Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Site Visit Report: The State of California's Healthy Families Program

Interim Evaluation Report: Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, Executive Summary

Interim Evaluation Report: Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program

The State Children's Health Insurance Program.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The State Children's Health Insurance Program expanded public health insurance to children who are ineligible for Medicaid yet unable to afford private health insurance. The program was a natural experiment, offering the opportunity to study the effects of expanding health insurance to a large population of children who would otherwise be uninsured. The State Children's Health...

Current state of professional and core competency in pediatric residency program at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences: A local survey

Introduction: Accreditation assesses performance, or capacity toperform, against predetermined standards. It typically combinesexternal quality assurance, through a process of peers review,with elements of self-regulation through internal and selfdirectedassessment. This study is an attempt to identify thequality of pediatrics residency educational programs regardingpredetermined standards.Meth...

An Implementation Research Approach to Evaluating Health Insurance Programs: Insights from India

One of the distinguishing features of implementation research is the importance given to involve implementers in all aspects of research, and as users of research. We report on a recent implementation research effort in India, in which researchers worked together with program implementers from one of the longest serving government funded insurance schemes in India, the Rajiv Aarogyasri Scheme (...