An Exploration of Altruistic Behavior of Substance-Abuse Facilities According to Their Ownership Status
Description:
Using the 2009 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), this paper uses logistic regressions to explore the effect of facility ownership on a facility’s show of altruism. Facility’s show of altruism is operationalized as a facility offering free treatment to all its clients, free treatment to some of its clients, or a facility offering a sliding fee scale to its client base in order to absorb some of the cost of treatment based on a potential client's income. Region, re…
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Date:
December 2011
Creator:
Galanova, Yekaterina (Katherine) Yur'Yevna