Open AccessChanges in Health Care Access, Behaviors, and Self-reported Health Among Low-income US Adults Through the Fourth Year of the Affordable Care Act
Author(s) -
Kevin N. Griffith,
Jacob Bor
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001321
Subject(s) - medicaid , behavioral risk factor surveillance system , medicine , poverty , health care , mental health , environmental health , patient protection and affordable care act , gerontology , health equity , health insurance , public health , population , psychiatry , nursing , economics , economic growth
Health care access increased for low-income Americans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It is unknown whether these changes in access were associated with improved self-reported health.