Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 1 , Pages 7-16 , January 2008

Women’s Health Insurance Coverage 1980–2005

  • Sherry Glied, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Sherry Glied, PhD, Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 600 West 168th Street, 6th Floor New York, NY 10032; Phone: 212-305-4031; Fax: 212-305-3405.
    • Sherry Glied, PhD, is Professor and Chair in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She is an economist whose research focuses on health insurance coverage and mental health policy.
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  • Kathrine Jack, BA, JD

      Affiliations

    • Kathrine Jack, JD, is a recent graduate of Indiana University School of Law. She is currently employed as a special project attorney at the National Advocates for Pregnant Women. She wrote this paper while working as a research assistant at Columbia University.
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  • Jason Rachlin, BA, MA

      Affiliations

    • Jason Rachlin, BA, MS, is currently working at the Bank of Montreal specializing in the risk management of their trading operations. When he wrote this paper, he was a research assistant at Columbia University.

Received 16 February 2007 ,Revised 13 July 2007 ,Accepted 3 October 2007.

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 Supported by a grant from the Commonwealth Fund.

PII: S1049-3867(07)00148-X

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2007.10.002

Women's Health Issues
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