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United States Commonwealth Fund Survey of Women's Health 1998

General Info

Provider 
Commonwealth Fund
Tabulations only
Geography 
United States of America (USA)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
May, 1998 - November, 1998
Data type
Survey: Cross-sectional - Interview - Nationally representative
Summary 

The 1998 Commonwealth Fund Survey of Women's Health was a national study conducted as part of a five year initiative estabilished by The Commission on Women's Health that focused on increasing public awareness of women's health issues, and as a follow up to a previous survey in 1993. Telephone interviews with 2,011 women and 1,084 men ages 18 and older examined the topics of preventive care, violence and abuse, caregiving, health and economic security, insurance status and access to care, with oversampling of African American, Hispanic, and Asian American women and men included as well. The survey was carried out from May to November 1998.

Keywords 
Alcohol use, Blood tests, Calcium, Childhood sexual violence, Cholesterol tests, Clinical breast exams, Diagnosis, Domestic violence, Education, Employment, Family size, Health behaviors, Health care access, Health care use, Health insurance, Health status, Home care, Hormone replacement therapy, Hysterectomy, Income, Intimate partner violence, Marital status, Menopause, Milk, Occupations, Pap smears, Physical examinations, Poverty, Prescriptions, Public social assistance, Race, Screening mammography, Sexual violence, Tobacco use

Citation

Contributors 
Louis Harris and Associates
Funders 
Commonwealth Fund
Publisher 
Commonwealth Fund
Publication year 
1999
Suggested citation 
Louis Harris and Associates. United States Commonwealth Fund Survey of Women's Health 1998. New York, United States: Commonwealth Fund, 1999.

Source URL: http://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/united-states-commonwealth-fund-survey-womens-health-1998