Health care for Nebraska's medically indigent.

abstract：:Abstract:U.S. health disparities are real, pervasive, and persistent, despite dramatic improvements in civil rights and economic opportunity for racial and ethnic minority and lower socioeconomic groups in the United States. Change is possible, however. Disparities vary widely from one community to ano...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Rust G,Levine RS,Fry-Johnson Y,Baltrus P,Ye J,Mack D

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Direct-acting antivirals (DAA) have revolutionized the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the clinical effectiveness of DAA in a safety-net population. METHODS:Retrospective cohort study including patients who received at least one dose of DAA for chronic HCV infe...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Bryant A,Kalra A,Truesdale A,Pyle L,Martinez-Camacho A

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early education interventions have been forwarded as a means for reducing social disparities in income and health in adulthood. We explore whether a successful early education intervention, which occurred between 1985 and 1989, improved the employment rates, earnings and health of blacks relative to whites t...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Wilde ET,Finn J,Johnson G,Muennig P

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attachment theory suggests that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) should predict lower trust in the medical profession. To test this theory, a cross-sectional survey was administered to young adults self-identifying as homeless. The purpose of the survey was to examine the relationship of ACEs, attachment style, an...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Munoz RT,Hanks H,Brahm NC,Miller CR,McLeod D,Fox MD

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Prior research has shown that tobacco companies target point-of-sale (POS) marketing to low-income communities. This research assessed the association between demographic characteristics and venue type with purchasing tobacco products in response to marketing. METHODS:Using Population Assessment of Tobacc...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Groom AL,Cruz-Cano R,Mead EL,Giachello AL,Hart JL,Walker KL,Oncken C,Robertson RM

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:Uncontrolled hypertension and its complications continue to be major health problems that disproportionately affect poor minority communities. Although dietary modification is an effective treatment for hypertension, it is not clear how hypertensive minority patients view diet as part of their treatment, and what barr...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Horowitz CR,Tuzzio L,Rojas M,Monteith SA,Sisk JE

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：:The Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative (PSPC) is demonstrating improvements in the quality of care delivered by safety-net organizations through integration of clinical pharmacy services. This article describes how the PSPC is leading meaningful change in the arena of medication use in managem...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Wallack MC,Loafman M,Sorensen TD

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Nganampa Health Council (literally "Our Health Council") is an Aboriginal community-controlled Primary Health Care service established in 1983. It was born out of the political struggle for Aboriginal Land Rights in South Australia which culminated in The Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Land Rights Act...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Wooley S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes an innovative approach to implementing the Office-Based Opioid Treatment (OBOT) model in underserved, community-based settings. Although numerous resources are available to physicians interested in offering medication-assisted treatment (MAT), there is little guidance on how to integrate and oper...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Brooks EM,Brasler P

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) affects between five and seven million individuals in the United States and chronic infection can lead to liver disease, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. Probation/parole offices are a novel setting for rapid HCV testing, providing outreach to populations at increased risk for HCV infec...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Zaller ND,Patry EJ,Bazerman LB,Noska A,Kuo I,Kurth A,Beckwith CG

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reducing the cancer incidence and mortality rates of underserved populations will require multidisciplinary efforts involving diverse teams of investigators. We describe a collaborative program between a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center and a minority-serving institution. The organizations worked tog...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Thompson B,O'Connell M,Löest H,Anderson J,Westcott R

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recruitment of dentists continues to be a problem in community health center (CHC) dental practices. This study was carried out to quantify the scope of the problem and to determine CHC dentist salaries and benefits. Community health center executive directors nationwide were surveyed regarding dentist vacancies, recr...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Bolin KA,Shulman JD

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we examined the treatment and outcomes of pancreatic adenocarcinoma in New Mexico Native Americans (NA). METHODS:A retrospective review of patients treated for pancreatic adenocarcinoma at a university cancer center from 2002-2016 comparing demographic characteristics, disease presentation, treatment, ...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Greenbaum A,Alkhalili E,Rodriguez R,Caldwell K,O'Neill J,Munoz OE,Qeadan F,Myers O,Nir I,Morris KT

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：INTRODUCTION:This study analyzed the impact of sociodemographic characteristics, patient comorbidities, risk factors for critical limb ischemia and hospital characteristics on racial disparities in amputation rates for Native American patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD). METHODS:The study used the Healthcare...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Rizzo JA,Chen J,Laurich C,Santos A,Martinsen BJ,Ryan MP,Kotlarz H,Gunnarsson C

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant proportion of patients treated for schizophrenia respond poorly to medication. Few studies have systematically examined the impact of clinical characteristics of patients to antipsychotic response in our environment. The study aimed to identify clinical variables associated with response in patients with...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Ezeme MS,Uwakwe R,Ndukuba AC,Igwe MN,Odinka PC,Amadi K,Obayi NO

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to assess the factorial invariance and convergent validity of the Group-Based Medical Mistrust Scale (GBMMS) across gender (male and female) and ethnoracial identity (Latino and Black). Minority students (N = 686) attending a southeastern university were surveyed in the fall of 2011. Ps...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Wheldon CW,Kolar SK,Hernandez ND,Daley EM

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Using three years (2006, 2008, 2010) of nationally representative data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, I assessed the socioeconomic status (SES) gradient for odds of receiving a mammogram in the past two years and a Pap test in the past three years among White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian women liv...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Monnat SM

更新日期：2014-02-01 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：:Permanent supportive housing (PSH) enrolls highly vulnerable homeless adults who experience early onset of geriatric conditions and require in-home support. Thus, there is potentially a high risk for COVID-19 within PSH, which may require tenants to take protective measures. This study reports on survey results collec...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Henwood BF,Redline B,Lahey J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to identify determinants of breast and cervical cancer screening among rural, low-income Hispanic women using migrant health clinics in eastern Washington state. Five hundred and twelve foreign-born Hispanic women were interviewed. Odds ratios and 95 percent confidence intervals generated via l...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Skaer TL,Robison LM,Sclar DA,Harding GH

更新日期：1996-11-01 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：INTRODUCTION:There is limited research about the poor and uninsured patients who visit free clinics. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective chart review of uninsured adult patients in four free clinics seen between January and December 2015. Prevalence of chronic conditions and their association with socioeconomic facto...

journal_title：Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

authors： Rahman S,Mirza AS,Stenback J,Green S,Mayers Y,Iranmanesh E,Pribish A,Islam S,Woodard L

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00