospital for trauma than those with health care coverage, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Surgery.
Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance
Nov 10, 2009 |
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A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance and thus had reduced access to care. That figure is ...
What we 'know' may not be so, when it comes to the uninsured and ERs
Oct 21, 2008 |
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The 47 million Americans who lack health insurance are the reason emergency departments are crowded all the time – right? And only the uninsured visit the emergency department for minor complaints, because it's easier than ...
High number of children and teens in US uninsured despite having a parent with health insurance
Oct 21, 2008 |
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Approximately 4 percent of U.S. children and adolescents have a gap in health insurance coverage at some point during the year, even though they have at least one parent who is insured, according to a study in the October ...
Young adults at risk: 13.7 million lack health insurance coverage
May 30, 2008 |
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The number of uninsured young adults in the United States rose to 13.7 million in 2006—an increase from 13.3 million in 2005—making the 19-to-29 age group one of the largest and fastest-growing segments of the population ...
Immigrant children are increasingly more likely to lack health coverage
Sep 22, 2008 |
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Contrary to public perceptions, foreign-born children are increasingly uninsured, rather than publicly insured, in the wake of immigration policy changes, according to a study by public health researchers at The Children's ...
States taking action to insure nation's 13.3M uninsured young adults
Aug 08, 2007 |
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Since 2003, 16 states have enacted legislation requiring insurance companies to provide health insurance coverage to dependent young adults on their parents’ health plans beyond age 18 or 19, according to a new report from ...
Report finds troubling health trends in California's Asian, Pacific communities
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report by UCLA researchers reveals higher-than-average rates of cancer, childhood obesity and diabetes, and an alarmingly high population of the uninsured, among California's Asian American, Native ...
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