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Oct. 17, 2008: Davern, M., L. A. Blewett, B. Bershadsky, and N. Arnold. 2004. “Missing the Mark? Examining Imputation Bias in the Current Population Survey’s State Income and Health Insurance Coverage Estimates.” Journal of Official Statistics 20(3):519-49. The Demographic Supplement to the U.S. Current… Read More

Oct. 17, 2008: Davern, M., J. Lepkowski, K. T. Call, N. Arnold, T. L. Johnson, K. Goldsteen, A. T. Malmlov and L. A. Blewett. 2004. “Telephone Service Interruption Weighting for State Health Insurance Surveys.” Inquiry 41(3): 280–290. Many states rely on telephone surveys to produce estimates of uninsurance. To… Read More

Oct. 17, 2008: Casey, M., L. A. Blewett, and K. T. Call. 2004. “Providing Health Care to Latino Immigrants: Community-Based Efforts in the Rural Midwest.” American Journal of Public Health 94(10): 1709-1711. We examined case studies of 3 rural Midwestern communities to assess local health care systems' response… Read More

Oct. 17, 2008: Call, K.T., McAlpine, D., Britt, H., Cha, V., Osman, S., Suarez, W. and Beebe, T.J. 2004. "Partnering with Communities in Survey Design and Implementation." Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Health Survey Research Methods, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), U.S. Department of Health… Read More

Oct. 17, 2008: Call, K. T., D. McAlpine, and W. Suarez. 2004. “Disparities in Care: A Study Compares Health Care Provided to Different Cultural Communities.” Minnesota Physician 18(9): p. 26-28. Read More

Oct. 17, 2008: Blewett, L. A., S. Parente, M. D. Finch, and E. Peterson. 2005. “National Health Data Warehouse: Issues to Consider." Journal of Healthcare Information Management 18(1): 52-58. A national data warehouse that links public and private data could be used to monitor trends in healthcare costs,… Read More

Oct. 17, 2008: Blewett, L. A., M. Davern, and H. Rodin. 2005. “Covering Kids: Variation in Health Insurance Coverage Trends by State, 1996-2002.” Health Affairs 13(6): 170-180. We estimated state-specific changes in health insurance coverage rates for children between 1996-1998 and 2001-2002. We found… Read More

Oct. 17, 2008: Blewett, L. A., M. Casey, and K. T. Call. 2005. “Improving Access to Primary Care for a Growing Latino Population: The Role of Safety Net Providers in the Rural Midwest.” Journal of Rural Health Special Issue 20 (3): 237-245. CONTEXT: Many rural Midwestern communities are experiencing rapid growth… Read More

Oct. 17, 2008: Blewett, L. A., M. B. Good, K. T. Call, and M. Davern. 2004. “Monitoring the Uninsured: A State Policy Perspective.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 29(1): 107-145. Because states have primary responsibility for the implementation of public health insurance programs, states need timely,… Read More

Oct. 17, 2008: Blewett, L. A., and T. J. Beebe. 2004. “State Efforts to Measure the Health Care Safety Net.” Public Health Reports 119 (2): 125-135. This article describes the role states could play in a national effort to measure and monitor the public health safety net. The authors developed a data collection… Read More

Oct. 17, 2008: Beebe, T., S. Asche, P. A. Harrison, and K. A. Quinlan. 2004. “Heightened Vulnerability and Increased Risk Taking Among Adolescent Chat Room Users: Results from a Statewide School Survey.” Journal of Adolescent Health 35(2):116-123. PURPOSE: To profile adolescent Internet chat room users in terms… Read More

Oct. 17, 2008: Jonk, Y. C., K. T. Call, A. H. Cutting, H. O’Connor, V. Bansiya, and K. Harrison. 2005. “Health Care Coverage and Access to Care: The Status of Minnesota’s Veterans.” Medical Care 43(8):769-774. OBJECTIVES: The primary objective of this study was to examine veterans' reliance on health care… Read More

Oct. 17, 2008: Garrett, N. A., C. Hageman, S. Sibley, M. Davern, M. Berger, C. Brunzell, K. Malecha, S. Richards, and C. Moody. 2005. “The Effectiveness of an Interactive Small Group Diabetes Intervention in Improving Knowledge, Feeling of Control, and Behavior.” Health Promotion Practice 6(3):320-328. The… Read More

Oct. 17, 2008: Davern, M., H. Rodin, T. Beebe, and K. T. Call. 2005. “The Effect of Income Question Design in Health Surveys on Family Income, Poverty and Eligibility Estimates.” Health Services Research 40(5):1534-1552. OBJECTIVE: To compare systematic differences between an "omnibus" income measure that asks… Read More

Oct. 17, 2008: Blewett, L. A., M. Davern, and H. Rodin. 2005. “Employment and Health Insurance Coverage for Rural Latino Populations.” Journal of Community Health 30 (1):181-195. Rural Latino populations continue to grow in part due to relocation of food processing industries to rural America along with other… Read More

Oct. 17, 2008: Beebe, T., M. Davern, D. McAlpine, K. T. Call, and T. Rockwood. 2005. “Increasing Response Rates in a Survey of Medicaid Enrollees: The Effect of a Prepaid Monetary Incentive and Mixed Modes (Mail and Telephone).” Medical Care 43(4): 411-414. OBJECTIVES: We sought to evaluate the effect of pairing… Read More

Oct. 17, 2008: Beebe, T. J., J.A. McRae, P. A. Harrison, M. Davern, & K. A. Quinlan. 2005. “Mail Surveys Result in More Reports of Substance Abuse.” Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 58(4):421-424. Objective. To determine to what extent the substance-use information obtained in surveys is affected by method… Read More

Oct. 17, 2008: Welch, W. P., B. Rudolph, L. A. Blewett, S. Parente, C. Brach, D. Love, and R. Harmon. 2006. “Management Tools in Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program SCHIP.” Journal of Ambulatory Care Management 29(4): 272-282. Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program need… Read More

Oct. 17, 2008: Oakes, J. M. and P. J. Johnson. “Propensity score matching methods for social epidemiology.” In Oakes JM & Kaufman JS, eds. Methods in Social Epidemiology. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2006. Read More

Oct. 17, 2008: McCaa, R., S. Ruggles, M. Davern, T. Swenson, and K. M. Palipudi. “IPUMS-International High Precision Population Census Microdata Samples: Balancing the Privacy-Quality Tradeoff by Means of Restricted Access Extracts.” In J. Domingo-Ferrer and L. Franconi (Eds.), Privacy in Statistical Databases… Read More