Did individuals' experiences with the harms of the COVID-19 pandemic influence their attitudes towards safety-net programs? To assess this question, we combine rich information about county-level impacts and individual-level perceptions of the early pandemic, repeated measurements of attitudes towards safety-net expansion, and pre-pandemic measurements of related political attitudes. Individuals facing higher county-level impact or greater perceived risks are more likely to support long-term expansions to unemployment insurance and government-provided healthcare when surveyed in June 2020. These differences persist across time, with experiences in the early months of the pandemic remaining strongly predictive of attitudes towards safety-net expansion in early 2021.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|---|
| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9263690 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.07.002 | DOI Listing |
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
Evaluating an Emergency Department Discharge Center: A Learning Organization Approach for Efficiency and Future Directions.
Cureus
November 2024
Emergency Medicine, Northwell Health Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, USA.
Introduction Our pilot Emergency Department Discharge Center (EDDC) facilitates post-discharge appointments, and screens for social determinants of health (SDoH) with a long, paper-based tool. No criteria guide which patients to refer to EDDC for appointment-making. Patients screening positive for SDoH are texted or emailed a list of community-based organizations (CBOs) to contact; the screening tool doesn't assess patients' interest or ability to contact CBOs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHealth System Expansion and Changes in Medicare Beneficiary Utilization of Safety Net Providers.
Med Care
January 2025
RAND, Arlington, VA.
Background: Evidence is limited on insured patients' use of safety net providers as vertically integrated health systems spread throughout the United States.
Objectives: To examine whether market-level health system penetration is associated with: (1) switches in Medicare beneficiaries' usual source of primary care from federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) to health systems; and (2) FQHCs' overall Medicare patient and visit volume.
Research Design: Beneficiary-level discrete-time survival analysis and market-level linear regression analysis using Medicare fee-for-service claims data from 2013 to 2018.
A qualitative study of the experiences of patients with prostate cancer when receiving negative genetic results: "I still don't have a grasp of what it all means".
J Genet Couns
November 2024
Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Germline genetic testing has been increasingly conducted for treatment implications in patients with prostate cancer due to the expansion of testing eligibility. Understanding patients' comprehension of genetic results is crucial for establishing effective result disclosure practices. This importance has grown due to the increasing prevalence of negative genetic results being conveyed via electronic communication and by providers without a genetics specialization.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProtocol: A mixed-methods study to evaluate implementation and outcomes of U.S. state telemental health policy expansion during the COVID-19 pandemic.
PLoS One
November 2024
Division of Health Policy and Economics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America.
Background: Until the COVID-19 pandemic, it had not been possible to examine the effect of rapid policy changes surrounding telemental health on patient-reported mental health care access, costs, symptoms, and functioning. Sizable variation in telemental health use by patient race-ethnicity, age, and rurality, and in its adoption across healthcare settings, underscores the need to study equitable dissemination and implementation of high-quality telemental health services in the real world. This protocol describes an explanatory sequential mixed-methods study that aims to examine the effects of state telemental health policy expansion on patient-reported mental health outcomes, as well as the policy-to-practice pathway from the perspectives of state leaders, clinicians, and staff who care for underserved patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCOVID-19 employment shocks and safety net expansion: Health effects on displaced workers.
Soc Sci Res
November 2024
University of California, Berkeley, USA.
COVID-19 precipitated sharp job losses, concentrated in the service sector. Prior research suggests that such shocks would negatively affect health and wellbeing. However, the nature of the pandemic crisis was distinct in ways that may have mitigated any such negative effects, and historic expansions in unemployment insurance (UI) may have buffered workers from negative health consequences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWant AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!