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13. O trabalho docente em psicólogo e o enfrentamento da violência contra crianças e adolescentes: uma experiência teresinense
In this thesis I discuss the role of the psychologist as a university professor and as intellectual from a specific context and also from a specific query. The context is the city of Teresina, capital city of Piauí state, which is peripheral in Brazils northeast region. The defiance here is to build a critical psychological tradition that will deal with the
Publicado em: 2007
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14. Designing health insurance information for the Medicare beneficiary: a policy synthesis.
Can Medicare beneficiaries make rational and informed decisions about their coverage under the Medicare program? Recent policy developments in the Medicare program have been based on the theory of competition in medical care. One of the key assumptions of the competitive model is the free flow of adequate information, enabling the consumer to make an informe
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15. Conducting research on the Medicare market: the need for better data and methods.
OBJECTIVE: To highlight data limitations, the need to improve data collection, the need to develop better analytic methods, and the need to use alternative data sources to conduct research related to the Medicare program. Objectives were achieved by reviewing existing studies on risk selection in Medicare HMOs, examining their data limitations, and introduci
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16. Supply and demand factors in the determination of Medicare expenditures.
This article presents multivariate estimates of the effects of supply-side factors (e.g., provider reimbursement) and demand-side factors (e.g., beneficiary ability to pay) on state-level expenditures per enrollee in Medicare Part A and Part B. The results indicate that a 1 percent increase in elderly income significantly increases the propensity to use Medi
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17. Consumer knowledge of Medicare and supplemental health insurance benefits.
In this article, data from a recent study funded by the Health Care Financing Administration are used to examine the level of knowledge about health care insurance coverage among Medicare beneficiaries. Two related categories of this knowledge are analyzed: knowledge of the Medicare program itself and knowledge of supplemental health insurance policies owned
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18. The effects of predetermined payment rates for Medicare home healthcare.
OBJECTIVE: To assess the effects of an alternative method of paying home health agencies for services to Medicare beneficiaries, based on a demonstration program. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: Primary and secondary data collected on participating home health agencies in five states and their patients during the three-year demonstration period. Primary data inc
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19. Geographic variation in determinants of Medicare managed care enrollment.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of adjusted average per capita cost (AAPCC) rate and volatility on Medicare risk plan enrollment at the county level. DATA SOURCES: Secondary data from the Health Care Financing Administration's office of managed care and other sources were merged to create comprehensive data on all Medicare risk plans in 3,069 of the 3,112 U
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20. Where do elderly veterans obtain care for acute myocardial infarction: Department of Veterans Affairs or Medicare?
OBJECTIVE: To examine Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Medicare hospitalizations for elderly veterans with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), their use of cardiac procedures in both systems, and patient mortality. DATA SOURCES: Merging of inpatient discharge abstracts obtained from VA Patient Treatment Files (PTF) and Medicare MedPAR Part A files. STU
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21. Differences in the structure of CAHPS measures among the medicare fee-for-service, medicare managed care, and privately insured populations.
OBJECTIVE: To confirm in a new population, the Medicare fee-for-service population, the factor structure previously found in two Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) field-test surveys with Medicare HMO and adult privately insured populations. DATA SOURCES: Primary data were collected in the fall of 1998. Survey responses from the Medicare Fee-f
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22. The fairness of the PPS reimbursement methodology.
In FY 1984 the Medicare program implemented a new method of reimbursing hospitals for inpatient services, the Prospective Payment System (PPS). Under this system, hospitals are paid a predetermined amount per Medicare discharge, which varies according to certain patient and hospital characteristics. This article investigates the presence of systematic biases
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23. Out-of-pocket health spending by poor and near-poor elderly Medicare beneficiaries.
OBJECTIVE: To estimate out-of-pocket health care spending by lower-income Medicare beneficiaries, and to examine spending variations between those who receive Medicaid assistance and those who do not receive such aid. DATA SOURCES AND COLLECTION: 1993 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) Cost and Use files, supplemented with data from the Bureau of the
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24. Substitutability among different types of care under Medicare.
The question of whether Medicare coverage of outpatient services, nursing home care, and home health care reduced the use of short-term hospitals by Medicare beneficiaries, and whether reduced hospital use saved the Medicare program money, is reexamined by use of a simultaneous-equations model estimated by the two-stage least-squares method. It is argued tha