成人直播 faculty member Ron Deprez presents research on health reform at two research conferences
Dr. Ron Deprez of the 成人直播 Center for Health Policy Planning and Research (part of the Center for Community and Public Health) recently presented two research papers on health reform in the US. The first paper "Achieving Universal Coverage Through Comprehensive Health Reform: The Vermont Experience" was presented on November 5th at the 31st Annual Research Conference of the American Public Policy Analysis and Management Association (APPAM) held in Washington D.C . Dr. Deprez's presentation was one of four papers selected for a panel entitled Using State Evidence to Inform State and National Health Policy organized by the State Health Access Reform Evaluation program (SHARE) of the University of Minnesota. His paper presented preliminary results of the Center's larger study on the effectiveness of Vermont Act 191 in providing universal access to comprehensive, affordable health insurance coverage. This study is being funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
On November 11th Dr. Deprez presented a research paper on "Access to Care in Pennsylvania: The Impact of Health Reform" at the 137th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association in Philadelphia, PA. At this meeting he presented the results of the Center's evaluation for the Pennsylvania Department of Health Insurance on the impact of state comprehensive insurance reforms on private and public health insurance coverage before and after state health reform. Both papers were the work of study teams headed by Dr. Deprez that included staff at Center as well as experts from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Market Decisions of Portland, Maine and Policy Integrity, Inc. of Montpelier, VT.