Determines the extent to which people with and without health care insurance use public health care facilities and various health care services. Analyzes 6,298 patients from 4 county-funded primary health care clinics. Patients were overwhelmingly poor regardless of insurance status. High cost-sharing requirements, coupled with larger families and…

As the number of American students studying overseas increases, it will be difficult for colleges to establish or find enough adequate programs with challenging curricula. Students desire ever more remote locations, and colleges are being pushed to support the extremely adventurous. With more students studying abroad, and amid heightened fears…

Counselors in the 21st century must not only respond to the pressures of managed care but also support the best interests of their clients. Criticism from consumers and professionals about the lack of empirical evidence of the efficacy of counseling as well as pressure from managed care companies have prompted a focus on evaluating treatment…

This article discusses new legislation for health maintenance organization (HMO) and national health insurance (NHI) and their implication for health educators. (JA)

Passage of the Pregnancy Disability Bill means that employee health plans cannot omit the needs of pregnant women. (PBS)

Discusses two different but closely related problems that must be solved when determining what insurance coverage a campus needs for mold losses: issues of property insurance and of liability insurance. (EV)

Use nationally representative data to examine retiree health insurance. Concluded that retiree health coverage was widespread and typical benefits were more generous than those in medigap policies. Overlay of typical retiree plan on Medicare resulted in more generous total insurance benefits that those held by working nonelderly or beneficiaries…

Health and education are two important issues in developing economies. Field and natural experiments provided me with great opportunities for identifying the effects of health insurance and incentive on doctors' prescribing behaviors and the peer influences among students. The first chapter examines whether doctors write more expensive…

The National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) provides a unique resource with which to analyze the health status, health care use, activities, and family and community environments experienced by children in rural and urban areas. The NSCH was designed to measure the health and well-being of children from birth through age 17 in the United…

Poor childhood health contributes to lower socioeconomic status in adulthood. Subsequently, low socioeconomic status among parents contributes to poor childhood health outcomes in the next generation. This cycle can be particularly pernicious for vulnerable and low-income minority populations, including many children of immigrants. And because of…

These two issues are designed to provide secondary school educators with a greater knowledge of insurance and access to teaching materials regarding insurance and to provide students with information about insurance and insurance careers. The following feature articles are included in the newsletters: "Life Insurance: Why and When People Buy…

This Insurance Education Foundation (IEF) newsletter provides secondary educators with a greater knowledge of insurance and access to teaching materials. It also provides students with insurance career information. The newsletter is intended for secondary educators who teach insurance in any subject. Substantive articles contained in this issue…

Part 3 of a three-part report on fringe benefits in public schools, this study reports fringe benefits received by classroom teachers for school year 1979-80 in the 803 districts that responded to a survey instrument mailed to a sample of 1,808 public school systems. Data on leave provisions, group insurance programs, professional liability…

Life insurance executives, university administrators, faculty, and young humanists held a conference to determine how these young humanists might serve business and how business organizations might help alleviate the current crisis in academia. The topics discussed were the following: "The Situation in Academia Today"; "What Has Been Done to…

The primary objective of national health insurance is to make sure that good medical care is available to everyone at an affordable price. Any plan when first adopted will have a role for both private and government sectors but regardless of the mix, the system should meet certain goals. (Author/BB)