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IMAGE: People who move due to cost are more likely to report delaying or not receiving prescribed medicines and needed medical care, according to a study led by Katherine Chen, MD,. view more
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LOS ANGELES (Dec. 30, 2020) People who move due to unaffordable housing are at increased risk of failing to receive the medical care they need, according to a new study from Cedars-Sinai and the University of California, Los Angeles. The study, published online in the
Journal of General Internal Medicine, concludes that the result could be long-term health problems.
The findings were based on 146,417 adults who responded from 2011 to 2017 to the California Health Interview Survey, the largest such state survey in the U.S. The study compared those who had moved their residences in the last five years to those who had not. It found those who had moved due to cost, as opposed to other reasons, were more likely to report delaying or not receivi