The Effect of Providing Health Coverage to Poor Uninsured Pregnant Women in Massachusetts

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 269, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 87-91

  Haas, Jennifer S ^a   Udvarhelyi, I Steven ^a,c   Morris, Carl N ^a   Epstein, Arnold M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; MASSACHUSETTS; MEDICAL ASSISTANCE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; STATE HEALTH PLANS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0027523862     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1993.03500010097040     Document Type: Article

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