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Improving Access to Hepatitis C Treatment for Uninsured Patients in Southeast Georgia
Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association, 2020 Background: In this brief report, we discuss enhancing access to hepatitis C treatment for uninsured patients in Southeast Georgia. Methods: Through our screening program for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections in a local safety net emergency department ...
Bonzo Reddick, MariAnna O'Ree
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Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association, 2019 Background: The association between cardiovascular mortality, per capita income and uninsured rates in Georgia have not been well described. Methods: Cardiovascular mortality rates, per capita income and uninsured rates were obtained for the years 1994 ...
Monique Bethel +2 more
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International Journal of Integrated Care, 2020 Background: Residents living in US-Mexico border communities have some of the worst health outcomes nationally. This randomized trial evaluated whether patients receiving enhanced integrated behavioral health (IBH) care at a southern Texas free and ...
Amy Flynn +4 more
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Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2020 Since the release of Healthy People 2020, there has been extensive research understanding factors associated with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among specific populations.
Guillermo M. Wippold +4 more
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian +3 more
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Emergency department visits for hemodialysis by insurance status in the United States
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2022 Objective Many uninsured patients with end‐stage kidney disease (ESKD) depend upon the emergency department (ED) for hemodialysis (HD). We sought to characterize ED visits for emergent HD by insurance status.
Julianna West +7 more
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Pharmacy, 2016 The uninsured population has much to gain from affordable sources of prescription medications. No prior studies have assessed the prevalence and predictors of low-cost generic drug programs (LCGP) use in the uninsured population in the United States.
Joshua D. Brown +2 more
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Effects of medicaid expansion on poverty disparities in health insurance coverage
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021 Background More than 30 states have either expanded Medicaid or are actively considering expansion. The coverage gains from this policy are well documented, however, the impacts of its increasing coverage on poverty disparity are unclear at the national ...
Yilu Lin, Alisha Monnette, Lizheng Shi
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Uninsured Rural Families [PDF]
The Journal of Rural Health, 2008 ABSTRACT: Context:Although research shows higher uninsured rates among rural versus urban individuals, prior studies are limited because they do not examine coverage across entire rural families.Purpose:This study uses the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) to compare rural and urban insurance coverage within families, to inform the design of ...
Erika C, Ziller +3 more
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Clinical Ophthalmology, 2022 Ailin Song,1 Nicholas A Johnson,1 Delaram Mirzania,1,2 Alexandria M Ayala,1 Kelly W Muir,3,4 Atalie C Thompson3,5 1Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA; 2Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kellogg Eye Center, University of ...
Song A +5 more
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