American Journal of Public Health (Vol. 103, No. 3, March 2013).
February 12, 2013
CAAR – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Report – February 12, 2013
“The Revolving Door: A Report on U.S. Hospital Readmissions,” by Dartmouth Atlas Project and Lake Research Group (February 2013, .pdf format, 56p.).
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CAAR – AARP Public Policy Institute Report, Brief – February 12, 2013
A. “After the Supreme Court Decision: The Implications of Expanding Medicaid for Uninsured Low-Income Midlife Adults,” by Lynda Flowers (February 2013, .pdf format, 9p.).
B. “The Employment Situation, January 2013,” by Sara E. Rix (February 2013, .pdf format, 7p.).
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CAAR – UK Parliamentary Library Research Note – February 12, 2013
“Public service pension reform: devolved administrations,” by Djuna Thurley (SN06545, February 2013, .pdf format, 14p.).
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CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Article – February 12, 2013
A. “Relationship between Plasma Analytes and SPARE-AD Defined Brain Atrophy Patterns in ADNI,” by Jon B. Toledo, Xiao Da, Priyanka Bhatt, David A. Wolk, Steven E. Arnold, Leslie M. Shaw, John Q. Trojanowski, and Christos Davatzikos, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (PLoS ONE 8(2): e55531. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055531, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 10p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0055531
B. “Calorie Restriction Hysteretically Primes Aging Saccharomyces cerevisiae toward More Effective Oxidative Metabolism,” by Erich B. Tahara, Fernanda M. Cunha, Thiago O. Basso, Bianca E. Della Bianca, Andreas K. Gombert, and Alicia J. Kowaltowski (PLoS ONE 8(2): e56388. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0056388, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 11p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0056388
C. “The Pathogenic A{beta}43 Is Enriched in Familial and Sporadic Alzheimer Disease,” by Anna Sandebring, Hedvig Welander, Bengt Winblad, Caroline Graff, and Lars O. Tjernberg (PLoS ONE 8(2): e55847. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055847, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 10p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0055847
D. “Differentiating Non-Motor Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease from Controls and Hemifacial Spasm,” by Ming-Hui Yong, John C. Allen, Kumar M. Prakash, and Eng-King Tan (PLoS ONE 8(2): e49596. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049596, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 7p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0049596
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CAAR – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Article – February 12, 2013
“Wnt5a cooperates with canonical Wnts to generate midbrain dopaminergic neurons in vivo and in stem cells,” by Emma R. Andersson, Carmen Salto, J. Carlos Villaescusa, Lukas Cajanek, Shanzheng Yang, Lenka Bryjova, Irina I. Nagy, Seppo J. Vainio, Carmen Ramirez, Vitezslav Bryja, and Ernest Arenas (Vol. 110, No. 7, February 12, 2013, .pdf and HTML format, p. E602-E610).
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CAAR – University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty Working Paper – February 12, 2013
“Food Stamps, Food Sufficiency, and Diet-Related Disease among the Elderly,” by Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley and Katie Fitzpatrick (DP 1407-13, February 2013, .pdf format, 44p.).
Abstract:
In 2010, more than 2.3 million households (7.9 percent) with an elderly member were food insecure and even more reported some difficulties with obtaining adequate resources for food (Coleman-Jensen et al. 2010). It is widely acknowledged that any food insufficiency contributes to poor health and increases the likelihood of diet-related disease. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly the Food Stamp Program, is the primary nutrition assistance program aimed at reducing food-related hardship. Yet, participation rates for the eligible elderly are estimated at 35 percent (Cunnyngham 2010). This low take-up rate among the elderly and its effects on food insufficiency and diet-related disease is relatively unexplored. This paper uses restricted-use Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data to examine the effect of SNAP participation on reported food insufficiency, health measures, and diet-related disease to better understand potential long-term health consequences of the elderly. To address the endogeneity of the SNAP participation decision and identify the causal effects of SNAP use on the elderly, we instrument for SNAP participation with state and county-level variables related to SNAP outreach, including radio and television advertisements, and state SNAP rules. We find that the causal effect of SNAP participation results in higher levels of preventative health care, some improved diet-related outcomes, but a higher incidence of food distress, which has potential policy implications about the generosity of SNAP benefits for the elderly.
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CAAR – Pensions Institute (Cass Business School, City University of London) [UK] Working Paper – February 12, 2013
“A General Procedure for Constructing Mortality Models,” by Andrew Hunt and David Blake (PI-1301, February 2013, .pdf format, 50p.).
Abstract:
Recently, a large number of new mortality models have been proposed to analyse historic mortality rates and project them into the future. Many of these suffer from being over-parametrised or have terms added in an ad hoc manner which cannot be justified in terms of demographic significance. In addition, poor specification of a model can lead to period effects in the data being wrongly attributed to cohort effects which results in the model making implausible projections. We present a general procedure for constructing mortality models using a combination of a toolkit of functions and expert judgement. By following the general procedure, it is possible to identify sequentially every significant demographic feature in the data and give it a parametric structural form. We demonstrate using UK mortality data that the general procedure produces a relatively parsimonious model that nevertheless has a good fit to the data.
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CAAR – Journal Table of Contents – February 12, 2013
Aging & Mental Health (Vol. 17, No. 2, February 2013).
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