A randomized community intervention to improve hypertension control among Mexican Americans: using the promotoras de salud community outreach model.

abstract：:The U.S. Affiliated Pacific Region (USAPR) is an underserved region with high rates of obesity-related, non-communicable diseases and a low proportion of trained obesity prevention professionals, especially indigenous professionals. The Children's Healthy Living Training Program was developed to enhance the USAPR's ca...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Fialkowski MK,Delormier T,Hattori-Uchima M,Leslie JH,Greenberg J,Kim JH,Deenik JL,Dunn MA,Areta IA,Novotny R

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies show that many physicians do not accept new patients with Medicaid coverage, but no study has examined Medicaid enrollees' actual experience of provider refusal of their coverage and its implications. Using the 2012 National Health Interview Survey, we estimate provider refusal of health insurance cov...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Bhandari N,Shi Y,Jung K

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microfinance among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) faces some opposition and remains understudied. This literature review examines microfinance's evolution and impact on a variety of social and health indicators and its emerging implementation as a primary prevention tool for HIV and economic intervention for PLWH...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Caldas A,Arteaga F,Muñoz M,Zeladita J,Albujar M,Bayona J,Shin S

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goals of the United States' National HIV/AIDS Strategy are reducing HIV infections, increasing linkage to care, and reducing health disparities. To accomplish these, it is imperative to have accurate data about HIV prevalence, especially in high-burden populations, including immigrants, ethnic/racial minorities an...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Koku EF,Rajab-Gyagenda WM,Korto MD,Morrison SD,Beyene Y,Mbajah J,Ashton C

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substance use disorder is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Comprehensive harm reduction programs have emerged as a public health strategy to help those with substance use disorder. At this time little is known about the population of people who use comprehensive harm reduction programs. ...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Chhabra M,Stavas N,Vij N,Kumar E,Shea JA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The causes of homelessness are complex and poorly understood. This paper describes the homeless population in Santa Clara County, California in terms of Adverse Childhood Events, Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs), and family breakdown. Respondents reported severely traumatic childhoods; 78.7% grew up in a household with...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Bymaster A,Chung J,Banke A,Choi HJ,Laird C

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the impact of 69 African refugee children's arrival age and weight on subsequent weight gain by following BMI of refugee children. During 6-24 months after arrival in the U.S., 57% of underweight children became normal weight, whereas only 2% of normal weight children moved to the next higher weight cate...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Hervey K,Vargas D,Klesges L,Fischer PR,Trippel S,Juhn YJ

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of emergency department use is avoidable, and high-quality primary care can reduce it, but performance measures related to ED use may be inadequately risk-adjusted. To explore associations between emergency department (ED) use and neighborhood poverty, we conducted a secondary analysis of Massachusetts managed ca...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Lines LM,Rosen AB,Ash AS

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This cross-sectional study examined the relationship between patients' assessment of patient-centered medical home (PCMH) characteristics and patient experiences at a federally qualified health center. The survey was based on the Consumer Assessment of Health care Providers and Systems (CAHPS) instrument. Patient-cent...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Platonova EA,Warren-Findlow J,Paul R

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed links between racism and oral health outcomes among pregnant Canadian Aboriginal women. Baseline data were analyzed for 541 First Nations (94.6%) and Métis (5.4%) women in an early childhood caries preventive trial conducted in urban and on-reserve communities in Ontario and Manitoba. One-third of ...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Lawrence HP,Cidro J,Isaac-Mann S,Peressini S,Maar M,Schroth RJ,Gordon JN,Hoffman-Goetz L,Broughton JR,Jamieson L

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite a growing national interest in health care-based strategies focused on patients' social determinants of health (SDH), little has been compiled about the impacts of SDH interventions undertaken in clinical settings. To understand better what is known in this area and incentives and barriers to related research,...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Gottlieb L,Ackerman S,Wing H,Adler N

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a clinic run by a federally-qualified health center and an academic medical center. The clinic expands the community's primary care capacity, combining advantages of big and small settings, and of its dual affiliation. Survey data suggest the clinic prevents health care delays and lowers emergenc...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Silberberg M,Yarnall KS,Johnson F,Sangvai D,Patel R,Yaggy SD

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African Americans have a higher rate of stroke than other U.S. population groups. As part of the 11-state "Stroke Belt" region, Tennessee has the fifth highest death rate from stroke in the country. In 1993, a two-year community-based project was initiated to reduce the incidence of stroke and its associated risk fact...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Okwumabua JO,Martin B,Clayton-Davis J,Pearson CM

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main objectives of this paper are to examine the prevalence of criminal involvement among a sample of African American female drug users and to identify factors associated with that criminal involvement, where criminal involvement is defined as having been in jail or prison. Data were collected in Atlanta from 333...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Sterk CE,Theall K,Elifson KW

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Latino migrant day laborers (LMDLs) live under challenging conditions in the San Francisco Bay Area. This study explored day laborer alcohol use guided by a structural vulnerability framework, specifically problem vs. non-problem drinking as perceived by LMDLs and how they cope with or try to avoid problem drinking gi...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Worby PA,Organista KC,Kral AH,Quesada J,Arreola S,Khoury S

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous work suggests hospitals serving high percentages of patients with Medicaid are associated with worse colon cancer survival. It is unclear if practice patterns in these settings explain differential outcomes. HYPOTHESIS:High Medicaid hospitals (HMH) have lower compliance with evidence-based care pro...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Rhoads KF,Ngo JV,Ma Y,Huang L,Welton ML,Dudley RA

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African Americans have higher than average rates of morbidity and mortality for numerous health conditions despite the improvements in overall health in the United States over the past century. Despite the proliferation of material on health promotion and health disparities concerns related to diet and health care for...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Goodman J,Blake J

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the movement towards value-based purchasing in the United States, health care leaders need methods to characterize and address the complex effect that social determinants have on health care outcomes. This systematic literature review was specifically designed to understand current research on the effect that pa...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Knighton AJ,Stephenson B,Savitz LA

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examination of Latino children in aggregate ignores important subgroup differences due to the parents' English language ability. Previous reports of the pediatric medical home have not stratified Latino children by parental language differences to compare the two groups directly. We analyzed the 2007 National Survey o...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： DeCamp LR,Choi H,Davis MM

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to describe the prevalence and predictors of tuberculin skin test (TST) reactors in a high-risk sample of urban Aboriginal people, and to evaluate adherence to medical evaluation and latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) treatment among those with TST reactivity. Of the 164 participants tested, 86% returned f...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Brassard P,Anderson KK,Schwartzman K,Macdonald ME,Menzies D

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the face of severe financial challenges and demands to improve quality and service to patients, many community health centers (CHCs) have aligned or integrated with other CHCs, physician groups, or hospitals. Yet the nature of and rationale for these organizational decisions are not well understood. Our research ap...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： McAlearney JS,McAlearney AS

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nationally, a higher proportion of the medically underserved than of the general population suffer from hypertension. Poorer adherence to recommended therapies (including medication regimens, salt intake reduction, and regular visits with provider) has been linked to poorer blood pressure control. To identify whether ...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Ndumele CD,Shaykevich S,Williams D,Hicks LS

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Asylum seekers have poor access to health care. Qualitative data portraying their experience is lacking. METHODS:We conducted focus groups and comprehensive interviews with 35 asylum seekers and 15 expert providers/advocacy organization representatives. Purposive sampling was used to recruit subgroups. Inter...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Asgary R,Segar N

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The elimination of racial/ethnic health status disparities is a compelling national health objective. It was etched in sharp relief by the 1985 report of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health and considerable attention has been devoted to the problem since...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Walker B,Mays VM,Warren R

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Regional Coordinating Center for Hurricane Response (RCC) collaborated with the EXPORT Centers (Centers of Excellence in Partnerships for Community Outreach, Research on Health Disparities and Training) to rebuild, revitalize, and improve the health care infrastructure in the Gulf Coast states damaged by Hurricane...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Mack D,Brantley KM,Bell KG

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Young women in Jamaica face significant risk for HIV and other STIs. A clearer understanding of the factors associated with sexual experience and unprotected intercourse is needed. Data were collected from 330 adolescent females aged 13 to 17 recruited through community based organizations in Kingston, Jamaica, from 2...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Kang SY,Hutchinson MK,Waldron N

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Refugee women are at increased risk for cervical cancer and have low rates of cervical cancer screening both in their countries of origin and in the U.S. Using the Behavioral Model for Vulnerable Populations as a conceptual framework, we conducted eight focus groups with Burmese and Bhutanese refugee women to gather i...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Lor B,Ornelas IJ,Magarati M,Do HH,Zhang Y,Jackson JC,Taylor VM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the experiences of low-income Part D beneficiaries with mental illness and their use of community helpers to access prescription medicines. METHODS:Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with 26 Medicare beneficiaries with mental illness in community settings. The transcripts were a...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Hensley MA

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare general and oral health perceptions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and to quantify Indigenous Australian health-related frames of reference. METHODS:A mixed-methods approach was used. The quantitative component comprised data from four convenience studies of Indigenous oral heal...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Chand R,Parker E,Jamieson L

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeless individuals are often uninsured and are more likely than the housed to utilize acute health care services and experience longer hospitalizations. Currently in the United States, there are fragmented services available for the aftercare of these patients to ensure continuum of care, promote healing, and avoid ...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Gundlapalli A,Hanks M,Stevens SM,Geroso AM,Viavant CR,McCall Y,Lang P,Bovos M,Branscomb NT,Ainsworth AD

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00