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The health and healthcare impact of providing insurance coverage to uninsured children: A prospective observational study

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background Of the 4.8 million uninsured children in America, 62–72% are eligible for but not enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP. Not enough is known, however, about the impact of health insurance on outcomes and costs for previously uninsured children, which ...
Glenn Flores, Hua Lin, Candice Walker, Michael Lee, Janet M. Currie, Rick Allgeyer, Alberto Portillo, Monica Henry, Marco Fierro, Kenneth Massey   +9 more
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Implementing Telemedicine Visits in an Underserved Ophthalmology Clinic in the COVID-19 Era

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2021
Introduction: Many of the potential barriers to providing telehealth services already disproportionately impact vulnerable populations. The purpose of this study was to assess the incorporation of synchronous ophthalmology telemedicine visits in a ...
Mona Adeli, William R. Bloom
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The impact of structural factors on diagnostic delay in diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma

Cancer Medicine, 2019
Background Reducing diagnostic delays in cancer has been a major interest worldwide; however, the literature on diagnostic delays in lymphoma remains scarce. Diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common non‐Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Joanna C. Zurko, Raymond C. Wade, Amitkumar Mehta   +2 more
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Factors associated with high-risk human papillomavirus test utilization and infection: a population-based study of uninsured and underinsured women

BMC Women's Health, 2018
Background Current cervical cancer screening guidelines recommend a Pap test every 3 years for women age 21–65 years, or for women 30–65 years who want to lengthen the screening interval, a combination of Pap test and high-risk human papilloma virus ...
Adana A. M. Llanos, Jennifer Tsui, David Rotter, Lindsey Toler, Antoinette M. Stroup   +4 more
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Community Health Centers Maintained Initial Increases in Medicaid Covered Adult Patients at 5-Years Post-Medicaid-Expansion

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2021
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion created new financial opportunities for community health centers (CHCs) providing primary care in medically-underserved communities. However, beyond evidence of initial policy effects, little is understood
Evan V. Goldstein PhD, MPP
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The classification and nomenclature of 'medically unexplained symptoms': conflict, performativity and critique [PDF]

, 2012
Medically unexplained symptoms – including the many syndromes that fall under this umbrella – involve a discrepancy between professional knowledge and lay experience and are often associated with latent or explicit dynamics of conflict.
Greco, Monica
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Pilot study of a Spanish language measure of financial toxicity in underserved Hispanic cancer patients with low English proficiency

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
BackgroundFinancial toxicity (FT) reflects multi-dimensional personal economic hardships borne by cancer patients. It is unknown whether measures of FT—to date derived largely from English-speakers—adequately capture economic experiences and financial ...
Julia J. Shi, Gwendolyn J. McGinnis, Susan K. Peterson, Nicolette Taku, Ying-Shiuan Chen, Robert K. Yu, Chi-Fang Wu, Tito R. Mendoza, Sanjay S. Shete, Hilary Ma, Robert J. Volk, Sharon H. Giordano, Ya-Chen T. Shih, Diem-Khanh Nguyen, Kelsey W. Kaiser, Grace L. Smith, Grace L. Smith   +16 more
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Screening Colonoscopy among Uninsured and Underinsured Urban Minorities

Gut and Liver, 2015
Background/AimsUninsured individuals have lower rates of screening colonoscopy (SC), and little is known regarding the pathology results obtained when they undergo colonoscopies.
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Prostate Cancer Education, Detection, and Follow-Up in a Community-Based Multiethnic Cohort of Medically Underserved Men

American Journal of Men's Health, 2017
The Prostate Outreach Project (POP) provided free prostate cancer (PCa) education and early detection to medically underserved communities. POP recruited participants in medically underserved communities.
Omotola S. Ashorobi MD, Jacqueline Frost MS, Xuemei Wang MS, Pamela Roberson MS, E. Lin MS, Robert J. Volk PhD, David S. Lopez DrPH, MPH, Lovell A. Jones PhD, Curtis A. Pettaway MD   +8 more
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Factors Associated With the Rising Trend in Self‐Reported Cognitive Disability Among U.S. Adults Aged 18–39 From 2013–2024

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Building on our prior Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System analysis identifying adults aged 18–39 as the primary driver of the national increase in self‐reported cognitive disability, we examined factors associated with this rise using 2013–2024 U.S. BRFSS data. Methods We analyzed U.S.
Adam de Havenon, Ka‐Ho Wong, Mirriam Mananah, Christopher D. Anderson, Ada Fenick, Amy Arnsten, Arman Fesharaki‐Zadeh, James C. McPartland, Mary L. Adams, Kevin N. Sheth   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source