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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"health care use"”.
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Predictors of Change in Health Care Use After Marital and Family Therapy
The cost of health care continues to increase. Based on the biopsychosocial model of heath care, it has been shown that the treatment of psychological and social problems can have a cost offset effect on the cost of medical care. While this offset effect has been shown in an MFT population, there …
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Dallas Area Health Care Use: Study of Insured, Uninsured, and Medicaid Enrolled Children
… investigated physician and emergency room use among representative samples of children in the Dallas metropolitan area (N = 1606) and among patients who used Children's Medical Center of Dallas' First Care services (N = 612). Through telephone interviewing, caregivers to children under …
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Children's Primary Health Care Services: A Social-Cognitive Model of Sustained High Use
… that ultimately drive and maintain children's health care use. Eighty-seven primary caretakers of children ages 4 to 9 years completed measures of child health and behavior, parental stress and functioning, and social cognitive measures related to parenting and health care use. Primary care use …
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The Effects of Age, Sex, and Class Stratification and the Use of Health Care Services among Older Adults in the United Kingdom
As the population ages, providing health services for the growing number of older people will become an increasingly difficult problem. In countries where the health services are provided by the government, these problems are involved with complicated issues of finance and ethics. This is the case …
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Contextual factors on health and mental health service use among immigrants in the United States: moderation of citizenship status and race/ethnicity
… access to social service programs and health services has been largely limited, particularly for non-citizens. Latino and Asian immigrants in the United States as the major growing immigrant populations have been found to under use health and mental health services compared to U.S.-born …
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Essays in Health Economics
<p>This dissertation is motivated by changes in health and labor policies of the United States that have occurred over the last two decades. It examines how these policies as well as public programs affect behavior and outcomes. These programs and policies have the potential to impact behavior …
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My Child’s Keeper: Child Vulnerability and Quality of Life on Parental Stress and Grit
… depression has been associated with poorer child health-related quality of life (HRQOL; Jaser, Whittemore, Ambrosino, Lindemann, & Grey, 2008). In the same way that parental distress has been shown to affect the child, parental perceptions of child vulnerability in children with chronic illness …
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Patterns and Predictor of Police Officers' Utilization of Healthcare Services
… their job, yet officers generally tend to avoid healthcare services. This study investigated police officers’ healthcare-use behaviors, demographic differences in provider use, and perceived barriers to accessing healthcare. An online survey of 278 voluntary United States police officers at all …
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The Effects Of Anxiety and Depression on Children's Utilization of Medical Health Care Services
… and depression and children's rate of medical care utilization. Additionally, the model examined considered family and parental factors (family conflict, parental anxiety, parental depression, and parental somatization) as well as children's level of negative affectivity and demographic …
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Effects Of Managed Care On The Health And Health-Care Of The Non-Elderly With Diabetes
… to examine the quality effect of managed care plans (as compared with traditional fee-for-service plans, or FFS) on the health outcome and health care use of patients with diabetes. As the number of diabetics is growing rapidly with many of them are relying on managed care plans, knowing …
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A multidisciplinary intervention to reduce subsequent falls and health service use in older fallers who are not transported to hospital following ambulance care
… is at high risk of future falls and unplanned health care use, and non-transported fallers have poorer health outcomes than their transported counterparts, potentially due to a lack of appropriate referral pathways and follow-up care. This randomised controlled trial investigated the effect of …
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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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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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Supporting Breastfeeding Among Women Residing In Homeless Shelters
… including intimate partner violence, abuse history, mental illness, chemical dependence, alcohol abuse, smoking, medical co-morbidities, lack of permanent address, or any combination of the aforementioned (Vijayaraghavan, et al., 2012). Adding pregnancy and a newborn into shelter living …
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Factors that influence household health care utilization patterns in two districts of Zambia : a rural - urban comparative evaluation
… of determining whether there are differential household health care utilization patterns between rural and urban areas in Zambia and what factors, if any, are responsible for such spatial variations. The factors considered in this study include: the gender of the household head, age of individual …
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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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Potentially Traumatic Event Experiences and Health Care Service Use in Liberia
… events (PTE) is associated with increased health care service use. Information on patterns of health care use and expectations by this group of individuals can be useful for providing patient-centric care and improving health system accountability and responsiveness. Despite the necessity …
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Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Adherence to Antidiabetic Medications Among Low-Income Adults
… drug regimens. Medicaid, the primary source of health insurance among low-income people, mitigates access and cost barriers by providing access to health services and prescription drugs at a reduced cost. In 2014, Medicaid expansion, a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act …
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Empirical essays on the evaluation of health care reforms in rural China
… is comprised of three empirical studies on health care reforms in rural China. It specifically examines the determinant of enrolment in the social health insurance program, the effects of the insurance on health care utilization, and the extent of income-related inequity in the use of health …
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The effect of health insurance on health care utilisation among people with non-communicable diseases in Zambia
… with inequalities in NCDs and access to NCDs care persisting. Evidence suggests that these inequalities can be reduced by an effective health insurance system. Health insurance may also improve quality of care through improved finance but also by reducing out of pocket payments. Thus health …
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