A study by CUNY SPH researchers suggests that federal measures supporting free testing and treatment for COVID-19 may have lessened the health care impact of the pandemic and prevented an increase in racial/ethnic health disparities.
, CUNY SPH alumni Madelyn Carlson and Matthew Romo , with Associate Professor Elizabeth Kelvin found that unmet health care need among New Yorkers during the first year of the pandemic did not differ significantly from 2018–2019 and in fact decreased among those withoutThe researchers used data from the Community Health Survey, collected in 2018, 2019 and 2020, to compare unmet health care need within the past 12 months during year one of the pandemic versus the two years prior .
Overall, 12% of New Yorkers experienced unmet health care during the three-year period. In univariate and multivariable models, the first year of the pandemic was not associated with change in unmet health care need compared with 2018–2019. However, researchers found significant effect modification by health insurance status. In the regression models stratified by health insurance status, adults without insurance had decreased odds of experiencing unmet health care during the first year of the pandemic compared to the two previous years, while those with health insurance had a slight increase.
The varying direction of the association suggests that the impact of unmet health care need had a differential effect by health
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