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State Choices, Unequal Access: Policies Shaping Reproductive Health Care Across the United States

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points State policies and programs play an outsized role in shaping availability and access to sexual and reproductive health services across the nation. This has a major impact on women's access to contraception, abortion, and maternity services.
ALINA SALGANICOFF, IVETTE GOMEZ, USHA RANJI   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Participatory Research to Build Narrative Power: Results From Survey Research to Support Community Organizing for Health Justice and Equity

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Community organizers addressing health issues use narrative strategy to shift public attitudes, build support for health‐affirming policies, and motivate collective action. Through a mixed methods research partnership with a power‐building organization, we evaluate how narrative power is leveraged to disrupt dominant ideas about the ...
YUSRA MURAD, KRISTINA MEDERO, CHLOE GANSEN, JASMINE SANDATE, MARISSA HALLO, SARAH E. GOLLUST   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who are the uninsured, and why are they uninsured? [PDF]

Since 2000, the number of uninsured Americans, both nationally and in New England, has risen by nearly 20 percent. In 2005, 46.6 million Americans and 1.5 million New Englanders lacked health insurance. For millions more Americans, the prospect of losing
Antoniya Owens
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Opening the Door Wider to Community Support of People With Serious Mental Illnesses: What States Can Learn From the IDD Experience

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points The federal government should provide states with authorities under Medicaid that allow greater use of home and community‐based services for people with serious and persistent mental illness. This requires deemphasizing authorities that require budget neutrality in a post‐institutionalization world (Section 1115 waivers) and relying on ...
HAROLD POLLACK, RICHARD FRANK, SHERRY GLIED   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing Health Equity and Patient Engagement in Diabetes Care: Technology-Aided Continuous Glucose Monitoring Pilot Implementation Project

JMIR Diabetes
Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) provide service to medically underserved areas and communities, providing care to over 32 million patients annually.
Madhur Thakur, Eric W Maurer, Kim Ngan Tran, Anthony Tholkes, Sripriya Rajamani, Roli Dwivedi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hospitals, Managed Care, and the Charity Caseload in California [PDF]

Many observers have blamed HMOs for increasing financial pressures on private hospitals and causing them to cut back on the provision of charity care. We examine this issue using data on all hospital discharges in California between 1988 and 1996.
John Fahr, Janet Currie
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Addressing Social and Cultural Needs with Lean Management in a National Sample of US Physician Practices

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points This national study of US physician practices finds that lean management, an approach to operational excellence and continuous quality improvement, can support integration of social and cultural services in primary care. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and commercial payers can expand programs including value‐based, two‐sided
DOROTHY Y. HUNG, LILLIAN C. LEVY, KAREN E. SCHIFFERDECKER, DASHA E. ZERBONI, STEPHEN M. SHORTELL   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

CAPITALIZING CRISIS: Urban Extractivism in Athens Amidst Neoliberal Restructurings

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we examine the post‐2009 transformation of Athens through the analytical lens of urban extractivism. We argue that the Greek sovereign debt crisis did not operate as a temporary disruption, but as a durable political condition that enabled the institutionalization of extractive urban governance.
Konstantinos Zafeiris, Chryssanthi Petropoulou, Mara Zacharaki   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cancer Causes Control [PDF]

ObjectiveTo describe the number and proportion of eligible women receiving mammograms funded by the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP).MethodsLow-income, uninsured, and underinsured women aged 40\u201364 are eligible ...

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Identification of cannabis use disorder using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM‐5) versus DSM‐5‐proxy measures: Differences by socio‐demographic characteristics

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and Aims Cannabis use disorder (CUD) is a pressing public health concern in the United States, and understanding trends in prevalence requires considerations of how changes in measurement influence identification of CUD. Starting in 2021, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) assessed CUD using all 11 Diagnostic and ...
Evan L. Eschliman, Erin M. Annunziato, Nicole D. Fitzgerald, Pia M. Mauro   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source