INTRODUCTION The California Health Interview Survey, the largest state health survey in the United States, uses community-based participatory research principles to develop each cycle. Other large-scale health surveys rarely include participatory research approaches. Every 2 years, the California Health Interview Survey generates state and local population-based data on health insurance coverag...

Changes in use of health services by the uninsured, when covered after health reform, are a key to the costs of reform. From data on persons under age sixty-five in the 1989 National Health Interview Survey, we estimated their expected use of hospitals (excluding obstetric deliveries) and doctor visits, adjusting for age, sex, and self-reported health status. If uninsured persons obtained priva...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the effects of health reform efforts in two large states--New York and Massachusetts. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data from 1999 to 2008. STUDY DESIGN We take advantage of the "natural experiments" that occurred in New York and Massachusetts to compare health insurance coverage and health care access and use for adults before and a...

BACKGROUND During university, students face some potentially serious health risks, and their lifestyle can have a direct effect on health and health behaviors later in life. Concurrently, university students are digital natives having easy access to the internet and new technologies. Digital health interventions offer promising new opportunities for health promotion, disease prevention, and car...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have suggested that clinical breast examination (CBE) rates may vary according to patient, provider and health care system characteristics. OBJECTIVE To examine the locations where U.S. women received a CBE and other general preventive health, and to examine predictors of location of receipt of general preventive health care (including a recent CBE). DESIGN Age-spe...

Each year in the United States, an estimated 100,000 deaths could be prevented if persons received recommended clinical preventive care. The Affordable Care Act has reduced cost as a barrier to care by expanding access to insurance and requiring many health plans to cover certain recommended preventive services without copayments or deductibles. To establish a baseline for the receipt of these ...

Eight major federal data systems, including the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), National Survey of Children's Health, National Longitudinal Mortality Study, and American Community Survey, were used to examine health differentials between immigrants and the US-born across the life course. Survival and logistic regression, prevalence, and age-adju...