Assessing the public health impact of state health benefit mandates

Health Services Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3 II, 2006, Pages 1045-1060

  McMenamin, Sara B ^a   Halpin, Helen A ^a   Ganiats, Theodore G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Health insurance policy; Mandated benefits; Pubic health impacts

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; CALCULATION; CALIFORNIA HEALTH BENEFITS REVIEW PROGRAM; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GENDER; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEGAL ASPECT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROCESS MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SMOKING CESSATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; INSURANCE BENEFITS; MANDATORY PROGRAMS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 33646695676     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2006.00519.x     Document Type: Review

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