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Medicaid’s Role for Women Across the Lifespan
An issue brief discusses the role of Medicaid for women and examines how changes under the health reform law will affect the program and women covered by Medicaid. It explores Medicaid’s provision of reproductive health services, care for chronic conditions and disabilities, and long-term care services. It also has state-level data on enrollment and coverage policies on services of importance to women.

Resources on Adolescent Health
The issue brief Adolescent Health: Coverage And Access to Care and the KaiserEDU Issue Module on Adolescent Health examine access to health services for adolescents, their insurance coverage, and the role of state and federal policies in shaping access to care. An updated fact sheet, Sexual Health of Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States, covers a broad range of sexual health topics facing teens including sexual activity; pregnancy, contraceptive use, prevalence of sexually transmitted infections among teenagers and young adults, and access to reproductive health services.

Women’s Health Care Chartbook
The Women's Health Care Chartbook, based on a national survey of women ages 18 to 64, includes data on insurance coverage, affordability of and access to care, use of health care services, prevention and family health.

KaiserEDU Tutorial – Women’s Health Policy: Coverage and Access to Care
Narrated slide presentation discusses health policy issues of importance to women with a focus on women’s health insurance coverage and access to care.

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The U.S. Government and International Family Planning & Reproductive Health -- January 2012

Medicaid's Role for Women Across the Lifespan: Current Issues and the Impact of the Affordable Care Act -- January 2012

Women's Health Insurance Coverage: Fact Sheet -- December 2011

Health Insurance Coverage of Women Ages 18 to 64, by State, 2009-2010 -- December 2011

The HPV Vaccine: Access and Use in the U.S. -- November 2011

KaiserEDU.org Tutorial: Reproductive Health Care Policy for Women in the United States -- November 2011

KaiserEDU.org Issue Module: HPV Vaccine and Cancer -- November 2011

Adolescent Health: Coverage and Access to Care -- October 2011

Preventive Services Covered by Private Health Plans under the Affordable Care Act -- September 2011

Fact Sheet: Women and HIV/AIDS in the United States -- August 2011

This fact sheet examines the U.S. role in international family planning and reproductive health worldwide, including the history of U.S. involvement, current programs and funding, and key issues.

This issue brief provides an overview of the Medicaid program and its role in providing health and long-term care coverage for low-income women.

This fact sheet provides updated statistics on health coverage and describes the major sources of health insurance for non-elderly adult women ages 18–64, including employer-sponsored coverage, Medicaid, individually purchased insurance, and Medicare. It also provides data on the more than 19 million women who are uninsured, and summarizes the major implications of the health reform law for women and their health coverage.

This fact sheet provides state-by-state data on the uninsured rate, as well as rates of private insurance coverage and Medicaid coverage, among women nationally, in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved two vaccines against infection by certain strains of human papillomavirus (HPV), the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. Initially, the vaccines were recommended only for girls and young women, but in 2011 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention broadened them to include boys and young men. The fact sheet discusses HPV and cancers related to the virus, use of the HPV vaccines for both females and males, and insurance coverage and access to the vaccines.

This kaiserEDU.org tutorial summarizes major issues in reproductive health care policy.

This kaiserEDU.org issue module provides access to the most recent research and information available on the human papiloma virus (HPV) vaccine.

This issue brief on adolescent health examines access to health services for adolescents, their insurance coverage, and the role of state and federal policies in shaping access to care.

This fact sheet outlines the new prevention services that private insurers must cover under the Affordable Care Act and discusses the impact they may have on several populations.

This updated fact sheet highlights the impact of HIV/AIDS on women in the United States, providing current data and trends over time

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Women's Health Policy

Women are major consumers of health care services, negotiating not only their own complex health care but often managing care for their family members as well. Their reproductive health needs as well as their greater rates of health problems and longer life spans compared with men make women’s relationships with the health care system complex. Women are also more likely to be low-income and often face the added challenge of balancing work with family health and caregiving responsibilities. For the one in five women who are uninsured, access to high quality, comprehensive care is even more difficult.

Women have a vested interest in the scope and type of services offered by the health care system, as well as in the mechanisms that fund their health care services. Because their access to care is influenced by a broad range of factors, analysis of women’s health policy cuts across many sectors of the health care financing and delivery system, including reproductive health policy, reforms to publicly-financed health programs, as well as private sector efforts to contain costs and improve health. Women comprise the majority of beneficiaries in publicly –funded programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, and welfare, making them key stakeholders in public policy debates about the impact of reforms to these programs. Because of their lower incomes, affordability and cost of care are critical issues for women.

The Foundation aims to provide policymakers, journalists, advocates, and public health practitioners with current analysis on the policies in health financing and delivery that affect women. The particular challenges faced by women at risk for experiencing access barriers, such as those on Medicaid, those who are uninsured, and racial and ethnic minorities, are a special focus. Primary activities include conducting periodic surveys on women's interactions with the health care system, monitoring reforms under consideration in Washington and state capitols across the country, conducting research to document the impact of policies and to identify emerging priority areas for women, as well as briefing policymakers and their staff on key trends and issues to inform current policy debates.