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Preventive Healthcare Usage In The United States: Does Health Insurance Matter, Diane Rodriguez

Theses & Dissertations

The Centers for Disease Control in the United States has maintained that adults who avoid preventive care services are more likely to suffer from long term chronic diseases because they are not addressed or treated in a timely manner. Examining the effects of providing access to healthcare to uninsured adults and increasing preventive services can help in reducing chronic diseases and enable adults to live longer, healthier lives. The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between the utilization of preventive health services and socioeconomic factors such as insurance status, race/ethnicity, household income, marital status, education, gender, age, …