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Kathleen Thiede Call, Ph.D.

Professor and Director, Graduate Programs in Health Services Research, Policy and Administration
Division of Health Policy & Management

Kathleen Thiede Call has research in 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. She 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. Dr. Call is an investigator at the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC), funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The second area of research Dr. Call is developing is community-based participatory research focusing on barriers to health care.

  • PhD, Sociology, University of Minnesota, 1994
  • BA, Sociology, University of Minnesota

Courses

Fall 2012
PUBH  6806  Public Health Research (Section 002)
PUBH  6811  Hlth Disparities Research (Section 001)
PUBH  7796  Field Experience: PHAP (Section 002)
PUBH  7894  MS in HSRP&A Plan B Project (Section 008)
PUBH  8805  Social Theory in Hlth Services (Section 001)

Research Interests:

Access to care and health status among vulnerable populations, including poor, young, elderly, uninsured, rural and chronically ill populations; sociology of health and illness; research methods

Research Projects (8)

Kathleen Thiede Call

Mailing Address:
Health Policy and Management
15-230 Phillips-Wangensteen
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone (Work): 624-3922

Email:

Selected Publications:

Schousboe, JT, Davison ML, Dowd B, Call KT, Johnson P, Kane RL. 2011. Predictors of patients' perceived need for medication to prevent fracture. Medical Care, 49(3):273-280.


Call KT, Davern M, Boudreaux M, Johnson PJ, Nelson J. 2011. Bias in telephone surveys that do not sample cell phones: uses and limits of post-stratification methods. Medical Care, 49(4):355-364.


Davern ME, McAlpine D, Beebe TJ, Ziegenfuss J, Rockwood T, Call KT. 2010.  Are lower response rates hazardous to your health survey? An analysis of three state telephone health surveys. Health Services Research, 45(5):1324–1344


Johnson PJ, Blewett LA, Call KT, Davern ME. 2010. American Indian uninsurance disparities: A comparison of 3 surveys. American Journal of Public Health, 100(10):1972-79. PMCID: PMC2936999.


Johnson PJ, Call KT, Blewett LA. 2010. The importance of geographic data aggregation in assessing disparities in American Indian prenatal care. American Journal of Public Health, 100(1):122-128. Epub 2009 Nov 12. [NIHMSID: 164260]


Klerman JA, Davern ME, Baugh D, Call KT, Greenberg G, Lynch V, Ringel J.  2009. Understanding the current population survey's insurance estimates and the Medicaid 'undercount.’ Health Affairs, 28(6):w991-w1001.


Davern ME, Klerman JA, Baugh D, Call KT, Greenberg G. 2009. An examination of the Medicaid undercount in the current population survey (CPS):  preliminary results from record linking. Health Services Research, 44(3):965-987.


Call KT, Davidson G, Davern ME, Brown ER, Kincheloe J, Nelson JG. Winter 2008/2009. Accuracy of self-reported health insurance coverage among Medicaid enrollees. Inquiry, 45(4):438-456.


Davern ME, Call KT, Ziegenfuss J, Davidson G, Beebe TJ, Blewett LA. 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 KT, Davidson G, Davern ME, Nyman R. 2008. Medicaid undercount and bias to estimates of uninsurance: new estimates and existing evidence. Health Services Research, 43(3): 901-901.


McAlpine DD, Beebe TJ, Davern ME, Call KT.  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.


Davern ME, Rodin H, Call KT, Blewett LA.  2007.  Are the CPS Uninsurance estimates too high? An examination of imputation. Health Services Research, 42(5): 2038-2055. 


Call KT, Davern ME, Blewett LA. 2007. Estimates of health insurance coverage: comparing state surveys to the current population survey. Health Affairs, 26(1): 269-278.


 

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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