Health Services Utilization
Availability and access to high quality health services directly affects the health of women, especially where need is confounded by poor health status, poverty, or lack of insurance. While nearly 87 percent of females of all ages were covered by some sort of health insurance during the year in 2000, 13 percent of females, or 18.5 million people, lacked a source of health insurance for the entire year. Lack of health insurance is likely to affect the receipt of timely and comprehensive care.
The following section presents data on women's health services utilization, including indicators on usual source of care, health care financing and expenditures, and use of preventive, dental, hospital, mental health, and nursing home services.
