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- Parental Substance Abuse and Child Health and Behavior
- The paper uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 3,031) to explore the issues among a cohort of 3 year old children. It finds that children living with a substance-abusing parent are at considerable risk for poor health and behavior outcomes, that such risk is...
- White papers 2004-10-20
- Effects of Child Health on Sources of Public Support
- This paper estimates the effects of having a young child in poor health on mothers' reliance on TANF and other sources of public support within this new regime. The effects on maternal labor supply found in other studies would suggest that having a child in poor health would increase reliance...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Health in an Age of Globalization
- This paper aims to present some of the arguments from the public health literature as seen through the eyes of at least one economist. Disease has traveled with goods and people since the earliest times. Armed globalization spread disease, to the extent of eliminating entire populations. The geography of disease...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- The Lasting Impact of Childhood Health and Circumstance
- The findings of this paper suggests more attention be paid to health as a potential mechanism through which intergenerational transmission of economic status takes place: cohort members born into poorer families experienced poorer childhood health, lower investments in human capital and poorer health in early adulthood, all of which are...
- White papers 2004-04-27
- Booms, Busts, and Babies' Health
- This paper documents a counter-cyclical pattern in the health of children, and examines whether this pattern is due to selection among women choosing to give birth or to behavioral changes. The paper gives the study of the relationship between the unemployment rate at the time of a baby's conception and...
- White papers 2004-03-08
- Effects of Child Health on Parents' Relationship Status
- The purpose of this paper is to estimate the effects of poor child health on parents' relationship status. It describes the measures used in analyses and present summary statistics from the data. The paper uses data from the national longitudinal Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to estimate the effect...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Health Inequality, Education and Medical Innovation
- This paper presets health inequalities across socio-economic groups in the US, which are large and have been growing. The paper hypothesizes that, as in other, non-health contexts, this pattern occurs because people that are more educated are better able to take advantage of technological advances in medicine than are the...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Universal Health Care for Children: Two Local Initiatives
- Over the past decade, expansions under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP have brought a significant infusion of federal dollars into state and county health systems and have produced a variety of state-level programs. The article begins by describing these two county-level programs and comparing the approach...
- White papers 2003-04-21
- How Public Health Insurance Programs for Children Work
- This article reviews the entire spectrum of coverage for children in the United States: private and public health insurance, and no health insurance. It places particular emphasis on the main features of Medicaid and SCHIP. The ways that these programs have influenced and benefited each other are also considered, as...
- White papers 2003-04-21
- Health Insurance for Children: Analysis and Recommendations
- This article frames some of the issues and draws on the most current research to point to solutions to persistent problems. The article begins by discussing the importance of health insurance for children's access to health care and describes the progress that has been made in providing coverage for children....
- White papers 2003-04-21
- Health Insurance for Children
- This article focuses on efforts to provide publicly funded health insurance to low-income children in the United States through Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program SCHIP. Public health insurance coverage for children has evolved into a national policy priority. Together, these programs have made substantial progress in reducing...
- White papers 2003-04-21
- The Unique Health Care Needs of Adolescents
- This article describes the particular health care needs of adolescents and explores the extent to which public health insurance programs are meeting those needs. It includes an overview of the coverage available to adolescents through Medicaid and SCHIP, how that coverage has evolved, the importance of providing comprehensive benefits to...
- White papers 2003-04-21
- Relative Deprivation, Poor Health Habits and Mortality
- Using individual-level on males, data from the 1988-1991 National Health Interview Survey Multiple Cause of Death Files, the paper examines the impact of relative deprivation within a reference group on health. It uses measures of relative deprivation based on Yitzhaki's index and defines reference groups using combinations of state, race,...
- White papers 2001-12-01
- The Health Status & Behaviors of Unwed Fathers
- The purpose of the paper is to examine the capabilities of unwed fathers. Knowing more about fathers' capabilities is important for assessing the potential success of welfare reform insofar as the new welfare law envisions a much larger role for unwed parents in supporting their children. Time limits and work...
- White papers 2001-08-27
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- Health policy may define U.S. as a nation
- In his address at the National Academy of Social Insurance in January, Dr. Uwe Reinhardt, a top health-care policy expert, related our approach to health insurance to who we are as a nation and people. Reinhardt, James Madison professor of political economy at Princeton University, is aggravated...
- Articles 2008-06-14
- Princeton HealthCare System Foundation Launches $115 Million Capital Campaign for New Hospital in New Jersey
- PRINCETON, N.J., June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Princeton HealthCare System Foundation (http://www.princetonhcs.org/) announced the launch today of the most ambitious fundraising campaign in its history and what appears to be the largest hospital fundraising campaign ever in New Jersey. Design for Healing - The Campaign for the New...
- Articles 2008-06-09
- $13 Million in New Contracts Awarded to WPCS
- EXTON, Pa., June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WPCS International Incorporated , a leader in design-build engineering services for specialty communication systems and wireless infrastructure, has announced that, through its subsidiaries, it has been awarded approximately $13 million in new contracts for projects in a variety of sectors including public safety,...
- Articles 2008-06-03
- Putting the Brakes on Health Care Costs; Would the Presidential Candidates' Plans Work?
- Three Health Economists Offer Their Assessments A Briefing for Reporters Sponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Alliance for Health Reform: WHEN:
- Articles 2008-05-29
- Derma Sciences' MEDIHONEY™ Profiled By ABC News' Philadelphia Affiliate
- PRINCETON, N.J., May 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Derma Sciences (BULLETIN BOARD: DSCI) , a provider of advanced wound care products, today announced that MEDIHONEYTM Wound & Burn Dressing, its flagship wound care product, was profiled by ABC News' Philadelphia affiliate, WPVI - Action News. Reporter Lisa Thomas-Laury examines...
- Articles 2008-05-19
- Former Senate Majority Leader, Princeton Economist Joust on Future of Health Care
- 'What this country needs is more unemployed politicians - and economists' ORLANDO, Fla., May 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Although nearly all voters place health care at the top of their "most-important issues" list, a looming federal budgetary crunch means none of the health care plans advanced by any...
- Articles 2008-05-16
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