Availability of Health Insurance Literacy Resources Fails to Meet Consumer Needs in Rural, Appalachian Communities: Implications for State Medicaid Waivers

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Reports on the availability of health system and community‐based programs promoting health insurance literacy and supporting informed consumer healthcare decision making in rural Kentucky. Findings are based on focus groups and interviews conducted with healthcare providers, community health workers, patient navigators, and others primarily serving rural Appalachian counties in the state.

Jean Edward, Robin Thompson, Andrea Jaramillo

Journal of Rural Health

06/2020

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Access · Appalachia · Community health workers · Health insurance · Health literacy · Medicaid · Kentucky