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Measuring Use Of Health Services For At-Risk Drinkers: How Brief Can You Get?, Michael T. French, Brenda M. Booth, Joann E. Kirchne, Stacy M. Fortney, Xiaotong Han, Carol R. Thrush
Measuring Use Of Health Services For At-Risk Drinkers: How Brief Can You Get?, Michael T. French, Brenda M. Booth, Joann E. Kirchne, Stacy M. Fortney, Xiaotong Han, Carol R. Thrush
Michael T. French
This study examines the validity, utility, and costs of using a brief telephone-administered instrument, the Brief Health Services Questionnaire (BHSQ), for self-reported health care provider contacts relative to collection and abstraction of complete medical records. The study sample was 441 community-dwelling at-risk drinkers who participated in an 18-month longitudinal study. Agreement between BHSQ self-reports and abstracted provider contacts was good to very good for general medical (79% agreement, kappa = .50) and specialty mental health contacts (93% agreement, kappa = .62), but low for Bother^ miscellaneous health contacts (61% agreement, kappa = .04). Average cost to collect and abstract complete …
“Does America Spend Enough On Addiction Treatment?: Results From Public Opinion Surveys, Michael T. French, Amie L. Nielsen, Jenny F. Homer
“Does America Spend Enough On Addiction Treatment?: Results From Public Opinion Surveys, Michael T. French, Amie L. Nielsen, Jenny F. Homer
Michael T. French
Addiction treatment is often misunderstood and underappreciated in the United States. Although a large body of literature clearly demonstrates the clinical and economic benefits of addiction treatment for many clients and in most settings, the general public has a somewhat ambivalent attitude toward treatment expansion and taxpayer financing. A potential reason for this disconnect between economic evidence and public opinion is a weak identification with the need for, or the success of, addiction treatment for those individuals without a substance abuse problem themselves or in members of their family. Alternatively, addiction treatment stakeholders may be delivering an ineffective or misdirected …
Price Elasticity Of Demand For Malt Liquor Beer: Findings From A Pilot Study, Michael T. French, Didra Browntaylor, Ricky N. Bluthenthal
Price Elasticity Of Demand For Malt Liquor Beer: Findings From A Pilot Study, Michael T. French, Didra Browntaylor, Ricky N. Bluthenthal
Michael T. French
Our objective is to estimate the relative price elasticity of demand for malt liquor beer (MLB), regular beer, hard liquor, and a combined group of all other alcoholic beverages. Three hundred and twenty-nine alcohol consumers (mostly male) in South-Central Los Angeles answered a series of questions pertaining to expected consumption responses to hypothetical price increases. We found that based on a 10% price increase, the mean price elasticity of demand (% change in quantity demanded / % change in price) was -0.79 for MLB drinkers, -1.14 for regular beer drinkers, -1.11 for hard liquor drinkers, and -1.69 for the combined …