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callx001@umn.edu
Office Phone: 612-624-3922, 612-625-2932 Kathleen Thiede
Call's research falls in to two related
areas. The first is access to health
insurance coverage and health care services
among vulnerable populations: low-income,
young, elderly, racial and ethnic
communities, chronically ill and rural
populations. Within that domain, she has
helped create a survey of health insurance
coverage for use by states and has developed
a stream of research concerning the
complexities of measuring health insurance
coverage. This includes understanding
variation in estimates of coverage between
the various national surveys, as well as
reasons why state specific surveys produce
different estimates of coverage than the
Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey,
Annual Social and Economic Supplement
(CPS-ASEC). Her research also explores
discrepancies between survey and
administrative data counts of insurance
coverage. Dr. Call is an Investigator at the
State Health Access Data Assistance Center
(SHADAC) funded by the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, which assists other states in
monitoring rates of coverage and using data
to inform policy and improve access. The
second area of research Dr. Call is
developing is community-based participatory
research focusing on barriers to health care
among racial, ethnic, cultural communities.
Teaches
PubH 6806 -- Principles of Public
Health Research
PubH 6811 -- Health Disparities
Research: Measures, Methods and Data
with Dr Pamela Jo Johnson
PubH 8805 -- Sociological Theory in
Health Services Research
Selected Publications
Davern, M., J.A. Klerman, D. Baugh,
K.T. Call, G. Greenberg. Forthcoming. An
examination of the Medicaid undercount
in the Current Population Survey:
Preliminary results from record linking.
Health Services Research
Call, K.T., G. Davidson, M. Davern, E.R.
Brown, J.E. Kinceloe, J.G. Nelson.
2008/2009. Accuracy of self-reported
health insurance coverage among Medicaid
enrollees. Inquiry, 45:438-456
Davern, M. K.T. Call, J. Ziegenfuss, G.
Davidson, T.J. Beebe, L.A. Blewett.
2008. Validating Health Insurance
Coverage Survey Estimates: A Comparison
between Self-Reported Coverage and
Administrative Data Records. Public
Opinion Quarterly, 72(2): 241-259.
Call, K.T., G. Davidson, M. Davern, R.
Nyman. 2008. Medicaid Undercount and
Bias to Estimates of Uninsurance: New
Estimates and Existing Evidence.
Health Services Research, 43(3):
901-901.
McAlpine, D., T.J. Beebe, M. Davern,
K.T. Call. December 2007. Agreement
between self-reported and administrative
race and ethnicity data among Medicaid
enrollees in Minnesota. Health
Services Research, 42(6, part II):
2373-88
Call, K.T., M.Davern, L.A. Blewett.
2007. Estimates of Health Insurance
Coverage: Comparing State Surveys to the
Current Population Survey. Health
Affairs, 26(1):269-278.
Kincheloe, Jennifer, E. Richard
Brown, Janice Frates, Kathleen Thiede
Call, Wei Yen, and Jim Watkins. In
Press. Can We Trust Population Surveys
to Count Medicaid Enrollees and the
Uninsured? Health Affairs,
25(4): 1163-1167.
Call, Kathleen Thiede, Donna D.
McAlpine, Pamela J. Johnson, Timothy J.
Beebe, and James A. McRae.2006. Barriers
to Care Among American Indians in Public
Health Care Programs. Medical Care,
44(6): 595- 600.
Call, Kathleen Thiede, Donna D.
McAlpine, Heather Britt, Valeng Cha,
Sirad Osman, Walter Suarez & Timothy J.
Beebe. 2004. Partnering with Communities
in Survey Design and Implementation.
Proceedings of the 8th Conference on
Health Survey Research Methods,
National Center for Health Statistics
(NCHS), U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services.
Blewett, Lynn A., Margaret E. Brown,
and Kathleen Thiede Call. 2004.
Monitoring the Uninsured: A State Policy
Perspective. Journal of Health,
Health Policy and Law,
29(1):107-145.
Professional Experience
Director of Graduate Studies, Health
Services Research Policy and
Administration, School of Public Health,
University of Minnesota, 2007-present
Co-Chair, Health Disparities Work
Group, School of Public Health,
University of Minnesota, 2005-present
Associate Professor, Division of
Health Policy and Management, School of
Public Health, University of Minnesota,
2001 - present
Assistant Professor, Division of
Health Policy and Management, School of
Public Health, University of Minnesota,
1995 - 2001
Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Department of Sociology, College of
Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota,
1997 - present
Post-doctoral Fellow (NIA
Postdoctoral Training Grant) and
Research Associate, Institute for Health
Services Research, University of
Minnesota, 1994 - 1995
Honors
Recipient of the University of
Minnesota Outstanding Community Service
Award—Faculty, 2009
Recipient of the School of Public
Health Community Service Award, 2003
Elected to the Delta Omega Honorary
Public Health Society, 2000
NIA Postdoctoral Training Grant, 1994
Don Martindale Scholarship Award,
Department of Sociology, 1994
Graduate Student Service Award,
Department of Sociology, 1993
Graduate Student Research Award,
Department of Sociology, 1992
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