What Women Think About US Healthcare
To women, today, our health care system seems seriously flawed and its flaws are believed to have an immediate and harmful impact on women's health and well-being." Report of the National Partnership for Women & Families, 1998
he mindset of American women regarding health and healthcare was explored in a research study done for the National Partnership for Women & Families in 1998. Focus groups conducted in San Francisco, Houston and Philadelphia reflected the widest possible diversity in ethnic, racial, and socio-economic terms.
Qualitative research such as focus groups serves to tell us what people are thinking about, perhaps to set an agenda-it does not tell us how many people share these ideas. Nevertheless, the researchers found a "remarkable degree of commonality and consensus across all groups" regardless of geography, education or income. "One clear theme emerged across all women in all groups-to women, today, our health care system seems seriously flawed, and its flaws are believed to have an immediate and harmful impact on women's health and well-being."
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