Hunger and overweight in Canadian school-aged children: A propensity score matching analysis

Sentenac, Mariane; Gariépy, Geneviève; McKinnon, Britt; Elgar, Frank J.

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“…In practice, external factors changed between years, for instance, the standard poverty measurements, changes in healthcare prices, and others). For this research, we also used relatively large number of samples as in Sentenac et al (2016).…”

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“…Subsidized health insurance impact among the poor: … In the beginning phase of the PSM method logit model needs to be run (Abadie & Imbens, 2016;Keller & Tipton, 2016;Rickles & Seltzer, 2014;Sentenac et al, 2016). In this paper, the logit models used are based on equations one to six, but we changed each dependent variable with PBI variable.…”

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Subsidized health insurance impact among the poor: Evidence on out-of-pocket health expenditures in Indonesia

Sosodoro,

Ramadhan,

Susamto

2023

JESP

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Universal Health Care (UHC) in Indonesia, named the National Health Insurance (Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional - JKN), has been running since 2014. JKN was predicted to be the most extensive UHC program in the world. Under JKN, the poor get free health services through the cashless method through a sub-program called Contribution Assistance Recipients (Penerima Bantuan Iuran - PBI). Unfortunately, JKN faced several failures to cover the program's expenditures within years. Within the current dynamics, was PBI, as part of JKN still effectively helping the poor? We examined the effectiveness of the PBI program by measuring differences in out-of-pocket health expenditures for the poor with similar socio-economic characteristics who used PBI and those who did not. We incorporated secondary data from National Socio-economic Survey (SUSENAS). The dataset was executed by using Propensity Score Matching (PSM) methodology. We used health expenditures and socio-economic parameters such as income, education, and gender from the 2017 and 2018 SUSENAS data. We found that in 2017, the total health expenditures of the PBI beneficiaries were lower than the non-beneficiaries. Nevertheless, by merging all two years' data, similar to 2018, we found general pattern that PBI participants' total health out-of-pocket payments were bigger than the non-participants. Health expenditures such as medicine, traditional practitioners, and others, were expenditure classifications in which PBI beneficiaries had lower expenses than non-beneficiaries in 2017. Therefore, Therefore, the UHC subsidy program for the poor in Indonesia has not only been ineffective through the years of implementation but also has not been effectively implemented for all variations of health expenditure types.

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Subsidized health insurance impact among the poor: Evidence on out-of-pocket health expenditures in Indonesia

Sosodoro,

Ramadhan,

Susamto

2023

JESP

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The relationship between household food insecurity and overweight or obesity among children and adults in Canada: a population-based, propensity score weighting analysis

Fafard St-Germain,

Hutchinson,

Tarasuk

2024

Appl. Physiol. Nutr. Metab.

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Household food insecurity is independently associated with adverse health outcomes among Canadians, but its association with overweight and obesity is poorly understood partly because of limited attention to confounding. This study assessed the relationship between food insecurity status and overweight/obesity in Canada. Cross-sectional data for individuals aged 2–64 years were drawn from the 2004 and 2015 Canadian Community Health Survey-Nutrition. Overweight/obesity was defined using body mass index calculated with measured height and weight. Food insecurity status was assessed with the 18-item Household Food Security Survey Module. The relationship was examined among preschool children ( n = 2007), girls ( n = 5512), boys ( n = 5507), women ( n = 8317), and men ( n = 7279) using propensity score weighted logistic regressions to control for confounding. Relative to their food-secure counterparts, girls in moderately food-insecure households (39.7% vs. 28.5%), boys in severely food-insecure households (54.4% vs. 35.0%), and women in moderately and severely food-insecure households (58.9% and 73.1% vs. 50.7%) had higher overweight/obesity prevalence; men in moderately food-insecure households had a lower prevalence (48.9% vs. 66.3%). With propensity score weighting, no association existed between food insecurity and overweight/obesity among preschool children, girls, boys, or men. For women, moderate (adjusted odds ratio (AOR): 1.61; 95% confidence interval (95%CI): 1.06–2.47) and severe (AOR: 2.33; 95%CI: 1.22–4.44) food insecurity was positively associated with overweight/obesity; the association was strongest for severe food insecurity and obesity (AOR: 3.38; 95%CI: 1.60–7.16). Additional research is needed to better understand the nature of the relationship among women. Problems of food insecurity and overweight/obesity among Canadian children and men should not be conflated in public health interventions.

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Shielding children from food insecurity and its association with mental health and well-being in Canadian households

Ovenell

Silva

Elgar

2022

Can J Public Health

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Hunger and overweight in Canadian school-aged children: A propensity score matching analysis

Cited by 3 publications

References 27 publications

Subsidized health insurance impact among the poor: Evidence on out-of-pocket health expenditures in Indonesia

Subsidized health insurance impact among the poor: Evidence on out-of-pocket health expenditures in Indonesia

The relationship between household food insecurity and overweight or obesity among children and adults in Canada: a population-based, propensity score weighting analysis

Shielding children from food insecurity and its association with mental health and well-being in Canadian households

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