Reasons for not having a health insurance
OTHINS42 For Other Insurance Reasons JOBRSN42 For Job-Related Reasons NEWDOC42 Is Looking for a Doctor DOCELS42 Doctor is Located Elsewhere NOLIKE42 Does Not Like Doctor HEALTH42 Health-Related Rea…
Reasons for not having a health insurance
- OTHINS42 For Other Insurance Reasons
- JOBRSN42 For Job-Related Reasons
- NEWDOC42 Is Looking for a Doctor
- DOCELS42 Doctor is Located Elsewhere
- NOLIKE42 Does Not Like Doctor
- HEALTH42 Health-Related Reasons
- KNOWDR42 The Person Knows or is a Doctor
- ONJOB42 Works with Medical Personnel
- NOGODR42 Person Will Not Go to the Doctor
- TRANS42 The Person Had Problems Finding Transportation or Time
- CLINIC42 The Person Goes to a Hospital, Clinic, or Emergency Room
- NOHINS42 No Health Insurance
Email motherhealth@gmail.com for your reasons of not having a health insurance. Cost and save money for other use is not included from the list above. When I was young, it did not bother me to have no health insurance. But I heard stories of medical emergencies and lack of health insurance that put others for bankruptcy. I chose a group of doctors where I can receive email from my doctor for answers to additional questions I was not able to ask during the visit. I received my lab tests via my email and soon will create a history of my health since I did not create one early on.
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Depressed mood assessment
These questions assess the person’s non-specific psychological distress during the past 30 days. The non-specific psychological distress variables are as follows:
- ADNERV42 – During the past 30 days, felt nervous
- ADHOPE42 – During the past 30 days, felt hopeless C-63 MEPS HC-171
- ADREST42 – During the past 30 days, felt restless or fidgety
- ADSAD42 – During the past 30 days, felt so sad that nothing could cheer the person up ADEFRT42 – During the past 30 days, felt that everything was an effort
- ADWRTH42 – During the past 30 days, felt worthless Kessler Index (K6)
A summary of the six variables above provides an index to measure non-specific, rather than disorder-specific, psychological distress, using the following values:
- 0 None of the Time
- 1 A Little of the Time
- 2 Some of the Time
- 3 Most of the Time
- 4 All of the Time
The index, called K6SUM42, is a summation of the values of the six variables above. The higher the value of K6SUM42, the greater the person’s tendency towards mental disability. Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-2) The 2014 SAQ includes two additional mental health questions.
These questions assess the frequency of the person’s depressed mood and decreased interest in usual activities.
- ADINTR42 – During the past two weeks, bothered by having little interest or pleasure in doing things
- ADDPRS42 – During the past two weeks, bothered by feeling down, depressed, or hopeless
- PHQ242 is a summation of the values of the two variables above, with scores ranging from 0 through 6.
The higher the value of PHQ242, the greater the person’s tendency towards depression. Kroenke et al. (2004) suggest a score of 3 as the optimal cut point for screening purposes.
Note that these items are intended as a screening measure for depression and are not equivalent to a DSM-V diagnosis of depression. Attitudes about Health The SAQ included four questions that ascertain certain health-related attitudes. Two items (ADINSA42 and ADINSB42) deal with attitudes toward health insurance.
The other two questions (ADRISK42 and ADOVER42) deal with attitudes that might influence decisions to purchase health insurance or to use health services.
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- C-64 MEPS HC-171 ADINSA42 – Do not need health insurance
- ADINSB42 – Health insurance is not worth the money it costs
- ADRISK42 – More likely to take risks than the average person
- ADOVER42 – Can overcome illness without help from a medically trained person
Teen suicide health data
Data collection gaps Suicide data systems should add missing key variables or data elements (e.g., sociodemographics, mechanism of injury) to existing nonfatal data systems to enhance their usefuln…
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Teen suicide health data
Teen suicide health data
Data collection gaps
- Suicide data systems should add missing key variables or data elements (e.g., sociodemographics, mechanism of injury) to existing nonfatal data systems to enhance their usefulness.
- Medical records should include external cause coding (a data element needed to identify suicide attempts) as a requirement for reimbursement by insurance carriers
- Systems should capture “real-time” information on hospital emergency visits to improve the monitoring of trends in suicidal behavior.
- All States should be encouraged to include nonfatal suicidal behavior (suicide attempts) by youth 12 to 17 years of age as a health condition to be reported to the State health department.
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More than 42,000 Americans die from suicide each year. It’s the 10th leading cause of death in the United States and the second leading cause of death in youth (10 to 24 years of age) and young adults (25 to 34 years of age), claiming the lives of 12,073 individuals in these age brackets in 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Risk factors such as depression, other mental disorders, and substance use, along with precipitating events such as relationship loss or disruption; and environmental circumstances like barriers to accessing mental health treatment, can contribute to suicidal behavior.
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Red light tickets thrown out in San Mateo County
Red light tickets thrown out in San Mateo: City to reimburse 948 tickets issued over 45 days because cameras, signals in violation of new state laws November 11, 2015, 05:00 AM By Samantha Weigel D…
Red light tickets thrown out in San Mateo County
Red light tickets thrown out in San Mateo: City to reimburse 948 tickets issued over 45 days because cameras, signals in violation of new state laws November 11, 2015, 05:00 AM By Samantha Weigel Daily Journal
Nearly 1,000 drivers who received a ticket for running a red light in San Mateo will be given a free pass after two of the city’s red light cameras and traffic signals were found to be in violation of new state laws.
The police department will toss out 948 tickets issued between Aug. 1 and Oct. 15 after a San Mateo County Superior Court judge sided with a Burlingame man who received a ticket and sparked an NBC Bay Area investigation.
Carrying a hefty $540 fine, the city will dismiss $511,920 worth of tickets after staff failed to increase the yellow light times per new regulations in the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
The city maintains three cameras, two along Hillsdale Boulevard and one at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Humboldt Street, which police say were set to provide a yellow light time of 3.4 seconds — .2 seconds above the state’s previous minimum but lower than the new 3.7 requirement.
An investigation sparked by Andre Clemente, who decided to fight against a ticket he received in January for rolling through the intersection at Hillsdale Boulevard and Saratoga Drive, ultimately resulted in the city admitting it failed to update its system.
“Even though we coordinate with public works to routinely update the system and calibrate them, somehow it was missed,” said police Sgt. Rick Decker. “Because we care about the integrity of the program, we made a decision to refund all those tickets.”
San Mateo police argue Clemente’s ticket was issued prior to the new law and their records indicate the cameras were in compliance at the time.
However, the department does acknowledge two of the city’s three lights were not updated nor was a traffic study conducted that would have allowed them to calibrate the system based on the average speed of 85 percent of drivers at the intersections.
Clemente, with the help of NBC’s Investigative team and Los Angeles resident Jay Beeber, who advocated for the new law, claim a video of the Burlingame man’s ticket shows the yellow lights were set to just 3.066 seconds, below the former 3.2-second minimum.
Ultimately, a judge dismissed Clemente’s ticket but didn’t provide a definitive answer as to why, according to the NBC report.
Chastised for failing to investigate the rationale behind the dismissed ticket, San Mateo police said they would work to follow up on any future legal snafus.
“Going forward, what we’d like to do is have at least some notification from the courts if a red light citation was dismissed and why it was dismissed. It just goes back to preserving the integrity of the program, but that also depends on whether the judge explains [their] decision,” Decker said.
San Mateo is not the first to be caught running a flawed red light program. South San Francisco had to reimburse nearly 3,000 tickets in 2010 because of an administrative error before the city opted to do away with the cameras last year. San Carlos, Burlingame, Belmont and Redwood City also nixed their red light camera programs for various reasons between 2010 and 2013.
Beeber said he was pleased San Mateo police chose to rectify the faulty tickets, however, there’s more to be considered.
“The problem is that instead of looking at what do we really need to do to make the intersection safe, it’s the rush to ticket people,” Beeber said. “You can improve safety by doing proper engineering as opposed to ticketing thousands and thousands of people. If you set the yellow light timing properly, you have fewer red light violations,” Beeber said.
Prior to installing the cameras in 2005, few accidents were recorded at the San Mateo intersections and most of the tickets issued by the cameras are to drivers turning right at a red light — as was the case with Clemente, Beeber said.
Beeber said the $540 tickets are often out of proportion with the majority of the right-turn violations, which are akin to driving a mile or two over the speed limit, and can quickly snowball into disastrous impacts on those who may already be struggling to make ends meet.
“It’s a huge burden and it’s a social justice issue,” Beeber said noting those who don’t pay the fines risk losing their license and means to get to work. “They lose their ability to make an income all because they slowly crossed a red light.”
Yet San Mateo police insist the cameras, now in their 10th year, are strategically set up to protect the public and ensure compliance with the law.
“The biggest thing for us is this is first and foremost a safety program, not a revenue generating program; we get around 30 percent of [the fines]. It was more important for the integrity of the program to be preserved. We had that error, so that’s why we made the decision to refund those tickets,” Decker said.
Police Lt. Dave Norris and Decker emphasized Clemente’s red light violation occurred while the camera’s were in compliance with state law.
Decker said tests done before and after Clemente’s Jan. 13 ticket showed the yellow lights were not only in compliance with the state’s 3.2 second law, they offered 3.4 seconds before switching from green to red.
Once aware of the problem, the city immediately shut down enforcement for two days to audit and correct the light timing, reversed the 948 citations and put measures in place to ensure the problem wouldn’t be repeated, Norris said.
“We at the city of San Mateo don’t define ourselves by the problems we encounter,” Norris wrote in an email. “We define ourselves by what we do when encountering problems.”
samantha@smdailyjournal.com
