HUD Housing Assistance Associated With Lower Uninsurance Rates And Unmet Medical Need.

ABSTRACT: To investigate whether receiving US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) housing assistance is associated with improved access to health care, we analyzed data on nondisabled adults ages 18-64 who responded to the 2004-12 National Health Interview Survey that were linked with administrative data from HUD for the period 2002-14. To account for potential selection bias, we compared access to care between respondents who were receiving HUD housing assistance at the time of the survey interview (current recipients) and those who received HUD assistance within twenty-four months of completing the survey interview (future recipients). Receiving assistance was associated with lower uninsurance rates: 31.8 percent of current recipients were uninsured, compared to 37.2 percent of futur

SUBMITTER: Simon AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5603165 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature