Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Why did the number of uninsured continue to increase in 2005?
http://www.kff.org/uninsured/upload/7571.pdf
Kaiser Family Foundation
This paper examines health coverage trends in 2005 and places them in the context of trends occurring since 2000. The paper concludes that despite the improving economy, the percentage of the population with employer-sponsored insurance continued to decline while the number of the uninsured continued to increase.
Kaiser Family Foundation
This paper examines health coverage trends in 2005 and places them in the context of trends occurring since 2000. The paper concludes that despite the improving economy, the percentage of the population with employer-sponsored insurance continued to decline while the number of the uninsured continued to increase.
Labels: uninsured
Assisted Living Costs
http://www.metlife.com/WPSAssets/19759823911162238386V1F2006AssistedLivingStudy.pdf
Source: MetLife Mature Market Institute
“The private pay rate for an individual at an assisted living facility, according to the 2006 MetLife Market Survey of Assisted Living Costs, averaged $2,968 per month, or $35,616 yearly. That’s up 2.2% or $63 from 2005 and 17.6% from 2004.”
Source: MetLife Mature Market Institute
“The private pay rate for an individual at an assisted living facility, according to the 2006 MetLife Market Survey of Assisted Living Costs, averaged $2,968 per month, or $35,616 yearly. That’s up 2.2% or $63 from 2005 and 17.6% from 2004.”
Labels: Assisted Living Costs
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Electronic Health Records
http://www.rwjf.org/files/publications/other/EHRReport0609.pdf
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
"In the most comprehensive study to date that reliably measures the state of electronic health record (EHR) use by doctors and hospitals, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and George Washington University (GWU) estimate that one in four doctors (24.9 percent) use EHRs to improve how they deliver care to patients. However, less than one in 10 are using what experts define as a “fully operational” system that collects patient information, displays test results, allows providers to enter medical orders and prescriptions, and helps doctors make treatment decisions.
Health Information Technology in the United States: The Information Base for Progress is a joint project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the federal government’s National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. The report provides a look at how doctors and hospitals are using information systems to drive improvements in quality. It shows that EHR adoption rates remain very low due to multiple financial, technical and legal barriers. The report authors say these barriers will need to be lifted if the health sector is to meet President Bush’s desired goal of ensuring that most Americans have their medical information collected, stored, and organized in an EHR by 2014"
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
"In the most comprehensive study to date that reliably measures the state of electronic health record (EHR) use by doctors and hospitals, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and George Washington University (GWU) estimate that one in four doctors (24.9 percent) use EHRs to improve how they deliver care to patients. However, less than one in 10 are using what experts define as a “fully operational” system that collects patient information, displays test results, allows providers to enter medical orders and prescriptions, and helps doctors make treatment decisions.
Health Information Technology in the United States: The Information Base for Progress is a joint project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the federal government’s National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. The report provides a look at how doctors and hospitals are using information systems to drive improvements in quality. It shows that EHR adoption rates remain very low due to multiple financial, technical and legal barriers. The report authors say these barriers will need to be lifted if the health sector is to meet President Bush’s desired goal of ensuring that most Americans have their medical information collected, stored, and organized in an EHR by 2014"
Labels: electronic medical records
Children's Health Care
Triple Jeopardy for Vulnerable Children: Greater Health Needs, Less Access, Poorer Primary Care
http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/2006/RAND_RB9215.pdf
RAND Corporation
“This research brief summarizes an analysis of data from a nationwide survey to determine why children eligible to be in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) are not enrolled.”
http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/2006/RAND_RB9215.pdf
RAND Corporation
“This research brief summarizes an analysis of data from a nationwide survey to determine why children eligible to be in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) are not enrolled.”
Labels: Children's Health Care
Friday, October 13, 2006
Maternal and Child Health History
http://www.mchlibrary.info/history/
Maternal and Child Health Library, Georgetown University
" This resource brings together documents and reports related to the history of maternal and child health in the United States and health services for children and families that are part of the Maternal and Child Health Library Collection and also links to significant resources at other libraries and federal agencies. "
Maternal and Child Health Library, Georgetown University
" This resource brings together documents and reports related to the history of maternal and child health in the United States and health services for children and families that are part of the Maternal and Child Health Library Collection and also links to significant resources at other libraries and federal agencies. "
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Why do People Lack Health Insurance?
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411317_lack_health_ins.pdf
Urban Institute
"This brief looks at the reasons people report being uninsured overall and by key population subgroups (defined by age, race/ethnicity, health status, and family and employment characteristics). We also examine how those reasons have change over time."
Urban Institute
"This brief looks at the reasons people report being uninsured overall and by key population subgroups (defined by age, race/ethnicity, health status, and family and employment characteristics). We also examine how those reasons have change over time."
Underage Drinking in America
http://camy.org/research/status0306/status0306.pdf
Georgetown University Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth
This report summarizes the most recent data and other relevant research on underage drinking, with a special focus on findings published in 2005.
Georgetown University Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth
This report summarizes the most recent data and other relevant research on underage drinking, with a special focus on findings published in 2005.
Labels: drinking
Young Children's Health and Behavior Following Welfare Reform
http://crcw.princeton.edu/workingpapers/WP06-08-FF.pdf
Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
"We investigated the effects of welfare and employment on the health and behavioral outcomes of 3-year-old children whose mothers received welfare during the course of the child's life."
Center for Research on Child Wellbeing
"We investigated the effects of welfare and employment on the health and behavioral outcomes of 3-year-old children whose mothers received welfare during the course of the child's life."
Fighting Obesity in the Public Schools
http://www.brookings.edu/es/research/projects/wrb/publications/pb/20060314foc.pdf
The Brookings Institution
"Childhood obesity is a growing national problem. Public Schools are playing a central role in fighting childhood obesity despite both political and financial constraints. But schools should do even more to reduce the availability of junk food, make school meals more nutritions, and increase students' daily exercise."
The Brookings Institution
"Childhood obesity is a growing national problem. Public Schools are playing a central role in fighting childhood obesity despite both political and financial constraints. But schools should do even more to reduce the availability of junk food, make school meals more nutritions, and increase students' daily exercise."
Tobacco Use: Prevention Cessation, And Control
http://www.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/evidence/pdf/tobaccouse/tobuse.pdf
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
"A systematic review of the literature on issues of tobacco use, prevention, cessation and control was conducted in order to summarize the available literature, frame the discussions regarding benefits and harms, and highlight the limitations of the entire evidence base."
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
"A systematic review of the literature on issues of tobacco use, prevention, cessation and control was conducted in order to summarize the available literature, frame the discussions regarding benefits and harms, and highlight the limitations of the entire evidence base."
State Differences in the Cost of Job-Related Health Insurance
http://www.meps.ahcpr.gov/mepsweb/data_files/publications/st135/stat135.pdf
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
"This Statistical Brief presents state bariations from the national average of the cost of job-related health insurance and how these costs are shared by employers and their employees. The brief specifically examines the average premiums and employee contributions for private sector establishments in the 10 most populous states in 2004."
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
"This Statistical Brief presents state bariations from the national average of the cost of job-related health insurance and how these costs are shared by employers and their employees. The brief specifically examines the average premiums and employee contributions for private sector establishments in the 10 most populous states in 2004."
