Journal Article

Divorce and Women's Risk of Health Insurance Loss

Smock, Pamela J., Lavelle, Bridget

2012

نظرة عامة

This article bridges the literatures on the economic consequences of divorce for women with that on marital transitions and health by focusing on women's health insurance. Using a monthly calendar of marital status and health insurance coverage from 1,442 women in the Survey of Income and Program Participation, we examine how women's health insurance changes after divorce. Our estimates suggest that roughly 115,000 American women lose private health insurance annually in the months following divorce and that roughly 65,000 of these women become uninsured. The loss of insurance coverage we observe is not just a short-term disruption. Women's rates of insurance coverage remain depressed for more than two years after divorce. Insurance loss may compound the economic losses women experience after divorce and contribute to as well as compound previously documented health declines following divorce.

• الناشر: Sage Publications,SAGE Publications,American Sociological Association
• موضوع: Adult / Analysis. Health state / Biological and medical sciences / Children / Coverage / Divorce / Divorce - economics / Employee benefits / Employer provided health insurance / Employment - economics / Epidemiology / Female / Females / Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology / General aspects / Health / Health Insurance / Health Services Accessibility - economics / Health Services Needs and Demand - economics / Health Status / Humans / Illness and personality / Income / Insurance coverage / Insurance Coverage - economics / Insurance, Health - economics / Marital Status / Medical sciences / Participation / Personality, behavior and health / Psychology and medicine / Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry / Psychology. Psychophysiology / Public health. Hygiene / Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine / Risk / Smocks / Social behavior / Social Contexts and Women's Health / Socioeconomic Factors / Stress, Psychological / Studies / Surveys / Uninsured people / Women / Women's Health - economics / Women's issues / Womens health / Womens Health Care / Working women