[Brownbag] Demography Special Presentation: Martha Bailey

[Monique Verrier]

******Demography Department Special Presentation*******

Visiting Professor Martha Bailey from the Economics Department at the 
University of Michigan will give a special seminar at the Demography 
Department on Monday, January 31 at 3pm in the Demography seminar room at 
2232 Piedmont Avenue. Professor Bailey will present, "The Impact of 
Neighborhood Health Centers on the Mortality of Older Americans: Evidence 
from the War on Poverty." Please see the abstract below.

Thanks,

Monique


Abstract: Under the War on Poverty, the U.S. experimented with the public 
provision of health care through the Neighborhood Health Center (NHC) 
program.  NHCs were intended to complement Medicare and Medicaid by 
reducing nonfinancial barriers and providing more continuous care than 
traditional hospital out-patient services.  We use newly-entered data from 
Public Health Center reports on the roll-out of NHCs to evaluate their 
impact on mortality rates by cause, sex and race among Americans ages 50 
and over.  Our preliminary results show that NHCs reduced 
cerebrovascular-related mortality rates in all age groups and 
cardiovascular-related mortality among those ages 65 to 79. The effects 
are slightly larger (but not significantly so) among men and significantly 
larger among whites.



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Monique M. Verrier
Student Services Advisor
Department of Demography
University of California, Berkeley
tel: (510) 642-9800  FAX: (510) 643-8558
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