Measuring the impact of outreach and enrollment strategies for public health insurance in California.

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OBJECTIVE AND STUDY SETTING: To evaluate the effectiveness of different approaches to outreach on public health insurance enrollment in 25 California counties with a Children's Health Initiative.

Data source

Administrative enrollment databases.

Study design

The use of eight enrollment strategies were identified in each quarter from 2001 to 2007 for each of 25 counties (county quarter). Strategies were categorized as either technology or nontechnology. New enrollments were obtained for Medi-Cal, Healthy Families, and Healthy Kids. Bivariate and multivariate analyses assessed the link between each strategy and new enrollments rates of children.

Data collection

Methods Surveys of key informants determined whether a specific outreach strategy was used in

SUBMITTER: Cousineau MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3037785 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature