Housing Stability and Access to General Healthcare and Reproductive Healthcare Among Women in Ohio.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The relationship between housing instability and reproductive healthcare is understudied. We examined the association between housing insecurity and access and utilization of general healthcare, contraceptive healthcare, and abortion care.

Methods

Using data from a population-representative survey of adult reproductive-age Ohio women (N = 2,529), we assessed housing insecurity (not paying rent/mortgage on time in the past year). We examined associations between housing insecurity and the following outcomes: (1) not being able to access general healthcare in the past year; (2) experiencing delays or difficulties in accessing contraceptive healthcare in the past year; and (3) ever having an abortion. We used unadjusted and adjusted logistic regression models. We sel

SUBMITTER: Hood RB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9483305 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature