Publications by authors named "Giovann Alarcon"
Background: Health insurance is complex, cost are continuously rising, and people are assuming more of these costs. Health insurance literacy (HIL) is related to healthcare access, yet there is no agreement about how best to measure HIL.
Objectives: Contrast two HIL measures.
Affordable Care Act Impact in Kentucky: Increasing Access, Reducing Disparities.
Am J Public Health
July 2018
Objectives: To examine health insurance disparities since Kentucky's implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Methods: Using the American Community Survey, we estimated coverage rates by race/ethnicity before and after implementation of the ACA (2013 and 2015), and we estimated whether groups were over- or underrepresented among the uninsured, compared with their share of the state population.
Results: Kentucky's uninsurance rate declined from 14.
Purpose: We examine changes to health insurance coverage and access to health care among children, adolescents, and young adults since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
Methods: Using the National Health Interview Survey, bivariate and logistic regression analyses were conducted to compare coverage and access among children, young adolescents, older adolescents, and young adults between 2010 and 2016.
Results: We show significant improvements in coverage among children, adolescents, and young adults since 2010.
Objectives: We determined whether and how Minnesotans who were uninsured in 2013 gained health insurance coverage in 2014, 1 year after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded Medicaid coverage and enrollment.
Methods: Insurance status and enrollment experiences came from the Minnesota Health Insurance Transitions Study (MH-HITS), a follow-up telephone survey of children and adults in Minnesota who had no health insurance in the fall of 2013.
Results: ACA had a tempered success in Minnesota.