Presentation by Lacey Hartman, "State Variation in High Burden Spending for Health Care: Preliminary findings from new data in the Current Population Survey," at the Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Conference on May 4, 2012, in San Francisco, CA.

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The Integrated Health Interview Series (IHIS) is a public data repository that harmonizes four decades of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). The NHIS is the premier source of information on the health of the U.S. population. Since 1957 the survey has collected information on health behaviors, health conditions, and health care access. The long running time series of the NHIS is a powerful tool for health research. However, efforts to fully utilize its time span are obstructed by difficult documentation, unstable variable and coding definitions, and non-ignorable sample re-designs. To overcome these hurdles the IHIS, a freely available and web-accessible resource, provides harmonized NHIS data from 1969-2010. This paper describes the challenges of working with the NHIS and how the IHIS reduces such burdens. To demonstrate one potential use of the IHIS, utilization patterns in the U.S. from 1972-2008 are examined.

Davern, M., Blewett, L.A., Lee, B., Boudreaux, M., King, M. L. 2012. "Use of the integrated health interview series: trends in medical provider utilization (1972-2008)."  Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2012, 9:2. 

Kathleen Call presented "Barriers to Care among Publicly Insured Adults," at the Health Equity Conference , Eliminating Health Disparities Conference, hosted by the University of Minnesota's Center for Health Equity, Program in Health Disparities Research, and Minnesota Center for Cancer Collaborations, April 24, 2012 in St. Paul, MN. 

This work describes barriers to care among a diverse population of adults insured in Minnesota public health insurance programs and explores the impact of barriers on access to care.

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Presentation by SHADAC Senior Research Fellow Lacey Hartman at the Minnesota Health Services Research Conference, held March 6, 2012 in St. Paul, MN.

This presentation describes the new questions related to medical out-of-pockect spending added to the Current Population Survey in 2010 (referencing calendar year 2010).  The authors use state-level data to estsimate the variation in the burden of high out-of-pocket spending across states.

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Davern, M., Blewett, L., Lee, B., Boudreaux, M., & King, M. 2012. "Use of the Integrated Health Interview Series: Trends in Medical Provider Utilization (1972-2008)." Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations,9(1), 2.