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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"healthcare use"”.
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Life-Space Mobility, Falls, and Healthcare Use Among Community Dwelling Mexican-American Older Adults
… 3) to determine the association between LSM and healthcare use of Mexican American older adults over time. We included 799 respondents aged 80 and older from the Hispanic Established Population for the Epidemiologic study of the Elderly survey (2010/11-2016). The independent variable was …
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Association between Health Literacy and 30-Day Unplanned Healthcare Use after Discharge in the Heart Failure Population
Unplanned healthcare use following discharge costs Medicare over $17 billion per year. Health literacy is associated with increased healthcare use and cost while heart failure is the leading cause of 30-day readmission in the United States. Previous studies have assessed the association between …
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The Impact of Cognitive Processing Therapy On Quality of Life and Healthcare Use in Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Due to Military Sexual Trauma
… (Suris et al., 2006), and utilized more primary healthcare services compared to those without PTSD (Frayne, Chiu, Iqbal, Berg, Laungani, Cronkite, Pavao, & Kimerling, 2010). The current study seeks to examine the effectiveness of Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), compared to Present Centered …
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Investigating prevalence and healthcare use of children with complex healthcare needs using data linkage. A study using multi-ethnic data from an ongoing prospective cohort: the Born in Bradford project
Background: The impact children with complex healthcare needs have on the healthcare system is significant and requires a multidisciplinary response. Congenital anomaly (CA) is a group of conditions requiring complex and variable input from primary and secondary healthcare. This thesis explores the …
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Changes in Healthcare Utilization and Charges Among Supportive Housing Residents Enrolled in a Health Coaching Program
The effectiveness of self-management programs on healthcare use outcomes is an active area of research with inconsistent results. This study was the first to evaluate changes in healthcare utilization (including hospital encounters, inpatient visits, outpatient visits, and emergency visits) and …
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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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Help Seeking Behaviors Among Black Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Following Mass Trauma
… stress). Using the Andersen Model of Behavioral Healthcare Use within a sample of 4,627 students who were enrolled at the time of the Virginia Tech 4/16 shooting, the current thesis sought to: (1) examine predisposing factors as a mediator of the relationship among racial identity and help …
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Management of breast cancer in the Medicaid population
… second most comcancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related death among women. The current project examined some key issues important for effective breast cancer management in the Medicaid population. Medicaid is one the largest healthcare insurance systems in the US providing coverage …
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Help-Seeking Behavior Following a Community Tragedy: An Application of the Andersen Model
For healthcare agencies and other professionals to most efficiently provide aid following large scale community tragedies, agencies and professionals must understand the determinants that lead individuals to require and seek various forms of help. This study examined Andersen's Behavioral Model of …
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Profile Creation with Topic Modeling and Semantic Analysis from Conversations about COVID-19 among U.S. Older Adults
… older adults’ preventive health behavior and healthcare use. To facilitate the qualitative coding process, we propose an approach for automated topic extraction with sentiment analysis using a natural language processing technique known as topic modeling. While automated methods for …
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Factors affecting the relationship between trauma and illness behavior
… illness behaviors such as health complaints and healthcare use are reported in recent studies. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms and diagnosis have been found to mediate this trauma-illness relationship. Differences in health behaviors have additionally been noted in the literature, …
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Burden Of Depression Among Individuals With Irritable Bowel Syndrome(IBS) In The Medicaid Population
… to assess the impact of comorbid depression on healthcare utilization and costs among individuals with IBS enrolled in fee-for-service Medicaid program. Methods: a retrospective cohort study was conducted using 2006-2008 Medicaid analytic extract files for 39 states. Beneficiaries with IBS were …
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Identifying and Analyzing Medical Child Abuse Cases Through Collateral Sources
Medical Child Abuse (MCA) is a form of child maltreatment in which a caregiver exaggerates, feigns, or induces illness or injury in a child, resulting in unnecessary, and often harmful, medical procedures (Roesler & Jenny, 2008, p. 1). As a result of the deceptive nature of MCA, empirical research …
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Reengineering food traceability systems
… burden results from these crises in terms of healthcare use, lost sales, and food recalls. Customers, nowadays, not only ask for quality but also authenticity and transparency of food labelling information. Therefore, traceability has been embedded as a mandatory requirement in policies and …
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Inequities in access to mental health care at intersections of race/ethnicity, gender identity, and gender modality: An application of Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA)
… by high rates of both mental illness and healthcare avoidance. Despite this, research examining the patterns of non-use of mental healthcare within this community is lacking, and has further suffered due to the difficulty of collecting large, population-based samples of transgender adults …
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Healthcare Across the Pregnancy Continuum: Nativity-Based Analysis of Medical Expenditures Among U.S.-Born, Recent Arrivals, and Established Immigrant Women
… Immigrants generally have lower per capita healthcare expenditures than U.S.-born natives. However, pregnancy-related healthcare use and costs increases among immigrant women, accounting for a substantial share of medical spending for immigrants. This dissertation examines how immigrant …
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Superhero Healthcare: Graphic Medicine, Genre and Public Education Comics
This thesis has created a new sub-genre Superhero Healthcare and has tracked its development and its potential as a pedagogical resource. This study argues that the sub-genre stems from both graphic medicine and the superhero genres and has progressed through uncovering the long, forgotten history …
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Essays in Health Economics
… and could also have indirect effects at the household level. In addition, the effects on healthcare use and health status are also examined. This dissertation consists of three chapters.</p> <p>The first chapter looks at the effect of changes in Medicaid policy on legal immigrant parents in the …
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Uncertainty-aware learning from sparse, unlabelled, and out-of-distribution time series
… is increasingly popular in the analysis of healthcare time series, as it can support improved diagnostics, personalised monitoring, and effective performance tracking. The ever-increasing availability of datasets from wearable sensors, mobile devices, and continuous monitoring technologies …
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Essays in Health Economics
1. Women’s Bargaining Power and Household Budget Allocation to Human Capital: Evidence from The Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) In this paper, we explore the association of women’s bargaining power with human capital investment within the household. Using data from the Indonesia Family Life …
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