The Affordable Care Act and Health Insurance Coverage for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults: Analysis of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

LGBT Health

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 62-67

  Gonzales, Gilbert ^a   Henning Smith, Carrie ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to care; health insurance; health reform

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; BISEXUALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOMOSEXUAL FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MODEL; PREVALENCE; ADOLESCENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; LESBIANISM; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; BISEXUALITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT; SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85010332718     PISSN: 23258292     EISSN: 23258306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/lgbt.2016.0023     Document Type: Article

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