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e California Simulation of Insurance Markets (CalSIM) model is designed to estimate the impact of various elements of the ACA on employer decisions to offer insurance coverage and individual decisions to obtain coverage in California. e CalSIM model uses four data sources: the 2004–2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component (MEPSHC) and the Person Round Plan (MEPS-PRPL) public use data files, the 2009 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), California Employment Development Department (EDD) 2007 wage distribution, insurance offer, and firm size data, and the 2010 California Employer Health Benefits Survey (CEHBS). CHIS, EDD, and CEHBS provide weights and wage distributions that adjust the nationally-representative MEPS data to build a California-specific model | HEALTH BEHAVIOUR OF THE ELDERLY BETWEEN NEEDS AND REALITY - A COMPARATIVE STUDY - Mona Vintilă1 Ingela Marklinder2 Margaretha Nydahl2 Daliana Istrat1 Amalia Kuglis1 West University of Timisoara1 Uppsala University Sweden2 Social factors such as social cohesion the role of the voluntary services and social engagement cannot be influenced by traditional preventive and health promotion initiatives. There is a need for innovative strategies in health promotion. Taking account of the variety of approaches observable in European countries the idea has arisen of starting a multinational project to develop new solutions to the problem of implementing healthy lifestyles in the local communities of different countries. The project involves 10 partners from six countries Germany Great Britain Sweden Austria Latvia and Romania. The following results present an analysis of some comparative data of the Swedish and Romanian communities. Attitudes about health and behavior in terms of maintaining health are very different in Romania and Sweden. These differences very likely reflect the level of information on health nutrition physical activity and sources of information. The study highlighted some differences in the eating habits of the two groups of subjects. Keywords community health health promotion eating behavior. Address of correspondence Mona Vintilă Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara Catedra de Psihologie Bvd. Vasile Pârvan 300223 Timisoara email It is well known that most industrialised countries suffer from a burden of disease. In particular the incidence of chronic diseases . diabetes type II overweight obesity and coronary heart disease WHO 2003 WHO 2004 is increasing. Traditional prevention measures and health promotion campaigns have not succeeded in reversing this trend and it seems unlikely that they will do so in future. When a country has reached that critical point in health care at which the supply of material .