Underserved Area
Patient perspectives on quality family planning services in underserved areas
... for underserved populations as a result of community health center (CHC) expansion and insurance reform under the ACA, new models for primary care delivery such as the Patient-Centered Medical Home, a movement on ...
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Survey of patient perceptions towards short term mobile medical aid for those living in a medically underserved area of Swaziland
... A medical mission was dispatched to improve the healthcare environment of Swaziland by offering disease control education, training, guidance, experience, and methodologies as practiced in Taiwan. These efforts in- ...
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Financial incentives for return of service in underserved areas: a systematic review
... in underserved communities because the former will compete with the latter for patients and practice ...into underserved communities attracts non-partici- pating health workers to the same communities ...
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Best Methods for Increasing Medical Translators for Limited English Proficient Patients: The Carrot or the Stick?
... It does not make sense to spend greater money trying to enforce stipulations in the spending clause when physicians in rural areas are already losing money on government sponsored programs like Medicaid and Medicare. ...
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Implementing academic detailing for breast cancer screening in underserved communities
... generally underserved with regard to breast cancer prevention and screening practices, even though they are more likely to die of breast cancer than are other ...
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High Prevalence of Overweight Among Pediatric Users of Community Health Centers
... This study had several limitations. The cross-sec- tional observational design does not allow causal inference. Furthermore, the health care– based sam- pling may not have yielded a representative sample of children ...
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Voluntary work of pharmacy students in two regions of South Korea without the separation of the dispensary from medical practice
... medically underserved areas of ...medically underserved areas of Korea that do not have separate prescribing and dispensing, the pharmacy students dispensed and compounded medications under the supervision ...
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Pediatrician Workforce Policy Statement
... other underserved areas, and more primary care pediatri- cians will be needed in the future because of the increasing number of children who have signi fi cant chronic health problems, changes in phy- sician work ...
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A 5A's communication intervention to promote physical activity in underserved populations
... Conservative estimates place direct health care costs of sedentary behavior at 24.3 billion dollars per year and of obesity at 70–147 (2008 est.) billion dollars per year [65,66]. Recent data suggest that behavioral risk ...
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Learning to Generate Wikipedia Summaries for Underserved Languages from Wikidata
... We evaluate our approach by measuring how close our synthesised summaries can be to ac- tual summaries in Wikipedia against two other baselines of different natures: a language model, and an information retrieval ...
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Serving underserved transplant recipients: experience of the Medication Access Program
... The goal of MAP is to increase medication access for underserved, low-income solid-organ transplant recipients through education and enrollment into medication assistance programs. MAP recipients who are not ...
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Medically Underserved Girls Receive Less Evaluation for Short Stature
... WHAT’S KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT: Boys outnumber girls ⬃ 2 to 1 in growth hormone (GH) registries and subspecialist endocrine clinics that evaluate short stature, yet the prevalence of growt[r] ...
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Accelerometry cut points for physical activity in underserved African Americans
... Second, like Heil, Hooker and colleagues used relative oxygen uptake and standard metabolic equivalents (METs; calculated as relative oxygen uptake/3.5) as the measure of EE [10,13]. There is growing concern, however, ...
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Inclusion of diverse populations in genomic research and health services: Genomix workshop report
... serving underserved populations will need ongoing education on advances in genomic medicine and management approaches based on genetically determined variants (Feero and Green, 2011; Radice et ...other ...
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The Relationship Between Core Knowledge Sequence Curriculum and Smarter Balance Assessment English Language Arts Scores
... The Journeys curriculum taught in the Fairmont School District focuses on English language arts. skill development, and therefore underserved student populations, such as students living[r] ...
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Evaluation of Communities of Practice performance developing implementation research to enhance maternal health decision-making in Mexico and Nicaragua
... This article is based on the results of the project “ Strengthening capacities to demand, access and apply implementation research to scale-up maternal health programs for underserved po[r] ...
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Between Drought and Disparity: American Indian Farmers, Resource Bureaucracy, and Climate Vulnerability in the Southern Plains
... to underserved populations and rural communities, while also improving access to and participation in USDA programs, as well as working to provide additional economic benefits to these areas” (USDA NRCS, Oklahoma, ...
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The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on the Safety-Net. A Focus on Two Community-based Clinics Serving Latin@ Immigrants in the Greater New Orleans Region
... metropolitan area is limited as this underserved population faces many barriers and systemic obstacles. The availability and quality of services depends on the individual’s immigration status, English ...
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Healthcare support for underserved communities using a mobile social media platform
... connects underserved rural patients in Bangladesh to general practitioners (GPs) – allowing GPs, based on queries and information support provided, to evaluate patient conditions virtually and provide answers for ...
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Using Telemedicine to Provide Pediatric Subspecialty Care to Children With Special Health Care Needs in an Underserved Rural Community
... The telemedicine clinic for CSHCN was established in Oroville, CA, a community located 90 miles north of the UCDCH in Sacra- mento. The city of Oroville and surrounding communities are designated health professional ...
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