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January 9, 2007: A Semimonthly Update on New Publications, Presentations, and Other Developments
In This Issue:
Children's Emotional and Behavioral Disorders: Not All Parents Satisfied with Coverage
New Brief Profiles Longest-Running Statewide Marriage Initiative in the U.S.
TANF at 10 Issue Brief Outlines Welfare Reform Choices in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania
National Hospital Discharge Survey: Article Tracks Trends in Lung Surgery
Fact to Consider:
Oklahoma operates the only statewide marriage initiative in the U.S. and, since 1999, has been making marriage education free and accessible to all groups in the state. Source: See below.
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Publications
Children with Special Health Care Needs
 "Treating Emotional and Behavioral Disorders in Children and Adolescents." Quality Care for Special Kids: Profiles of Children with Chronic Conditions and Disabilities #3. Shanna Shulman, Henry Ireys, and Stephanie Peterson, December 2006. This brief, the third in a series on critical issues involved in caring for children with special health care needs, notes that 40 percent of these children enrolled in commercial health plans need treatment for emotional or behavioral disorders. Although health plans have been working to ensure that effective treatments are covered, 11 percent of parents are dissatisfied with the health benefits their children receive.
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Marriage Education and Support
 "The Oklahoma Marriage Initiative: An Overview of the Longest-Running Statewide Marriage Initiative in the U.S." M. Robin Dion, December 2006. This new brief—the first in a series—profiles the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative, a pioneering effort to support healthy marriage that began in 1999, before the current national focus on marriage education and support. Oklahoma's program is also the only statewide marriage initiative in the country. The brief explores the origins, implementation, and goals of this public-private collaboration. To provide information to other entities implementing similar initiatives, future briefs will identify lessons learned by Oklahoma, including the obstacles it faced and the strategies used to address them.
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TANF at 10 In the Tri-State Region
 "TANF at 10: Welfare Reform in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania." Trends in Welfare-to-Work #9. Robert G. Wood and Justin Wheeler, January 2007. When TANF was created in 1996, the program imposed new requirements on states to compel welfare recipients to work and place time limits on their benefits. It also offered states substantial flexibility in meeting these federal requirements. As we enter TANF’s second decade, it is useful to examine what approaches states have taken to meeting these requirements and how their policy choices may have influenced their TANF outcomes. This issue brief examines TANF policy options and implementation in three states: New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. It also examines how states’ policy choices may have influenced the proportion of TANF recipients in work activities and the size and timing of their caseload declines.
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Trends in Lung Surgery
 "Trends in Lung Surgery, United States 1988 to 2002." Stavros G. Memtsoudis, Melanie C. Besculides, Lambros Zellos, Namrata Patil, and Selwyn O. Rogers. Chest, vol. 130, November 2006. The authors examine temporal changes in the demographics of lung resections by analyzing nationally representative data collected for the National Hospital Discharge Survey from 1988 to 2002. Changes in the prevalence of procedures, age, gender, race, length of care, mortality, disposition status, and distribution by hospital size were evaluated, and trends in procedure-related complications were analyzed. The authors note increases in the average age, proportion of patients who were female, and proportion of Medicare/Medicaid patients. Decreases in the average length of stay and in the proportion of patients discharged to their primary residence were also observed. These findings may help in the development of policies to address the changing needs of and financial burdens on the health care system.
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