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Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research | 2001

National estimates of mental health utilization and expenditures for children in 1998

Jeanne S. Ringel; Roland Sturm

No recent national data on expenditures and utilization are available to provide a benchmark for reform of mental health systems for children and adolescents. The most recent estimates, from 1986, predate the dramatic growth of managed care. This study provides updated national estimates. Treatment expenditures are estimated to be


Journal of Public Economics | 1999

Can Higher Cigarette Taxes Improve Birth Outcomes

William N. Evans; Jeanne S. Ringel

11.68 billion (


American Journal of Public Health | 2001

Cigarette Taxes and Smoking During Pregnancy

Jeanne S. Ringel; William N. Evans

172 per child). Adolescents have the highest expenditures at


Annals of Emergency Medicine | 2013

Systematic review of strategies to manage and allocate scarce resources during mass casualty events.

Justin W. Timbie; Jeanne S. Ringel; D. Steven Fox; Francesca Pillemer; Daniel A. Waxman; Melinda Moore; Cynthia K. Hansen; Ann R. Knebel; Richard Ricciardi; Arthur L. Kellermann

293 per child followed by


American Journal of Public Health | 2005

Effects of Public Policy on Adolescents’ Cigar Use: Evidence From the National Youth Tobacco Survey

Jeanne S. Ringel; Jeffrey Wasserman; Tatiana Andreyeva

163 per child aged 6 to 11 and


Health Affairs | 2011

Understanding Disparities In Health Care Access—And Reducing Them—Through A Focus On Public Health

Kathryn Pitkin Derose; Carole Roan Gresenz; Jeanne S. Ringel

35 per preschoolaged child. Outpatient services account for 57%, inpatient for 33%, and psychotropic medications for 9% of the total. Unlike earlier reports, outpatient care now accounts for the majority of expenditures. This finding replicates the differences between recent managed care data and earlier actuarial databases for privately insured adults and confirms the trend from inpatient toward outpatient care.


Health Affairs | 2009

How well did health departments communicate about risk at the start of the swine flu epidemic in 2009

Jeanne S. Ringel; Nicole Lurie

This study uses within-state variation in taxes over the 1989-1992 time period to test whether maternal smoking and birth outcomes are responsive to higher state cigarette taxes. Data on the outcomes of interest are taken from the Natality Detail files, generating a sample of roughly 10.5 million births. The results indicate that smoking participation declines when excise taxes are increased. The elasticity of demand for cigarettes is estimated to be appro- ximately -0.25. In addition, estimates of two-part models suggest that taxes only alter the probability a mother smokes and not average daily consumption conditional on smoking. Reduced-form models also indicate that higher excise taxes translate into higher birth weights. These two sets of results can be used to form an instrumental variables estimate of the impact of smoking on birth weight. This estimate indicates that maternal smoking reduces average birth weight by 367 grams, which is remarkably close to estimates from random assignment clinical trials. It is important to note that as a policy tool to improve birth outcomes, cigarette taxes are a blunt instrument. Taxes will be imposed on all smokers, but the benefits received and costs imposed extend beyond the targeted population. Under the naive assumption that the only benefits of the tax are received in the form of improved birth outcomes, we find that an increase in the cigarette tax is not as cost effective in preventing low birth weight as other more targeted public policies such as the Medicaid expansions of the late 1980s.


Health Services Research | 2010

Modeling Health Care Policy Alternatives

Jeanne S. Ringel; Christine Eibner; Federico Girosi; Amado Cordova; Elizabeth A. McGlynn

OBJECTIVES This study sought to estimate how changes in state cigarette excise taxes affect the smoking behavior of pregnant women. METHODS Detailed information about mothers and their pregnancy was used to examine the impact of taxes on the propensity of pregnant women to smoke. The 1989 to 1995 Natality Detail Files were used in conducting analyses to assess the impact of taxes on smoking among different subpopulations. RESULTS Higher cigarette excise taxes reduced smoking rates among pregnant women. A tax hike of


Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness | 2009

Will routine annual influenza prevention and control systems serve the United States well in a pandemic

Jeanne S. Ringel; Melinda Moore; John A. Zambrano; Nicole Lurie

0.55 per pack would reduce maternal smoking by about 22%. Overall, a 10% increase in price would reduce smoking rates by 7%. Estimates for subpopulations suggested that nearly all would be very responsive to tax changes, including the subpopulations with the highest smoking rates. CONCLUSIONS Smoking rates among pregnant women are responsive to tax hikes.


Medical Decision Making | 2010

Bias associated with failing to incorporate dependence on event history in Markov models.

Tanya G. K. Bentley; Karen M. Kuntz; Jeanne S. Ringel

STUDY OBJECTIVE Efficient management and allocation of scarce medical resources can improve outcomes for victims of mass casualty events. However, the effectiveness of specific strategies has never been systematically reviewed. We analyze published evidence on strategies to optimize the management and allocation of scarce resources across a wide range of mass casualty event contexts and study designs. METHODS Our literature search included MEDLINE, Scopus, EMBASE, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Global Health, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, from 1990 through late 2011. We also searched the gray literature, using the New York Academy of Medicines Grey Literature Report and key Web sites. We included both English- and foreign-language articles. We included studies that evaluated strategies used in actual mass casualty events or tested through drills, exercises, or computer simulations. We excluded studies that lacked a comparison group or did not report quantitative outcomes. Data extraction, quality assessment, and strength of evidence ratings were conducted by a single researcher and reviewed by a second; discrepancies were reconciled by the 2 reviewers. Because of heterogeneity in outcome measures, we qualitatively synthesized findings within categories of strategies. RESULTS From 5,716 potentially relevant citations, 74 studies met inclusion criteria. Strategies included reducing demand for health care services (18 studies), optimizing use of existing resources (50), augmenting existing resources (5), implementing crisis standards of care (5), and multiple categories (4). The evidence was sufficient to form conclusions on 2 strategies, although the strength of evidence was rated as low. First, as a strategy to reduce demand for health care services, points of dispensing can be used to efficiently distribute biological countermeasures after a bioterrorism attack or influenza pandemic, and their organization influences speed of distribution. Second, as a strategy to optimize use of existing resources, commonly used field triage systems do not perform consistently during actual mass casualty events. The number of high-quality studies addressing other strategies was insufficient to support conclusions about their effectiveness because of differences in study context, comparison groups, and outcome measures. Our literature search may have missed key resource management and allocation strategies because of their extreme heterogeneity. Interrater reliability was not assessed for quality assessments or strength of evidence ratings. Publication bias is likely, given the large number of studies reporting positive findings. CONCLUSION The current evidence base is inadequate to inform providers and policymakers about the most effective strategies for managing or allocating scarce resources during mass casualty events. Consensus on methodological standards that encompass a range of study designs is needed to guide future research and strengthen the evidence base. Evidentiary standards should be developed to promote consensus interpretations of the evidence supporting individual strategies.

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