Databases for Estimating Health Insurance Coverage for Children : A Workshop Summary Paperback / softback

This report summarizes the proceedings of a workshop convened in June 2010 to critically examine the various databases that could provide national and state-level estimates of low-income uninsured children and could be effectively used as criteria for monitoring children's health insurance coverage. Table of ContentsFront MatterPart I: Workshop Summary1 Introduction2 The Changing Policy Context3 Federal Surveys4 Administrative Databases5 State Data Collections6 Modeling Strategies for Improving Estimates7 Looking AheadReferencesPart II: Background Papers8 Monitoring Children's Health Insurance Coverage Under CHIPRAUsing Federal Surveys--Genevieve Kenney and Victoria Lynch9 Health Insurance Coverage in the American Community Survey: AComparison to Two Other Federal Surveys--Joanna Turner and MichelBoudreaux10 Income and Poverty Measurement in Surveys of Health InsuranceCoverage--John L.

Czajka11 Using Uninsured Data to Track State CHIP Programs--JohnMcInerney12 The Massachusetts Experience: Using Survey Data to EvaluateState Health Care Reform--Sharon K.

Long13 Small-Domain Estimation of Health Insurance Coverage--BrettO'Hara and Mark BauderAppendix A: Workshop Agenda and ParticipantsAppendix B: Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee MembersCommittee on National Statistics