813 - The Perilous State of Women's Health Care, Post-Roe
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
About this episode:
Since the 2022 Dobbs decision, women's healthcare in the U.S.—which was already underperforming in everything from access to maternal mortality rates—has faced a new set of challenges. In today's episode: All about a Commonwealth Fund report that updates the status of women's health care and reproductive health across the nation and why even services not related to reproductive care—like cancer screenings and having a primary care provider—have been disrupted.
Guests:
Dr. Sara Collins is senior scholar and vice president for health care coverage and access and tracking health system performance at The Commonwealth Fund.
Host:
Dr. Josh Sharfstein is vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a faculty member in health policy, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.
Show links and related content:
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2024 State Scorecard on Women's Health and Reproductive Care—The Commonwealth Fund
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These are the states that rank highest and lowest for women's health in new report—CNN
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How Does Your State Rank on Women's Health and Reproductive Care?—Ms. Magazine
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OB-GYN Training and Practice in Dobbs' Shadow—Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jh.h.edu. |
| 0:23.8 | That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:31.9 | Dr. Sarah Collins, thank you so much for joining me today to talk about the Commonwealth Fund's state scorecard on women's health and reproductive care. |
| 0:42.3 | Before we jump into the details of the scorecard, though, I think it might be helpful for you to introduce the Commonwealth Fund to our audience. |
| 0:49.0 | The Commonwealth Fund is a nonprofit, nonpartisan healthcare foundation. |
| 0:55.3 | We support independent research on healthcare issues and make grants to promote better access, |
| 1:01.9 | improve quality, and greater efficiency in healthcare, particularly for society's most vulnerable, |
| 1:07.8 | including people of color, people with low income, and those who are |
| 1:10.9 | uninsured. |
| 1:11.9 | So the Commonwealth Fund is known for these in-depth reviews of data in different areas, |
| 1:18.7 | sometimes comparing the United States health system with others, sometimes within the United |
| 1:22.5 | States health system. |
| 1:24.6 | This report starts with this sentence. |
| 1:26.7 | The health of women in the United States is in a |
| 1:30.2 | perilous place. Could you talk about the origins of this report? Yeah, the Commonwealth Funds, |
| 1:37.0 | health system state scorecards use the latest data available to assess how well the health care |
| 1:43.2 | system is working in every state. Since 2007, |
| 1:48.0 | 2007 was our state per state scorecard, we've been producing these state scorecards nearly |
| 1:53.4 | annually. And also, we produce special focus scorecards in areas of high policy interests, |
| 1:59.7 | such as racial and ethnic disparities. |
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