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  • Analysis on Medicaid Expansion from the Affordable Care Act and the Effect on Low-Income Populations

    Creator:
    Sosnovske, Alden
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    When the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, eligibility for Medicaid was expanded to include people whose income was less than 138% of the federal poverty level. In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that states could choose whether to expand their Medicaid programs or not. The objective of this...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    :_____________________________________________________ Stephanie Bernell When the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, eligibility for Medicaid

  • Medicare managed care : market penetration and the resulting health outcomes

    Creator:
    Howard, Steven W.
    Abstract:
    Managed care plans purport to improve the health of their members with chronic diseases. How has the growing adoption of Medicare Advantage (MA), the managed care program for Medicare beneficiaries, affected the progression of chronic disease? The literature is rich with articles focusing on managed care organizations' impacts on quality...
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    Dissertation
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    Resulting Health Outcomes Abstract approved: ___________________________________ Stephanie L

  • The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990: Overlap Between Supreme Court Opinions and Amicus Briefs

    Creator:
    Arzie, Madelyn
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    The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 exists to protect the disabled community from discrimination in order to give people with disabilities the opportunity to live their lives to the fullest extent (What Is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? | ADA National Network, n.d.). When the ADA was signed...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    :_____________________________________________________ Stephanie Bernell The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 exists to protect the disabled

  • The Role of Political Party in Health Policy

    Creator:
    Rusetskiy, Karina I.
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    The role of political parties within legislation has been greatly debated over the decades. As health care continues to be an issue of concerns and contention, the question of how politics affects this industry is of importance. Utilizing Congressional records and websites to determine roll call and voice voting within...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Stephanie Bernell The role of political parties within legislation has been greatly debated over the

  • A Historical Reflection of Cultural Factors Inhibiting American Healthcare Reform

    Creator:
    Leathers, James S.
    Abstract:
    Past healthcare reform has been blinded by the presence of competing philosophies and ideologies that ultimately yielded ineffective compromises or short-terms solutions. With the ever-shifting political and economic landscapes, the future of our nation’s healthcare is in great peril. This paper is a meta-analysis on obstructions to healthcare reform that...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Approved: ________________________________ Stephanie Bernell Past healthcare reform has been

  • Predictors of participation in a prison-based parenting program

    Creator:
    Schumer, Jean Ellen
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    The focus of this study was threefold. This research examined the extent to which parenting alliance between incarcerated parents and the caregivers of their children, influences participation of inmate parents in parenting programs. This research explored the extent to which family contact influences participation of inmate parents in parenting programs....
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    Dissertation
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    : _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Stephanie Lazarus Bernell The focus of this study was threefold. This research

  • Evaluating Equity in the Provision of Primary Health Care in Tanzania

    Creator:
    Babbel, Breannon
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    Equitable access to primary health care is vital to the overall health and development of a country. Since its independence in 1967, Tanzania has established a clear objective of achieving primary health care for all. Yet achieving the goal of health care for all is especially difficult considering Tanzania’s poverty...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    : Stephanie Bernell, representing Public Health Sarah Henderson, representing Political Science

  • Out-of-pocket health care expenditures and household food insecurity among families with children

    Creator:
    Patton-Lopez, Megan M.
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    Since the late 1990s accelerated growth in health care spending coupled with a cost shift of health insurance from employers to employees has created an increased financial burden for many families. Past research suggests that financial burden due to out-of-pocket (OOP) health care costs limits access to health care and...
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    Dissertation
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    :___________________________________________ Stephanie Bernell Since the late 1990s accelerated growth in health care spending

  • National health insurance in Taiwan : welfare analysis and hospital competition

    Creator:
    Chen, Wen-Yi
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    This dissertation consists of three essays that evaluate various types of health care policies from the social welfare perspective. Chapter 1 introduces the main ideas and framework of this dissertation. Chapter 2 evaluates the new co-payment policy, enacted on July 15, 2005 under Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI). We show...
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    Dissertation
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    . Dr. Andrew J. Plantinga introduced me to my major advisor, Dr. Stephanie L. Bemell, one of the most

  • Use of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services among American Indians and Alaska Natives including the Role of the Great Recession : Evidence from the National Survey of Family Growth

    Creator:
    Cahn, Megan A.
    Abstract:
    American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIAN) have more negative sexual and reproductive health outcomes than non-Hispanic whites. Little is known, however, about the factors that lead to sexual and reproductive health disparities for AIANs, including the role of sexual and reproductive health services (SRHS). Logistic regression analyses were performed on...
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    Dissertation
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    : _____________________________________________________ S. Marie Harvey Stephanie L. Bernell American