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Response to McWilliams Commentary: "Assessing the Health Effects of Medicare Coverage for Previously Uninsured Adults: a Matter of Life and Death?"

This commentary speaks to a debate about the effect of Medicare on previously uninsured seniors' health and mortality, and concludes that there is insufficient data to support the view that health trajectory of the previously uninsured is altered by Medicare coverage at age 65.

Dec 31, 2009
Journal Article

The Role of Pregnancy Outcomes in the Maternal Mortality Rates of Two Areas in Matlab, Bangladesh

Interventions to increase contraceptive use; to reduce the incidence of induced abortion, miscarriage and stillbirth; to improve the management of such outcomes; and to strengthen antenatal care could substantially reduce maternal mortality in Bangladesh and similar countries.

Dec 31, 2009
Journal Article

How Perceptions of Mortality and HIV Morbidity Relate to Substance Abuse Problems and Risky Sexual Behaviors Among Former Juvenile Offenders

Youth who think they are likely to get HIV are at greater risk for later substance abuse problems and risky sexual behaviors, but this perception doesn't cause them to reduce their substance use and change their behavior.

Dec 31, 2009
Journal Article

Adolescents' Perceived Risk of Dying

Although adolescents' expectations are accurate or moderately optimistic for many significant life events, they greatly overestimate their chances of dying soon.

Dec 31, 2009
Journal Article

Marital Trajectories and Mortality Among US Adults

This study demonstrates that traditional measures oversimplify the relation between marital status and mortality and that sex differences are related to a nexus of marital experiences and associated health risks.

Aug 31, 2009
Journal Article

Adherence to Quality Indicators and Survival in Patients with Breast Cancer

This study explores whether 100% adherence to a set of quality indicators applied to individuals with breast cancer is associated with better survival.

Jan 31, 2009
Journal Article

Does Medicare Save Lives?

Health insurance characteristics shift at age 65 as most people become eligible for Medicare. The authors measure the impacts of these changes on patients who are admitted to hospitals through emergency departments for conditions with similar admission rates on weekdays and weekends.

Dec 31, 2008
Journal Article

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pneumonia Treatment and Mortality

Examine within and between-hospital racial/ethnic disparities in quality indicators and mortality for patients hospitalized for pneumonia.

Dec 31, 2008
Journal Article

Which Factors Explain the Decline in Infant and Child Mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh?

The authors use data from the Matlab Demographic Surveillance System on nearly 94,000 singleton live births that occurred between 1987 and 2002 to investigate the extent to which the change in mortality over this period can be explained by changes in repr

Dec 31, 2008
Journal Article

Setting Research Priorities to Reduce Global Mortality from Childhood Diarrhoea by 2015

Childhood diarrhoea still claims nearly 2 million lives each year and remains responsible for 18% of all child deaths. Regardless of this, research interest in this disease has been steadily decreasing after the development of cost-effective interventions in the 1980s.

Dec 31, 2008
Journal Article

Incorporating Mortality Risk Into Estimates of 5-Year Glaucoma Risk

Considers the effects of incorporating mortality risk, a potentially important factor to consider when deciding whether to initiate therapy for ocular hypertensives, into estimates of 5-year glaucoma risk.

Dec 31, 2008
Journal Article

Seven-year Life Outcomes of Adolescent Offenders in Los Angeles

An examination of important life outcomes for adolescent offenders to describe how they were faring in young adulthood found high rates of negative life outcomes, suggesting the need for more effective rehabilitation programs for juvenile offenders.

Dec 31, 2008
Dissertation

Life, Livelihood, and Long Term Well-being: The Effect of Mortality Risks and Land Reforms on Human Capital Investments in India

Evaluates factors including household preferences, resource constraints, and background factors such as risks and economic shocks in determining childhood investments in rural India.

Jun 13, 2008
Journal Article

The Effects of Pregnancy Spacing on Infant and Child Mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh: How They Vary By the Type of Pregnancy Outcome That Began the Interval

Assesses the effects of duration of intervals between pregnancy outcomes on infant and child mortality and how effects vary over child subperiods and by the outcome that began the interval. Shorter intervals are associated with higher mortality.

Dec 31, 2007
Journal Article

Age and Gender Differences in Medicare Expenditures and Service Utilization at the End of Life for Lung Cancer Decedents

Gender disparities in expenditures are generally small at the end of life for lung cancer decedents. The bigger observed differences are by age. Higher expenditures for women on social-supportive services may reflect fewer informal supports.

Dec 31, 2007
Journal Article

Hospital Competition, Managed Care, and Mortality After Hospitalization for Medical Conditions in California

Assesses the effect of hospital competition and HMO penetration on mortality after hospitalization for six medical conditions in California.

Mar 31, 2007
Journal Article

Quality Indicators for the Care of Breast Cancer in Vulnerable Elders

Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women and the second highest cause of cancer mortality in the United States.

Dec 31, 2006
Journal Article

Effects of Interpregnancy Interval and Outcome of the Preceding Pregnancy on Pregnancy Outcomes in Matlab, Bangladesh

To estimate the effects on pregnancy outcomes of the duration of the preceding IPI and type of pregnancy outcome that began the interval.

Dec 31, 2006
Journal Article

Mortality Risks, Health Endowments, and Parental Investments in Infancy: Evidence from Rural India

Whether increased background mortality risks induce households to make differential health investments in their high- versus low-endowment children.

Dec 31, 2006
Journal Article

Effect of Complications on Mortality After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery: Evidence from New York State

The objective of this study is to quantify the increased odds of dying from complications after isolated coronary artery bypass grafting surgery.

Dec 31, 2006

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RAND Topic:
Mortality

Topic Synonyms:
Death Rate

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