Changes in Health Care Access, Behaviors, and Self-reported Health Among Low-income US Adults Through the Fourth Year of the Affordable Care Act
Description
This repository includes code files and data to recreate this paper: Griffith, KN, & Bor, JH. (2020). “Changes in access, health behaviors, utilization, and self-reported health through the fourth year of the Affordable Care Act.” Medical Care 58(6), 574-578. These materials are provided for public use without restriction. Please cite this work if it these materials are referenced in any publications. For comments, corrections, or questions please email Dr. Kevin Griffith: kevin.griffith@vumc.org
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Steps to reproduce
If you want to generate the dataset from the raw BRFSS, you must first download the 2011-2017 SAS Transport files directly from the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/annual_data/annual_2019.html Alternatively, you can start with "Raw BRFSS 5-10-21.csv" which includes the relevant BRFSS years and variables, but has no further data preparation. You can then run the "Data Prep 5-10-21.R" script to generate the analytic file. You could also skip the data prep entirely, and start with "Prepped BRFSS 5-10-21.csv." You may then proceed directly to running the analytic code.