Assessing Health Insurance Coverage Characteristics and Impact on Health Care Cost, Worry, and Access: A Report From the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

JAMA Intern Med. 2017 Dec 1;177(12):1855-1858. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.5047.

Abstract

This study assessed a randomly selected, age-stratified sample of 698 childhood cancer survivors and 210 siblings and insurance coverage characteristics to determine the impact of underinsurance.

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Child, Preschool
  • Health Care Costs / trends*
  • Health Services Accessibility / organization & administration*
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Insurance Coverage / statistics & numerical data*
  • Neoplasms / economics*
  • Neoplasms / epidemiology
  • Survivors / statistics & numerical data*