Provincial spending on drugs increases, says University of Toronto study
... coverage, especially for individuals who have low incomes and households that do not qualify for public benefits and do not have access to employment-related insurance. The reality is that the growing number of people taking these drugs means growing costs and we have to think about issues of accessibility ...No evidence that large numbers of physicians are leaving California, say UCSF researchers
...for specialists, California physicians have median incomes ranging from $120,000 to $250,000. These are comparable to those reported for physicians nationwide and well above $33,000, the mean income for California." The report also includes a synopsis of demographic and medical training data: Most Californ......itional jobs are still associated with more stable incomes and availability of pension and health care plans,...or force are more likely than whites to have lower incomes and temporary jobs and to report poorer health status. They are two-thirds more likely than whites t...California labor market is strong, but workers in poor health don't benefit, UCSF study reports
...ket, job loss, short job tenures and poverty-level incomes remain common among some of California's workers, ...t 1.4 million) are in families that have household incomes less than 125 percent of the federal poverty level, despite their employment. Surprisingly, almost h......P) provides insurance to children of families with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid, but too low to afford private health insurance. SCHIP is a state/federal partnership that gives states three options for covering uninsured children: designing a new children's health insurance program; expanding cu...Study: crime, lack of PE, recreation programs lead U.S. adolescents to couch-potato lifestyles
...udy found. Adolescents whose families enjoy higher incomes and whose mothers are better educated tend to be more physically active than others are. "When we started this research, we were looking at the critical problem of obesity facing our country," said Dr. Penny Gordon-Larsen, Dannon Institute postdoct...UCSF study finds many areas in California have a dentist shortage
...ave a higherpercentage of minorities, lower median incomes and a higher percentage ofchildren. While there are a number of statewide programs aimed at increasingaccess to dental care, few of them work to place dentists in underserved areas,according to the study authors. "There is a mal-distribution of denti...Hormone replacement therapy use limited
...undecided about HRT were more likely to have lower incomes and to be less satisfied with information about menopause and HRT they had received from their health care providers than women who had made their decision for or against HRT. The majority of the undecided reported they had just begun menopause. O...Elderly less likely than other adults to have economic problems
... to have higher household incomes than single people. However, even when comparing a married couple to a single, widowed or divorced person with the same income and the same number of children, the study found...Poor health is a major factor for early retirement, according to UCSF researchers
...re partially or completely retired reporthousehold incomes below 125 percent the poverty level. Pensions and Social Security are the main sources of income for currentretirees, with a third of those completely retired citing each as their largestsource of income. Comparing older Californians ages 45-70 t...Study: moms' depression hurts kids' development
...el of depression." Also, women with higher incomes and other advantages were moreresponsive and played better with their children despite their depressionpossibly because they were less stressed, she said. Income made no difference insensitivity and responsiveness among mothers who were not depressed......ll off because 64 percent of them reported monthly incomes of $1,500 or less. While the study clearly shows how effective low-income parents inencouraging their children, Robinson believes high-achieving children are atrisk for not fully developing if society doesn't take an active role inproviding ...Senior volunteering indicates well-being
.... However, volunteers in poor health and with low incomes alsohad higher levels of well-being than their counterparts who did notvolunteer. The research also was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Related World Wide Web sites: The following sites provide additionalinformation on this new...One in seven adolescents still doesn't have health insurance
...me from poor and "nearpoor" families -- those with incomes below 200 percent of the poverty level.Such families are six times more likely than more affluent families to have nohealth coverage for their teens. Hispanics were the least likely to be covered, followed by blacks. The South andthe West had the l...Age, ethnicity, income impact exercise habits of elderly
...activity than males. African-American males, with incomes of more than $1,000 amonth, had the greatest confidence in their ability to engage in physicalactivity among all the participants. Individuals who received encouragement to exercise by family, friends anddoctors had greater confidence in their abil...Hospital study shows more patients could qualify for free care coverage
...ls arereimbursed out of state free-care funds have incomes within the guidelines forsuch care, according to a...d that the great majority of bad-debt patients had incomes that would havemade them eligible for state-sponsored free care or Medicaid. The report was writte...Well-adjusted moms have healthy births
... facility. Half the womenreported annual household incomes of $20,000 or less. Their average age was 26years. Eighty-two percent of the Hispanics had been born outside the UnitedStates. When the women reached the early third trimester of pregnancy, researchersadministered questionnaires and conducted interv...Success of plasma centers could hurt Red Cross, study finds
...r plasmaare more likely to come from families with incomes of at least $50,000 and aremore likely to be employed in part-time jobs than other college students. Therealso were more male paid donors than female. "I would have bet that the poorest students would have the highest ratesof paid donation," ...Quality Parenting Helps Kids Cope With Inner-City Stress
...the students in both groups came from familieswith incomes below the poverty level. The researchers interviewed both groups of parents using a structuredinterview designed to elicit such factors as the child's temperament, theparents' attitudes and approach toward parenting, and the support thechildren recei......ipating and non-participating womenwhose household incomes were a little less than double the 1988 poverty line.The study data were obtained from the 1988 National Maternal and Infant HealthSurvey, which contained measures of program participation during pregnancy andinfancy. "WIC intervention during...