Health insurance is a family matter
By: Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Contributors: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance.
Publisher: The National Academies Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Medically uninsured persons -- United States; Insurance, Health -- United States; Family services -- Efect of managed care on -- United States; Life cycle, Human; Medically Uninsured -- United States; Insurance, Health -- United States; Family; Life Cycle Stages
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"Health Insurance is a Family Matter is the third in a series of six reports planned by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and its Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance.  This series of studies represents a major and sustained commitment by the IOM to contribute to the public debate about the problems associated with having more than 38 million uninsured people in the United States." -- p. vii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-278).

Mode of access: Internet. Text: HTML Format, PDF available for printing.
Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: A Family matter; title: Insurance coverage of families; title: Insurance transitions over the family cycle; title: Financial characteristics and behavior of uninsured families; title: Family well-being and health insurance coverage; title: Health-related outcomes for children, pregnant women, and newborns; title: Conclusions; title: Appendixes; title: References.