Search Results for poverty

...Hila Richardson Karen Davis and Cathy Schoen, Health and the War on Poverty: A Ten Year Appraisal , The Brookings Institution, 1978 Copyright © 1980 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 Book Reviews Karen Davis and Cathy Schoen, Health and the War...

...Thomas A. LaVeist Anthony P. Polednak. Segregation, Poverty, and Mortality in Urban African Americans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 184 pp. $39.95 cloth. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 References La Veist , T. A. 1989 . Linking Residential...

...Marilyn Moon; Timothy Smeeding This article explores alternative approaches to calculating the value of Medicare and Medicaid and the impact of these programs on the incidence of poverty among the aged. Three methodological frameworks are contrasted, both in theory and in practice. Medical benefits...

...Dahlia K. Remler; Sanders Korenman Abstract Context: US government poverty measures do not include health insurance in the threshold or health insurance benefits in resources. Yet the 2019 Economic Report of the President presented long-term trends using the full-income poverty measure (FPM), which...

... of welfare state effects (redistribution, poverty reduction, and status preservation), and they test these assumptions by examining impacts of policy generosity on life expectancy (LE) over the last 40 years. Methods: The authors merge new and existing welfare policy generosity data from the Comparative...

... outcomes. A pre- and post-design coupled with a difference-in-difference approach—using North Carolina as a control—was used to assess TennCare's effects for all births and for three categories of high-risk mothers (under age eighteen, unwed, or living in high poverty areas). Data from 328,296 singleton...

.... Furthermore, it also draws out the tensions between alcohol as a source of livelihoods in a context of endemic unemployment and chronic poverty and alcohol as a causal factor in poverty, crime, violence, and social disintegration. In contrast to media coverage of alcohol policy in Europe and North America...

... accepting private insurance. Data on discriminatory denials of care to children with public insurance came from an audit study involving 273 practices across seven medical specialties serving children in Cook County, Illinois. These data were linked to physician workforce data and neighborhood poverty data...

..., particularly a balanced budget. In 2014, Wisconsin opted against adopting an ACA Medicaid expansion, instead setting the Medicaid eligibility threshold at 100% of the poverty level—a state-funded partial expansion. Childless adults gained new eligibility, while parents and caregivers with incomes between 101...

... the federal poverty threshold during a worker's leave. Findings : Minimum earnings, tenure, and hours rules disproportionately exclude workers with less education and women from paid leave and/or job protection. Minimum firm size disproportionately excludes workers with less education and Latinx workers from...

...Jessica Trounstine; Sidra Goldman-Mellor Abstract Context: Segregation has been linked to unequal life chances. Individuals from marginalized communities experience more crime, higher levels of poverty, poorer health, and less civic engagement. In addition, segregated metropolitan regions have been...

... as an effort to improve health and prevent poverty and the insecurity and instability that comes with high medical costs (evictions, bankruptcy), conservative states have actively rejected this expanded idea of Medicaid and argued instead that the program should revert back to its “original” purpose...

...: The authors analyzed the US Census Bureau's national time-use survey data for the years 2015 through 2018. Their main sample consisted of nondisabled adults between 19 and 64 years with family incomes less than 138% of the federal poverty level (N = 2,551). Findings: Nationally, low-income adults who might...

... program use, enrollment for children with family incomes less than 200 percent of the poverty line could be raised from the current rate of 42 percent to 58 percent. © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Berk, M. L., and C. Schur. 1998 . Access to Care: How Much Difference Does Medicaid Make...

... demonstration waiver, the state will use federal funding via a premium assistance model to secure private health insurance offered through the newly formed health insurance marketplace to those individuals aged nineteen to sixty-four who have incomes at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level...

... to decide whether to accept extensive federal funding to expand Medicaid for citizens in their states who were earning up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. This Report from the States focuses on Ohio, whose Republican governor successfully navigated the rancorous politics of Medicaid to expand...

.... This suggests that the severe health deficiencies of most developing countries are not inevitable consequences of poverty. Copyright © 1980 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 Position Paper Health Development and Political Policy: The Lesson of Cuba Milton...