[Brownbag] TODAY--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 today (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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