Eugene M Lewit
Biographic Data
| ID | 5132857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eugene M Lewit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eugene M |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewit |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIT E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4733-9269 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Health Insurance for Children
Eugene M. Lewit, Courtney Bennett, Richard E. Behrman, Health Insurance for Children: Analysis and Recommendations, The Future of Children, Vol. 13, No. 1, Health Insurance for Children (Spring, 2003), pp. 4-29
Children in Self-Care
Missing Children
The State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
Between 7 million and 10 million children in the United States lack health insurance. Many of these uninsured children experience difficulty obtaining needed health care.1 To expand health insurance coverage for children, in August 1997, Congress enacted the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) as part of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.2 CHIP, also known as Title XXI of the Social Security Act, offers states new federal funding in th…
Child Indicators
Maintaining good dental health among children in the United States today should be easy: regular tooth brushing, flossing, exposure to fluoride, and attention to good nutrition, together with visits to a dentist twice a year, should be enough to assure that a child rarely suffers the pain of an abscessed tooth, or loses a tooth to severe decay. However, many young children, especially those living in poor families, continue to suffer with mouths …
Price, public policy and smoking in young people
Policies limiting access to tobacco by young people, increasing education about the effects of tobacco use, and a sharp and sustained increase in real cigarette excise taxes are likely to be most successful in accomplishing the US Food and Drug Administration's goal of cutting the smoking prevalence of adolescents in half over the next seven years
Discrepancies in cigarette brand sales and adult market share
Most smokers are brand loyal. Price seems to be an important factor motivating brand switching among adult smokers. It appears that recruitment of new customers among the ranks of non-smokers is necessary for premium cigarette brands such as Marlboro and Camel to maintain sales comparable to previous years
Use of discount cigarettes by smokers in 20 communities in the United States, 1988-1993
The availability of discount/generic cigarettes has made smoking more affordable, which most likely has helped the cigarette industry retain customers sensitive to price, who might have otherwise reduced consumption or stop smoking altogether
Childhood Hunger
Class Size
Population-Based Growth Stunting
Growth stunting, defined as height for age below the fifth percentile on a reference growth curve, is traditionally used as an indicator of nutritional status in children. Growth stunting is a population-based indicator and can indicate the prevalence of malnutrition or nutrition-related disorders among an identified population of children. Among certain segments of the U.S. child population, most notably poor children, growth stunting occurs mor…
Children and Poverty
Children in Special Education
Children as Victims of Violence
Violence against children and youths has always occurred, but it has recently been subject to increased public attention. This heightened attention is spawned by high-profile cases of stranger abductions, sexual assault, child abuse, and homicide, and by statistics suggesting an increase in the number of cases of child victimization. For example, newspapers recently reported that almost twice as many individuals under age 20 (5,500) died from gun…
Homeless Families and Children
Public concern about homelessness in the United States has increased in recent years. A late 1995 Gallup poll found that 86% of Americans feel sympathy for the homeless, and 33% report that they feel more sympathy now than they did five years ago. According to the same poll, one reason for this apparent increase in sympathy is that 17% of Americans, primarily women and young adults, believe that they could become homeless.1 The fact that these gr…
School Readiness
Long-Term Outcomes of Early Childhood Programs
Deanna S. Gomby, Mary B. Larner, Carol S. Stevenson, Eugene M. Lewit, Richard E. Behrman, Long-Term Outcomes of Early Childhood Programs: Analysis and Recommendations, The Future of Children, Vol. 5, No. 3, Long-Term Outcomes of Early Childhood Programs (Winter, 1995), pp. 6-24
The Direct Cost of Low Birth Weight
Medical and technological advances in the care of infants with low birth weight (less than 2,500 grams, or 5 pounds, 8 ounces) and very low birth weight (less than 1,500 grams, or 3 pounds, 5 ounces) have substantially increased the survival rate for these infants and have led to concerns about the demands their care places upon their families and society. The dollar cost of the resources used disproportionately to care for low birth weight child…
Unintentional Injuries
Health Insurance Coverage
Immunization of Young Children
National Bureau of Economic Research. accination is the most important medical intervention to prevent disease. Not only are immunized individuals themselves protected from Vdeveloping a potentially serious illness, but also, if enough of the population is immunized, transmission of the disease in a community may be interrupted.1 This indirect, so-called herd immunity, provides protection even to those who are not themselves immunized. Vaccines h…
Reported Child Abuse and Neglect
Involuntary Smoking and Children's Health
Jonathan M. Samet, Eugene M. Lewit, Kenneth E. Warner, Involuntary Smoking and Children's Health, The Future of Children, Vol. 4, No. 3, Critical Health Issues for Children and Youth (Winter, 1994), pp. 94-114
Race and Ethnicity
Children in Poverty
Eugene M. Lewit, Ph.D., is director of research and grants for economics at the Center for the Future of Children. his T Child Indicators section focuses on children in poverty. The annual Census Bureau report on income and poverty in the United States, issued in September 1992, revealed that 35.7 million people lived in poverty in 1991. Of these impoverished Americans, 13.7 million were children under 18 years of age. During 1991, some 943,000 m…
Children and Poverty
Long-Term Outcomes of Early Childhood Programs
Deanna S. Gomby, Mary B. Larner, Carol S. Stevenson, Eugene M. Lewit, Richard E. Behrman, Long-Term Outcomes of Early Childhood Programs: Analysis and Recommendations, The Future of Children, Vol. 5, No. 3, Long-Term Outcomes of Early Childhood Programs (Winter, 1995), pp. 6-24
The Direct Cost of Low Birth Weight
Medical and technological advances in the care of infants with low birth weight (less than 2,500 grams, or 5 pounds, 8 ounces) and very low birth weight (less than 1,500 grams, or 3 pounds, 5 ounces) have substantially increased the survival rate for these infants and have led to concerns about the demands their care places upon their families and society. The dollar cost of the resources used disproportionately to care for low birth weight child…
School Readiness
Home Visiting
Children in Self-Care
Population-Based Growth Stunting
Growth stunting, defined as height for age below the fifth percentile on a reference growth curve, is traditionally used as an indicator of nutritional status in children. Growth stunting is a population-based indicator and can indicate the prevalence of malnutrition or nutrition-related disorders among an identified population of children. Among certain segments of the U.S. child population, most notably poor children, growth stunting occurs mor…
Homeless Families and Children
Public concern about homelessness in the United States has increased in recent years. A late 1995 Gallup poll found that 86% of Americans feel sympathy for the homeless, and 33% report that they feel more sympathy now than they did five years ago. According to the same poll, one reason for this apparent increase in sympathy is that 17% of Americans, primarily women and young adults, believe that they could become homeless.1 The fact that these gr…
Race and Ethnicity
Children in Foster Care
stitute care, commonly called foster care, is regarded as something of a last resort.1,2 Experts emphasize the need for preventive and rehabilitative services to help keep families together. To preserve families, child welfare agencies may provide a variety of supportive (for example, counseling to help families cope with problems and learn appropriate parenting skills) and supplementary (for example, financial assistance) services to families wi…
Missing Children
Child Indicators
Maintaining good dental health among children in the United States today should be easy: regular tooth brushing, flossing, exposure to fluoride, and attention to good nutrition, together with visits to a dentist twice a year, should be enough to assure that a child rarely suffers the pain of an abscessed tooth, or loses a tooth to severe decay. However, many young children, especially those living in poor families, continue to suffer with mouths …
Childhood Hunger
Involuntary Smoking and Children's Health
Jonathan M. Samet, Eugene M. Lewit, Kenneth E. Warner, Involuntary Smoking and Children's Health, The Future of Children, Vol. 4, No. 3, Critical Health Issues for Children and Youth (Winter, 1994), pp. 94-114
Expenditures on Health Care for Children and Pregnant Women
The chronic health care crisis in the United States is primarily the result of rapidly rising health care costs which leave millions of children and pregnant women without health insurance, with restricted access to health care, and at risk for poor health. A better understanding of the current system is key to any reform effort. The authors analyze estimates of annual expenditures on medical care services for children covering the period from co…
Class Size
Reported Child Abuse and Neglect
Children in Poverty
Eugene M. Lewit, Ph.D., is director of research and grants for economics at the Center for the Future of Children. his T Child Indicators section focuses on children in poverty. The annual Census Bureau report on income and poverty in the United States, issued in September 1992, revealed that 35.7 million people lived in poverty in 1991. Of these impoverished Americans, 13.7 million were children under 18 years of age. During 1991, some 943,000 m…
Managed Care for Children and Pregnant Women
Why Is Poverty Increasing among Children
erhaps the most troubling trend affecting the welfare of children has been the increase in the rate of poverty among children. In 1991, more than one in five children under 18 years of age lived in poverty; and among children under 6 years of age, the poverty rate was 24% (almost one of every four children in this age group was poor).1 In the Winter 1992 issue of The Future of Children, the Child Indicators section focused on how child poverty is…
Teenage Childbearing
Time Utilization of a Population of General Surgeons in a Prepaid Group Practice
Seven general surgeons in a prepaid group practice previously shown to have a mean operative work load of 9.2 hernia equivalents (HE) per week were found to have a standardized mean daytime working week of 56.2 hours, exclusive of evening activities of which 50.7 hours were devoted to professional activities. The surgeons also devoted a mean of 6.7 evening hours per week to professional activities for a mean net professional week of 57.4 hours. C…
A Comparison of Surgical Assisting in a Prepaid Group Practice and a Community Hospital
Previous studies of the work loads and time utilization of general surgeons in two different practice settings suggested that paraprofessional surgical assistants (SAs) could reduce surgeon assisting time and perhaps increase productivity. In order to further assess the potential advantage of using SAs as surgical assistants, the present study examines assisting patterns in a prepaid group practice where SAs are used and in a community hospital w…
Analysis
Expenditures on Health Care for Children and Pregnant Women
The chronic health care crisis in the United States is primarily the result of rapidly rising health care costs which leave millions of children and pregnant women without health insurance, with restricted access to health care, and at risk for poor health. A better understanding of the current system is key to any reform effort. The authors analyze estimates of annual expenditures on medical care services for children covering the period from co…
Teenage Childbearing
Analysis
Dropout Rates for High School Students
n this, the second issue of The Future of Children, we introduce Child Indicators as a regular feature of the journal. Because key statistical indicators provide us with a picture of the well-being of children, we believe those indicators can be an important guide in developing and implementing effective policies. Our main goal is to foster, through review and analysis, a greater appreciation of the implications and limitations of specific indica…
Analysis
Children in Poverty
Eugene M. Lewit, Ph.D., is director of research and grants for economics at the Center for the Future of Children. his T Child Indicators section focuses on children in poverty. The annual Census Bureau report on income and poverty in the United States, issued in September 1992, revealed that 35.7 million people lived in poverty in 1991. Of these impoverished Americans, 13.7 million were children under 18 years of age. During 1991, some 943,000 m…
Managed Care for Children and Pregnant Women
Health Care Reform
Why Is Poverty Increasing among Children
erhaps the most troubling trend affecting the welfare of children has been the increase in the rate of poverty among children. In 1991, more than one in five children under 18 years of age lived in poverty; and among children under 6 years of age, the poverty rate was 24% (almost one of every four children in this age group was poor).1 In the Winter 1992 issue of The Future of Children, the Child Indicators section focused on how child poverty is…
Home Visiting
Children in Foster Care
stitute care, commonly called foster care, is regarded as something of a last resort.1,2 Experts emphasize the need for preventive and rehabilitative services to help keep families together. To preserve families, child welfare agencies may provide a variety of supportive (for example, counseling to help families cope with problems and learn appropriate parenting skills) and supplementary (for example, financial assistance) services to families wi…
Workplace smoking policies in New Jersey businesses
A New Jersey law enacted in 1985 requires smoking policies for work sites with 50 or more employees. In 1988, we surveyed a sample of New Jersey businesses to determine their smoking policies. Eighty-three percent of respondents with 50 or more employees reported implementing restrictive smoking policies. Of respondents with 2 to 49 employees, 35% had implemented policies. Our findings identify some of the factors other than a legal mandate that …
Immunization of Young Children
National Bureau of Economic Research. accination is the most important medical intervention to prevent disease. Not only are immunized individuals themselves protected from Vdeveloping a potentially serious illness, but also, if enough of the population is immunized, transmission of the disease in a community may be interrupted.1 This indirect, so-called herd immunity, provides protection even to those who are not themselves immunized. Vaccines h…
Reported Child Abuse and Neglect
Involuntary Smoking and Children's Health
Jonathan M. Samet, Eugene M. Lewit, Kenneth E. Warner, Involuntary Smoking and Children's Health, The Future of Children, Vol. 4, No. 3, Critical Health Issues for Children and Youth (Winter, 1994), pp. 94-114
Race and Ethnicity
School Readiness
Long-Term Outcomes of Early Childhood Programs
Deanna S. Gomby, Mary B. Larner, Carol S. Stevenson, Eugene M. Lewit, Richard E. Behrman, Long-Term Outcomes of Early Childhood Programs: Analysis and Recommendations, The Future of Children, Vol. 5, No. 3, Long-Term Outcomes of Early Childhood Programs (Winter, 1995), pp. 6-24
The Direct Cost of Low Birth Weight
Medical and technological advances in the care of infants with low birth weight (less than 2,500 grams, or 5 pounds, 8 ounces) and very low birth weight (less than 1,500 grams, or 3 pounds, 5 ounces) have substantially increased the survival rate for these infants and have led to concerns about the demands their care places upon their families and society. The dollar cost of the resources used disproportionately to care for low birth weight child…
Unintentional Injuries
Health Insurance Coverage
Children in Special Education
Medicine (36 works) · Environmental health (22 works) · Psychology (22 works) · Economics (9 works) · Family medicine (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (7 works) · Child health (6 works) · Health care (6 works)