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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)"”.
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Count Data Models for Injury Data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
… widely used in analyzing injury data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). However, since its dependent variable is dichotomized to be either “1” (presence of an injury incident) or “0” (absence of an injury incident), logistic regression cannot provide sufficient …
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Socio-Economic and Demographic Predictors of Mammography and Pap Smear Screening in US Women
… in education regarding cancer screening, healthcare costs are still on the rise and disagreement still exists between physicians who create guidelines and policy makers (Woloshin, 2000). This project examines cancer screening and examines socio-economic and demographic predictors for usage …
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Essays on Health Care Satisfaction, Health Insurance, and Cancer Screening Among Veterans
… to determine differences in satisfaction of health care services among veterans based on insurance type/coverage and the impact of service utilization of cancer screening services among female veterans who have received health care services within past 12 months. Methods: IPUMS National …
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Multivariate Outlier Mining Using Cluster Analysis: Case Study - National Health Interview Survey
… the application of these methods using the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) 2008 database for the purposes of studying adolescent obesity.
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Behavior Model of Health Services Use: An Empirical Analysis using CDC Data
The Behavior Model of Health Services Use, initially developed by Andersen (1968) and later modified, in collaboration with Newman, Aday, and other researchers, has evolved over the last fifty years. The most recent model (2008) suggests that the individual and contextual characteristics, the …
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An Analysis of the Efficacy of Cervical Cancer Screening in Elderly Women
… of population hysterectomy prevalence from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) were used to obtain a hysterectomy-adjusted estimate of screening efficacy, controlled for race and education (OR = 0.39, CI = 0.33-0.44). Further analyses illustrated that cervical cancer screening had a …
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Mammography Utilization in African American Women
… differently among women causing breast cancer health disparities with women of color disproportionally shouldering later-stage screening, incidence, and treatment, and greater mortality. This study assessed 10 predictors and rates of recent and long-term mammography utilization for women 43-79 …
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Health Service Utilization Among Chinese, Filipino, And Asian Indian Older Adults In The United States
… of this study are:: 1) to describe and compare health service needs and health insurance coverage among Chinese, Filipino, and Asian Indian older adults;: 2) to use modified Andersen's behavior model to identify what predisposing factors, enabling factors, need factors, and immigrant-related …
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Person or place? A contextual event-history analysis of homicide victimization risk
… their risk of victimization. This study, using National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data matched with National Death Index (NDI) data, examines the intersection of these ideas and seeks to explain how community context influences one’s chance of being a homicide victim and especially on how …