KFF designs, conducts and analyzes original public opinion and survey research on Americans’ attitudes, knowledge, and experiences with the health care system to help amplify the public’s voice in major national debates.
This telephone survey of 500 15-25 year-olds who had recently called a toll-free telephone number advertised in Fight For Your Rights safer sex PSAs on MTV and requested a copy of the free informational It’s Your (Sex) Life guide allowed the Foundation to explore how callers assess the phone service and the guide, as well as the impact the campaign has had on their intentions and reported behaviors.
The seventh in a series of fact sheets on topics related to children, media and health pulls together the most relevant research about parents and the media. This fact sheet, focusing on media literacy, defines media literacy, details its role in education (K-12 and beyond), discusses the latest research findings on the effectiveness of media literacy, and includes resources and tips for parents and educators.
This issue brief focuses on one subset of “flexibility” issues: the current federal benefits and cost-sharing rules that apply with respect to acute care.
Two issue briefs discuss the minimum requirements for states to receive federal Medicaid matching funds and the options states have under federal law and waivers to tailor their Medicaid programs.
This brief focuses on one subset of “flexibility” issues: the current federal benefits and cost-sharing rules that apply with respect to long-term care.
The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured’s video Medicaid Matters: Hearing from Families profiles five families who have children covered by Medicaid. These five families reflect the diversity of those helped by Medicaid — families from all over the country of varying races/ethnicities, ages and sizes. Each family also illustrates a particular health care need and shows how Medicaid assists in obtaining needed health care services.
The surveys conducted under this ongoing partnership are designed to gain a deeper understanding of the Hispanic population in the United States. The Pew Hispanic Center is a non-partisan research center supported by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts of Philadelphia. The Center is a project of the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication. Representatives from Pew and Kaiser work together to develop survey questionnaires and analyze results. The two organizations release joint survey reports, however each organization bears sole responsibility for any additional work that appears under its name.
National Survey of Latinos: The Latino Electorate — October 2002The Hispanic electorate is emerging as a distinct presence on the political landscape, demonstrating broad but shallow party loyalty and a mixture of idealogical beliefs and policy positions that defies easy categorization, according to a national survey.
2002 National Survey of Latinos – – December 2002This comprehensive national survey examines how members of the Hispanic community identify themselves, their views of the United States, their experiences with discrimination both within the Latino community itself and from non-Latino groups, their language abilities and preferences, their economic and financial situations and their experiences within the health care system.
Survey Briefs from the 2002 National Survey of Latinos – – March 2004Five survey issue briefs that further examine the findings from the 2002 National Survey of Latinos. Topics include: state differences, generational differences, health care experiences, assimilation and language, and bilingualism.
2004 National Survey of Latinos: Politics and Civic Participation — July 2004This comprehensive survey assesses Latino attitudes in the 2004 election year. The third annual survey of Latinos from the Pew Hispanic Center and the Kaiser Family Foundation, the new survey examines political issues and the presidential election campaign, the economy, health care, Iraq and immigration.
