A5046774320- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Global Health Care Issues
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Nutrition and Health in Aging
- Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes
Congressional Budget Office
2004-2024
Yale University
2003
ABSTRACT Aim To examine whether smokers who reduce their quantity of cigarettes smoked between two periods are more or less likely to quit subsequently. Study design Data come from the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative survey older Americans aged 51–61 in 1991 followed every 2 years 1992 1998. The 2064 participants smoking at baseline first follow‐up comprise main sample. Measurements Smoking cessation by 1996 is examined as primary outcome. A secondary outcome relapse...
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has been credited with reductions in poverty and increases the labor force participation of single mothers. credit potential to affect health children recipient families through three channels: family income, maternal employment, insurance coverage patterns. We exploit variation state-level EITCs estimate effects on coverage, utilization medical care, status. find that EITC is associated significant changes patterns for age 6–14, increasing rates private...
Journal Article Value to smokers of improved cessation products: Evidence from a willingness-to-pay survey Get access Susan H. Busch, Ph.D., Ph.D. Department Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School Medicine, Center for Nicotine Tobacco Use Research at YaleNew Haven, CT Correspondence: LEPH, 60 College Street; Suite 300B, New 06520, USA. Tel.: +1 (203)-785-2927; Fax: (203)-785-6287; E-mail: susan.busch@yale.edu Search other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google...
Following the Affordable Care Act's insurance expansion provisions in 2014, average health status and use of care within coverage groups has likely changed. Medicaid enrollees uninsured were both healthier 2014 than those respective 2013. By contrast, with individual private appeared less healthy as a group.
Objective: This study examined the impact of smoking, quitting, and time since quit on absences from work. Methods: Data nationally representative Tobacco Use Supplements 1992/93, 1995/96, 1998/99 Current Population Surveys were used. The included full workers aged between 18–64 years, yielding a sample size 383 778 workers. A binary indicator absence due to sickness in last week was analysed as function smoking status including for former smokers. Extensive demographic variables controls...
To assess the likely effects on spending and budget deficits of federal policies promoting a healthier population, Congressional Budget Office modeled hypothetical smoking-reduction policy: 50-cent increase in excise tax cigarettes.
Abstract We leveraged local area variation in the size of Affordable Care Act (ACA) expansions Medicaid and nongroup coverage measured changes Medicare utilization spending from 2010 through 2018 using universe fee-for-service claims. found that ACA led to decreases share beneficiaries receiving ambulatory care per beneficiary on care. The reductions were larger among enrolled both (“duals”). Our results suggest may lead congestion reduced access physicians for those who are continuously insured.