Pamela Farley Short's Information
POSITION TITLE: Director, Center for Health Care and Policy Research; and Professor of Health Policy and Administration and Demography
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Causes and consequences of changes in individuals' lives and health over time, currently with an emphasis on cancer survival, the dynamics of enrollment in private and public health insurance, and retirement.
RESEARCH AREAS:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives Linking Individual, Family, and Population Health over Time
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| PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE:
1973-1975 Survey Research Supervisor, Decision Research Corporation
1975-1977 Program Analyst, National Center for Health Services Research
1980-1985 Economist, National Center for Health Services Research (subsequently the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research)
1985-1994 Deputy Director, Division of Medical Expenditure Studies, Center for Intramural Research, Agency for Health
Care Policy and Research, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
1994 Senior Staff Economist for health care issues, Council of Economic Advisers, The White House
1994-1997 Senior Economist; Director, Center for the Study of Employee Health Benefits, RAND
1997-Present Professor of Health Policy and Administration, and Demography; Director, Center for Health Care and Policy Research, College of Health and Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University
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| HONORS, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FELLOWSHIPS:
HONORS
1997 Fellow, Association for Health Services Research
1999 Article of the Year Award for "Single Women and the Dynamics of Medicaid," Association for Health Services Research
2003 Evan G. and Helen G. Pattishall Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award, College of Health and Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University
ADVISORY GROUPS
Advisory Committee, Michigan Center on Excellence in Health Statistics
1991- Office of Management and Budget, Work Group on Health Care Reform
1993 White House Task Force on Health Care Reform
2001-2004 Penn State Cancer Institute, Scientific Leadership Committee
2004-2005 Institute of Medicine Committee on Cancer Survivorship
JOURNAL REFEREE
Inquiry; Medical Care; Health Services Research; Journal of Clinical Oncology; Journal of Health Economics; The Milbank Quarterly; Health Affairs; Women's Health Issues
MEMBERSHIPS
AcademyHealth
American Economic Association
International Health Economics Association
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Farley, P.
and
G.R. Wilensky
(1983).
"Options, Incentives, and Employment-Related Health Insurance." In
Scheffler, R.M.
and
L.F. Rossiter
(Eds.)
, Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, Volume 4.
Greenwich, CT:
JAI Press.
Farley, P.
and
G.R. Wilensky
(1983).
"Private Health Insurance: What Benefits Do Employees and Their Families Have."
Health Affairs 2(1):92-101.
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Cohen, S.B.
and
P. Farley
(1984).
Estimation and Sampling Procedures in the Insurance Surveys of the National Medical Care Expenditure Survey. NHCES Instruments and Procedures 3.
National Center for Health Services Research.
Wilensky, G.R.
,
P. Farley
and
A.J. Taylor
(1984).
"Variations in Health Insurance Coverage: Benefits vs. Premiums."
Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly 62(1):53-81.
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Farley, P.
(1985).
Public Programs and Private Insurance: Coverage of Health Services. NHCES Data Preview 20.
National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment.
Farley, P.
(1985).
"Who Are the Underinsured?."
Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly 63(3):476-503.
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Monheit, A.C.
,
M.M. Hagan
,
M.L. Berk
and
P. Farley
(1985).
"The Employed Uninsured and the Role of Public Policy."
Inquiry 22(4):348-364.
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Farley, P.
(1986).
"Hospital and Ambulatory Services for Selected Illnesses."
Health Services Research 21(5):587-616.
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Farley, P.
(1986).
Private Health Insurance in the United States. NHCES Data Preview 23.
National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment.
Farley, P.
and
A.C. Monheit
(1986).
"Selectivity in the Demand for Health Insurance and Health Care." In
Scheffler, R.M.
and
L.F. Rossiter
(Eds.)
, Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, Volume 6.
Greenwich, CT:
JAI Press.
Short, P.F.
(1988).
"Trends in Employee Health Benefits."
Health Affairs 7(3):186-196.
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Short, P.F.
and
A.C. Monheit
(1988).
"Employers and Medicare as Partners in Financing Health Care for the Elderly." In
Pauly, M.V.
and
W.L. Kissick
(Eds.)
, Lessons from the First Twenty Years of Medicare.
Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press.
Short, P.F.
,
J.C. Cantor
and
A.C. Monheit
(1988).
"The Dynamics of Medicaid Enrollment."
Inquiry 25(4):504-516.
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Taylor, A.J.
,
P. Farley
and
C.M. Horgan
(1988).
"Medigap Insurance: Friend or Foe of Medicare Deficits?." In
Frech, H.E.
(Ed.)
, Health Care in America: The Political Economy of Hospitals and Health Insurance.
San Francisco:
Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research.
Monheit, A.C.
and
P.F. Short
(1989).
"Mandating Health Coverage for Working Americans."
Health Affairs 8(4):22-38.
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Short, P.F.
and
A.J. Taylor
(1989).
"Premiums, Benefits, and Employee Choice of Health Insurance Options."
Journal of Health Economics 8(3):293-311.
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Short, P.F.
,
A.C. Monheit
and
K. Beauregard
(1989).
A Profile of Uninsured Americans. National Medical Expenditure Survey Findings 1.
National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment.
Short, P.F.
(1990).
Estimates of the Uninsured, Calendar Year 1987. National Medical Expenditure Survey Summary 2.
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.
Short, P.F.
and
J. Leon
(1990).
Use of Home and Community Services by Persons Ages 65 and Older with Functional Difficulties. National Medical Expenditure Survey Findings 5.
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.
Short, P.F.
,
L.J. Cornelius
and
D.E. Goldstone
(1990).
"Health Insurance of Minorities in the United States."
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 1(1):9-24.
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Stone, R.L.
and
P.F. Short
(1990).
"The Competing Demands of Employment and Informal Caregiving to Disabled Elders."
Medical Care 28(6):513-526.
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Short, P.F.
and
D.C. Lefkowitz
(1992).
"Encouraging Preventive Services for Low-Income Children: The Effect of Expanding Medicaid."
Medical Care 30(9):766-780.
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Short, P.F.
and
J.P. Vistnes
(1992).
"Multiple Sources of Medicare Supplementary Insurance."
Inquiry 29(1):33-43.
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Short, P.F.
,
P. Kemper
,
L.J. Cornelius
and
D.C. Walden
(1992).
"Public and Private Responsibility for Financing Nursing Home Care: The Effect of Medicaid Asset Spend-Down."
Milbank Quarterly 70(2):277-298.
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Cunningham, P.J.
,
P.F. Short
and
S.E. Feinleib
(1995).
"Estimating Nursing Home Episodes from a Sample of Discharges: The Importance of Adjusting for Prior and Subsequent Stays."
Medical Care 33(4):432-440.
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Short, P.F.
and
J.S. Banthin
(1995).
"New Estimates of the Underinsured Younger than 65 Years."
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 274(16):1302-1306.
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Short, P.F.
and
T.J. Lair
(1995).
"Health Insurance and Health Status: Implications for Financing Health Care Reform."
Inquiry 31(4):425-437.
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Acs, G.
,
S.H. Long
,
S.M. Marquis
and
P.F. Short
(1996).
"Self-Insured Employer Health Plans: Prevalence, Profile, Provisions, and Premiums."
Health Affairs 15(2):266-278.
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Short, P.F.
(1996).
Medicaid's Role in Insuring Low-Income Women.
New York:
The Commonwealth Fund.
Short, P.F.
,
B.A. Hahn
,
K. Beauregard
,
P.H. Harvey
and
M.L. Wilets
(1997).
"The Effect of Universal Coverage on Health Expenditures for the Uninsured."
Medical Care 35(2):95-113.
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Short, P.F.
,
J.A. Brown
and
M.N. Elliot
(1997).
Design and Feasibility of an Employer Workforce Survey.
Santa Monica, CA:
RAND.
Cleary, P.D.
,
J. Lubalin
,
R.D. Hays
,
P.F. Short
,
S. Edgman-Levitan
and
S. Sheridan
(1998).
"Debating Survey Approaches."
Health Affairs 17(1):265-268.
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Short, P.F.
(1998).
"Gaps and Transitions In Health Insurance: What Are the Concerns of Women?."
Journal of Womens Health 7(6):725-737.
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Short, P.F.
(1998).
"The Measurement of Access--Where Are We Now?."
Health Services Research 33(3):711-713.
PMCID: PMC1975657??
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Short, P.F.
and
J.A. Klerman
(1998).
Targeting Long- And Short-Term Gaps In Health Insurance.
New York, NY:
Commonwealth Fund.
Short, P.F.
and
V.A. Freedman
(1998).
"Single Women and the Dynamics of Medicaid."
Health Services Research 33(5):1309-1336.
PMCID: PMC1070318??
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Brown, J.A.
,
S.E. Nederend
,
R.D. Hays
,
P.F. Short
and
D.O. Farley
(1999).
"Special Issues in Assessing Care of Medicaid Recipients."
Medical Care 37(3 Supp):MS79-88.
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Carman, K.L.
,
P.F. Short
,
D.O. Farley
,
J.A. Schnaier
,
D.B. Elliott
and
P.M. Gallagher
(1999).
"Epilogue: Early Lessons from CAHPS Demonstrations and Evaluations."
Medical Care 37(3 Supp):MS97-105.
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Short, P.F.
(1999).
"Examining Health Insurance Differences: Issues of Public Equity and Cost-Efficiency." In
Monheit, A.C.
and
R. Wilson
(Eds.)
, Informing American Health Care Policy: The Dynamics of Medical Expenditure and Insurance Surveys, 1977-1996.
Jossey-Bass.
Short, P.F.
(2000).
"Hitting a Moving Target: Income-Related Health Insurance Subsidies for the Uninsured."
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 19(3):383-405.
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Spranca, M.
,
D.E. Kanouse
,
M.N. Elliot
,
P.F. Short
,
D.O. Farley
and
R.D. Hays
(2000).
"Do Consumer Reports of Health Plan Quality Affect Health Plan Selection?."
Health Services Research 35(5 Pt 1):933-947.
PMCID: PMC1089177??
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Schoenbaum, M.
,
M. Spranca
,
M.N. Elliot
,
J. Bhattacharya
and
P.F. Short
(2001).
"Health Plan Choice and Information about Out-of-Pocket Costs: An Experimental Analysis."
Inquiry 38(1):35-48.
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Shea, D.G.
,
P.F. Short
and
M.P. Powell
(2001).
"Betwixt and Between: Targeting Coverage Reforms to Those Approaching Medicare."
Health Affairs 20(1):219-230.
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Short, P.F.
,
D.G. Shea
and
M.P. Powell
(2001).
Health Insurance on the Way to Medicare: Is Special Government Assistance Warranted?.
The Commonwealth Fund, Task Force on the Future of Health Insurance.
Short, P.F.
,
D.G. Shea
and
M.P. Powell
(2001).
"A Workable Solution for the Pre-Medicare Population."
Inquiry 38(2):214-224.
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Farley, D.O.
,
M.N. Elliot
,
P.F. Short
,
P. Damiano
,
D.E. Kanouse
and
R.D. Hays
(2002).
"Effect of CAHPS Performance Information on Health Plan Choices by Iowa Medicaid Beneficiaries."
Medical Care Research and Review 59(3):319-336.
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Farley, D.O.
,
P.F. Short
,
M.N. Elliot
,
D.E. Kanouse
,
J.A. Brown
and
R.D. Hays
(2002).
"Effects of CAHPS Health Plan Performance Information on Plan Choices by New Jersey Medicaid Beneficiaries."
Health Services Research 37(4):985-1007.
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Short, P.F.
,
L. McCormack
,
J. Hibbard
,
J.A. Shaul
,
L. Harris-Kojetin
,
M.H. Fox
,
P. Damiano
,
J.D. Uhrig
and
P.D. Cleary
(2002).
"Similarities and Differences in Choosing Health Plans."
Medical Care 40(4):289-302.
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Uhrig, J.D.
and
P.F. Short
(2002).
"Testing the Effect of Quality Reports on the Health Plan Choices of Medicare Beneficiaries."
Inquiry 39(4):355-371.
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Short, P.F.
and
D.R. Graefe
(2003).
"Battery-Powered Health Insurance? Stability in Coverage of the Uninsured."
Health Affairs 22(6):244-255.
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Short, P.F.
,
D.G. Shea
and
M.P. Powell
(2003).
"Health Insurance for Americans Approaching Age Sixty-Five: An Analysis of Options for Incremental Reform."
Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law 28(1):41-76.
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Short, P.F.
,
D.R. Graefe
and
C. Schoen
(2003).
"Churn, Churn, Churn: How Instability of Health Insurance Shapes America's Uninsured Problem."
Task Force on the Future of Health Insurance Issue Brief November(688):1-16.
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Short, P.F.
(2004).
"Counting and Characterizing the Uninsured." In
McLaughlin, C.
(Ed.)
, Health Policy and the Uninsured.
Washington, DC:
Urban Institute Press.
Gifford, E.J.
,
R.J. Weech-Maldonado
and
P.F. Short
(2005).
"Low-Income Children's Preventive Services Use: Implications of Parents' Medicaid Status."
Health Care Financing Review 26(4):81-94.
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Short, P.F.
(2005).
From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Transition.
Institute of Medicine.
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Short, P.F.
,
J.J. Vasey
and
K. Tunceli
(2005).
"Employment Pathways in a Large Cohort of Adult Cancer Survivors."
Cancer 103(6):1292-1301.
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Short, P.F.
and
E.L. Mallonee
(2006).
"Income Disparities in the Quality of Life of Cancer Survivors."
Medical Care 44(1):16-23.
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Kemper, P.
,
F.M. Weaver
,
P.F. Short
,
D.G. Shea
and
H. Kang
(2008).
"Meeting the Need for Personal Care Among the Elderly: Does Medicaid Home Care Spending Matter?."
Health Services Research 43(1p2):344-362.
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Short, P.F.
and
F.M. Weaver
(2008).
"Transitioning to Medicare before Age Sixty-Five."
Health Affairs 27(3):w175-w184.
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Short, P.F.
,
J.J. Vasey
and
J.R. Moran
(2008).
"Long-Term Effects of Cancer Survivorship on the Employment of Older Workers."
Health Services Research 43(1p1):193-210.
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Short, P.F.
,
J.J. Vasey
and
R. BeLue
(2008).
"Work Disability Associated with Cancer Survivorship and Other Chronic Conditions."
Psycho-Oncology 17(1):91-97.
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Miller, P.E.
,
J.J. Vasey
,
P.F. Short
and
T.J. Hartman
(2009).
"Dietary Supplement Use in Adult Cancer Survivors."
Oncology Nursing Forum 36(1):61-68.
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Tunceli, K.
,
P.F. Short
,
J.R. Moran
and
O. Tunceli
(2009).
"Cancer Survivorship, Health Insurance, and Employment Transitions among Older Workers."
Inquiry 46(1):17-32.
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Vasey, J.J.
,
E.L. Mallonee
,
P.F. Short
and
I.A. Ibrahim
(In Press).
"Gender Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life of Cancer Survivors."
Psychosocial Oncology.
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