Knowledge, Access and Practice: Understanding the Affordable Care Act from the Voices of Somali Immigrant Women in the United States [PDF]
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
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 +7 more
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The role of data in health care disparities in medicaid managed care [PDF]
Background: The Affordable Care Act includes provisions to standardize the collection of data on health care quality that can be used to measure disparities.
Guthrie, Bruce +2 more
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Diabetes and the Affordable Care Act [PDF]
The Affordable Care Act—“Obamacare”—is the most important federal medical legislation to be enacted since Medicare. Although the goal of the Affordable Care Act is to improve healthcare coverage, access, and quality for all Americans, people with diabetes are especially poised to benefit from the comprehensive reforms included in the act.
Mark R, Burge, David S, Schade
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Impacts of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion in California
We examined the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on healthcare coverage, access, health status, and affordability, as well as disparities in these outcomes by race/ethnicity among low-income Californians.
Natalie Schwehr +2 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]
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 +71 more
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Twitter Sentiment Predicts Affordable Care Act Marketplace Enrollment
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 +6 more
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The Affordable Care Act and Stroke [PDF]
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 +3 more
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HIV Screening and the Affordable Care Act
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 +2 more
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(How) did attack advertisements increase Affordable Care Act enrollments?
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 +3 more
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