Underserved or Vulnerable Populations
A Call to Action: Creating Accountable Care Organizations Answerable to Underserved and Vulnerable Populations. The Drive to Create Access & Quality
... • Providers (hospitals, doctors, etc…) come together to provide care to a population • ACOs accept collective responsibility for health care costs, quality and outcomes?. • May involve m[r] ...
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Student Impact on Health: Providing Collaborative Care to Underserved Populations with the Implementation of a Mobile Health Program
... The Mobile Health Program's first semester in the spring of 2015, provided three clinic sites, while 12 clinic sites were provided in the fall of the same year. In 2016, the spring program witnessed 15 clinic sites, ...
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Spatial patterns of diabetes related health problems for vulnerable populations in Los Angeles
... cally underserved community and the emergency department (ED) treats more than 300,000 visits a ...a vulnerable population to whom this is the only point of access to health care and whose actions pose the ...
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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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Advancing Informed Consent for Vulnerable Populations
... The tension is clear. To provide a comprehensive review of the proposed research, the informed consent document and process are often lengthy, complex, and burdensome. 2 Consequently, research participants who sign or ...
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Using mobile technology to promote access, effective patient–provider communication, and adherence in underserved populations
... effective than phone call reminders (Yeager & Menachemi, 2011). The authors noted that only two of these 10 studies were conducted in primary care and none were conducted in the United States. In addition, few ...
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A decision framework to identify populations that are most vulnerable to the population level effects of disturbance
... on populations of 5,000 harbor seals (Phoca vitulina), harbor porpoise (Pho- coena phocoena) and bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), varying the proportion of those populations likely to be ...
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LifeSteps: An Evidence-based Health Promotion Program for Underserved Populations – A Community Service Learning Approach
... promotion program to address the diverse needs of underserved populations in community-based settings. The combination of racial and ethnic disparities coupled with aspects of environmental, physical, ...
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Special Needs of Vulnerable and Underserved Populations: Models, Existing and Proposed, to Meet Them
... edge and new approaches to the health problems of mothers and children, including children with special health care needs, which can be applied in the health care delivery system;.. MCH [r] ...
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Genetic diversity in populations of Erica andevalensis , a vulnerable metallophyte species from the Iberian Peninsula
... Several PCR-based techniques, such as RFLP (Restric- tion fragment length polymorphism), RAPD (Random amplified polymorphic DNA), AFLP (Amplified fragment length polymorphism) or SSR (Simple sequence repeat, also known ...
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Evaluating Intended and Unintended Consequences of Health Policy and Regulation in Vulnerable Populations
... antidepressant prescription fills after Part D. This suggests that once they surmounted initial barriers to access (such as clinician prescribing and coverage restrictions), they received prescription drug treatment for ...
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The use of incentives in vulnerable populations for a telephone survey: a randomized controlled trial
... [1,3,4,17-19]. Unconditional incentives, which are pre- paid and not conditional upon participation, have been shown to be more effective than conditional incentives, [9,14,16,20-22] particularly in minority and low ...
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Three-dimensional Ultrasound Measurements of Carotid Atherosclerosis in Vulnerable Patient Populations
... in populations enrolled in clinical trials, until now, such measurements have been performed manually which is laborious, time-consuming and prone to intra-observer and inter-observer ...
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Multiply vulnerable populations: Mobilising a politics of compassion from the 'capacity to hurt'
... own livelihoods, and their surrounding social and material environments. Yet, they are also articulated through the lens of the nation, in which the UK – and specifically its ability to support hard working majority ...
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Multiply vulnerable populations: mobilising a politics of compassion from the 'capacity to hurt'
... marginal populations in the UK (including homeless people, unemployed, children etc) with whom they are perceived to be in competition with for access to limited ...
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Tobacco use and health insurance literacy among vulnerable populations: implications for health reform
... many vulnerable popula- tions face in choosing and using health insurance cast doubt on whether private insurance markets are managed and regulated sufficiently to achieve the aims of coverage expansion ...
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Serving the underserved market
... KPMG can help your financial services organization respond to this underserved market opportunity. Our Financial Services practice can work with you to analyze customer segmentation, design a portfolio of business ...
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Pro-tobacco marketing and anti-tobacco campaigns aimed at vulnerable populations: A review of the literature.
... This study was completed as part of the collaborative research being conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science (TCORS) ...
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A Multicounty Analysis Identifying the Populations Vulnerable to Mortality Associated with High Ambient Temperature in California
... izers, and diuretics), people with lower socioeconomic status (e.g., those engaging in outdoor occupations), and socially isolated populations (e.g., living alone, especially on higher floors of apartment ...
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Targeting vulnerable populations: a synthetic review on alcohol use and risky sexual behaviour among migrant populations
... A comprehensive literature search was conducted to identify articles meeting the following criteria: empirical articles, measuring the association between alcohol use and an outcome of risky sexual behaviour among ...
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