MS 214 Guide to Lu Ann Aday, PhD Papers, 1964-2014

The Lu Ann Aday, PhD papers contains materials related Lu Ann Aday’s professional career in public health. The papers include her publications, courses she designed and taught, administrative material and consulting work. Many of the records are from her work at the University of Texas School of Public Health-Houston. See more at https://archives.library.tmc.edu/ms-214

Interview with Lu Ann Aday

An oral Interview with Dr. Lu Ann Aday, distinguished professor emerita in public health and medicine at the University of Texas School of Medicine and Public Health. She is the inaugural holder of the Lorne D. Bain Distinguished Professorship in Public Health and Medicine at the University of Texas, School of Public Health, and has advised numerous masters\u27 and doctoral candidates and post-doctoral fellows during her more than 30 years in the field. With training in economics and sociology, Dr. Aday has authored a number of books dealing with conceptual or empirical aspects of research on access to health and health care for vulnerable populations, as well as the leading textbook to guide the design and conduct of health surveys. Dr. Aday is a fellow of the Association for Health Services Research and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and holds numerous awards and honors for excellence in scholarship, mentoring and teaching

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR IN THE HEALTH MARKETPLACE: EMPHASIS ON ACCESS TO CARE

The particular aspect of consumer behavior in the health marketplace I should like to emphasize is the problem of access to medical care. Health care policy makers, planners, administrators, and medical care consumers themselves are increasingly voicing their concern that access to the medical care system should be improved. A plethora of programs has been launched during the past decade with the expressed objective of achieving equity of access to medical care in the United States. Some of these programs are directed at increasing the buying power or medical knowledge of the health care consumer-e.g., Medicaid, Medicare, national health insurance, and health education and nutrition programs. Others seek to improve the availability or organization of medical manpower and facilities-e.g., development of family practice as a specialty, paramedical training programs, and HMOs. All these programs are intended in some way to provide equal access to the medical care system to various groups in the population. Just what the concept of access means, however, much less how it might be measured and what methods should be used to evaluate it, is ill-defined. Thus far, access has been primarily a political concept. It has for some time been an expressed or, at least, implicit goal of health policy, but few attempts have been made to provide systematic conceptual or empirical definitions of access that would permit policy makers and consumers actually to monitor the effectiveness of various programs in providing equal access to the medical system

ECONOMIC AND NON-ECONOMIC BARRIERS TO THE USE OF NEEDED MEDICAL SERVICES.

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Reinventing public health : policies and practice for a healthy nation

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Expanding the scope of health reform: application in the United States

Since the demise of the Clinton national health plan in the early 1990s, a number of states in the US have continued to pursue health reform. The reforms reflect the on-going debate in the US and throughout the world over market-minimizing versus market-maximizing strategies to improve healthcare systems. This paper describes the limits of this debate and supports a broader view that focuses on how health policy can improve population health. Performance measures and indicators traditionally used to evaluate market minimizing/maximizing strategies for reforming healthcare are redefined for evaluating strategies to improve health. Differences in the two views are illustrated by describing state reforms in the US using the market-minimizing/maximizing framework and evaluating the reforms based on the health-related framework.Health systems and services research Public policy USA

Health Insurance and Utilization of Medical Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs

Based on analyses of the 1988 National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, Child Health Supplement, this study examines the insurance coverage and utilization of physicians, hospitals, and prescribed medicine among the 9.6 million U.S. children with special health care needs, defined as children who had one or more selected chronic conditions that caused them to experience pain, discomfort, or being upset often or all of the time in the last year, or who were limited in their major childhood activities (playing or going to school) as a result of these or other impairments or health problems. The findings confirmed that substantial variation in access to routine medical care exists among these children. Though health status is an important predictor of which children use services in general, poor, minority children who lived with their mother or someone other than their parents, or those without insurance or an identifiable regular medical provider were most likely to experience financial barriers to access or were less apt to seek care than other children with comparable needs. Access to routine medical care remains particularly problematic for these subsets of children with special health care needs