The Long-term Coercive Effect of State Community Benefit Laws on Hospital Community Health Orientation

Authors

Charles B. Moseley, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Jay J. Shen, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Gregory O. Ginn, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Keywords

Community health orientation; Health promotion; Hospitals; Medical policy; Multivariate statistics; Nevada; Public health

Disciplines

Community-Based Learning | Health Policy | Law | Medicine and Health | Public Health

Abstract

This study is an examination of the long-term coercive effect of state community benefit laws (CB Laws) on the provision of community health activities in U.S. acute care hospitals. The sample included all the not-for-profit and investor owned acute care hospitals for which 1994 and 2006 AHA Annual Survey data were available. A panel design was used to longitudinally examine the effect that state CB Laws had on hospital community health orientation activities and the provision of health promotion services, after controlling for the influence of other organizational and environmental variables that might affect these activities and services. The authors found that both CB Law state and non CB Law state hospitals increased their number of orientation activities and promotion services from 1994 to 2006. However, there was no significant difference in the gains in these activities and services between these two groups of hospitals. These results suggest that other environmental and organizational factors may mediate the effect of the state CB Laws over time.

Recommended Citation

Moseley, Charles B.; Shen, Jay J.; and Ginn, Gregory O. (2010) "The Long-term Coercive Effect of State Community Benefit Laws on Hospital Community Health Orientation," Nevada Journal of Public Health: Vol. 7: Iss. 1, Article 2.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/njph/vol7/iss1/2