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Health Care Access and Perceptions of Provider Care among Individuals in Same-Sex Couples

Health Care Access and Perceptions of Provider Care among Individuals in Same-Sex Couples. Joseph Clift AHRQ/Environmental Protection Agency James Kirby AHRQ. Background. Most research on LGBT people focuses on health disparities, not access, use or perceptions

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Health Care Access and Perceptions of Provider Care among Individuals in Same-Sex Couples

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  1. Health Care Access and Perceptions of Provider Care among Individuals in Same-Sex Couples Joseph Clift AHRQ/Environmental Protection Agency James Kirby AHRQ

  2. Background • Most research on LGBT people focuses on health disparities, not access, use or perceptions • Most research is based on small, convenience samples

  3. Objective • Compare individuals in same-sex couples to those in different-sex married couples • Access • Preventive Use • Perceptions of care

  4. Method • Descriptive statistics with difference tests corrected for the complex sample design • Logistic regression models controlling for a limited number of basic sociodemographic variables • Age, household income, highest degree, metropolitan residence and insurance status

  5. Data • Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, pooled for 1996-2007 • Sample: individuals who are married or who report having a “partner” of the same sex • 136,676 married individuals • 696 individuals in same sex couples

  6. Variables • Access • Preventive Use • Perceptions of Provider Care

  7. Results: Access * *

  8. Results: Access *

  9. Results: Preventive Use *

  10. Results: Perceptions of Provider Care *

  11. Odds-ratios from Logistic regression model * * * * * *

  12. Summary and Conclusions • Statistically significant differences exist on: • Timeliness of getting appointments and Rx drugs • Ease in seeing specialists • Annual flu shot • Most measures show no statistically significant difference • Overall pattern of differences indicate that individuals in same-sex couples have generally worse access and more negative perceptions of care • Annual flu shot is the exception

  13. Limitations • Cannot infer to LGBT people, only to those in same-sex cohabiting couples • Differences are “averages” over 12 years • Descriptive

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