RAND Health Newsletter
The RAND Health Newsletter is a monthly update that features recent research from RAND Health.
Contents of September 2007 RAND Health newsletter:
- RAND Researchers Offer Options to Improve Health Care Access and Quality for Immigrants
- Prescription Spending Caps Cause Some Seniors to Quit Taking Medicines for Chronic Illnesses
- Preventive doctor's visits cost nearly 8 billion annually - Are they necessary?
- Sicker individuals choose plans with more generous drug benefits
- State reductions in Medicaid eligibility threaten survival prospects of HIV patients
- RAND helps to redesign the National Hospital Discharge Survey
- RAND/Watson Wyatt Study of Consumer-Directed Health Plans
- Summer 2007 RAND Review highlights
- September RAND Health Congressional Newsletter
- Recent research highlights and fact sheets from RAND Health
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RAND Researchers Offer Options to Improve Health Care Access and Quality for Immigrants
Expanding opportunities for immigrants to obtain legal residency and citizenship may be the best option to offer them better access to health care, according to an article published today by the RAND Corporation in the journal Health Affairs.
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RAND Center for Population Health and Health Disparities
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Prescription Spending Caps Cause Some Seniors to Quit Taking Medicines for Chronic Illnesses
Many seniors quit taking drugs for chronic illnesses such as diabetes and high blood pressure when they exceed their drug plan's yearly spending limits. Preventive doctor's visits cost nearly 8 billion annually - Are they necessary?
Preventive annual exams are not recommended by any major North American clinical organization, yet 21 percent of adults participate annually, while another 19 percent receive preventive gynecological exams. There are no official guidelines for the content, duration, or outcome of these visits.News release from UPMC Read abstract More public health research -
Sicker individuals choose plans with more generous drug benefits
Health status didn’t influence benificiaries’ choice of medical plans offered by a large U.S. employer, but sicker beneficiaries were more likely to enroll in plans that had generous drug benefits. -
State reductions in Medicaid eligibility threaten survival prospects of HIV patients
Stricter eligibility thresholds for Medicaid adversely affect survival prospects of HIV patients by lowering the rates of use of antiretroviral therapy. RAND helps to redesign the National Hospital Discharge Survey
The National Center for Health Statistics asked RAND to develop an approach for redesigning the National Hospital Discharge Survey and identify data elements to include and field procedures to be used.RAND/Watson Wyatt Study of Consumer-Directed Health Plans
Watson Wyatt is partnering with the RAND Corporation to investigate the effects of new consumer-directed health plans on health care health costs and quality. The study will analyze medical care use and expenditure patterns as reported in the medical claims files for nearly 40 large employers over the 2003-2007 period.Read more at the Watson Wyatt site-
Summer 2007 RAND Review highlights
The Summer 2007 Rand Review features several RAND health pieces, includinga discussion of how the RAND Health Insurance Experiment has stoked competing claims for 25 years. Other stories address alcohol marketing among adolescents and the human immunodeficiency virus among the religious. September RAND Health Congressional Newsletter
The September RAND Health Congressional newsletter features a research item on helping working parents care for chronically ill children and a second research item on how trust influences responses to public health messages.Recent research highlights and fact sheets from RAND Health
Promoting Accountability in Public Health Emergency Preparedness — RB-9286
A Look inside the &quo;Doughnut Hole&quo;: How Drug-Benefit Limits Affect Retiree Prescription Use — RB-9285
A Systematic Review of the Adverse Effects of Prescription Drug Cost Sharing — RB-9283
Do Policies That Target Physicians Who Make Medical Malpractice Payments Reduce Negligent Injuries? — RB-9280
Bioterrorism with Zoonotic Disease: Public Health Preparedness Lessons from a Multiagency Exercise — RB-9279
Citation: Mehrotra A, Zaslavsky AM, Ayanian JZ. Preventive Health Examinations and Preventive Gynecological Examinations in the United States, Archives of Internal Medicine, Vol. 167, no. 17, Sept. 2007, pp. 1876-1883.
Citation: Goldman D, Joyce G, Karaca-Mandic P, Sood N. Adverse Selection in Retiree Prescription Drug Plans, Forum for Health Economics & Policy, 2007, Vol. 9, Issue #2, Article 4.
Citation: Ghoosh A, Sood N, Leibowitz A. The Effect of State Cost Containment Strategies on the Insurance Status and Use of Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) for HIV Infected People, Forum for Health Economics & Policy, 2007, Vol. 10, Issue #2, Article 3.
Citation: Meili RC, Berry SH, Elliott MN, Roth CP, Griffin A, Leuschner KJ, Quigley DD, Beckett MK, Lou Y, Pham C, Hilborne LH. Redesign of the National Hospital Discharge Survey: Conceptual Framework and Feasibility Study: Final Report, RAND Technical Report, TR-475-HLTH, 2007.
Citation: Godges J, Davis LE, Keeler EB, Newhouse JP, Brook RH, Thomson JA. RAND Review, CP-22-(8/07), Vol. 31, No. 2, Summer 2007.
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