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Well-Child Care Practice Redesign for Low-Income Children: The Perspectives of Health Plans, Medical Groups, and State Agencies

open access: yesAcademic pediatrics, 2011
Objective The aim of this study was to examine the views of key stakeholders in health care payer organizations on the use of practice redesign strategies to improve the delivery of well-child care (WCC) to low-income children aged 0 to 3 years.
Tumaini R. Coker   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Does High-Risk Pool Coverage Meet the Needs of People at Risk for Disability?

open access: yesInquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2008
State high-risk insurance pools serve people denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions. With benefit plans modeled on the individual market, these pools generally require higher out-of-pocket expenditures and provide fewer benefits than employer-
Jean P. Hall, Janice M. Moore
doaj   +1 more source

Students in times of pandemic: Employment, living conditions, and health. Case studies from Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus

open access: yesGeographia Polonica, 2021
The article draws attention to the importance of gainful employment of students. The pandemic has largely limited such opportunities. Study objective: Determination of the scope in which students recognise limitation, its consequences for their plans ...
Zofia Kawczyńska-Butrym   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Malnutrition-related conditions and interventions in US state/territorial Older Americans Act aging plans

open access: yesBMC Geriatrics, 2022
Background Factors that decrease independence and increase morbidity must be reduced to improve the nutrition, health, and other challenges confronting older adults.
Mary Beth Arensberg   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Massachusetts Infertility Insurance Mandate: not nearly enough

open access: yesF&S Reports, 2022
Objective: To assess the impact of statutory federal and state exceptions to the state law mandating insurance coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility.
Katherine G. Koniares, M.D.   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Succession Planning in State Health Agencies in the United States: A Brief Report

open access: yesJournal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2017
Objective: Approximately 25% of the public health workforce plans to retire by 2020. Succession planning is a core capability of the governmental public health enterprise; however, limited data are available regarding these efforts in state health ...
Elizabeth Harper   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Promoting Public Health through State Cancer Control Plans: A Review of Capacity and Sustainability

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2015
The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control’s National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program oversees Comprehensive Cancer Control (CCC) programs designed to develop and implement CCC plans via CCC coalitions, alliances or consortia of program ...
Marcia G Ory   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Healthcare disparities and models for change. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
With Healthy People 2010 making the goal of eliminating health disparities a national priority, policymakers, researchers, medical centers, managed care organizations (MCOs), and advocacy organizations have been called on to move beyond the historic ...
Bengen-Seltzer, Barbara   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Emergency preparedness for infant and young child feeding in emergencies (IYCF-E): an Australian audit of emergency plans and guidance

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2019
Background Australia experiences a high incidence of natural emergencies and Australian governments have committed significant investment into emergency preparedness and response.
Karleen Gribble   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Supplementary Health and aging after 19 years of regulation: where are we now?

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Geriatria e Gerontologia, 2017
The present article aims to analyze the changes in supplementary health and their effects on the adherence to and maintenance within health plans of the elderly, to demonstrate the current state of the care model offered, and to begin the debate ...
Martha Oliveira   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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