. To determine whether living in a family with medical financial hardship decreases children's access to health care. . We identified children aged 4 to 17 years from the 2013 to 2018 National Health Interview Surveys. Medical financial hardship was defined as living in a family where one or more family members had problems paying medical bills in the past 12 months. . Of 53 483 children in the analysis, 19% were exposed to medical financial hardship. This was adversely associated with children's health status and health care use, especially greater odds of delaying care (odds ratio [OR] = 5.28; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 4.51-6.19) and having unmet health care needs (OR = 4.43; 95% CI = 4.00-4.91). . One fifth of children live in families experiencing medical financial hardship, and this exposure is adversely correlated with child health outcomes even controlling for established measures of socioeconomic status, such as family income, health insurance coverage, and need-based program participation.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|---|
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0009922820941644 | DOI Listing |
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
The dynamics of capillary flow in an open-channel system featuring trigger valves.
Sci Rep
December 2024
Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Box 351700, Seattle, Washington, 98195, USA.
Trigger valves are fundamental features in capillary-driven microfluidic systems that stop fluid at an abrupt geometric expansion and release fluid when there is flow in an orthogonal channel connected to the valve. The concept was originally demonstrated in closed-channel capillary circuits. We show here that trigger valves can be successfully implemented in open channels.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImpact of body composition and muscle health phenotypes on survival outcomes in colorectal cancer: a multicenter cohort.
Sci Rep
December 2024
Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences, Health Sciences Center, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil.
Body composition abnormalities are prognostic markers in several types of cancer, including colorectal cancer (CRC). Using our data distribution on body composition assessments and classifications could improve clinical evaluations and support population-specific opportune interventions. This study aimed to evaluate the distribution of body composition from computed tomography and assess the associations with overall survival among patients with CRC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnsupervised inter-domain transformation for virtually stained high-resolution mid-infrared photoacoustic microscopy using explainable deep learning.
Nat Commun
December 2024
Department of Convergence IT Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Republic of Korea.
Mid-infrared photoacoustic microscopy can capture biochemical information without staining. However, the long mid-infrared optical wavelengths make the spatial resolution of photoacoustic microscopy significantly poorer than that of conventional confocal fluorescence microscopy. Here, we demonstrate an explainable deep learning-based unsupervised inter-domain transformation of low-resolution unlabeled mid-infrared photoacoustic microscopy images into confocal-like virtually fluorescence-stained high-resolution images.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn antibody cocktail targeting two different CD73 epitopes enhances enzyme inhibition and tumor control.
Nat Commun
December 2024
Key Laboratory of Immune Response and Immunotherapy, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health (GIBH), Chinese Academy of Scienes, Guangzhou, China.
CD73, an ectoenzyme responsible for adenosine production, is often elevated in immuno-suppressive tumor environments. Inhibition of CD73 activity holds great promise as a therapeutic strategy for CD73-expressing cancers. In this study, we have developed a therapeutic anti-human CD73 antibody cocktail, HB0045.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLight-dependent modulation of protein localization and function in living bacteria cells.
Nat Commun
December 2024
Department of Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Most bacteria lack membrane-enclosed organelles and rely on macromolecular scaffolds at different subcellular locations to recruit proteins for specific functions. Here, we demonstrate that the optogenetic CRY2-CIB1 system from Arabidopsis thaliana can be used to rapidly direct proteins to different subcellular locations with varying efficiencies in live Escherichia coli cells, including the nucleoid, the cell pole, the membrane, and the midcell division plane. Such light-induced re-localization can be used to rapidly inhibit cytokinesis in actively dividing E.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWant AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!