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Using Research in the Real World
Lynn Blewett's presentation at the 2009 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, "Using Research in the Real World: State Integrated Research." June 29, 2009, Chicago IL.
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Lynn Blewett's presentation at the 2009 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, "Using Research in the Real World: State Integrated Research." June 29, 2009, Chicago IL.
This report presents findings from a statewide survey of 4,626 Minnesota Health Care Program (MHCP) enrollees conducted either by mail or by telephone between July and December 2008. This survey was funded by the Minnesota Department of Human Services and had four major goals. The first was to identify and describe barriers to, and experiences with, health care among adults and children who receive health insurance through Minnesota Health Care Programs (MHCP). A second goal was to identify and describe similarities and differences in the use of health services, as well as factors that discourage the use of services among specific race/ethnic groups including African Americans (US born), Native American, Hispanic/Latino, Somali, Hmong, and European Americans. A third goal was to identify changes in utilization of care and the types of barriers people experienced between 2003 and 2008. (A similar study was undertaken in 2003.) The final goal was to develop recommendations based on the results of the survey with community input for improving the delivery of health care services to MHCP enrollees and reducing disparities in access and quality. June 2009.
This report is one out of a series of five reports prepared for the Idaho Legislature, Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE) and Idaho Health Care Task Force as part of the project, "Idaho’s Health Care Costs and Options to Improve Health Care Access." This report is on Task 5, a study of the trends in and drivers of health care expenditures in Idaho.
The study focuses on trends in public and private health care spending in Idaho using the most recent data available. We rely on Idaho-specific data collected as part of Task 1 (Cataloging Public Health Expenditures in Idaho) and Task 2 (Estimating Private Health Expenditures in Idaho), and supplement with national data when state-level data are not available.
The intent of this and the other reports is to establish baseline data that can be used to help frame the policy debate and to answer specific questions that may arise during discussions of health reform options in the state. These reports document many aspects of health care spending and trends to help inform the work of Idaho policy makers as they debate the regulatory and/or market-based approaches they will employ to addressing health costs, coverage, and access. In particular, the cost and cost growth issues addressed in this report may warrant additional discussion by policy makers. December 2007.
The Idaho Health Care Task Force reports prepared by SHADAC include:
This report is one out of a series of five reports prepared for the Idaho Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE), the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee, and the Idaho Health Care Task Force as part of the project, "Idaho’s Health Care Costs and Options to Improve Health Care Access."
This report presents a study of public (i.e., government) health care expenditures in Idaho conducted by SHADAC. The purpose of the study was to systematically collect and organize data on and quantify federal, state, and local government health care expenditures in Idaho between 2002 and 2006. The report covers five broad categories of spending: 1) Medicare, 2) Medicaid/Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), 3) public employee health benefits, 4) safety net programs, and 5) other government health care spending. December 2007.
The Idaho Health Care Task Force reports prepared by SHADAC include:
Presentation by Lynn Blewett to the Minnesota State Legislature at a joint meeting of the health care and human services finance and policy committees in Saint Paul, MN, February 10 2009.