Title: |
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Supporting Healthcare Policy Initiatives through Modeling and Microsimulation Efforts: Issues of Data Capacity and Statistical Quality |
Description: |
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There is a growing demand for timely, high quality and precise estimates of health care parameters at the national and sub-national levels, and associated readily accessible data
resources to inform health care policy and practice. Existing sentinel health care databases that provide nationally representative population based data on measures of
health care access, cost, use, health insurance coverage, health status and health care quality, provide the necessary foundation to support descriptive and behavioral analyses
of the U.S. health care system. Such studies help inform assessments of the availability and costs of private health insurance in the employment-related and non-group markets;
the population enrolled in public health insurance coverage and those without health care coverage; and the role of health status in health care use, expenditures, and household
decision making, and in health insurance and employment choices. |
Author(s): |
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Steven B. Cohen, PhD and Julie L. Hudson, PhD |
Agency: |
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Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
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