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News From Mathematica
February 15, 2006: A Semimonthly Update on New Publications, Presentations, and Other Developments
In This Issue:
Enhancing Disease Surveillance Programs in the Future
Best Practices for Enrolling Low-Income Groups in Medicare Part D
Kith and Kin Caregivers: Presentation at Upcoming Policy Symposium
On the Move: Staff News and Changes
Fact to Consider:
Chronic hepatitis registries helped measure the burden of disease and identify geographic areas affected, such as some urban communities and Native American reservations. Source: See below.
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New Publications
Disease Surveillance
 "Surveillance Programs for Chronic Viral Hepatitis in Three Health Departments." Douglas T. Fleming, Amy Zambrowski, Felicia Fong, Andrea Lombard, Lynne Mercedes, Claudia Miller, Jan Poujade, Aaron Roome, Amy Sullivan, and Lyn Finelli. Public Health Reports, January/February 2006. Although chronic hepatitis B and chronic hepatitis C are diseases of public health importance, only a few health departments nationally have these diseases under surveillance. This evaluation describes how these programs operate and provides lessons that can guide other health departments. The authors note that finding ways to overcome barriers such as resource constraints, privacy concerns, and difficulties confirming chronic infection, in addition to improving case management, will help these programs realize their full potential.
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Minimizing Medicare Enrollment Barriers  "Evaluation Design: Best Practices for Enrolling Low-Income Beneficiaries into the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program." Beth Stevens, Leslie Foster, James M. Verdier, Debra Lipson, Margaret Gerteis, Shanna Shulman, Mary Laschober, Sibyl Day, and Kristen Kiefer, December 2005. The new Medicare Part D benefit, which began on January 1, 2006, expanded Medicare to include prescription drugs, and it required beneficiaries to change how they interact with the program. Past experience with low enrollment in a variety of programs designed to aid low-income Medicare beneficiaries suggests that there will be significant barriers to enrolling them into the Low-Income Subsidy (LIS) and Part D plans and getting them tso make choices among different plan options. This report presents the evaluation framework, methods of data collection, and analytic strategies for identifying best practices—and the factors that contribute to their effectiveness—for the successful enrollment of all types of low-income Medicare beneficiaries into the LIS and Part D programs.
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Upcoming Presentation
 Senior researcher Diane Paulsell will be presenting "The Enhanced Home Visiting Pilot Project: How Early Head Start Programs Are Reaching Out to Kith and Kin Caregivers" at the National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies Policy Symposium on February 21 to 25 in Washington, DC. This demonstration project includes 23 sites that are providing services to families using kith and kin (or neighbor, friend, and family) care for their children.
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On the Move: Staff News and Changes
 Senior vice president and chief strategy officer David Myers has been appointed to the advisory board of the newly formed Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. The organization, funded with a start-up grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, grew out of the movement, in government and academic circles, to prod schools to use practices and programs that have demonstrated their effectiveness through scientifically based research. The group is planning to publish a scholarly journal and a handbook compiling education studies that it considers exemplary. Read more.
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For more information, please contact Publications, 609-275-2350.
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