We analyze the effect of insurance on the probability of an individual incurring 'high' annual health expenses using data from three household surveys. All come from China, a country where providers are paid fee-for-service according to a schedule that encourages the overprovision of high-tech care and who are only lightly regulated. We define annual spending as 'high' if it exceeds a threshold...

Information technology is one of the most important factors that have been impacting the development of forestry construction, with forest farmers playing an increasingly crucialrole in promotion of information technology. Survey data in this paper, collected from Yongan County and Youxi County in Fujian Province, usescombinedRough Set Theory (RST) andSupport Vector Machine (SVM), applied for r...

OBJECTIVE To determine relative trends in prevalence for overweight for adults compared with children across high-income countries (Australia, United Kingdom, and United States), middle-income countries (Brazil and Russia), and low-income countries (China and Indonesia). RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES Extant nationally representative survey data from 1971 to the present are used. Prevalence ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of patient out-of-pocket costs on adherence to antihypertensive agents (AHA) in community-dwelling older adults covered by the public drug insurance plan in Quebec. METHODS This is a secondary analysis of data from the "Étude sur la santé des aînés" study (2005-2008) on community-dwelling older adults in Quebec aged 65 years and older (N=2,811). The final samp...

PURPOSE To find out the average economic burden of medical care on a patient with diabetes in Pune, India. METHODS A semi-open ended questionnaire followed by interview was conducted with patients attending diabetes and ophthalmic out-patient departments. They were asked regarding the duration of diabetes, methods undertaken for blood sugar control and the amount they spend on consultations, ...

OBJECTIVES To project the number of people aged 45-64 years with lost productive life years (PLYs) due to diabetes and related costs (lost income, extra welfare payments, lost taxation revenue); and lost gross domestic product (GDP) attributable to diabetes in Australia from 2015 to 2030. DESIGN A simulation study of how the number of people aged 45-64 years with diabetes increases over time ...

The Census Bureau is currently re-engineering the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). The reengineered SIPP will be an integrated data system with multiple components and methods: a survey-based data collection; an American Community Survey-based sampling frame; administrative records; and statistical modeling. Together, these components will yield a fuller, stronger, more richly...

he new Elder Economic Security StandardTM Index (Elder Index) for California documents that the federal poverty guideline covers less than half of the basic costs experienced by adults age 65 and older in the state. The federal poverty guideline is often used to determine income eligibility for public programs and in allocating resources to communities. The federal poverty guideline for a singl...

The current research had 2 aims: (1) to determine the cross-sectional age differences in self-concept clarity during adulthood and (2) to examine the importance of social role experiences for age differences in self-concept clarity. These aims were addressed in 2 large samples of adults ranging in age from 18 to 94 years. In both studies, self-concept clarity had a curvilinear relation to age s...

In a New York Times op-ed earlier this year (April 9, 2003), Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation has proposed that Iraq establish an Alaska-style oil fund that would pay annual dividends to the citizens of Iraq.ii In Alaska, revenues from oil leases have been invested in a permanent fund, which has grown to $23.5 billion in 2002; part of the fund’s income is now distributed directly to ...