Browsing by Author "Xu, Yi"

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    The impact of mandatory insurance coverage of preventive cancer screenings on consumers
    (2013-08) Xu, Yi
    This work seeks to understand the association between state and federal mandatory health insurance benefits and utilization of several preventive cancer screenings and the induced income transfers among consumers. The specific aims are: (1) to estimate the effect of state and federal mandated benefits of preventive care on use of cancer screenings; (2) to estimate how non-price barriers relate to compliance with screenings; (3) to quantify the income transfers induced by mandated coverage. The project studies two samples of beneficiaries: a sample of privately insured adults under age 65 are analyzed for utilization of cervical, prostate and colorectal cancer screenings respectively; another sample of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries who are 65 years of age and older are analyzed for consumption of prostate and colorectal cancer screenings. Overall, the findings suggest that mandated coverage does not increase consumption of preventive care among privately insured adults, either in aggregate or for different demographic subgroups. Medicare coverage of prostate and colorectal cancer screenings are associated with increased fee-for-service claims billed for these services. Coverage mandates do result in income transfers from disadvantaged non-users to relatively well-off users of preventive care. Some non-price social determinants are associated with large redistributive effects, including being an Asian, less educated, lack of English proficiency and lack of usual source of care, and living in isolated areas without adequate physician supply.
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    Safe Routes to School: Chaska Community Center and School Complex
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2016) Olson, Katelyn; Wolfe, Alyssa; Wersal, Courtney; Hussein, Hussein; Gordon, Riley; Shitta, Kirubel; Grapentin, Chris; Hintsala, Savannah; Bergerson, Justin; Yip, Koon Yin; Cao, Angela; Adam, Yunis; Hei, Lanie; Schnettler, Jena; Xu, Yi; Thomson, Emma; Stroming, Austin; Nadeau, Derek; Camilli, Logan
    This project was completed as part of the 2015-2016 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with Carver County. In 2011, Carver County completed a traffic study of the intersection of CSAH 10 and State Highway 41. This intersection is adjacent to a campus that includes three schools and the Chaska Community Center. The goal of this project was to develop recommendations to provide safer bicycle and pedestrian routes to the schools and community center from surrounding residential neighborhoods. Project lead Bill Monk from the City of Chaska collaborated with four groups of students in CEGE 3201: Introduction to Transportation Engineering, to develop a set of recommendations, which included installing raised crosswalks, developing a new school bus corral, and altering bus and automobile routes within the campus. The students' aggregated final report is available.