January 2012
Journal of Aging & Social Policy Volume 24, Issue 1, 2012
A major barrier to building a strong workforce to meet the growing need for long-care is lack of affordable health benefits. This study projects impacts of funding health coverage for all long-term care workers in Minnesota.
This article was published in the Journal of Aging & Social Policy, Volume 24, Issue 1, 2012
Click here for the abstract and full article: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08959420.2012.629135
Client Area: Payers / Insurers
Expertise Area: Health Professionals Workforce
January 2012
The US Preventive Services Task Force Should Consider A Broader Evidence Base In Updating Its Diabetes Screening Guidelines
Lewin Contact: Cliff Goodman
The Lewin Group published a new report in the January 2012 thematic issue of Health Affairs on Confronting The Growing Diabetes Crisis. The article, "The US Preventive Services Task Force Should Consider A Broader Evidence Base In Updating Its Diabetes Screening Guidelines" discusses the merits of broadening the types of items considered in diabetes screening in order to facilitate the prevention and early treatment of diabetes. Read more at http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/31/1/35
Expertise Area: Chronic Disease / Cost of Illness, Evidence-Based Medicine / HTA
October 2011
Lewin contact: John Sheils
This is the Technical Appendix to the report detailing impacts of the Accountable Care Act (ACA) on costs and coverage for major sources of coverage without the Mandate to have coverage. We used the Health Benefits Simulation Model (HBSM), a micro-simulation model of the US health care system designed for simulating policies ranging from narrowly defined insurance market regulations to Medicaid coverage expansions and broad-based reforms involving multiple programs. In this document we explain how the model was used to simulate the impact of the ACA. This includes the methods used to simulate the effect of the ACA without the mandate for people to have health insurance.
You can read the full report on the Health Affairs website at http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/early/2011/10/24/hlthaff.2011.0708
Expertise Area: Health Reform
October 2011
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Excessive alcohol use is responsible for an average of 79,000 deaths and 2.3 million years of potential life lost in the United States each year, making it the third leading preventable cause of death in this country. In addition to premature mortality, excessive alcohol consumption affects us all through consequences such as additional health care costs, property damage from fire and motor vehicle crashes, increased crime and criminal justice system costs, and lost productivity. The most recent detailed study of the economic costs of excessive alcohol consumption was conducted in 1998, and produced an estimate for 1992. Since then, there have been significant advances in our scientific understanding of the health and social impacts of excessive drinking.
Given the huge public health impact of excessive alcohol consumption and the improvements in scientific understanding since the prior estimates the CDC Alcohol Team, with generous support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, engaged The Lewin Group to develop updated estimates of the economic cost of excessive alcohol consumption in the U.S. The purpose of the study was develop a more current estimate of the economic cost of excessive alcohol consumption in the U.S. and also to estimate the cost of binge drinking, drinking by underage youth, and drinking during pregnancy. Estimates were developed for 2006, the most recent year for which cost and outcome data were generally available.
A companion article based on this study was also published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine at http://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797%2811%2900538-1/abstract
Client Area: Federal Government
Expertise Area: Chronic Disease / Cost of Illness
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