"Feastworthy is Something That Gives Us Our Dignity Back:" Feasibility of A Delivered Prepared Meal Program for Families in Motel-Shelters.

abstract：:This study examined factors associated with the use of the Health Care for the Homeless Program and other health care services by homeless adults. A total of 941 homeless adults were identified in 52 soup kitchens in U.S. communities. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression models were applied. Among homeless a...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Han B,Wells BL,Taylor AM

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The National Postbaccalaureate Collaborative (NPBC) is a partnership of Postbaccalaureate Programs (PBPs) dedicated to helping promising college graduates from disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds get into and succeed in medical school. This study aims to determine long-term program outcomes by loo...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： McDougle L,Way DP,Lee WK,Morfin JA,Mavis BE,Matthews D,Latham-Sadler BA,Clinchot DM

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Mobile health clinics often deliver care in medically underserved communities and train student volunteers to support service delivery, but little is known about how these clinics affect trainees. METHODS:We conducted a qualitative analysis of over 100 trainees' experiences volunteering with a mobile heal...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： So M,Crosby AD,Eligene L,Bennet J,Williams M,Oriol NE

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity, the most common chronic disease of childhood, is prevalent among economically disadvantaged children. The Chronic Care and Obesity Care Models are comprehensive health care strategies to improve outcomes by linking primary care best practices and community-based programs. Pediatric providers and community hea...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Okihiro M,Pillen M,Ancog C,Inda C,Sehgal V

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:To meet the expanding need for physical therapists universities are under increasing pressure to enroll, educate, and train physical therapists. Poor academic performance can result in student dismissal from a physical therapy program. The purpose of this study is to determine if implementation of a retentio...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Owens SC,Rainey Y,Tucker P,Edmunds B

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This hypothesis-generating research describes the characteristics of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) sustained among 229 Veterans seeking homeless services. Nearly all participants (83%) had sustained at least one TBI prior to their first episode of homelessness. Among participants with a TBI, assaults, transportation...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Barnes SM,Russell LM,Hostetter TA,Forster JE,Devore MD,Brenner LA

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family engagement may improve disease management, yet little is known about this topic as it relates to underrepresented minorities who receive care in low-resource primary care settings. This study aimed to explore family engagement in diabetes and hypertension management at an Urban Indian Health Organization to ide...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Fort MP,Steiner JF,Santos C,Moore KR,Villaverde M,Nease DE,Ortega D,Manson SM

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uninsured individuals face great challenges in accessing both primary and specialty care. The Access Partnership (TAP) is a novel collaboration between primary and specialty care providers at an urban academic medical center to provide care coordination and facilitate access to specialty services for uninsured patient...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Block L,Ma S,Emerson M,Langley A,de la Torre D,Noronha G

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rising malpractice insurance rates have led to a decrease in the number of physicians who provide rural obstetrical care. North Carolina has responded with the Rural Obstetrical Care Incentive (ROCI) Program, which provides up to $6,500 per year to physicians who provide obstetrical care to the rural poor in conjuncti...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Taylor DH Jr,Ricketts TC 3rd

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Death, disability, and injury from motor vehicle accidents constitute a public health crisis. The goal of this paper is to describe how Meharry Medical College's Center for Community Based Research plans to address this problem. A model of how high-risk groups are influenced to engage in behaviors that increase risk f...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Maupin JE Jr,Schlundt D,Warren R,Miller S,Goldzweig I,Warren H

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:National health data reported for Asians in the aggregate present a picture of good health, but significant health disparities exist between Southeast Asian refugees, and Cambodians in particular, and the overall population of the U.S. To effectively address health disparities, ethnically specific data is needed. Data...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Koch-Weser S,Liang SL,Grigg-Saito DC

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the quality of asthma care within the paediatric population who attended health centres in Kingston & St. Andrew (KSA) and compare this quality to Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) guidelines. METHODS AND MATERIALS:Data were collected from 257 dockets of children aged 2-17 years old with asthma ...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Ricketts-Roomes TF,Waldron NK,James K

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:The objective of this study was to compare the health care costs of adults with Medicaid aged 19 to 65 years (n = 29,680) and adults in the same age range with commercial insurance (n = 29,680) who were members of the same health maintenance organization between 1996 and 1998. After adjusting for age and sex, income-e...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Ray GT,Lieu TA

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract:Background. Understanding condom-use patterns and the reasons that women have for choosing not to use condoms with their sexual partners, (both steady and non-steady), is important to the development and implementation of targeted, culturally appropriate interventions that can promote condom u...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Norman LR,Garriga CA,Cintron L

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey was administered to adults attending a health fair in south Los Angeles County, approximately 140 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. The survey revealed that 14 percent of respondents had crossed the border to seek medical care during the past year. Nearly 80 percent of respondents crossing the border for med...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Macias EP,Morales LS

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine focus groups (N = 57), which included a demographic survey, were conducted to evaluate urban, low-income, African American light smokers' experiences of cessation counseling. Chi-squared and independent t-tests were run to analyze survey data. Participants with a self-reported co-morbidity were more likely than p...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Warren JR,Catona D

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prophylactic treatment of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is necessary for controlling TB in low-incidence settings. However, treatment is often limited by poor completion rates. METHODS:At a community health center serving low-income Hispanics, treatment completion among patients accepting 12 weekly d...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Lines G,Hunter P,Bleything S

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the 1992 presidential campaign, Governor Clinton promised, if elected, to provide leadership from the Oval Office for sweeping, comprehensive reform of the U.S. health-care system to benefit all Americans. The President's ambitious blueprint, as outlined on September 22, 1993, falls short of this pledge. For th...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Weil TP

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of religiosity in hypertension management among African Americans was studied. Data were collected from in-depth, personal interviews with 20 African Americans who had been diagnosed with hypertension for at least one year. A majority of the participants used their religious beliefs as protective, control, an...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Brown CM

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Montana, American Indians with chronic illnesses (CIs) die 20 years earlier than their White counterparts highlighting an urgent need to develop culturally consonant CI self-management programs. Historical and current trauma places Indigenous peoples at increased health risk relative to others, and negatively influ...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Schure M,Allen S,Trottier C,McCormick A,Medicine LO,Castille D,Held S

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies document racial variation, gender differences, and socioeconomic status (SES) patterning in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors but few studies have investigated heterogeneity in SES differences by race/ethnicity or gender. Using data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (N=6,814) and stra...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Boykin S,Diez-Roux AV,Carnethon M,Shrager S,Ni H,Whitt-Glover M

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, several alternatives for the provision of health care to the medically indigent of Nebraska were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. These alternatives were: expansion of county medical assistance programs, state-purchased health insurance policies, Medicaid expansion, revenue pool to redistribut...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Mallenby ML

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, few children with chronic illnesses such as sickle cell disease (SCD) lived past late adolescence. Substantial reductions in mortality mean a growing number of adolescents with SCD reach adulthood. Consensus among researchers and health care providers (HCP) from multiple disciplines is that critical at...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Telfair J,Alexander LR,Loosier PS,Alleman-Velez PL,Simmons J

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：:A persistent challenge to self-report data across racial, ethnic, or cultural groups is the inherent difficulty of attaining cross-cultural comparability of key measures. The current research study investigated the cross-cultural functioning of health-survey questions presented to four groups: (1) Koreans who were mon...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Willis G,Zahnd E

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate outcomes of a telephonic nursing disease management program for Medicaid patients with diabetes residing in Puerto Rico. STUDY DESIGN:A 12-month, matched-cohort study. STUDY POPULATION:Four hundred and ninety (490) intervention group members matched to 490 controls. INTERVENTION:Disease man...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Berg GD,Wadhwa S

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:African Americans experience mental health disadvantages relative to European Americans with respect to financial barriers, barriers to help seeking, and poorer quality services. This paper provides an overview of these mental health inequalities, and offers recommendations for addressing them. ...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Holden KB,Xanthos C

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00