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Journal articles by SHADAC researchers that are pertinent to state health policy research are listed below. A comprehensive list of SHADAC journal articles is available at this link.

2013

Blewett, L.A., Call, K.T., Marmor, S.  2013.  "Health Reform and the US Virgin Islands: High-Need-Limited Impact."  J Public HEalth manag Pract.  2013 Feb 26.  

2012

Call, K. T., Davern, M. E., Klerman, J. A., & Lynch, V. 2012. "Comparing Errors in Medicaid Reporting across Surveys: Evidence to Date." Health Services Research. 2012 Jul 20. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2012.01446.x.
 
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.
 
Long, S.K., Stockley, K., & Dahlen, H. 2012 "Massachusetts Health Reforms: Uninsurance Remains Low, Self-Reported Health Status Improves As State Prepares To Tackle Costs." Health Affairs (32)2: 444-451.
 

2011

Allen, M. L., Culhane‐Pera, K. A., Pergament, S., & Call, K. T. 2011. "A Capacity Building Program to Promote CBPR Partnerships between Academic Researchers and Community Members." Clinical and Translational Science. 2011 Dec;4(6):428-33. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-8062.2011.00362.x.
 
Call, K. T., Davern, M., Boudreaux, M., Johnson, P. J., & Nelson, J. 2011. "Bias in Telephone Surveys That do not Sample Cell Phones: Uses and Limits of Poststratification Adjustments." Medical Care, 49(4), 355.
 
Long, Sharon K., Karen Stockley, and Shanna Shulman. "Have Gender Gaps in Insurance Coverage and Access to Care Narrowed under Health Reform? Findings from Massachusetts." The American Economic Review 101.3 (2011): 640-644.
 

Blewett L, Spencer D, Burke CE.  2011.  "State high-risk pools: an update on the Minnesota Comprehensive Health Association."  Am J Public Health. 2011 Feb; 101(2):231-7. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.185975.

Schousboe, J. T., Davison, M. L., Dowd, B., Thiede Call, K., Johnson, P., & Kane, R. L. 2011. "Predictors of Patients’ Perceived Need for Medication to Prevent Fracture." Medical care, 49(3), 273.

Stockley K, Long SK.  2011.  "The Impacts of State Health Reform Initiatives on Adults in New York and Massachusetts."  Health Services Research 2011 Feb. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01211.x

Hall MA, Hager CL, Orentlicher D. "Using Payroll Deduction to Shelter Individual Health Insurance from Income Tax." Health Services Research. 2011 Feb.  DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01201.x
 
Cousineau MR, Stevens GD, Farias A.  "Measuring the Impact of Outreach and Enrollment Strategies for Public Health Insurance in California." Health Services Research. 2011 Feb. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01202.x

Kenney GM, Marton J, Klein AE, Pelletier JE, Talbert J.  "The Effects of Medicaid and CHIP Policy Changes on Receipt of Preventive Care among Children." 2011 Feb.  DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01199.x

Miller EA, Trivedi A, Kuo S, Mor V. "Small Group Health Insurance Reform in Rhode Island Promises and Pitfalls of the HEALTHpact Plan." 2011 Feb. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01198.x

Sommers A, Abraham JM, Spicer L, Mikow A, Spaulding-Bynon M.  "Small Group Employer Participation in New Mexico's State Coverage Insurance Program: Lessons for Federal Reform." 2011 Feb.  DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01216.x

Monheit AC, Cantor JC, DeLia D, Belloff D.  "How Have State Policies to Expand Dependent Coverage Affected the Health Insurance Status of Young Adults?" 2011 Feb. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01200.x

2010

Allen, M. L., Culhane‐Pera, K. A., Pergament, S. L., & Call, K. T. 2010. Facilitating research faculty participation in CBPR: development of a model based on key informant interviews. Clinical and Translational Science, 3(5), 233-238.
 
Boudreaux M, Ziegenfuss JY, Graven P, Davern M, Blewett LA. 2010. "Counting Uninsurance and Means-Tested Coverage in the American Community Survey: A Comparison to the Current Population Survey." Health Services Research 2010 Oct 28. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01193.x. [Epub ahead of print]
 
Johnson PJ, Blewett LA, Davern M. 2010. "Disparities in Public Use Data Availability for Race, Ethnic, and Immigrant Groups: National Surveys for Healthcare Disparities Research."  Medical Care 48(12):1122-1127.
 
Johnson PJ, Blewett LA, Call KT, Davern M. 2010. "American Indian/Alaska Native uninsurance disparities: A comparison of three surveys."  American Journal of Public Health 100(10):1972-9.
 
Blewett LA, Johnson PJ, Mach AL. 2010. "Immigrant children's access to health care: differences by global region of birth."  Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 21(2 Suppl):13-31.
 
Blewett, L., K. Johnson, T. McCarthy, T. Lackner, and B. Brandt. 2010. "Improving Geriatric Transitional Care through Interprofessional Care Teams." Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice (16)1: 57-63.
 
Johnson, P.J., K.T. Call, L.A. Blewett. "The importance of geographic data aggregation in assessing disparities in American Indian prenatal care." American Journal of Public Health 100(1): 122-128.
 

2009

Call, K.T., G. Davidson, M. Davern, E.R. Brown, J.E. Kincheloe, J.G. Nelson. "Accuracy of self-reported health insurance coverage among Medicaid enrollees." Inquiry 45(4): 438-56.

Davern M., B. Quinn, G. Kenney, and L.A. Blewett. "The American Community Survey and Health Insurance Coverage Estimates: Possibilities and Challenges for Health Policy Researchers." Health Services Research, 44(2): 593-605.

Nielsen, RB., M. Davern, A. Jones, Jr., and J.L. Bois.  "Complex Sample Design Effects and Health Insurance Variance Estimation." Journal of Consumer Affairs, 43(2): 346-66.

 

2008

Blewett, L.A., G. Davidson, M. Bramlett, H. Rodin, M. Messionnier. "The Impact of Gaps in Health Insurance Coverage on Immunization Status for Young Children." Health Service Research 43(5): 1619-1636.

Blewett, L.A., P.J. Johnson, B. Lee, and P.Scal. "When a Usual Source of Care and Usual Provider Matter: Adult Prevention and Screening Services." Journal of General Internal Medicine 23(9):1354-1360.

Blewett, L.A., J. Ziegenfuss and M. Davern. Access to "Local Access to Care Programs: New Developments in the Access to Care for the Uninsured." Milbank Quarterly 86(3): 459-479.

Call, K.T., G. Davidson, M. Davern, L. Blewett, and R. Nyman. "The Medicaid Undercount and Bias to Estimates of Uninsurance: New Estimates and Existing Evidence." Health Services Research 43(3): 901-14.

Davern, M., K.T. Call, J. Ziegenfuss, G. Davidson, T. Beebe, and L.A. Blewett. "Validating Health Insurance Coverage Survey Estimates: A Comparison between Self-Reported Coverage and Administrative Data Records." Public Opinion Quarterly 72(2): 241-259.

Johnson, P.J., L.A. Blewett, S. Ruggles, M. Davern, and M.L. King. "Four Decades of Population Health Data: The Integrated Health Interview Series." Epidemiology 19(6):872-875.

Van Wie, A., J. Ziegenfuss, M. Davern, and L.A. Blewett. "Persistent Disparities in Health Insurance Coverage: Hispanic/Latino Children, 1996 to 2005." Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 19(4): 1181-1191.

2007

Blewett, L.A. and M. Davern. "Distributing State Children’s Health Insurance Funds: A Critical Review of the Design and Implementation of the Funding Formula." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 32(3):415-55.

Call, K.T., M. Davern, L.A. Blewett. "Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage: Comparing State Surveys to the Current Population Survey." Health Affairs 26(1):269-78.

Davern, M., D. McAlpine, J. Ziegenfuss, and T.J. Beebe. "Are Surname Telephone Oversamples an Efficient Way to Better Understand the Health and Healthcare of Minority Group Members?" Medical Care 45(11): 1098-1104.

Davern, M., H. Rodin, K.T. Call, and L.A. Blewett. "Are the CPS Uninsurance Estimates Too High? An Examination of Imputation. Health Services Research 42(5): 2038-2055.

Davern, M., A. Jones, Jr., J. Lepkowski, G. Davidson, and L.A. Blewett. "Estimating Standard Errors for Regression Using the Current Population Survey’s Public Use File." Inquiry, 44(1): 211-224.

Spencer, D.L., S. Richardson, and M. McCormick. "Inpatient Hospital Utilization among the Uninsured Near Elderly: Data and Policy Implications for West Virginia." Health Services Research 42(6, part II): 2442-2457.

2006

Blewett, L.A., A. Ward, and T.J. Beebe. "How Much Health Insurance is Enough? Revisiting the Concept of Underinsurance." Medical Care Research and Review 63(6): 663-700.

Blewett, L.A. and M. Davern. "Meeting the Need for State Level Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage: What Has Been Done and How it Can Be Improved." Health Services Research 41(3): 946-75.

Call, K.T., D. McAlpine, P.J. Johnson, T.J. Beebe, J.A. McRae, and Y. Song. "Barriers to Care Among American Indians in Public Health Care Programs." Medical Care 44(6): 595- 600.

Davern, M., A. Jones Jr., J. Lepkowski, G. Davidson, and L.A. Blewett. "Unstable Inferences? An Examination of Complex Survey Sample Design Adjustments Using the Current Population Survey for Health Services Research." Inquiry 43(3): 283:297.

Kincheloe, J., E.R. Brown, J. Frates, K.T. Call, W. Yen, and J. Watkins. 2006. "Can We Trust Population Surveys to Count Medicaid Enrollees and the Uninsured?" Health Affairs 25(4): 1163-1167.

2005

Davern, M., H. Rodin, T.J. Beebe, and K.T. Call. "The Effect of Income Question Design in Health Surveys on Family Income, Poverty and Eligibility Estimates." Health Services Research 40(5):1534-1552.

Beebe, T.J., M. Davern, D. McAlpine, and K.T. Call, and T. Rockwood. "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.

Blewett, L.A., M. Davern, and H. Rodin. "Employment and Health Insurance Coverage for Rural Latino Populations." Journal of Community Health. Vol. 30 (1):181-195.

Jonk, Y.C., K.T. Call, A.H. Cutting, H. O’Connor, V. Bansiya, K. Harrison. "Health Care Coverage and Access to Care: The Status of Minnesota’s Veterans." Medical Care 43(8):769-774.

2004

Blewett, L.A., M. Davern, and H. Rodin. "Covering Kids: Variation in Health Insurance Coverage Trends by State, 1996-2002." Health Affairs 13(6): 170-180.

Blewett, L.A., M.B. Good, K.T. Call, and M. Davern. "Monitoring the Uninsured: A State Policy Perspective." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 29(1): 107-145.

Blewett, L.A. and T.J. Beebe. "State Efforts to Measure the Health Care Safety Net." Public Health Reports 119 (2): 125-135.

Blewett, L.A, M. Casey, and K.T. Call. "Improving Access to Primary Care for a Growing Latino Population: The Role of Safety Net Providers in the Rural Midwest." Journal of Rural Health 20 (3): 237-245.

Casey, M., L.A. Blewett, and K.T. Call. "Providing Health Care to Latino Immigrants: Community-Based Efforts in the Rural Midwest." American Journal of Public Health 94 (10):1709-11.

Davern, M., J. Lepkowski, K.T. Call, N. Arnold, T.L. Johnson, K. Goldsteen, A.T. Malmlov, and L.A. Blewett. "Telephone Service Interruption Weighting for State Health Insurance Surveys." Inquiry 41(3): 280-290.

Davern, M. and L.A. Blewett, B. Bershadsky, and N. Arnold. "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.

2003 and earlier

Blewett, L.A., G. Davidson, M. Brown, and R. Maude-Griffin. "Hospital Provision of Uncompensated Care and Public Program Enrollment." Medical Care Research and Review 60(4): 509-527.

Davern, M., T.J. Beebe, L.A. Blewett, and K.T. Call. "Recent Changes to the Current Population Survey: Sample Expansion, Health Insurance Verification, and State Health Insurance Coverage Estimates." Public Opinion Quarterly 67(4): 603-626.

Davern, M., L.A. Blewett, B. Bershadsky, K.T. Call, and T. Rockwood. "State Variation in SCHIP Allocations: How Much Is There, What Are Its Sources, and Can It Be Reduced?" Inquiry 40(2): 184-187.

Call, K.T., G. Davidson, A.S. Sommers, R. Feldman, P. Farseth, and T. Rockwood. "Uncovering the Missing Medicaid Cases and Assessing Their Bias for Estimates of the Uninsured." Inquiry 38(4): 396-408.