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Publication Date: May 2003
Publisher: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Author(s): Jodie Levin-Epstein
Research Area: Health; Social conditions
Type: Brief
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
Women comprise 90 percent of the adult caseload receiving welfare assistance through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. TANFs influence on womens health and well-being is broad and is driven by multiple aspects of the program, including access to health insurance, work requirements and training options, links to health care services, and reproductive health provisions.
This issue brief, published by the Kaiser Family Foundation, reflects on lessons learned from recent research on the connection between welfare policies and low-income womens health.