141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

4333.0
Health economics: Costs for unserved children, immigrants, and other groups

Tuesday, November 5, 2013: 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Oral
Session Objectives: Explain lower health care costs of unauthorized immigrants Describe a path from unmet children's medical needs to future avoidable costs Identify 3 risk factors of higher costs for ambulatory care Demonstrate cost benefits from investments in health care and improvement and their lag time
Moderator:
Garland L. Brinkley, CPH, MPH, PhD

2:30pm
Health care spending by unauthorized immigrants is lower than other immigrants and US natives   
Jim P. Stimpson, PhD, Fernando Wilson, PhD and Dejun Su, PhD
2:50pm
Costly care: Increased ambulatory care sensitive expenditures due to unmet healthcare need among children in the US   
Lauren E. Wisk, PhD
3:10pm
Can high healthcare costs be reduced? Empirical evidence from community hospitals   
Haichang Xin, PhD, Mark Diana, PhD, Anjum Khurshid, MBBS, PhD, Lisanne Brown, PhD MPH and Snigdha Mukherjee, PhD
  
3:30pm
Who benefits from public health spending and how long does it take? Estimating community-specific spending effects   
Glen Mays, PhD, MPH

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Medical Care
Endorsed by: Maternal and Child Health, Chiropractic Health Care

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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