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Subcommittee on the Health Outcomes of the Uninsured
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The subcommittee drafted the report, Care Without Coverage: Too Little, Too Late, that evaluates and synthesizes clinical, epidemiological and survey research evidence on the effects of having or lacking health insurance on a variety of personal health-related outcomes. These outcomes include measures of access to health services, the nature of the care received, general and disease-specific measures of health status, including morbidity and mortality rates, and disabilities and functional limitations.
This subcommittee on health outcomes developed criteria for assessing the quality of evidence for the effects of health insurance status on individual health outcomes and work with the general conceptual model for assessing impacts of health insurance status that the parent Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance has developed. The subcommittee synthesized and evaluated studies of general measures of health, such as self-reported health status and mortality, as well as examined evidence of the effects of health insurance coverage or uninsurance on access to care, process of care and outcomes for specific diseases. The impact of health insurance or the lack of it on access to and the quality and timeliness of preventive, acute, emergent and chronic care services will also be examined and addressed in the subcommittee's report. More on this subcommittee
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Last Updated: 6/02/2003, 12:59 PM
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