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Cost-effectiveness of primary care-based risk assessment and hereditary cancer genetic testing

BMC Primary Care
Background Guidelines recommend identifying individuals with a family or personal history of cancer, offering genetic testing, with the goal of managing disease risk.
Beth Devine, Sanne E. Aalbers, HuiHsuan Chan, Shangqing Jiang, Emerson J. Dusic, Sarah Knerr, Heather M. Harris, Catharine Wang, Barbara M. Norquist, Laurie A. Riemann, Jeannine M. Brant, Brian H. Shirts, Elizabeth M. Swisher   +12 more
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Impacts of Public School Choice Act of 2013 [PDF]

, 2015
The Public School Choice Act of 2013 (Act 1227) allows students to transfer to a nonresident district. Previous school choice law restrictions based on race, were removed in the new law.
McKenzie, Sarah C., Ritter, Gary W.
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
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School choice and information

Estudios de Economía, 2012
Uno de los pilares detrás del sistema chileno de vouchers es que la competencia entre escuelas por atraer alumnos debiera conducir a mejoras en la calidad de la educación. Encuestas a padres de familia indican que los padres desconocenel desempeño de las
Daniel Gómez, Rómulo A. Chumacero, Ricardo D. Paredes   +2 more
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Lessons from Florida: School Choice Gives Increased Opportunities to Children with Special Needs [PDF]

, 2003
In 2000, Florida instituted an innovative school choice program for children with disabilities. During the 2000-01 school year, the McKay Scholarship Program for Students with Disabilities provided scholarships to more than 1,000 students who chose to ...
David Salisbury
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in Rates of Uncontrolled Hypertension Among Federally Qualified Health Center Patients, 2019 to 2022: State-Level Group-Based Trajectory Modeling Analysis

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted primary care and chronic disease management in the U.S., potentially affecting hypertension control differently across populations, particularly in patients with limited healthcare access.
Chaohua Li, Katherine Chung-Bridges, Megan D. Douglas, Kevin Espinoza, Mohamed Mubasher, Anne Gaglioti, Bryant Bailey, Dominic H. Mack, Peter T. Baltrus   +8 more
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Inpatient Food Insecurity and Pediatric Hematology Oncology Hospitalization Outcomes

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children with cancer and blood disorders are at risk for food insecurity (FI). We aimed to describe the association of inpatient food insecurity (IFI) and hospitalization outcomes among patients admitted to the pediatric hematology oncology service. Of 325 caregivers screened for IFI, 60 (18.6%) screened positive.
Joanna M. Robles, Greg Russell, Leila H. DeWitt, Kimberly Montez, Callie L. Brown   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Exploratory Analysis of U.S. Academically Intensive Charter Schools (AICS)

Education Sciences
Considerable amounts of research have discussed “No Excuses” charter schools preparing traditionally disadvantaged students for higher education. Yet, no scholarly work has identified or investigated U.S.
Robert Maranto, Jamison White, Sean Woytek   +2 more
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Les politiques éducatives aux États-Unis

Revue Internationale d’Éducation de Sèvres, 2017
US education policymakers are currently deliberating between two approaches to improving school quality: market-based systems that privatize school management, and capacity-building approaches that deepen public investments.
Frank Adamson
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