Publications by authors named "Nina Katz-Christy"
Background: The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 awarded $500 million toward scaling "strike teams" to mitigate the impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) within nursing homes. The Massachusetts Nursing Facility Accountability and Support Package (NFASP) piloted one such model during the first weeks of the pandemic, providing nursing homes financial, administrative, and educational support. For a subset of nursing homes deemed high-risk, the state offered supplemental, in-person technical infection control support.
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- Strategic preparedness for hurricanes improves health outcomes, but understanding the epidemiology of tropical cyclones (TCs) can further enhance this protection.
- A new machine learning approach aims to standardize the estimation of the health impacts of historic TCs, reveal patterns in these impacts, and identify high-risk communities for future events.
- The model uses both causal inference to assess immediate health effects and predictive elements that link TC characteristics with community demographics, finding significant variations in health outcomes and highlighting strong correlations between wind speeds and health risks.
In 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic caused millions to lose their jobs and, consequently, their employer-sponsored health insurance. Enacted in 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) created safeguards for such events by expanding Medicaid coverage and establishing Marketplaces through which people could purchase health insurance. Using a novel national data set with information on ACA-compliant individual insurance plans, we found large increases in Marketplace enrollment in 2020 compared with 2019 but with varying percentage increases and spending risk implications across states.
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