Monitoring Outcomes for Former Welfare Recipients:
A Review of 11 Survey Instruments

Table V:  Access to Health Care and Health Status

Questions
Was anyone in your home sick or hurt or in need of doctor, but could not afford to get medical care? X
X
C 		  X
X
 X

 X

 X

 X

         6
Satisfaction with quality of health care   X C                   1
Health status X
C 		X
C 		X
                 3
Total 5 4 3 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0

X = Question asked of adult;  C = Question asked about children in household.

Notes:
Florida asks this type of question three times:

  1. If could not afford care since left TANF;
  2. If need medical care and unable to obtain it at the present time; and
  3. If children in need of medical care at present time.

The Cuyahoga/L.A. survey asks two questions, first whether unable to go see doctor or hospital because of lack of money or medical insurance, and second, whether unable to see dentist.

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