US State Policy Index for Population Health Analyses
Policy Points Changes in states’ policy contexts since the 1980s may help explain why mortality rates among working‐age adults have risen and become more unequal across geographic areas. Investigating this pressing issue requires a new, industry‐standard measure of those contexts.
JENNIFER KARAS MONTEZ +2 more
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Expanding access to low-barrier opioid use disorder treatment in non-traditional settings: Washington's opioid treatment network. [PDF]
Daily SM +5 more
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The Effects of Recent Polarized Elections on Mental Health
Policy Points Researchers investigate how recent elections in the United States have influenced mental health, especially among political‐ and policy‐based election losers. The previous two presidential elections worsened the self‐reported mental health of Americans on average. Likely partisan election losers and those who had the most to lose in terms
MICHAEL E. SHEPHERD, BETHANY ALBERTSON
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Effect of Sociodemographic Differences on Elective Lumbar Fusion Surgery. [PDF]
Lu S +12 more
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The Association of Medicaid Estate Recovery with Homeownership, Home Equity, and Medicaid Enrollment
Policy Points This study examines the association between the implementation of Medicaid estate recovery and homeownership, home equity, and Medicaid enrollment among low‐income adults. Estate recovery is associated with a decrease in Medicaid enrollment among unmarried, low‐income older adults and a decrease in home equity overall and among Black ...
AMANDA SPISHAK‐THOMAS
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Revisiting socioeconomic disadvantage estimates in the national health and aging trends study. [PDF]
Freedman VA, Schrack JA.
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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
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An Innovative Approach to Enhanced Care Management for High-Need Pediatric Medicaid Members: Retrospective Cohort Study. [PDF]
Juusola JL +7 more
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ABSTRACT Objective Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are associated with a significantly increased risk for later cardiovascular disease. This risk is mediated by the interval development of hypertension and insulin resistance. These are preventable and/or modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease if affected people engage in preventive ...
Lauren H. Theilen +6 more
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Medicaid home and community based services are vital for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities: A descriptive study of service use among all adult enrollees, 2022. [PDF]
Rosenberg S +8 more
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