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Hispanic Children Least Likely to Have Health Insurance: Citizenship, Ethnicity, and Language Barriers to Coverage
This policy brief examines health insurance coverage of Hispanic children and its relationship to their citizenship status, their parents’ citizenship status, parents’ insurance coverage, language spoken at home, and their state’s Medicaid expansion policies. Using the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey collected in 2014, authors Michael Staley and Jessica Carson report that Hispanic children are less likely to have health insurance than black or white children, a gap that is explained by differences in citizenship status between Hispanic and non-Hispanic children. Noncitizen Hispanic children are nearly three times more likely to be uninsured than Hispanic citizen children living with citizen parents and more than three times more likely to be uninsured than citizen children living with noncitizen parents. Hispanic children who do not have an insured parent are seven times more likely to be uninsured than Hispanic children with at least one insured parent. In conclusion, they suggest policy considerations that might incrementally reduce the number of uninsured children
Total children covered by health insurance increased in 2009
This brief uses data collected in 2008 and 2009 from the U.S. Census Bureau\u27s American Community Survey (ACS) to examine changes in overall insurance coverage rates, as well as changes in types of coverage, and differences by region, state, and place type. The data show that together with new and more inclusive parameters for children\u27s health insurance coverage, rates of children\u27s health insurance have grown during the final year of the recession. Authors Jessica Bean and Michael Staley of the Carsey Institute discuss the complex factors contributing to the shift from private to public health insurance among children. The authors conclude that, because those who have health insurance are healthier overall and, more importantly, because healthy children are more likely to become healthy adults, focusing on covering eligible children should remain at the forefront of the nation\u27s agenda
Health Insurance Among Young Adults Rebounds Post Recession: More Become Dependents on a Parent\u27s Plan After ACA Extends Coverage to Adult Children
While much of the existing research explores young adults\u27 insurance only in the post-recession period (that is, 2010 to present), authors Michael Staley and Jessica Carson assess young adults\u27 rates of coverage within and beyond the context of the recession by examining changes across the entire 2007 to 2012 period
New system for bathing bedridden patients
Multihead shower facility can be used with minimal patient handling. Waterproof curtain allows patient to bathe with his head out of shower. He can move completely inside shower to wash his face and hair. Main advantage of shower system is time saved in giving bath
An experimental model of a 2kw, 2500 volt power converter for ion thrustors using gate controlled switches in two phase-shifted parallel inverters summary report
Power converter for ion thrustors using electronic gate controlled switches in two phase-shifted parallel inverter
Rates of public health insurance coverage for children rise as rates of private coverage decline
This brief uses data from the 2008, 2009, and 2010 American Community Survey to document changes in rates of children’s health insurance, between private and public. The authors report that, nationally, private health insurance for children decreased by just under 2 percentage points, while public health insurance increased by nearly 3 percentage points. Rural places and central cities witnessed significant declines in rates of private health insurance for children in nearly every region. Rates of public insurance coverage rose in every region and place type. Children’s health insurance coverage overall continued to rise in 2010, increasing by 0.6 of a percentage point since 2009, and 1.9 percentage points since 2008
Standardised library instruction assessment: an institution-specific approach
Introduction We explore the use of a psychometric model for locally-relevant, information literacy assessment, using an online tool for standardised assessment of student learning during discipline-based library instruction sessions.
Method A quantitative approach to data collection and analysis was used, employing standardised multiple-choice survey questions followed by individual, cognitive interviews with undergraduate students. The assessment tool was administered to five general education psychology classes during library instruction sessions.
AnalysisDescriptive statistics were generated by the assessment tool. Results. The assessment tool proved a feasible means of measuring student learning. While student scores improved on every survey question, there was uneven improvement from pre-test to post-test for different questions.
Conclusion Student scores showed more improvement for some learning outcomes over others, thus, spending time on fewer concepts during instruction sessions would enable more reliable evaluation of student learning. We recommend using digital learning objects that address basic research skills to enhance library instruction programmes. Future studies will explore different applications of the assessment tool, provide more detailed statistical analysis of the data and shed additional light on the significance of overall scores
Another look at anomalous J/Psi suppression in Pb+Pb collisions at P/A = 158 GeV/c
A new data presentation is proposed to consider anomalous
suppression in Pb + Pb collisions at GeV/c. If the inclusive
differential cross section with respect to a centrality variable is available,
one can plot the yield of J/Psi events per Pb-Pb collision as a function of an
estimated squared impact parameter. Both quantities are raw experimental data
and have a clear physical meaning. As compared to the usual J/Psi over
Drell-Yan ratio, there is a huge gain in statistical accuracy. This
presentation could be applied advantageously to many processes in the field of
nucleus-nucleus collisions at various energies.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, submitted to The European Physical Journal C;
minor revisions for final versio
Blood changes in acutely splenectomized rats during prolonged hyperoxic exposure
Effect of high pressure oxygen exposure on red blood cells in splenectomized rat
Low-Temperature Glassy Response of Ultrathin Manganite Films to Electric and Magnetic Fields
The glassy response of thin films of La0.8Ca0.2MnO3 to external magnetic and
gated electrostatic fields in a field-effect geometry has been studied at low
temperatures. A hierarchical response with irreversible memory effects,
non-ergodic time evolution, aging and annealing behavior of the resistance
suggest that the dynamics are governed by strain relaxation for both electronic
and magnetic perturbations. Cross-coupling of charge, spin, and strain have
been exploited to tune the coercivity of an ultrathin manganite film by
electrostatic gating.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
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