Center for Health Care and Policy Research (CHCPR)
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Featured Research: State Medicaid Expansions and Health Care Coverage of Immigrant Adults
Dr. Daphne Hernandez, assistant professor of human development and family studies, has received a $75,000, twenty-five-month grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) through the New Connections program to study immigrants' health insurance.
Hernandez is analyzing data that should provide a sense of how effective expanded state coverage is in providing increased health care coverage. She is working with data from two major surveys, the New Immigrant Survey (NIS) and the 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS). NIS, administered through Princeton University, targeted 12,500 immigrants and reported on individual and demographic data, such as education level, difficulty of visa process, family structure, English language proficiency, household income, and region of origin. CPS, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, provides state-by-state data on health insurance coverage. Click Here For More