Author: Short, Pamela Farley
Working Paper: Counting and Characterizing the Uninsured (PDF) ; December 2001
Research Highlight 1 (HTML) (PDF) ; October 2002
Q & A with Pamela Farley Short, Ph.D. (HTML) ; October 2002
Abstract:
The picture of who is uninsured that emerges
from cross-sectional analyses is different from
the image that develops looking at who is insured
and uninsured over a period of time. This paper
presents the advantages of longitudinal data and
the implications for researchers and policymakers
alike of using data that give information about
the duration of spells without health insurance.
This paper is one of six papers commissioned at
the outset of ERIU to provide a critical synthesis
of the existing literature on who does not have
health insurance, why they do not have health insurance,
and what difference health insurance makes. The
papers appeared in final form in Health
Policy and the Uninsured published by Urban Institute
Press in 2004. |
