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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Community Health Centers"”.
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Benchmarking Community Health Centers; Efficiency: Multivariate Analysis
Community Health Centers (CHCs), designed to provide accessible and affordable health care services to low-income families, were first funded by the Federal Government as part of the War on Poverty in the mid-1960s. Improving healthcare organizational performance efficiency is paramount. It is an …
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The Analysis of Community Health Centers in terms of Spatial Configuration, Spatial Allocation, and Organizational Constructs
… research is to systematically analyze Community Health Centers (CHCs) in terms of spatial configuration, spatial allocation, and their relationships with different organizational constructs. The focus of spatial configuration analysis is visibility and accessibility; the focus of …
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Queering Healthcare Equity: Exploring How Two Community Health Centers That Specialize in LGBTQ Healthcare Frame Cultural Competence
… advocacy and funding, significant inequities in healthcare access, quality of care, and health outcomes have continued to persist for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ) communities. Intersecting marginalized identities such as race, gender, and disability compound …
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Low Health Literacy Interventions and Resources Used At Community Health Centers Using Decision Support from the Care Model
<p>Community health centers (CHCs) serve the largest portion of the medically underserved patients in the United States. Little health literacy research has been conducted in the community health center setting. The Care Model, more specifically the elements of the health care organization, …
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Strategic Community Healthcare Management
<p>Federally Qualified Health Centers(FQHC) and Community Health Centers are growing with the Affordable Care Act. This paper introduces literature that supports the need for Community Health Centers and management of low income patients with chronic illnesses. This paper also reviews the fieldwork …
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Barriers to initiating insulin therapy for patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus on maximum dose of oral agents in public sector primary health care centres in Cape Town, South Africa
… in Cape Town are attending at primary care community health centers (CHCS) and have unsatisfactory glycaemic control. Insulin therapy is indicated in patients with type 2 diabetes, with inadequate metabolic control on maximum oral therapy. Insulin can be initiated in these CHCs.
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The Future of Community Health Center Executive Leadership A Mixed-Method Formative Evaluation
… the communities accessing care provided by Community Health Centers and the representativeness of their future executive leaders. Community Health Centers (CHC) are a critical network of primary healthcare systems that deliver high-quality, comprehensive healthcare services to patients …
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Essays in Health Care and Public Economics
… areas of interest - the nonprofit sector and health care, - and in particular by the growing number of community health centers in the United States in the last decade. The dissertation consists of three chapters: In the first chapter, I estimate the causal impact of community health centers …
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A New Vision for Primary Care: Strategic Planning with the Primary Care Coalition of Connecticut
… dialogue taking place on the future of our health care system. It is probable that there will be more health care legislation and system reform in the next several years than in any period in our history. Integration of the health care system must occur to improve accessibility, …
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Designing behavioral health integration in primary care : a practical outcomes-based framework
… to be the most frequent utilizers of the health care system. The US health care system, with fragmented behavioral and medical health care sectors, is unable to effectively meet the complex needs of high-need patients. This results in high health care utilization, increased health care …
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Social Ecological Factors Associated with Parental Vaccination Decisions and Perceptions of Barriers to Childhood Immunizations
… the need for tailored vaccine education and health policy interventions for this population. Nurses in pediatric clinics, preschools, and community health centers are in a unique position to develop innovative vaccine education programs and to advocate for health care policy interventions to …
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A big data augmented analytics platform to operationalize efficiencies at community clinics
Community Health Centers (CHCs) play a pivotal role in delivery of primary healthcare to the underserved, yet have not benefited from a modern data analytics platform that can support clinical, operational and financial decision making across the continuum of care. This research is based on a …
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An ecological analysis of geographic variations in the need and availability of safety net facilities in racially segregated communities of Chicago
… is a fundamental cause of racial disparities in health and access to care in the United States. Safety net facilities, however, have the potential to play a major role in eliminating such disparities by improving access to care for vulnerable populations especially in racially segregated …
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Safety Net System: A Case Study of Primary and Specialty Care for Uninsured Residents in Cobb County, Georgia
… care provider is attainable at only one of the community health clinics. Second, the lack of tracking primary language along with unanimous reports on interpreting needs is a significant finding. The U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey estimates that Cobb County has 114,280 persons …
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A Survey of Verbal Communications to Clinic Patients Related to their Health Problem
… information concerning eight aspects of their health problems was communicated to return patients in the General Medicine Clinic of a part-pay urban outpatient department, and who of the clinic personnel were involved in verbalizing this information.</p> <p>The descriptive survey was chosen as …
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Inequality in Access to, and Utilization of, Health Care - The Case of African American and Non-Hispanic White Males
… (1) the accessibility, and (2) the predictors of health care services utilization among African American and non-Hispanic White males, 18 to 65 years old in the United States. Using ANOVA procedure in comparing the means for use of physicians, hospitals, doctors, and difficulty obtaining care, …
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The Dietary Intake of Preschool Children Attending the Public Health Clinics in San Bernardino, California
… Well Baby Clinics directed by the Public Health Department of San Bernardino, California, were the sub jects in this study. The purpose of the study was (1) to compare the eating pattern and habits of the preschool children attending the San Bernardino Public Health Clinics, (2) to assess …
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Development of Strategies for Implementation of Preconception Care: A Tool to Improve Perinatal Outcomes in Selected Districts of Limpopo Province
… provision of biomedical, behavioural, and social health interventions to women and couples before they fall pregnant. The purpose of PCC is to lessen factors leading to maternal conditions; thus, reducing maternal and perinatal mortality rates. PCC focuses on the following elements: nutrition, …
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Using the Andersen Behavioral Model of Health Services Use to Examine Adult Uninsured Patient Health Services Use at a Community Health Center
… the condition and increased risk of additional health problems. Health care expenditures in the United States were reportedly 1.7 trillion in 2003 (Smithetal.,2005) and exceeded" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-table; line-height: 0; font-size: 16.66px; …
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The Influence of Federally Qualified Health Centers on Selected Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions in Georgia
… make up a substantial proportion of health care costs, but should not because these conditions are manageable in quality primary care settings that promote prevention in an effort to avoid exacerbations that can lead to hospitalization. The use of emergency departments (EDs) as a …
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