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Minding the gap: a decomposition of emergency department use by Medicaid enrollees and the uninsured.
OBJECTIVE: To examine differences in Emergency Department (ED) utilization...
Direct Link | 10th October, 2008
| Department of Political Science, Rice University Houston, Texas
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Hispanics and health insurance coverage: the rising disparity.
BACKGROUND: Many reports have focused attention on the rising percentage...
Direct Link | 10th October, 2008
| Department of Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Racial disparities in Medicaid enrollment and prenatal care initiation among pregnant teens in Florida: comparisons between 1995 and 2001.
BACKGROUND: Teens and racial and ethnic minority women are less likely to...
Direct Link | 10th October, 2008
| RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-2194, USA.
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The role of citizenship, employment, and socioeconomic characteristics in health insurance coverage among Asian subgroups in the United States.
BACKGROUND: Asians are the third largest and one of the fastest growing...
Direct Link | 10th October, 2008
| Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA.
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Executive physicals--bad medicine on three counts.
This ethnographic study was conducted to determine what homeless people...
Direct Link | 8th October, 2008
| HealthPartners Medical Group and Clinics, Minneapolis, USA.
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| Presents the recipient of the 2008 Robert F. Allen Symbol of H .O .P.E Award Dr. Paul R. Polak.
| 7th October, 2008
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Mental health in the context of health disparities.
BACKGROUND: The population served by Federally Qualified Health Centers...
Direct Link | 4th October, 2008
| Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, 10920 Wilshire Blvd.,
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| "Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale".
| 3rd October, 2008
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| The relative importance of unmeasured covariates in racial/ethnic disparities research.
| 2nd October, 2008
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| Overcoming racial and ethnic disparities in blood pressure control: a patient-centered approach to cross-cultural communication.
| 1st October, 2008
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A renaissance in primary health care. data/*trends
BACKGROUND: Asians are the third largest and one of the fastest growing...
Direct Link | 26th September, 2008
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Implementing colorectal cancer screening in community health centers: addressing cancer health disparities through a regional cancer collaborative.
BACKGROUND: The population served by Federally Qualified Health Centers...
Direct Link | 26th September, 2008
| National Cancer Institute,
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Utilities should not be multiplied: evidence from the preference-based scores in the United States.
OBJECTIVE: Several estimators exist when average utility scores are not...
Direct Link | 5th September, 2008
| From the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic,
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Multilevel modeling of regional variation in equity in health care.
BACKGROUND: The use of a concentration index is recommended to estimate...
Direct Link | 5th September, 2008
| National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, Health
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Equity of access to outpatient care and hospitalization among older community residents in Brazil.
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether, as mandated by Brazilian law, health care...
Direct Link | 5th September, 2008
| Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo,
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