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Heroic Nurse – the Last Surviving 'Angel of Bataan and Corregidor' – Passes Away
Mildred Dalton Manning, the last surviving member of a group of U.S. Army and Navy nurses taken prisoner in the Philippines at the start of ...
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North Carolina Covering Kids & Families (TM)
Exploring Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment Trends and Their Links to Policy and Practice
This case study explains the trends in new Medicaid and SCHIP enrollment in North Carolina from 1999 into 2004. In particular, the authors were interested in examining the potential links between new enrollment and major outreach strategies or policy changes that took place in North Carolina at the state and local level, especially those associated with the Covering Kids & Families® (CKF) grant.
Ideally, they would examine such links through a formal impacts analysis that estimates the effect of individual policy changes or outreach efforts on the number of children enrolling in Medicaid or SCHIP. This type of analysis is not possible, however, because many of the outreach efforts and policy changes occurred at the same time. In addition, no state or other geographic area is a defensible comparison group for a more rigorous analysis.
The case study approach, which combines exploratory data analysis with in-depth key informant interviews, allowed them to assess the potential influence that major outreach efforts or policy changes have had on new enrollments.