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Timely Health Service Utilization: A Longitudinal Cohort Study Of Older Foster Youth., Angelique G. Day Jan 2015

Timely Health Service Utilization: A Longitudinal Cohort Study Of Older Foster Youth., Angelique G. Day

Angelique G Day

Purpose: To evaluate the impact of a policy change for older foster care youth from a fee-for-service (FFS) Medicaid program to health maintenance organization (HMO) providers on the timeliness of well-child visits (health care physicals). Methods: A three year observational study using linked administrative data collected by the Michigan Departments of Human Services and Community Health of 2,016 youth who were in foster care on or after their 14th birthdays during 2009-2012 was used to examine the odds of receiving a timely well-child visit within the recommended 30 day time frame (logistic regression) as well as days to the first …


An Empirical Examination Of The Factors Associated With The Commutation Of State Death Row Prisoners’ Sentences Between 1986 And 2005, John D. Kraemer Jan 2009

An Empirical Examination Of The Factors Associated With The Commutation Of State Death Row Prisoners’ Sentences Between 1986 And 2005, John D. Kraemer

John D Kraemer

Commutation is usually a death row prisoner’s last hope of evading his or her capital sentence. However, unlike many other stages of the death penalty process, little research focuses on the factors that affect decisions to commute or allow a death sentence to go forward, and that which has been conducted utilizes data which is now nearly a decade old. This paper seeks to examine personal and demographic factors associated with commutation decisions and to resolve incon- sistent findings in the prior research. Using the statistical method of multiple logistic regression, this paper finds statistically significant disparities in the odds …