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EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF HOME HEALTH CARE FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH COMPLEX MEDICAL NEEDS RECEIVING PRIVATE DUTY NURSING SERVICES IN THE MARYLAND RARE AND EXPENSIVE CASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
(2020)
OBJECTIVE: To use process and structural measures to evaluate the quality of Private Duty Nursing (PDN) services provided to individuals with complex medical needs in the Rare and Expensive Case Management (REM) program ...
Evaluation methods for a community-centered human subjects protections and research ethics training: Your Rights in Research
(2020)
Any research project that involves human subjects requires ethical considerations and protections for individuals who enroll as participants. However, because the responsibility of these protections is often entrusted to ...
Perceived Discrimination and Multimorbidity Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults
(2020)
Multimorbidity, the presence of multiple chronic conditions, is increasingly recognized by researchers as a major health priority. Relative to younger adults, the burden is much higher among middle-aged and older adults ...
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Amputation and Revascularization: The Roles of Socioexonomic Reighborhood Stress and Allostatic Load
(2020)
Blacks are several times more likely to undergo a leg amputation as compared to Whites. This is because while peripheral artery disease (PAD), the most common cause of amputation, is more likely to be treated by ...
BARRIERS OF AGING: THE IMPACT OF HOUSING ON U.S. OLDER ADULT HEALTH
(2020)
Today, millions of older adults aged 65 and older, face the challenges of aging. In the past ten years, the number of people aged 65 and older in the U.S. increased from 37.2 million to 49.2 million, and by 2040 an estimated ...
Assessing Changes in Access to Health care and Utilization of Preventive Services among Immigrants of African Descent Before and After Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
(2020)
In the U.S., African Americans experience a disproportionate burden of health disparities. The African American population includes 4.3 million people who are foreign-born. Yet, a paucity of empirical data exists on the ...
THREE ESSAYS ON MARYLAND'S GLOBAL BUDGET REVENUE PROGRAM AND HOSPITAL-BASED NEONATAL CARE
(2020)
Health care spending is a major concern in the United States. State and federal governments have been engaged in a number of health care system reform initiatives designed to contain costs by regulating both price and ...
Socially-assigned race and health: a scoping review with global implications for population health equity
(Springer Nature, 2020-02-10)
Self-identified race/ethnicity is largely used to identify, monitor, and examine racial/ethnic inequalities. A growing body of work underscores the need to consider multiple dimensions of race – the social construction of ...
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BARRIERS TO HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND UTILIZATION FOR LESBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE IN CALIFORNIA.
(2020)
Sexual minorities, lesbian, gay and bisexual people, are exposed to chronic stigmatization and heteronormativity in their daily lives and when they access health care. There are no genetic differences between sexual ...
Competition and Consolidation in Medicare Advantage
(2020)
Background: Medicare Advantage (MA) serves roughly one in three (24 out of 68 million) Medicare beneficiaries and this number is expected to grow to about half (40 out of 80 million) of Medicare beneficiaries by 2030. Given ...