Thomas C Shaw
Thomas C Shaw
Expanding access is often seen as a panacea for health problems. Although access is a necessary step, it is also important that policy analysts do not fail to consider postaccess issues. Increased access to health is often assumed to be syn...
An explanatory model for state Medicaid per capita prescription drug expenditures [0.03%]
美国州政府医疗救助人均处方药支出解释性模型
Sanjoy Roy,S Suresh Madhavan
Sanjoy Roy
Rising prescription drug expenditure is a growing concern for publicly funded drug benefit programs like Medicaid. To be able to contain drug expenditures in Medicaid, it is important that cause(s) for such increases are identified. This st...
Chack-Kie Wong,Chau-Kiu Cheung,Kwong-Leung Tang
Chack-Kie Wong
Public insurance possibly increases the use of health care because of the insured person's interest in maximizing benefits without incurring out-of-pocket costs. A newly reformed public insurance scheme in China that builds on personal resp...
Do empowerment strategies facilitate knowledge and behavioral change? The impact of family health advocacy on health outcomes [0.03%]
赋权策略能否促进知识和行为的改变？家庭卫生保健宣传对卫生结果的影响
Tiffany D Baffour,Jill M Chonody
Tiffany D Baffour
This study evaluates the impact of a Family Health Advocacy (FHA) intervention on 46 African American women ages 13 to 35 living in a rural southern community. FHA utilizes empowerment strategies to provide education and social support to r...
Efficiency of health care system in India: an inter-state analysis using DEA approach [0.03%]
印度卫生系统的效率：使用DEA方法的州际分析
Partha De,Arpita Dhar,B N Bhattacharya
Partha De
Since independence a massive personnel and public health infrastructure has been created in India. However, there is no competition and hardly any choice to the poor patients resulting in poor quality services leading to allocative and tech...
Comparative Study
Social work in public health. 2012;27(5):482-506. DOI:10.1080/19371918.2012.672261 2012
Health of migrants with precarious status: results of an exploratory study in Montreal--Part B [0.03%]
移民身份不稳定的移民健康状况—蒙特利尔探索性研究第二部分
Zoé Brabant,Marie-France Raynault
Zoé Brabant
Increasingly, migrants with precarious status (MPS) are recognized as being particularly vulnerable. This exploratory study assesses whether the health of MPS in Montreal, Canada, is similar to that reported in the international literature ...
Michael P Fisher,Christine Elnitsky
Michael P Fisher
Health and social services integration is particularly relevant for populations whose needs span physical health, mental health, housing, and disability services, along with others. Veterans, homeless, chronically ill, and aging are among t...
Eileen E MaloneBeach,Cindy S Frank,Roschelle A Heuberger
Eileen E MaloneBeach
The authors' purpose was to examine access to Family Independence Program and Food benefits in relation to customer service and an automated helpline. In addition, participants identified impediments and limitations to the receipt of servic...
Andrew Fisher,Nicholas Castle
Andrew Fisher
Using Non-numerical Unstructured Data Indexing Searching and Theorizing (NUD'IST) software to extract and examine keywords from text, the authors explored the phenomenon of nursing home closure through an analysis of 30 major-market newspap...
Beyond the perception and the obvious: what sex offender registries really tell us and why [0.03%]
超越表象和显而易见的范围：性犯罪人登记制度真正说明了什么以及为什么说明了这些
Joseph Ferrandino
Joseph Ferrandino
This work examines the sex offender registries in 49 states in terms of the public information they offer from a social construction and social reality standpoint. Social construction is the dominant perspective for the information given ab...