Journal article
Lengthening Spells of Uninsurance and Their Consequences
The Journal of rural health, Vol.13(1), pp.29-37
01/1997
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.1997.tb00831.x
PMID: 10167763
Abstract
The lengths of time adults are without health insurance have increased since 1988, as shown by data from 1,235 household interviews completed during 1992 in Nebraska. Rural residents without insurance have experienced longer such spells than their urban counterparts. Thus, while rates of uninsurance are nearly the same between urban and rural residents, important differences exist. The relationship between insurance status and physician utilization is consistent during the five years (1989 to 1993) covered in this study. Continuously insured persons have the most physician visits, followed by those intermittently insured, followed by those continuously uninsured. The number of physician visits was expected to increase when respondents moved from uninsured to insured status. However, among urban respondents, the number of visits declined; among residents in rural frontier counties (fewer than six persons per square mile) and for respondents in rural nonfrontier counties, there was no significant difference. This study points out some differences between rural and urban populations regarding insurance status, even when the overall rates of uninsurance are equal.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Lengthening Spells of Uninsurance and Their Consequences
- Creators
- Keith J Mueller - Correspondence address: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Department of Preventive and Societal Medicine, 600 S. 42nd St., Omaha, NE 68198-4350Kashinath PatilFred Ullrich
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of rural health, Vol.13(1), pp.29-37
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1748-0361.1997.tb00831.x
- PMID
- 10167763
- ISSN
- 0890-765X
- eISSN
- 1748-0361
- Number of pages
- 9
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/1997
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984214843802771
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