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Scientists at Washington University describe research in health insurance in adolescents
Published in Health Insurance Week, January 18th, 2009
Investigators publish new data in the report 'Health insurance discontinuities among adolescents leaving foster care.' In this recent article published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, scientists in the United States conducted a study "To determine whether adolescents who lose Medicaid entitlements when they leave foster care are subsequently able to secure employer-sponsored or student health insurance coverage. This was a 2-year follow-up study of a cohort of 404 adolescents leaving foster care in eight counties in a midwestern state."
"We conducted survival analysis to study predictors of time to first insurance loss, and logistic regression analysis to...
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