Job Lock and Parents of Children With Cystic Fibrosis

Lenore S Azaroff; Steffie Woolhandler; Danny McCormick; David U Himmelstein; David Bor; Samuel Dickman; Adam Gaffney

doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4435

Job Lock and Parents of Children With Cystic Fibrosis

JAMA Pediatr. 2025 Jan 1;179(1):99-101. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4435.

Authors

Lenore S Azaroff¹, Steffie Woolhandler^{2

3}, Danny McCormick³, David U Himmelstein^{2

3}, David Bor³, Samuel Dickman⁴, Adam Gaffney⁵

Affiliations

¹ Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center, Worcester, Massachusetts.
² Hunter College, City University of New York, New York.
³ Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
⁴ Planned Parenthood of Montana, Billings.
⁵ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

PMID: 39466261
PMCID: PMC11581716 (available on 2025-10-28)
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.4435

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Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study examined whether parental job lock and other financial and employment factors are associated with access to care for children with cystic fibrosis.