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Urban Institute
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About: Urban Institute is a nonprofit organization based out in Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Medicaid & Population. The organization has 927 authors who have published 2330 publications receiving 86426 citations.
Topics: Medicaid, Population, Health care, Poison control, Health policy
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TL;DR: It is found that undocumented immigrant children face severely constrained access to health insurance and a usual source of healthcare, while children with foreign-born parents have lower global health status than children with U.S.-born parents.
Abstract: Objective
In this article, I examine how children's and parents’ immigration status (U.S. born, legal immigrant, or undocumented) is associated with children's access to insurance and healthcare and with children's physical health.
Methods
I use the first wave of the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, which is representative of Los Angeles County in 2000–2001, to analyze data on parents' and children's immigration status, children's health insurance coverage, children's healthcare utilization, and children's health, using logistic and ordered logistic regression models.
Results
I find that undocumented immigrant children face severely constrained access to health insurance and a usual source of healthcare, while children with foreign-born parents have lower global health status than children with U.S.-born parents. Children with undocumented parents may have less access to a doctor diagnosis for common childhood ailments.
Conclusion
These results show that without being eligible for public insurance, many undocumented children lack health insurance and a usual healthcare provider, even in a part of the country with substantial experience serving immigrant families.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the performance of seven shared equity programs across the USA and found that homeownership under these programs was sustainable: there were very low delinquency and foreclosure rates and many families who sold their homes were able to use their sales' proceeds to purchase market-rate homes.
Abstract: Shared equity initiatives provide homeownership opportunities to low- and moderate-income families who buy homes at below-market prices. The appreciation that can be earned by resellers is limited to preserve the homes' affordability at resale. This article analyses affordability, personal wealth, security of tenure, and mobility outcomes for seven shared equity programs across the USA. Homebuyers earned returns that were competitive with what they would have received if they had invested in stocks or bonds. In addition, homes remained affordable to lower income buyers over time as the homes were resold. Homeownership under these programs was sustainable: there were very low delinquency and foreclosure rates and many families who sold their homes were able to use their sales' proceeds to purchase market-rate homes. Owners also showed little evidence of being locked in place, and moved to new homes at rates near the national average.
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TL;DR: In designing the long-term care component, the Clinton administration addressed many of the basic policy choices that must be decided in all reform efforts, including whether initiatives should be limited to older people or cover people of any age, how to balance institutional and noninstitutional care.
Abstract: During 1993 and 1994, the United States debated but did not enact major health care reform. Although the reform efforts focused on providing health coverage for the uninsured and controlling acute care costs, many proposals included substantial long-term care initiatives. President Clinton proposed creating a large home-care program for severely disabled people of all ages and all income groups, among several other initiatives. By stressing non-means-tested public programs, the president's plan was a major departure from the Medicaid-dominated financing system for long-term care. In designing the long-term care component, the Clinton administration addressed many of the basic policy choices that must be decided in all reform efforts, including whether initiatives should be limited to older people or cover people of any age, how to balance institutional and noninstitutional care, whether to rely on government programs or on the private sector, and how to control costs. Analyzing the political and intellectual history of long-term care during the health reform debate provides lessons for future reform.
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TL;DR: The authors examined whether and how the Early Head Start (EHS) program benefited African American children at the end of the program, when they were 36 months of age, as well as the parenting these children experienced and how this affected their developmental outcomes.
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TL;DR: Assessment of consumer-directed home and community services for older persons by examining public programs that serve this population in eight states suggests better, or, at least, no worse, quality of life for beneficiaries when they direct their services, although quality of services remains a contentious issue.
Abstract: This study assesses consumer-directed home and community services for older persons by examining public programs that serve this population in eight states These programs give beneficiaries, rather than agencies, the power to hire, train, supervise, and fire workers Most stakeholders interviewed, in addition to the quantitative research, indicate that many older beneficiaries want to and can manage their services, although significant issues arise for persons with cognitive impairments Research results suggest better, or, at least, no worse, quality of life for beneficiaries when they direct their services, although quality of services remains a contentious issue For workers, consumer-directed care has some disadvantages, including fewer fringe benefits With exceptions, state agencies have not provided extensive consumer or worker support of aggressively regulated quality of care (Journal of Aging and Social Policy 2001 12(4); 1-2)
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Jun Yang | 107 | 2090 | 55257 |
Jesse A. Berlin | 103 | 331 | 64187 |
Joseph P. Newhouse | 101 | 484 | 47711 |
Ted R. Miller | 97 | 384 | 116530 |
Peng Gong | 95 | 525 | 32283 |
James Evans | 69 | 659 | 23585 |
Mark Baker | 65 | 382 | 20285 |
Erik Swyngedouw | 64 | 344 | 23494 |
Richard V. Burkhauser | 63 | 347 | 13059 |
Philip J. Held | 62 | 113 | 21596 |
George Galster | 60 | 226 | 13037 |
Laurence C. Baker | 57 | 211 | 11985 |
Richard Heeks | 56 | 281 | 15660 |
Sandra L. Hofferth | 54 | 163 | 12382 |
Kristin A. Moore | 54 | 265 | 9270 |