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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"Health care utilization"”.
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Health care utilization among those with depressive disorder
… Surveillance Survey to examine predictors for health service utilization among those with depressive disorder using the Andersen Model of Health Care Utilization. The results provide some indication that predisposing, enabling, and need based factors as outlined by the Andersen model indicate …
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Noneconomic Barriers to Health Care Utilization by African-Americans
Many efforts have been made to maximize the utilization of health cue system. As a result the utilization of health care system by African Americans has increased, improving the health status (Blendon, Aiken, Freeman, & Corey, 1989). While some improvements have been made, recent reports show …
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Patterns of Health Care Utilization of Mexican American Women
Studies on the health care utilization patterns of Mexican Americans have traditionally focused on cultural differences and, at times, cost constraints to explain use. The type of health care services used (preventive, symptomatic, therapeutic) have seldom been differentiated. This study provides …
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Mental health and health care utilization among transition age youth
Many individuals experience mental health problems during the transition from adolescence to adulthood. For most persons, this experience is a temporary departure from otherwise good mental health. However, persistent mental health problems during young adulthood have serious implications for the …
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Modelling health care utilization: an applied Geographical Information Systems approach
… by organisational change in the British National Health Service (NHS), namely the ongoing debate relating to health and health care inequalities. This thesis develops a flexible, portable and predictive model of health care utilization capable of assisting improved health care planning and …
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Team rehabilitation and health care utilization in chronic inflammatory arthritis patients
… and other spondyloarthritides, and to analyse health care utilization over the last decade in patients with RA. In Study I the outcome of an 18 days outpatient multidisciplinary team rehabilitation programme in 174 patients with CIA was analysed. The patients were evaluated pre- and post the …
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Effects of Distress on Health Care Utilization in Cancer Survivors (NHIS 2004)
… few studies have examined the current health care utilization among cancer patients as predicted by distress. Thus, population-based data from the NHIS (2004) was analyzed using SUDAAN software 1) to ascertain the current levels of distress as measured by the Kessler 6 scale experienced …
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Health Care Utilization and Expenditures among People with Disabilities: Variations by Disability Spans
… a disproportionate share of publically funded health care services and expenditures. Prescription drug costs are also one of the most significant expenses for those with disabilities and may impose an extensive financial burden on them. However, data on health care costs among them are sparse. …
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Getting to the Doctor: BPSS Factors of Health Care Utilization in Fragile Families
… likely to live in poverty and experience poorer health, face significant barriers to access and utilize health care services (De Marco & De Marco, 2009; Williams, 2008). Limited research exists on how these facets of the illness experience might differ for fragile families whose resources are …
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Health Care Utilization among Bhutanese Refugees in Philadelphia: Exploring Vulnerabilities, Access, and Needs
… a major global concern. This study examines health care utilization among Bhutanese refugees in one U.S. city during the post-resettlement period. Using grounded theory methods, this study explores individual- and structural-level factors that affect health access and health services usage …
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The association between usual health care utilization and stage at diagnosis in laryngeal cancer
… an advanced stage. Objectives: (1) Compare usual health care utilization between laryngeal cancer patients and the general population. (2) Evaluate the association between usual health care utilization and stage at diagnosis in laryngeal cancer. Methods: The study population included 1,702 …
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Medication Nonadherence, Health Care Utilization, and SafeMed Care Transitions Model Impact in Super-Utilizers
… They place a substantial burden on the U.S. healthcare system and have become the focus of policy initiatives aimed at reducing their disproportionate inpatient and ED use. Medication management is critical for these patients since nonadherence to essential chronic medications is associated …
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Racial Disparities in Self Reported Health and Health Care Utilization. Does Primary Care Matter?
… decade that provides evidence of the growing health care disparities among racial and ethnic groups in the United States. The literature suggests that Black adults share a disproportionate burden in death, disability, and disease. In 2002, the Institute of Medicine report, Unequal Treatment, …
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Mental illness, social status and health care utilization: a test of societal reaction theory
… positive correlation between symptoms and mental health treatment. However, critics of labeling also maintain that social characteristics are related to treatment. Unlike labeling perspective theorists, critics of labeling claim that the greater the amount of social resources people have, the more …
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Family Environment and Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease: Patterns of Health Care Utilization and Academic Achievement
… SCD utilize a disproportionately high amount of health care resources. Youth with frequent health care utilization (HCU) are at increased risk for psychosocial consequences, including disruptions in family functioning and decreased academic performance. While studies have separately examined HCU, …
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Impacts of Housing Insecurity on Health Care Utilization and Parental Awareness of the Early Intervention Program
… foreshadow racial and economic disparities in EI utilization rates. Informed by a social determinants of health and health equity model, I explore whether housing insecurity impacts children’s access to routine well-child pediatric visits where parents have opportunities to become aware of EI. …
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Evaluation Of A Nursing-Led Telephonic Self-Management Program For Patients With Copd On Health Care Utilization
… interventions are essential in value-based care. The purpose of this quality improvement (QI) project is to reduce the number of preventable COPD-related admissions and emergency department (ER) visits by implementing a telephonic nurse-led evidence-based COPD self-management program. A …
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Inequality in health care utilization and equity: a cross-country comparision of low and middle income countries
… policies that can reduce disparity in health care utilization, education and income from the low and middle income countries represented by Albania, Nepal, Tajikistan and Tanzania. Concentration indices are used to calculate the income related inequality in health care utilization and …
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