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The Affordable Care Act and Beyond: Opportunities for Advancing Health Equity and Social Justice [PDF]

, 2013
In 2010, the most monumental health care legislation in forty-five years was enacted. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( ACA ) makes changes great and small in virtually every important component of the American health care system.
Bowser, Rene
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Why Women Living in an Obstetric Care Underserved Area Do Not Utilize Their Local Hospital Supported by Korean Government for Childbirth

Asian Nursing Research, 2016
Purpose: This study aimed to understand why mothers do not utilize the prenatal care and delivery services at their local hospital supported by the government program, the Supporting Program for Obstetric Care Underserved Area (SPOU).
Jung-Eun Kim, PhD, Baeg Ju Na, MD, PhD, Hyun Joo Kim, RN, PhD, Jin Yong Lee, MD, PhD, MHA   +3 more
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Behavioral determinants for vaccine acceptability among rurally located college students

Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 2018
Background: College-aged adults in a rural and medically-underserved area often struggle to receive proper vaccinations due to lower socioeconomic status coupled with life demands.
Rebecca K. Britt, Andrew M. Englebert
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A 10-year analysis of metastatic prostate cancer as an initial presentation in an underserved population

International Brazilian Journal of Urology, 2014
Objective To analyze patients from an underserved area who presented initially with metastatic prostate cancer in order to identify patients in our population who would suffer greatly if PSA screening was eliminated.
Andrew G. Winer, John P. Sfakianos, Llewellyn M. Hyacinthe, Brian K. McNeil   +3 more
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Effectiveness of Telemedicine in Diabetes Management: A Retrospective Study in an Urban Medically Underserved Population Area (UMUPA)

Informatics, 2023
This paper examines the efficacy of telemedicine (TM) technology compared to traditional face-to-face (F2F) visits as an alternative healthcare delivery service for managing diabetes in populations residing in urban medically underserved areas (UMUPAs ...
Lisa Ariellah Ward, Gulzar H. Shah, Jeffery A. Jones, Linda Kimsey, Hani Samawi   +4 more
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Prenatal Nutrition and Fetal Macrosomia in Medically Underserved Areas [PDF]

Journal of Nutritional Therapeutics, 2012
Though fetal Macrosomia is often defined as a condition in which the fetus is 4000 grams or more in weight, controversy exists on the exact birth weight that can be used as a bench mark.  Fetal macrosomia creates several diagnostic and management difficulties in developed countries.
Ute Inegbenebor, Maureen Ebomoyi
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Entendendo a necessidade de médicos no interior da Amazônia - Brasil

Revista Brasileira de Educação Médica
Um dos dilemas atuais do setor saúde no mundo é a má distribuição de médicos entre áreas rurais e urbanas, e entre capitais e interior. No Brasil, a Região Norte é a que possui a menor quantidade de médicos por habitantes.
Rodrigo Pinheiro Silveira, Roseni Pinheiro   +1 more
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Addressing the Rural and Underserved Healthcare Workforce Needs: Residency Specialty Selection and Workforce Outcomes of the WWAMI AHEC Scholars Program

Journal of Regional Medical Campuses
Introduction: The availability of well-trained healthcare providers in rural and medically underserved areas in the United States is crucial for improving health outcomes.
Kenya Morales-Luna , Stacey Morrison, Toby Keys   +2 more
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Abandonment of prescriptions in medically underserved areas: Primary medication non-adherence in community pharmacies in the delta region of the United States

Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy
Background: In the U.S. alone, medication non-adherence is estimated to cause 1 in 10 hospitalizations, approximately 125,000 deaths annually, and cost the U.S. healthcare system just under $300 billion each year. Patients in medically underserved areas (
Minghui Li, Matthew Harmon, Mike Wasson, Lindsey Cardosi, Lindsey Henson, Hunter Hill, Brad Ian Jobe, Sydnee E. Hewitt, Kenneth C. Hohmeier   +8 more
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Community Health Centers: The Challenge of Growing to Meet the Need for Primary Care in Medically Underserved Communities [PDF]

, 2012
Provides an overview of community health centers, their patients, and recent federal and state funding cuts, as well as funding prospects for the centers' expansion to meet greater demand among patients newly eligible for Medicaid or private ...

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