Medicaid Coverage Expansions and Cigarette Smoking Cessation Among Low-income Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Expanding Medicaid coverage to low-income adults may have increased smoking cessation through improved access to evidence-based treatments. Our study sought to determine if states' decisions to expand Medicaid increased recent smoking cessation.

Methods

Using pooled cross-sectional data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey for the years 2011-2015, we examined the association between state Medicaid coverage and the probability of recent smoking cessation among low-income adults without dependent children who were current or former smokers (n=36,083). We used difference-in-differences estimation to examine the effects of Medicaid coverage on smoking cessation, comparing low-income adult smokers in states with Medicaid coverage to comparable adults i

SUBMITTER: Koma JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5688008 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature