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J Health Polit Policy Law (1999) 24 (6): 1410–1412.
Published: 01 December 1999
...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...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1980) 4 (4): 703–706.
Published: 01 August 1980
...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...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1981) 6 (1): 29–39.
Published: 01 February 1981
...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...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2023) 48 (5): 761–798.
Published: 01 October 2023
...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...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2022) 47 (3): 293–318.
Published: 01 June 2022
..., 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...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2001) 26 (6): 1291–1324.
Published: 01 December 2001
... 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...
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Alcohol Control in the News: The Politics of Media Representations of Alcohol Policy in South Africa
J Health Polit Policy Law (2013) 38 (5): 987–1021.
Published: 01 October 2013
.... 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...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2014) 39 (6): 1173–1183.
Published: 01 December 2014
... 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...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2024) 49 (5): 855–884.
Published: 01 October 2024
... 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...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2004) 29 (3): 451–490.
Published: 01 June 2004
... 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...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2006) 31 (6): 1075–1106.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Anna D. Sinaiko; Thomas G. McGuire Public mental health systems are increasingly facing demands from the criminal justice system and social services agencies to provide services and support in cases in which mental illness contributes to crime, homelessness, or poverty. In this article we analyze...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (4): 617–632.
Published: 01 August 2020
... 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...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1997) 22 (4): 993–1020.
Published: 01 August 1997
...James A. Morone This essay explores the effects of morality on health policy. Moral images and stereotypes, I argue, have powerful political consequences. They are the difference between fighting poverty and fearing the poor, between expanding social welfare programs and cracking down on crime...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1997) 22 (5): 1241–1265.
Published: 01 October 1997
...Harold L. Wilensky It is tempting to oversell the practical value of applied research. A hard look at the effects of U.S. social science on public policy in areas such as active labor market policies (training, job creation, placement, etc.), crime prevention, fiscal policy, poverty reduction...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (3): 599–611.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Laura Katz Olson Abstract Medicaid is fundamental to near universal health insurance coverage under the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA). Its goal of broadening the program to all households with income at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level was thwarted in 2012 by a Supreme Court...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1993) 18 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 February 1993
...Jeffrey A. Buck; Mark S. Kamlet Many proposals for financing health care for the uninsured recommend expanding the Medicaid program. They often advocate extending Medicaid to all those under the poverty level and standardizing program benefits. However, the proposals have ignored important problems...
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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 (1990) 15 (4): 797–814.
Published: 01 August 1990
...Rosemary Barber-Madden; Jonathan B. Kotch In an era of fiscal constraint, growing poverty, increased uninsuredness, medical liability problems, and increasing costs of maternity care, public and private financing mechanisms are changing rapidly and the service delivery system is increasingly...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2014) 39 (6): 1277–1288.
Published: 01 December 2014
... 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...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (6): 1213–1224.
Published: 01 December 2015
... 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...
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