The percentage of Americans under age 65 with employer-sponsored health insurance coverage has dropped to 59.5 percent in 2011, continuing a decade-long decline, finds a new study. The analysis, led by the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, reports that the share of people with employer-based [...]
In the first empirical study of the role supplemental insurance coverage might play in Medicare spending growth, researchers at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School found that employer-sponsored and self-purchased supplemental coverage were associated with annual spending growth rates of 7.17 percent and 7.18 percent, respectively, compared to 6.08 [...]
United States hospital-based births covered by private insurance are associated with higher rates of obstetric intervention than births paid for by Medicaid, according to new research from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health (SPH). The study appears today in the American Journal of Managed Care. SPH health policy expert Katy Kozhimannil, who led [...]
Cesarean delivery is the most common surgery in the United States, performed on 1.67 million American women annually. Yet hospital cesarean rates vary widely according to new research from the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health. The latest study, appearing today in Health Affairs, shows that cesarean delivery rates varied tenfold across U.S. hospitals, [...]
New research from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health has found lower cesarean birth rates among Medicaid beneficiaries with access to support from a birth doula than among Medicaid patients nationally. A doula is not a medical provider, but rather a trained professional who provides information, physical assistance, and support to a woman [...]
University of Minnesota School of Public Health researchers have found that young people who prefer organic, local, and sustainable foods are more likely to make healthier food choices. The researchers found the relation applies to young people broadly, regardless of socioeconomic or demographic status. The study is led by Jennifer E. Pelletier, M.P.H., who partnered [...]
Tobacco companies’ aggressive coupon marketing tactics may reduce the likelihood that current smokers will quit, according to new research published in Tobacco Control, an international peer-reviewed journal. This report is the first-of-its-kind to illustrate that cigarette coupons have a negative association on smoking cessation. “We know that raising the price of cigarettes encourages smokers to quit. [...]
SPH helps foster a new approach to global health When the bubonic plague ravaged 14th century Europe, Russia, and Asia, few understood disease vectors or that the tiny flea was the ideal host for Yersinia pesti and rats were the literal jumping off point for human infection. Animals harbor thousands of viruses— most yet undiscovered—that [...]
Despite evidence demonstrating that the environment around us can drive the obesity trend – our schools, workplaces, communities, the food and beverage industry and even the media – most Americans believe that the solution to the obesity epidemic continues to rest with obese individuals themselves.
As emphasis on muscularity has increased in recent decades, researchers at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health have found muscle-enhancing behaviors are now common for both boys and girls, and rates are higher than reported previously. In particular, they found adolescents in high school, teens of Asian background, students in overweight/obese BMI categories, [...]
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