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Note: Prior to July 1, 2007, the School of Public Health was named the College of Health & Human Performance.

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    Essays on Health Care Satisfaction, Health Insurance, and Cancer Screening Among Veterans
    (2021) Frost, Sydney; Chen, Jie; Public and Community Health; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Objective: to determine differences in satisfaction of health care services among veterans based on insurance type/coverage and the impact of service utilization of cancer screening services among female veterans who have received health care services within past 12 months. Methods: IPUMS National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) for the years 2013-2018 were used and logistic regressions applied. Results: veterans with VA-only coverage are significantly more dissatisfied with the services they receive compared to veterans who have any-private coverage. Conclusion: there are differences between satisfaction of care among veterans based on insurance type, but differences do not impact cancer screening utilization among female veterans who utilized health care services within the past 12 months. Future work: findings could be utilized to determine ways to increase satisfaction of care received among veterans within the VA, or drive policy creation to allow veterans to access health care services at non-VA facilities.
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    THE EFFECT OF OWN RACE/ETHNICITY DENSITY ON INSURANCE TAKE-UP BY ASIAN AMERICANS
    (2019) Choi, Yoon Sun; Roby, Dylan H; Health Services Administration; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the U.S. (Lopez et al., 2017). Since the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), Asian Americans have benefitted from insurance coverage increases but continue to experience disparities at the subgroup level (Park et al., 2018). This study investigates the association of own race subgroup density on the take-up of insurance by examining the effect of Asian subgroup concentration that may provide social and knowledge support linkages to available insurance coverage options.
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    Residential High-Speed Internet Among Those Likely to Benefit From an Online Health Insurance Marketplace
    (SAGE Publications, Inc., 2016) Boudreaux, Michel H.; Gonzales, Gilbert; Blewett, Lynn; Fried, Brett; Karaca-Mandic, Pinar
    Using data from the 2013 American Community Survey, we found that 24.3 million people (about 1 in 4) who were either eligible for Medicaid/Children’s Health Inusrance Program (CHIP) or appeared likely to shop for Qualified Health Plan (QHP) lacked residential high-speed Internet. Specifically, 28.6% or 18.9 million people eligible for Medicaid/CHIP and 17.1% or 5.5 million people who appeared likely to shop for a QHP did not have high-speed Internet in the home. For both the Medicaid/CHIP eligible and those likely to shop for a QHP, the proportion of people living in households without Internet varied substantially by race, geography, and other socio-demographic characteristics.