Example sentences for: foreign-born

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  • Results of the multivariable regression modeling (Table 1) suggest that, controlling for time and a state's foreign-born population, percentage of teaching hospitals, and implementation decision, a 1% increase in a state's uninsured population yields a 4.1% increase in the amount of uncompensated care provided ( P < .001).

  • State-level data on the percentage of the population uninsured and the percentage of the population comprised of foreign-born noncitizens were obtained from the 2000 Current Population Survey, March Supplement, a detailed description of which is available elsewhere [ 21 ] . Because the Medicare program covers virtually all Americans aged 65 and older, data on insurance coverage rates among nonelderly populations were used.

  • Controlling for all other variables, a 1% increase in the log of a state's foreign-born population yields a 2.2% increase in uncompensated care, though this result was only significant at the .10 level.

  • Measured at the state level, hospital uncompensated care expenditures were not statistically significantly related to percentage foreign-born, percentage of teaching hospitals, or states' implementation decisions; in our model, higher uninsurance rates emerged as the only significant predictor of uncompensated hospital care expenditures.

  • Both the dependent variable - uncompensated care per admission - and percentage foreign-born were used in log form due to nonnormal distributions revealed in exploratory analyses.


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