Publication
Framework for Tracking the Impacts of the ACA in California
Julie Sonier presented "Framework for Tracking the Impacts of the ACA in California" at the Dialogue4Health Data for Evaluating Health Webinar on September 19, 2012.
Julie Sonier presented "Framework for Tracking the Impacts of the ACA in California" at the Dialogue4Health Data for Evaluating Health Webinar on September 19, 2012.
Presentation by Julie Sonier, "Framework for Tracking the Impacts of the ACA in California," made to the Let's Get Healthy California Task Force webinar held August 14, 2012. This webinar focused on how California can measure and monitor the impacts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in health insurance coverage and access to health care.
Presentation by Kathleen Call, "Monitoring Health Access using the American Community Survey," at the National Research Council of the National Academies' Workshop on the Benefits (and Burdens) of the American Community Survey in Washington, DC on June 14, 2012.
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.
Download a PDF version of the slides here.
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.