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J Health Polit Policy Law (2023) 48 (5): 761–798.
Published: 01 October 2023
... includes health insurance benefits as resources. A 2021 technical advisory report recommended statistical agencies produce absolute poverty trends with and without health insurance. Methods: The authors analyzed the conceptual validity and relevance of long-term absolute poverty trends incorporating health...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1983) 8 (1): 199–202.
Published: 01 February 1983
... differentiation is becoming much more pro- nounced within Lesotho, with a high probability of growing numbers in the future with no hope of escape from absolute poverty. Thus concerns about nutrition and health in Lesotho are still warranted, but particularly for those segments of the population...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2001) 26 (6): 1291–1324.
Published: 01 December 2001
... and 1995 relative to North Carolina (P < 0.0001); a similar increase was observed among those in high-poverty areas in Tennessee relative to North Carolina across the two years (P < 0.001) (Table 3). In both cases, there was an absolute increase in Tennessee...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2002) 27 (4): 639–672.
Published: 01 August 2002
... incremental program changes and absolute differences in state spending. To discover how greatly the researcher's choice of dependent variables can affect results, optional spending is separated from total spending levels and the variation is modeled in both. Focusing not on the spending that the federal...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2025) 50 (2): 253–281.
Published: 01 April 2025
... absolute and relative changes in uninsurance from 2010 to 2021 by race and ethnicity, stratified by Medicaid expansion status. Methods: The sample included all respondents younger than age 65 (N = 30,339,104) from the American Community Survey, 2010–21. Absolute and relative differences in uninsurance...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2001) 26 (3): 533–542.
Published: 01 June 2001
... 50 : 673 -687. Duany, Andres, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. 2000 . Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream . New York: North Point. Fiscella, Kevin, and Peter Franks. 1997 . Poverty or Income Inequality as Predictors of Mortality: Longitudinal...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2016) 41 (4): 627–651.
Published: 01 August 2016
.... Acknowledging that the exclusive use of one measure of health inequity is value laden and that the choice of a measure of inequity can lead to different interpretations of the same data (Harper et al. 2010 ), table 1 presents both the absolute (the difference between two groups) and the relative (dividing...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2006) 31 (3): 657–670.
Published: 01 June 2006
... on the National Healthcare Disparities Report. www.ahrq.gov/qual/nhdr03/letter.htm (accessed January 16, 2005). DeNavas-Walt C., B. Proctor, and C. Lee. 2005. Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2004. Current Population Reports P60-229. www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p60-229...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1987) 12 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 February 1987
... states, and how fair is it to taxpayers? Breadth of eligibility coverage Variations in the breadth of eligibility coverage among state Medicaid pro- grams largely determine differences in program size and generosity, as we will show later. Absolute program size varies tremendously, from...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2001) 26 (3): 487–522.
Published: 01 June 2001
... and Health. Journal of Health Economics 15 (1): 67 -85. Fiscalla, K., and P. Franks. 1997 . Poverty or Income Inequality as Predictor of Mortality: Longitudinal Cohort Study. British Medical Journal 314 : 1724 -1728. ———. 2000 . Individual Income, Income Inequality, Health, and Mortality: What...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (6): 983–995.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and labor market policies aimed at reducing our very high levels of poverty and inequality, and with them the morbidity and mortality associated with both absolute and relative low socioeconomic status (Pickett and Wilkinson 2015 ). Universal Basic Income (UBI) programs have received growing attention...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2003) 28 (2-3): 355–386.
Published: 01 June 2003
... poverty and want. In addition, note that although my discussion of income groups is in relative terms, even in absolute terms the real incomes of the bottom 40 percent of the nation have fallen over the past twenty-five years (Johnston 1999). Between 1977 and 1999, for example, the real after-tax...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1995) 20 (1): 49–74.
Published: 01 February 1995
... by primary care physicians, but that there is no relationship between poverty status and balance billing expenditures for services of nonprimary care physicians. In addition, most low-income beneficiaries are liable for balance bills. Under health care reform, adoption of Medicare's incentive-based approach...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2001) 26 (3): 523–532.
Published: 01 June 2001
... and Poverty and Health in Europe. British Medical Journal 321 : 1124 -1128. McCord, C., and H. P. Freeman. 1990 . Excess Mortality in Harlem. New England Journal of Medicine 322 : 173 -177. Pappas, G., S. Queen, W. Hadden, and G. Fisher. 1993 . The Increasing Disparity in Mortality between...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2006) 31 (1): 11–32.
Published: 01 February 2006
... -1672. International Society for Equity in Health (ISEQH). 2000 . www.iseqh.org/conf2000_en.htm (accessed September 27, 2005). Judge, K., and I. Paterson. 2001 . Poverty, Income Inequality and Health . Treasury Working Paper 01/29. Wellington: Treasury of New Zealand. Kahn, H. S., L. M...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2025) 50 (2): 131–136.
Published: 01 April 2025
... support to many vulnerable populations. In recent years, Medicaid has covered about four in 10 children, more than four in 10 nonelderly people with disabilities, and about six in 10 adults living below the poverty line (Rudowitz et al. 2024). Medicaid is associated with positive outcomes, including...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1985) 10 (3): 533–547.
Published: 01 June 1985
... declined below the level that prevailed in the general population. The absolute decline in the level of poverty among the elderly in the past 20 years has been a marked one, as Table 1 makes clear. The changing demographics of poverty in America, and the continued failure of the American...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2005) 30 (6): 1101–1130.
Published: 01 December 2005
... . Poverty or Income Inequality as Predictor of Mortality: Longitudinal Cohort Study. British Medical Journal 314 : 1724 -1728. ———. 2000 . Individual Income, Income Inequality, Health, and Mortality: What Are the Relationships? Health Services Research 35 : 307 -318. Galea, Sandro, Adam...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2000) 25 (5): 998–1001.
Published: 01 October 2000
... or politically inappropriate. Even one of the authors states that the ultimate objective of the Liverpool Healthy City Plan is “that in five years there will be an improvement in the quality of life and health of everyone, particularly those in Liverpool experi- encing poverty and disadvantage” (175...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2018) 43 (5): 877–895.
Published: 01 October 2018
... socioeconomic structure is reflected in income inequality trend data. Absolute income inequality is worsening in the United States over time relative to other nations (Dabla-Norris et al. 2015 ). Indeed, about 15 percent of American adults live in poverty, but half of all children do (Denavas-Walt, Proctor...
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