Neighborhood Perceptions and Active School Commuting in Low-Income Cities
October 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Improving neighborhood environments to make them more pleasant are likely to increse active travel to and from school.
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Understanding State Variation In Heatlh Insurance Dynamics Can Help Tailor Enrollment Strategies For ACA Expansion
September 26, 2013 | Journal Article
These estimates provide a baseline for assessing how outreach and enrollment efforts can be improved by knowledge about differences in the incidence and duration of uninsured spells across states.
Perceived Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Stroke
September 16, 2013 | Journal Article
Perceived neighborhood social cohesion and physical health may play an important role in protecting against stroke.
Effect of Pay-for-Performance Incentives on Quality of Care in Small Practices with Electronic Health Records
September 11, 2013 | Journal Article
A pay-for-performance (P4P) incentive program targeting the proportion of patients achieving measures of preventive services resulted in modest improvements in cardiovascular care.
Effects of Individual Physician-Level and Practice-Level Financial Incentives on Hypertension Care
September 11, 2013 | Journal Article
Individual financial incentives (but not practice-level or combined) resulted in greater hypertension care, yet the effect of the incentive was not sustained after a washout period a new study finds.
Survey Of High-Risk Pool Enrollees Suggests That Targeted Transition Education And Outreach Should Begin Soon
September 9, 2013 | Journal Article
Several provisions of the Affordable Care Act make state and federal high-risk pools unnecessary beginning in January 2014. The authors estimate that approximately half of the enrollees will qualify for Medicaid or premium subsidies in the exchange.
Private Insurers' Payments For Routine Physician Office Visits Vary Substantially Across The United States
September 9, 2013 | Journal Article
This study examines variations in private payments to physicians.
The Cost Of Overtriage
September 9, 2013 | Journal Article
Researchers compare the adjusted total cost of acute injury care to hospital admission costs transported by EMS to acute care hospitals in the western U.S.
Video Game Training Enhances Cognitive Control in Older Adults
September 5, 2013 | Journal Article
A custom-designed video game can assess cognitive abilities over time and improve cognitive abilities as people age.
Depression, Neighborhood Deprivation and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
September 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Understanding the relationship between diabetes and depression is important in addressing social and health disparities.