ArticleFrontiers in global women's health2022
Addressing Structural Inequities, a Necessary Step Toward Ensuring Equitable Access to Telehealth for Medication Abortion Care During and Post COVID-19.
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- Perceptions and experiences with two no-test direct-to-patient telehealth medication abortion regimens in the USA: an exploratory study with mifepristone and misoprostol and misoprostol-only regimens.BMJ public health · 2024Article
- Pricing of medication abortion in the United States, 2021-2023.Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health · 2024Article
- Opportunities for Increasing Access to Person-Centered Abortion Care Through Telehealth.American journal of public health · 2024Article
- Delays in Obtaining Abortion and Miscarriage Care Among Pregnant Persons in New York State During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The CAP Study.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- The Role of Telehealth in Promoting Equitable Abortion Access in the United States: Spatial Analysis.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2023Article
- Estimation of Multiyear Consequences for Abortion Access in Georgia Under a Law Limiting Abortion to Early Pregnancy.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Severely Restricting Abortion Threatens Equitable Health Outcomes for People With Human Immunodeficiency Virus.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023Article
- "Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2022Article
- Patient and provider experiences using a site-to-site telehealth model for medication abortion.mHealth · 2022Article
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Abstract
Telehealth, one of the newest health innovations, has been promoted as a tool to enhance access to health care services in ways that center patient needs. However, integrating telehealth within an inequitable health system undermines its potential. This perspective highlights policies and practices that foster structural inequities and names their impact on the use and acceptability of telehealth for medication abortion among specific communities of color. Communities of color have a higher prevalence of abortion use but face many barriers, including financial and geographic barriers, to abortion access. Preliminary evidence on telehealth for medication abortion shows that it is highly acceptable, accommodating of patient needs, and may allow patients to access abortion care at earlier gestational ages. However, evidence during the COVID-19 pandemic shows that utilization of telehealth is lower among communities of color. We describe how systemic barriers, including regulations on or laws banning telehealth for medication abortion, disinvestments in digital access, and restrictions on public insurance coverage, could perpetuate lower utilization of telehealth for medication abortion care among communities of color. We call for systems changes that will remove these barriers and make this health care innovation available to all who may desire it.
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