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Knowledge, Access and Practice: Understanding the Affordable Care Act from the Voices of Somali Immigrant Women in the United States

Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2018
Previous literature acknowledges a lack of insurance as a deterrent in seeking healthcare, thus impacting the overall health status of Somali immigrant women (Francis, Griffith, and Leser 2014). This paper builds on the previous literature and addresses
Fareeda McClinton Griffith
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The Affordable Care Act and Emergency Care

American Journal of Public Health, 2014
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have far-reaching effects on the way health care is designed and delivered. Several elements of the ACA will directly affect both demand for ED care and expectations for its role in providing coordinated care. Hospitals will need to employ strategies to reduce ED crowding as the ACA expands insurance coverage ...
Mark, McClelland, Brent, Asplin, Stephen K, Epstein, Keith Eric, Kocher, Randy, Pilgrim, Jesse, Pines, Elaine Judith, Rabin, Niels Kumar, Rathlev   +7 more
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Appalachian disparities in tobacco cessation treatment utilization in Medicaid

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2020
Background Kentucky Medicaid enrollees, particularly those in the rural Appalachian region, face disproportionate smoking rates and tobacco-related disease burden relative to the rest of the United States (US).
Amie Goodin, Jeffery Talbert, Patricia R. Freeman, Ellen J. Hahn, Amanda Fallin-Bennett   +4 more
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Has Tanzania embraced the green leaf? Results from outlet and household surveys before and after implementation of the Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria. [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: The Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria (AMFm) is primarily an artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) subsidy, aimed at increasing availability, affordability, market share and use of quality-assured ACTs (QAACTs).
Catherine Goodman, Barbara Willey (311733), Kalolella, Admirabilis, Matthew Cairns, Kachur S. Patrick, Yazoume Ye, S. Patrick Kachur (81465), Nchimbi Happy, Mann Andrea, Kara Hanson, Kleinschmidt Immo, Johanes, Boniface, Thomson, Rebecca, Andrea Mann, Sarah Tougher (546657), Ruilin Ren (410129), Cairns, Matthew, Hanson, Kara, Fred Arnold, Katia Bruxvoort (510860), Mark Taylor (65647), Goodman Catherine, Bruxvoort, Katia, Catherine Goodman (265714), Kalolella Admirabilis, Festo, Charles, Charles Festo, Sarah Tougher, Andrea Mann (562154), Ren Ruilin, Nchimbi, Happy, Goodman, Catherine, Kachur, S Patrick, Mark Taylor, Festo Charles, Bruxvoort Katia, Willey, Barbara, Boniface Johanes (562152), Tougher, Sarah, Boniface Johanes, Cairns Matthew, Kleinschmidt, Immo, Immo Kleinschmidt (34316), Taylor, Mark, Tougher Sarah, Hanson Kara, Matthew Cairns (91805), Ye, Yazoume, Ruilin Ren, Johanes Boniface, Taylor Mark, Yazoumé Yé (32191), Happy Nchimbi (562153), Barbara Willey, Charles Festo (551562), Admirabilis Kalolella, Arnold Fred, Arnold, Fred, S Patrick Kachur, Kara Hanson (44607), Katia Bruxvoort, Happy Nchimbi, Immo Kleinschmidt, Rebecca Thomson, Mann, Andrea, Rebecca Thomson (562151), Admirabilis Kalolella (551559), Willey Barbara, Fred Arnold (410131), Thomson Rebecca, Ye Yazoume, Ren, Ruilin   +71 more
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Twitter Sentiment Predicts Affordable Care Act Marketplace Enrollment

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2015
BackgroundTraditional metrics of the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and health insurance marketplaces in the United States include public opinion polls and marketplace enrollment, which are published with a lag of weeks to months.
Wong, Charlene A, Sap, Maarten, Schwartz, Andrew, Town, Robert, Baker, Tom, Ungar, Lyle, Merchant, Raina M   +6 more
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The Affordable Care Act and Stroke [PDF]

Stroke, 2014
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted on March 23, 2010, and has important implications for stroke care. The ACA is a comprehensive reform, although the signature component is the expansion of health insurance primarily by expanding Medicaid eligibility and by providing subsidies for consumers to purchase private insurance in
Lesli E, Skolarus, David K, Jones, Lynda D, Lisabeth, James F, Burke   +3 more
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HIV Screening and the Affordable Care Act

American Journal of Men's Health, 2017
Men continue to bear disproportionate accounts of HIV diagnoses. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care act aims to address health care disparities by recommending preventative services, including HIV screening, expanding community health centers ...
Greg Carter MSN, RN CNS, Christopher Owens BA, Hsien-Chang Lin PhD   +2 more
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(How) did attack advertisements increase Affordable Care Act enrollments?

PLoS ONE, 2020
We examine the effects of exposure to negative information in attack advertisements in the context of Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Common Core (CC) education standards and show that they lead to an increase in the ACA enrollments and support of the CC ...
Niam Yaraghi, Darrell M West, Ram D Gopal, Ram Ramesh   +3 more
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The Effects of Political Versus Actuarial Uncertainty on Insurance Market Stability

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2020
Market stabilization is a critical regulatory challenge for the private insurance component of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Initially ACA market instability was due largely to the actuarial uncertainty associated with new market conditions for which ...
Mark A. Hall
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Hippocrates and the Affordable Care Act [PDF]

The Linacre Quarterly, 2014
It is our contention that the Hippocratic tradition (with its human orientation) and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (with its essentially economic orientation) are not compatible. The traditional essence of medicine will be impacted by the ACA as well as related other cultural changes.
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