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Illinois Transplant Fund Experience: Is It a Pathway to Increased Transplant Access for Hispanic Patients With Kidney Failure?

Kidney Medicine
Rationale & Objective: The Illinois Transplant Fund, established in 2015, provides private health insurance premium support for noncitizen patients with kidney failure in Illinois and thus allows them to qualify for kidney transplants.
Zeynep Isgor, Tricia Johnson, Kevin Cmunt, Brittney S. Lange-Maia   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Examining cancer screening disparities by race/ethnicity and insurance groups: A comparison of 2008 and 2018 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data in the United States

PLOS ONE
Background Pervasive differences in cancer screening among race/ethnicity and insurance groups presents a challenge to achieving equitable healthcare access and health outcomes. However, the change in the magnitude of cancer screening disparities over time has not been thoroughly examined using recent public health survey data.
Jingjing Sun, Kevin D. Frick, Hailun Liang, Clifton M. Chow, Sofia Aronowitz, Leiyu Shi   +5 more
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Still Searching: How People Use Health Care Price Information in the United States, New York State, Florida, Texas and New Hampshire [PDF]

, 2017
Americans bear a large and growing share of their health care costs in the form of high deductibles and insurance premiums, as well as copayments and, sometimes, coinsurance for physician office visits and hospitalizations.
Chloe Rinehart, David Schleifer, Rebecca Silliman   +2 more
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‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Underemployment and Job Quality Among Young Australians: A Gendered Analysis Using the HILDA Survey (2009–2022)

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over almost two decades, young people's employment opportunities have been significantly impacted by events like the Global Financial Crisis (2008–2009) and the COVID‐19 pandemic (2020‐). Thus, underemployment has become a more pervasive and persistent feature of young people's labour market experiences. This research focuses on three forms of
Brendan Churchill
wiley   +1 more source

Health Care Expenditures in the National Health Expenditures Accounts and in Gross Domestic Product: A Reconciliation [PDF]

This paper provides a most detailed reconciliation to date of the National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA), the official estimates of health care spending in the United States from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the ...
Aaron Catlin, Micah Hartman, Robert Kornfeld   +2 more
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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Hyperlipidemia, Acculturation, and Health Insurance Coverage in United States Foreign-born individuals [PDF]

Hyperlipidemia is one of the modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (CVD), the leading cause of death among minority populations in the United States, including foreign-born people.
Ola, Debola Olayinka
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U.S. Health Care Spending: Comparison with Other OECD Countries [PDF]

, 2007
[Excerpt] The United States spends more money on health care than any other country in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Burton, Rachel, Peterson, Chris L.
core   +1 more source