Women at High Risk for Diabetes: Access and Quality of Health Care, 2003-2006

CDC and AHRQ release: Women at High Risk for Diabetes: Access and Quality of Health Care, 2003–2006


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) are pleased to release the report Women at High Risk for Diabetes: Access and Quality of Health Care, 2003–2006. The full report can be downloaded or free print copies ordered at http://www.ahrq.gov/populations/womendiab2010/. For more information on diabetes, visit www.cdc.gov/diabetes.

Using the most scientifically based measures and national data sources available, this collaborative effort compared the quality of preventive health care received by U.S. women at high risk for diabetes with that for U.S. women not at high risk for diabetes. The report presents quality measures across several crucial elements of health care: access to care, general health and wellbeing, and use of preventive care and behaviors.
Among the report’s major findings:

· Regardless of diabetes risk status, minority women, women with low levels of education, or women who lived in low income families more often reported having fair-to-poor health.
· Regardless of diabetes risk status, women with a high school education or less were significantly more likely than women with more than a high school education to have been uninsured all year.
· Women at high risk for diabetes who had a high school education or less were significantly less likely than women at high risk for diabetes who had more than a high school education to have tried to lose weight in the past year.
· Women at high risk for diabetes were significantly less likely than women not at high risk for diabetes to report that they were physically active 150 minutes per week, the level of moderate physical activity per week recommended as part of a strategy to prevent or delay onset of type 2 diabetes.

Additional resources on diabetes and woman are posted at http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/populations.htm#1


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Women at High Risk for Diabetes: Access and Quality of Health Care, 2003-2006




Women at High Risk for Diabetes
Access and Quality of Health Care, 2003-2006
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Almost half of the people with diabetes in this country are women, and projections indicate that women will account for most cases between 2010 and 2050. Yet, many reports do not stratify by sex, so it is difficult to determine the quality of care that women with, or are at risk of, diabetes receive. This report uses national datasets to provide information about the quality of care among women at high risk for diagnosed diabetes compared with women not at high risk. It presents measures in several areas, such as access to care, general well-being, and evidence-based diabetes-specific preventive care.

Select to download print version (PDF file, 2.6 MB: http://www.ahrq.gov/populations/womendiab2010/womendiab2010.pdf