Helen Halpin Schauffler

Biographic Data

ID5544065
NAMEHelen Halpin Schauffler
GIVEN NAMESHelen Halpin
FAMILY NAMESchauffler
SIGNATURESCHAUFFLER H H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Berkeley
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
H-INDEX1

  • Support for Smoking Cessation Interventions in Physician Organizations: Results From a National Study

    Sara B McMenamin, Helen Halpin Schauffler et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2003References: 26

    OBJECTIVES: To document the extent to which physician organizations, defined as medical groups and independent practice associations, are providing support for smoking cessation interventions and to identify external incentives and organizational characteristics associated with this support. METHODS: This research uses data from the National Study of Physician Organizations and the Management of Chronic Illness, conducted by the University of Cal…

  • Coverage of Tobacco Dependence Treatments for Pregnant Women and for Children and Their Parents

    Jennifer K Ibrahim, Jennifer Ibrahim et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2002Cited by: 1References: 5

    In 2000, 36% of the 32 million Medicaid recipients and 25% of pregnant Medicaid recipients were smokers.1,2 Rates of tobacco use in the general population were considerably lower: 23% of the general population in 20002 and 12% of pregnant women in 1999.3 Helping pregnant women to quit smoking would have enormous health benefits, including reducing tobacco-related spontaneous abortions, rates of low-birthweight infants, admissions to neonatal inte…

  • Variations in treatment benefits influence smoking cessation: Results of a randomised controlled trial

    Helen Halpin Schauffler, Sara B McMenamin et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2001

    Full coverage of a tobacco dependence treatment benefit implemented in two IPA model HMOs in California has been shown to be an effective and relatively low cost strategy for significantly increasing quit rates, quit attempts, and use of nicotine gum and patch in adult smokers

  • Coverage of Tobacco Dependence Treatments for Pregnant Smokers in Health Maintenance Organizations

    Kate E Pickett, Barbara Abrams et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2001Cited by: 1References: 9

    Approximately 13% of pregnant women in the United States smoke,1 with serious health consequences for themselves and their infants.2–7 However, many women make important changes in health behavior when pregnant and approximately 30% of women smokers quit spontaneously early in their pregnancies.8 In June 2000, the US surgeon general released clinical practice guidelines for smoking cessation programs and recommended that “because of the serious r…

  • Differences in the Kinds of Problems Consumers Report in Staff/Group Health Maintenance Organizations, Independent Practice Association/Network Health Maintenance Organizations, and Preferred Provider…

    Helen Halpin Schauffler, Sara B McMenamin et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2001References: 14

    BACKGROUND: Little is known about the extent to which consumers have specific problems with their managed care organizations (MCOs) or whether these problems differ by type of MCO. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence at which consumers in managed care report specific problems and to assess whether rates in preferred provider organizations (PPOs), independent practice association (IPA)/network health maintenance organizations (HMOs), and staff/g…

  • National health care reform and the 103rd Congress: The activities and influence of public health advocates

    Helen Halpin Schauffler, H Schauffler et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1997References: 8

    OBJECTIVES: This study examined the activities and influence of public health interest groups and coalitions on the national health care reform debates in the 103rd Congress. METHODS: Congressional staff and representatives of public health interest groups, coalitions, and government health agencies were interviewed. Content analysis of eight leading national health care reform bills was performed. RESULTS: The public health community coalesced a…

  • Smoking control policies in private health insurance in California: Results of a statewide survey

    Helen Halpin Schauffler, Daniel GentryARTICLETobacco Control1994

  • Integrating smoking control policies into employee benefits: A survey of large California corporations

    Helen Halpin SchaufflerARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1993Cited by: 1References: 3

    OBJECTIVES. Public health policy promotes the use of risk-rating health insurance and payment for smoking cessation as economic incentives to encourage smoking cessation. This study was undertaken to learn more about the adoption of these policies in large corporations. METHODS. A random sample survey of 280 private California corporations with more than 500 employees was undertaken to document the prevalence of policies integrating smoking contr…

  • Report of the Tobacco Policy Research Study Group on Reimbursement and Insurance in the United States

    Michael Parkinson, Michael D Parkinson et al.ARTICLETobacco Control1992

    The United States health care system is a unique and uncoordinated combination of private and public programmes involving em ployers, government, insurance companies, and individual consumers. Although spending on health care comprised 12 % of the US gross domestic product in 1990, it is estimated that 35-7 million Americans are uninsured, three quarters of whom are fulltime workers and their dependents.1 Also, it is estimated that as many as 40 …

  • Structuring policy developement for consumer health education

    Stanley H Werlin, Helen Halpin SchaufflerARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1978Cited by: 3

    Structuring policy developement for consumer health education. S H Werlin, and H H SchaufflerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.68.6.596 Published Online: October 07, 2011