New Findings on Health Insurance from University of California Summarized (State And Federal Coverage For Pregnant Immigrants: Prenatal Care…

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New Findings on Health Insurance from University of California Summarized (State And Federal Coverage For Pregnant Immigrants: Prenatal Care Increased, No Change Detected For Infant Health)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest -- Investigators publish new report on Health Insurance. According to news originating from Los Angeles, California, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, "Expanded health insurance coverage for pregnant immigrant women who are in the United States lawfully as well as those who are in the country without documentation may address barriers in access to pregnancy-related care. We present new evidence on the impact of states' public health insurance expansions for pregnant immigrant women ( both state-funded and expansions under the Children's Health Insurance Program) on their prenatal care use, mode of delivery, and infant health."

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of California, "Our quasi-experimental design compared changes in immigrant women's outcomes in states expanding coverage to changes in outcomes for nonimmigrant women in the same state and to women in nonexpanding states. We found that prenatal care use increased among all immigrant women following coverage expansion and that cesarean section increased among immigrant women with less than a high school diploma. We found no effects on the incidence of low birthweight, preterm birth, being small for gestational age, or infant death."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "State public insurance programs that cover pregnant immigrant women appear to have improved prenatal care utilization without observable changes in infant health or mortality."

For more information on this research see: State And Federal Coverage For Pregnant Immigrants: Prenatal Care Increased, No Change Detected For Infant Health. Health Affairs, 2017;36(4):607-615. Health Affairs can be contacted at: Project Hope, 7500 Old Georgetown Rd, Ste 600, Bethesda, MD 20814-6133, USA (see also Health Insurance).

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from L.R. Wherry, University of California, David Geffen Sch Med, Med, Los Angeles, CA 90024, United States. Additional authors for this research include R. Fabi, A. Schickedanz and B. Saloner.

Keywords for this news article include: Los Angeles, California, United States, North and Central America, Health Insurance, University of California.