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Women and Health Care: A National Profile
A national survey of women on their health examines their health status, health care costs, insurance, access to care, prevention, and role in family health care.

Women’s Health Policy: Coverage and Access to Care Tutorial
In this narrated slide tutorial, Kaiser Vice President Alina Salganicoff, Ph.D. provides background on women’s health care needs and concerns, focusing on health insurance coverage, explaining coverage status and challenges to improving access to care.

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Abortion in the U.S.: Utilization, Financing and Access -- June 2008
This fact sheet provides key data on the levels of use of different abortion procedures in the United States and reviews the different federal and state policies that affect availability of and access to services.

Kaiser Fast Facts -- May 2008
“Kaiser Fast Facts” features “QuickTakes” and “Kaiser Slides” – two tools that provide direct access to facts, data and slides about the nation's health care system and programs, in an easy-to-use format. “QuickTakes” presents an inventory of facts-at-a-glance and "Kaiser Slides" allows Web visitors to freely view, download and print graphics and tables of health policy statistics and trends.

Fact Sheet: Women and HIV/AIDS in the United States: Update -- May 2008
This updated fact sheet highlights the impact of HIV/AIDS on women in the United States, providing current data and trends over time

HPV Vaccine: Implementation and Financing Policy -- February 2008
This fact sheet on the HPV vaccine provides background information and highlights key issues related to implementation and financing policy.

Women's Health Insurance Coverage Fact Sheet -- December 2007
This updated fact sheet discusses the predominant forms of health insurance coverage for women ages 18 to 64, including coverage rates, benefits, recent coverage trends, and issues related to uninsured women.

Health Insurance Coverage of Women Ages 18 to 64, by State, 2005-2006 -- December 2007
This fact sheet provides state-by-state data on the uninsured rate, as well as rates of private insurance coverage and Medicaid coverage, among women nationally, in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Role of Health Insurance Coverage in Women's Access to Prescription Medicines -- December 2007
This article presents findings from the 2004 Kaiser Women's Health Survey examining how health insurance coverage affects access to prescription medicines for non-elderly women.

Medicaid's Role for Women - Update -- November 2007
This issue brief provides an overview of the Medicaid program and its role in providing health and long-term care coverage for low-income women.

Medicaid's Role in Family Planning -- October 2007
The Alan Guttmacher Institute and the Kaiser Family Foundation have updated this issue brief to provide an overview and analysis of the important role that Medicaid plays in financing family planning services to low-income women across the nation.

Women's Health Policy: Are the Times Really A-Changing? - Editorial -- September 2007
This editorial, published in the journal Women's Health Issues, describes the current state of key women's health policy issues, including reproductive health, long-term care, and Medicaid, and assesses how policymakers might address these issues in the future.

This fact sheet provides key data on the levels of use of different abortion procedures in the United States and reviews the different federal and state policies that affect availability of and access to services.

“Kaiser Fast Facts” features “QuickTakes” and “Kaiser Slides” – two tools that provide direct access to facts, data and slides about the nation's health care system and programs, in an easy-to-use format. “QuickTakes” presents an inventory of facts-at-a-glance and "Kaiser Slides" allows Web visitors to freely view, download and print graphics and tables of health policy statistics and trends.

This updated fact sheet highlights the impact of HIV/AIDS on women in the United States, providing current data and trends over time

This fact sheet on the HPV vaccine provides background information and highlights key issues related to implementation and financing policy.

This updated fact sheet discusses the predominant forms of health insurance coverage for women ages 18 to 64, including coverage rates, benefits, recent coverage trends, and issues related to uninsured women.

This fact sheet provides state-by-state data on the uninsured rate, as well as rates of private insurance coverage and Medicaid coverage, among women nationally, in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

This article presents findings from the 2004 Kaiser Women's Health Survey examining how health insurance coverage affects access to prescription medicines for non-elderly women.

This issue brief provides an overview of the Medicaid program and its role in providing health and long-term care coverage for low-income women.

The Alan Guttmacher Institute and the Kaiser Family Foundation have updated this issue brief to provide an overview and analysis of the important role that Medicaid plays in financing family planning services to low-income women across the nation.

This editorial, published in the journal Women's Health Issues, describes the current state of key women's health policy issues, including reproductive health, long-term care, and Medicaid, and assesses how policymakers might address these issues in the future.

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Women's Health Policy

Women are major consumers of health care services, negotiating not only their own complex health care but often managing care for their family members as well. Their reproductive health needs as well as their greater rates of health problems and longer life spans compared with men make women’s relationships with the health care system complex. Women are also more likely to be low-income and often face the added challenge of balancing work with family health and caregiving responsibilities. For the one in five women who are uninsured, access to high quality, comprehensive care is even more difficult.

Women have a vested interest in the scope and type of services offered by the health care system, as well as in the mechanisms that fund their health care services. Because their access to care is influenced by a broad range of factors, analysis of women’s health policy cuts across many sectors of the health care financing and delivery system, including reproductive health policy, reforms to publicly-financed health programs, as well as private sector efforts to contain costs and improve health. Women comprise the majority of beneficiaries in publicly –funded programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, and welfare, making them key stakeholders in public policy debates about the impact of reforms to these programs. Because of their lower incomes, affordability and cost of care are critical issues for women.

The Foundation aims to provide policymakers, journalists, advocates, and public health practitioners with current analysis on the policies in health financing and delivery that affect women. The particular challenges faced by women at risk for experiencing access barriers, such as those on Medicaid, those who are uninsured, and racial and ethnic minorities, are a special focus. Primary activities include conducting periodic surveys on women's interactions with the health care system, monitoring reforms under consideration in Washington and state capitols across the country, conducting research to document the impact of policies and to identify emerging priority areas for women, as well as briefing policymakers and their staff on key trends and issues to inform current policy debates.