Defunding women’s health clinics exacerbates Hispanic disparity in preventive care
Slusky, David
Slusky, David
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Abstract
To prevent abortions, many states have cut funding for women’s health, reducing access, including to preventive care. Merging BRFSS data with clinic locations from a network of women’s health clinics, this paper estimates the relative impact of an increase in the driving distance to the nearest clinic on preventive care. For Hispanics women, a 100-mile increase decreases the rates of clinical breast exams by 23%, Pap tests by 16% and checkups by 14%. For non-Hispanics, there are no statistically significant results.
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This is the author's accepted manuscript. The published version is available at the DOI linked in this record.
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2017-07-01
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Elsevier
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Women's health, Preventative care, Ethnicity
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Slusky, David. 2017. "Defunding women's health clinics exacerbates Hispanic disparity in preventative care." Economics Letters, 156: 61-64.