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Hospital Costs Related to Substance Abuse in NYC
Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University
This study estimated the costs of hospitalization in New York City related to substance abuse, including direct costs of treatment and indirect costs from increase length of stay and hospitalization for conditions attributable to substance abuse. The study estimated that the cost in 1992 were $2.2 billion, almost 25 percent of all hospital costs in New York City.
Principal Investigator(s): John Billings, Tod Mijanovich
Projecting Hospital Utilization and Bed Needs in NYC
CHPSR issued a report predicting hospital utilization and bed need in New York City in the year 2000, taking into account the impact of managed care and other market forces on inpatient length of stay and admission rates. The study, which was covered on the front page of the New York Times, predicted a more than 35% drop in hospital utilization, expected to result in excess bed supply, hospital closures, and substantial job loses in the inpatient sector.
Principal Investigator(s): John Billings, Sue Kaplan, Tod Mijanovich
Rural and Urban Trends in Family and Intimate Partner Homicide: 1980-1999
National Institute of Justice
The project involved a quantitative, multivariate exploration of the dynamics of place - population and metropolitan area proximity -- on family and intimate partner murder for the twenty-year period from 1980 through 1999. The literature of family and intimate partner abuse, homicide, rural/urban crime, and rural/urban economics and demographics was mined for variables to explain the place-based variations in these murders. Using large, public-use data sources, the project's main objective was to empirically demonstrate that those characteristics associated with urbanicity or rurality are linked to family and intimate partner homicide. Preliminary analyses of homicide data indicate that, unlike stranger and acquaintance murders, place was significantly associated with increases and declines in the annual rates of family/intimate partner murders in the last 20 years.
