Titre : | The health of poor women under welfare reform. (2005) |
Auteurs : | George-A KAPLAN ; Sandra DANZIGER ; HUDSON (Susan) : USA. Genesee County Health Department. Hint. MI. ; John-W LYNCH ; RAGHUNATHAN (Trivellore-E) : USA. Department of Biostatistics and Survey Research Center. ; Nalini RANJIT ; Kristine SIEFERT ; Richard TOLMAN ; Diem TRAN ; YOUNG (Elizabeth-A) : USA. Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health Research Institute. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor. ; School of Social Work. USA ; University of Michigan School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology. Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health. Ann Arbor. USA |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | American journal of public health (vol. 95, n° 7, 2005) |
Pagination : | 1252-1258 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Pauvreté ; Femme ; Homme ; Assurance maladie ; Etats Unis ; Amérique ; Réforme ; Amérique du Nord |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS 8R0x0Dbz. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Objectives. We compared the health of single mothers affected by welfare reform with the health of a nationally representative sample of women to document the prevalence of poor health as single mothers experience the effects of welfare reform. Methods. We compared risk factors and measures of health among women randomly sampled from the welfare rolls with similar data from a nationally representative sample of women. Results. Women in our welfare recipient sample had higher rates of elevated glycosylated hemoglobin (>=6% ; prevalence ratio [PR]=4.87 ; 95% confidence interval [Cl]=2.69,7.04), hypertension (systole>=140 or diastole>=90 ; PR=2.36 ; 95% Cl=1.47,3.24), high body mass index (>=30 ; PR=1.78 ; 95% Cl=1.49,2.08), and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ( |