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Mental health and mental health services during the COVID-19 pandemic
(2021)
The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted mental health and mental health services in the United States. During February 2021, 42% of Americans experienced symptoms of depression or anxiety. During the pandemic, the ...
Wraparound Services in Primary Care Settings: Evaluating the Health Center Model for Patients with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors
(2021)
Background: Community health centers provide a wide range of services beyond standard primary care, including social and enabling services, dental services, and behavioral health care. These wraparound services may be ...
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 ...
Future expenditure risk of silent members: a statistical analysis
(Springer Nature, 2016-07-29)
Silent-members are members of a medical health plan who submit no claims for healthcare services in a benefit year despite 12 months of continuous-enrollment. This study was conducted to evaluate the future expenditure ...
Who declines to respond to the reactions to race module?: findings from the South Carolina Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2016–2017
(Springer Nature, 2021-09-19)
The inclusion of self-reported differential treatment by race/ethnicity in population-based public health surveillance and monitoring systems may provide an opportunity to address long-standing health inequalities. While ...
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 ...
Psychological Distress and Need for Mental Healthcare: Examining and Modeling Prevalence & Need Using Multiple Datasets
(2021)
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded Medicaid eligibility to include non-elderly adults with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. As a result, Medicaid enrollment by individuals ...
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 ...
Food Insecurity in the District of Columbia: Do Community Gardens Help?
(2021)
More than 10% of the District of Columbia’s residents have difficulty accessing affordable and healthy food, a number that is now projected to be over 16% because of COVID-19 (Sustainable DC, 2019; Food Security Report, ...
A randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of a paramedic-delivered care transitions intervention to reduce emergency department revisits
(Springer Nature, 2018-05-03)
Approximately 20% of community-dwelling older adults discharged from the emergency department (ED) return to an ED within 30 days, an occurrence partially resulting from poor care transitions. Prior published interventions ...