Effects of Massachusetts health reform on the use of clinical preventive services.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Expansion of health insurance coverage, and hence clinical preventive services (CPS), provides an opportunity for improvements in the health of adults. The degree to which expansion of health insurance coverage affects the use of CPS is unknown.

Objective

To assess whether Massachusetts health reform was associated with changes in healthcare access and use of CPS.

Design

We used a difference-in-differences framework to examine change in healthcare access and use of CPS among working-aged adults pre-reform (2002-2005) and post-reform (2007-2010) in Massachusetts compared with change in other New England states (ONES).

Setting

Population-based, cross-sectional Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System surveys.

Participants

A total of 208,831 su

SUBMITTER: Okoro CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4139529 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature