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Population churn--the population turnover experienced by a community--can have differential effects on a community. Mass society theory suggests that because the churn rate experienced by communities can contribute to their uprooting, fragmentation, and isolation, churn is a potent threat to the stability of our modern day communities. Social capital theory, to the contrary, suggests otherwise. Social capital theory suggests that churn can have positive effects on communities by bringing new migrants with valuable human capital skills and experiences to communities. These migrants bring to their new communities the potential for creating new jobs, spurring economic development, and for initiating housing starts that expand housing options for the poor and minorities. In so doing, they help create and sustain vibrant, growing modern day communities. Yet in spite of the significant role churn may play in determining the health and viability of modern day communities, it has been overlooked in the migration literature, which is mostly dominated by individual-level research on the causes and effects of migration, particularly the pecuniary benefits to movers. Using county-level data and multivariate analyses, this research seeks to fill this gap in the literature by examining the relationship between the community and churn, from the perspectives provided by social capital and mass society theories. ; 2004-12-01 ; M.A. ; Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology and Anthropology ; Masters ; This record was generated from author submitted information.

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Objectives: To identify ICD-10-CM di­agnostic codes associated with the social de­terminants of health (SDOH), determine fre­quency of use of the code for homelessness across time, and examine the frequency of interrupted periods of Medicaid eligibility (ie, Medicaid churn) for beneficiaries with and without this code.Design: Retrospective data analyses of New York State (NYS) Medicaid claims data for years 2006-2017 to determine reliable indicators of SDOH hypothesized to affect Medicaid churn, and for years 2016-2017 to examine frequency of Medicaid churn among patients with and without an indica­tor for homelessness.Methods: Analyses were conducted to assess the frequency of use and pattern of New York State Medicaid claims submission for SDOH codes. Analyses were conducted for Medicaid claims submitted for years 2016-2017 for Medicaid patients with and without a homeless code (ie, ICD-10-CM Z59.0) in 2017.Main Outcome Measures: Any interrup­tion in the eligibility for Medicaid insurance (Medicaid churn), assessed via client identi­fication numbers (CIN) for continuity.Results: ICD-9-CM / ICD-10-CM codes for lack of housing / homelessness demonstrat­ed linear reliability over time (ie, for years 2006-2017) with increased usage. In 2016- 2017, 22.9% of New York Medicaid patients with a homelessness code in 2017 experi­enced at least one interruption of Medicaid eligibility, while 18.8% of Medicaid patients without a homelessness code experienced Medicaid churn.Conclusions: Medicaid policies would do well to take into consideration the barriers to continued enrollment for the Medicaid population. Measures ought to be enacted to reduce Medicaid churn, especially for individuals experiencing homelessness. Ethn Dis.2021;31(1):89-96; doi:10.18865/ ed.31.1.89

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A grand alliance is forming, and new trenches are being dug on the old and hallowed battleground of the Constitution. Waving the stars and stripes of "constitutional design," and richly equipping themselves with the weaponry of reason, scholars like Richard Fallon, Sanford Levinson, and Jack Balkin have taken the field to determine "what provisions for judicial review (if any) ought to exist in constitutions for all societies whose people and legislatures are seriously committed to respecting rights," and to avoiding "constitutional crises" by "careful planning." Fallon, a self-proclaimed "system-designer," applauds himself for having "plowed rich ground." Levinson and Balkin claim to be revealing a "secret" that, if they are to be believed, has not only gone untold and unnoticed since the nation's Founding, but could have avoided the near apocalypse of our Civil War. Frederick Schauer's ambition—to breed a race of lawyers and judges equal to the ignominy of slavishly adhering to precedent—is no less breathtaking. Asserting that "following precedents even when they seem wrong to the decision maker is . . . a large part of law," he proposes to conduct empirical experiments to determine: (1)"whether those who self-select for legal training (or are selected for legal training)" are superior, before receiving that training, "at subjugating their preferences for the right answer to a norm of precedent"; (2)"whether those who are trained in the constraints of precedent (recent graduates of law school, for example) are better at following uncomfortable (to them) precedents than those who have yet to receive such training"; and (3)"whether those who self-select for judging, or who are selected to be judges, are better at following precedent than practicing lawyers of similar experience." Whether these scholars' wholesale embrace of intelligent design is the means to perfect constitutional systems commensurate with the universal call for freedom, or whether it desecrates the Founders' legacy of a constitutional frame ...