Wagner, Jennifer K.
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Ethnicity & Disease
There has been growing recognition of the importance of diversity and inclusion of underrepresented minority populations, including immigrants, in genomic research and precision medicine. Achieving diversity has been difficult and has led some scholars to question whether the law is a help or a threat to the inclusion of underserved and underrepres...
Hobday, K Hulme, J Prata, N Wate, PZ Belton, S Homer, C
© Hobday et al. Background: Mozambique has a high maternal mortality ratio, and postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is a leading cause of maternal deaths. In 2015, the Mozambican Ministry of Health (MOH) commenced a program to distribute misoprostol at the community level in selected districts as a strategy to reduce PPH. This case study uses the ExpandNet...
Petrova, Mila Barclay, Stephen
Background: The red tape and delays around research ethics and governance approvals frequently frustrate researchers yet, as the lesser of two evils, are largely accepted as unavoidable. Here we quantify aspects of the research ethics and governance approvals for one interview- and questionnaire-based study conducted in England which used the Natio...
Faux, M Wardle, J Thompson-Butel, AG Adams, J
© 2018 Author(s). Importance Billing errors and healthcare fraud have been described by the WHO as the last great unreduced health-care cost'. Estimates suggest that 7% of global health expenditure (US$487 billion) is wasted from this phenomenon. Irrespective of different payment models, challenges exist at the interface of medical billing and medi...
Aelion, C Marjorie Airhihenbuwa, Collins O Alemagno, Sonia Amler, Robert W Arnett, Donna K Balas, Andrew Bertozzi, Stefano Blakely, Craig H Boerwinkle, Eric Brandt-Rauf, Paul
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Bindman, Andrew B Hulett, Denis Gilmer, Todd P Bertko, John
To characterize the health risk of enrollees in California's state-based insurance marketplace (Covered California) by metal tier, region, month of enrollment, and plan.2014 Open-enrollment data from Covered California linked with 2012 hospitalization and emergency department (ED) visit records from statewide all-payer administrative databases.Chro...
Pignatti, F Ashby, D Brass, EP Eichler, H-G Frey, P Hillege, HL Hori, A Levitan, B Liberti, L Loefstedt, RE
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Barron, AJG Klinger, C Shah, SMB Wright, JSF
© 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. The new regulatory governance perspective has introduced several insights to the study of health technology assessment (HTA): it has broadened the scope for the analysis of HTA; it has provided a more sophisticated account of national diversity and the potential for cross-border policy learning; and, it has dissolved th...
Heller, David J Hoffman, Catherine Bindman, Andrew B
State Medicaid programs and other state health agencies need to monitor and evaluate changes in health insurance coverage, access to care, financing, and the quality of health care delivery. The availability of new financial resources through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is accompanied by raised expectations for such accountabilit...
Ortega-Sanchez, Ismael R Vijayaraghavan, Maya Barskey, Albert E Wallace, Gregory S
BACKGROUND: Despite vaccination efforts and documentation of elimination of indigenous measles in 2000, the United States (US) experienced a marked increase in imported cases and outbreaks of measles in 2011. Due to the high infectiousness and potential severity of measles, these outbreaks require a vigorous response from public health institutions...
