MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 1998 Feb 6;47(4):73-7.
Lack of health-care-insurance coverage has been associated with decreased use of preventive health services, delay in seeking medical care, and poor health status. In 1995, an estimated 30.5 million persons aged 18-64 years in the United States did not have health insurance. To determine state-specific estimates of the prevalence of persons aged 18-64 who reported either short-term (i.e., <12 months) or long-term (i.e., > or = 12 months) lapses in health-care coverage, CDC analyzed data from the 1995 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). This report summarizes the results of that analysis and indicates that among adults who reported having no health insurance in 1995, most were without insurance for > or = 1 year and that long-term lapses were more prevalent among men than women.
缺乏医疗保险覆盖与预防性健康服务利用减少、就医延迟以及健康状况不佳有关。1995年，美国估计有3050万年龄在18至64岁之间的人没有医疗保险。为了确定18至64岁报告有短期（即<12个月）或长期（即≥12个月）医疗保险覆盖中断情况的人群患病率的各州具体估计数，疾病控制和预防中心分析了1995年行为危险因素监测系统（BRFSS）的数据。本报告总结了该分析结果，并表明在1995年报告没有医疗保险的成年人中，大多数人没有保险≥1年，而且长期保险中断在男性中比在女性中更为普遍。
