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Showing 1 to 20 of 128 for “"Uninsured"”.
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Health-promoting Behavior Comparisons of Insured and Uninsured Rural Women
… care seeking behavior of rural insured and uninsured women. The study also described the demographic characteristics of these groups. A comparative, descriptive, and non-experimental study design was utilized. A sample size of sixty-four (N=64) was achieved. Information from the respondents …
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Essays on uninsured income risk, lumpy investment and aggregate demand
This thesis consists of three chapters on uninsured income risk, lumpy investment and aggregate demand. The first chapter analyzes the non-linear response of durable spending to income shocks. Empirically, the average marginal propensity to spend (MPC) on durable goods increases with the size of …
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Dallas Area Health Care Use: Study of Insured, Uninsured, and Medicaid Enrolled Children
This research investigated physician and emergency room use among representative samples of children in the Dallas metropolitan area (N = 1606) and among patients who used Children's Medical Center of Dallas' First Care services (N = 612). Through telephone interviewing, caregivers to children …
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Health status of the uninsured: An investigation of health behaviors and medical care usage
… were not consistently different from the uninsured. (3) After controlling for demographic, socioeconomic, medical care utilization, and health behaviors, full year insurance status remained a significant predictor of self-rated health. (4) Women and minorities were more likely to report …
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Uninsured Adult Working-Age Population in Tarrant County: Access, Cost of Care, and Health--Hispanic Immigrants
This study uses secondary survey data collected from a sample population of clients from JPS Health Network in Tarrant County, Texas from July-August, 2000. Respondents for this study represents a group of working-age Hispanic immigrant adults, N=379. Andersen's "Behavioral Model for Vulnerable …
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Retrospective Analysis of a Breast Health Program on Routine Annual Mammography in Low-Income, Uninsured Women
… enhance the understanding of low-income, working uninsured women and identify new variables not found in comparative research findings.
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Free Clinics and the Uninsured: The Need for Remote Area Medical in Central Appalachia After Health Reform.
<p>In 2008, the election of President Barack Obama brought health care to the forefront of national discussions and led to the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The legislation changed the rules of health care delivery in the United States, but the ACA did not do one …
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To Partner or Not to Partner: Motivations to Develop Interorganizational Partnerships for the Uninsured in Rural SC Counties
<p>The number of uninsured has been estimated to be over 46.3 million nationally, which means 15.4% of the US residents face barriers when attempting to utilize health care services. These barriers have critical implications for South Carolina where rural residents make up 25% of the state …
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Differentiating beliefs of insured and uninsured, insurance-eligible state employees: a new application of the Health Belief Model
The increasing number of uninsured Americans is a crucial policy issue for the United States; however, there is a paucity of empirical social science research on the uninsured with which to guide the development of policy. Previous research indicates that when insurance is voluntary, whether …
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Safety Net System: A Case Study of Primary and Specialty Care for Uninsured Residents in Cobb County, Georgia
… of quality care, and policies for the uninsured. The study provides insight for assessing the circumstances in Cobb County and supplies information on services that may need evaluation and expansion. Data for safety net facilities were obtained through interviews with a questionnaire …
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Congestive Heart Failure Hospital Admissions among Non-Elderly Medicaid and Uninsured Working-Age Adult Patients in South Carolina, 2008
… Admissions among Non-Elderly Medicaid and Uninsured Patients in South Carolina, 2008.</p> <p>Background: Despite significant advances in the quality of care in some areas, hospital admissions for heart failure (HF) continue to rise . Data for this study examined hospital discharge data for …
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Health-Related Quality of Life in the Working Uninsured: Conditional Indirect Effects Of Perceived Stigma via Vitality and Interpersonal Needs
… from a primary clinic that targets the working uninsured population in a region of Appalachia completed questionnaires assessing for perceived stigma of finances, depressive symptoms, health-related quality of life, subjective vitality, thwarted belongingness, and perceived burdensomeness. …
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Reducing The Emergency Room Revolving Door Syndrome For The Poor, Uninsured And Chronically Ill Patient: Pilot Recommendations From A Process Improvement Evaluation
<p>CONTEXT: My Health LA (MHLA) is a Los Angeles County program that allows residents who are poor, without medical insurance (due to unaffordability and/or illegal immigration status), and without a primary care provider (un-empaneled) to enroll with an affiliated primary care clinic and receive …
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Using the Andersen Behavioral Model of Health Services Use to Examine Adult Uninsured Patient Health Services Use at a Community Health Center
… a significant burden for patients who are uninsured and managing chronic conditions and links to the likelihood of medication non-compliance (Piette, et al., 2006; Reed, 2005; Solomon, 2005).</p> <p>To enhance its chronic disease management model for uninsured patients diagnosed with …
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Essays on health insurance
<p>Uninsured individuals receive fewer health care services for at least three reasons: higher prices, responsibility for the entire bill, and potential provider reductions for concern of non-payment. This study isolates differences in service levels between insured and uninsured individuals that …
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The Impact of Being Uninsured in the United States on Economic and Humanistic Outcomes: Results from the 2004-2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys
… dissertation was to describe the extent of the uninsured problem in the United States for the non-elderly population, and for various subpopulations. The objectives were 1) for specific cohorts within the United States non-elderly population, compare humanistic and economic outcomes between …
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Transitional medical assistance: A classical policy analysis
… to determine if TMA helps reduce the number of uninsured Missourians. To evaluate implementation of TMA, this analysis follows Patton and Sawicki’s model of policy analysis. Trends in TMA enrollment, Medicaid budget, unemployment rates, number of uninsured Missourians, eligibility requirements …
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Relationship between primary care access through free clinics and emergency room usage
… a primary care provider. This study surveyed two uninsured groups, one using a local free clinic for primary care (n = 54) and one from the community that did not use the free clinic (n = 70). The uninsured group that used the free clinic had a statistically significant lower average of emergency …
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The Role of Social Support and Spiritual Care in Numbers of ED Visits
… Bureau in 2010, there are almost 50 million uninsured Americans. As the experience of being uninsured or underinsured becomes increasingly common, there is also an increased financial burden on hospitals across the country as their emergency departments (EDs) serve as a health care safety …
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Impact of National Health Insurance on health seeking behavior in the Kassena-Nankana district of Northern Ghana
… health-seeking behaviours of insured and uninsured households on the mutual health insurance scheme on health care access in the Kassena-Nankana District (KND) of northern Ghana and to determine the factors that influence household decision to enrol into the NHIS. The study is a cross …
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