The Latest: LGBT+ People’s Health Status and Access to Care

Plus, A New Law Is Supposed to Protect Pregnant Workers — But What If We Don't Know How?

View in browser The Latest JUNE 30, 2023 TIMELY ANALYSIS: LGBT+ People's Health Status and Access to Care Following today's Supreme Court ruling, explore our data on LGBT+ adults' health status and access to care, including their experiences with discrimination in health care, and learn more about mental health disparities in our recent brief. Explore the data A New Law Is Supposed to Protect Pregnant Workers — But What If We Don't Know How? During pregnancy, workers often face hazardous circumstances, including breathing toxic chemicals. On June 27, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act began requiring employers to provide "reasonable accommodations." But the new law has a big hole: Not nearly enough is known about which chemical exposures are dangerous for pregnant workers. Read the story NEW ANALYSIS: What Does the Recent Literature Say About Medicaid Expansion & Impacts on Sexual and Reproductive Health? This brief summarizes recent studies on the impacts of Medicaid expansion on a range of sexual and reproductive health outcomes. How does Medicaid expansion affect sexual health? Once-Resistant Rural Court Officials Begin to Embrace Medications to Treat Addiction As evidence supporting medication treatment for opioid addiction mounts, judges, district attorneys, and law enforcement officials in rural America are increasingly open to it after years of insisting on abstinence only. More on addiction treatment in the rural U.S. Question of the Week Last week, 44% correctly answered that of states that do not ban abortions, 9 generally have laws that effectively outlaw telehealth for medication abortion. Nonelderly workers in occupations with increased climate related health risks are about __ as likely as their counterparts in less at-risk occupations to lack health insurance. Twice Three Times Four Times  See how many readers answered this week's question correctly in next Friday's edition of The Latest. NEWS AND HEADLINES As Low-Nicotine Cigarettes Hit the Market, Anti-Smoking Groups Press for Wider Standard Need to Get Plan B or an HIV Test Online? Facebook May Know About It More States Drop Sales Tax on Disposable Diapers to Boost Affordability   DATA AND ANALYSIS Medicaid State Fact Sheets 10 Things to Know About Medicaid   The independent source for health policy research, polling, and news. kff.org kffhealthnews.org Did someone forward this to you? Click here to subscribe to The Latest. This email was sent to albarkahslamet.ssss@blogger.com. Update your email preferences to choose the types of emails you receive. Or, permanently unsubscribe from all future emails.  If you need help or have questions, please send an email to subscriptions@kff.org. Please do not reply to this email as this address is not monitored. KFF 185 Berry Street Suite 2000 San Francisco, CA 94107