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February 11, 2009 | Program Result Report
The County of Santa Cruz Health Services Agency is the public health department in this California county of 264,000 residents that blends urban, rural and agricultural communities.
January 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
The New England Public Health and Managed Care Collaborative brought together public health departments, major managed care organizations, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Brandeis University to improve the health of New Englanders.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The Public Health Foundation contracted with each of the three associations that comprised the Joint Council of Governmental Public Health Agencies to examine the role of public health agencies in the face of increasing dominance by managed health care organizations.
May 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
The Center for Health Leadership/Western Consortium of Public Health, Oakland, Calif., (now based at the Public Health Institute) carried two workshops that were sponsored by the Public Health Leadership Society during 1996.
Richard Umbdenstock, president and chief executive officer of the American Hospital Association, discusses the trend toward greater integration between public health and health care.
February 23, 2012 | Journal Article
By measuring increased driving time to the nearest emergency department (ED), this study examines ED access and adverse patient outcomes or changes in patient health profiles. Using acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients, the study looks at whet ...
October 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Closures of hospital trauma centers have accelerated since 2001 and may disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities.
June 15, 2011 | Journal Article
Patients with time-sensitive conditions are adversely affected when the nearest emergency department is temporarily not available.
May 18, 2011 | Journal Article
This nationwide study analyzed market and hospital characteristics associated with the closure of emergency departments from 1990 to 2009. Emergency departments in safety-net and for-profit hospitals were less likely to remain open.
August 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Although geographic access to emergency departments has deteriorated in only a small number of communities, these communities tended to be poor, unemployed or Hispanic, suggesting an increasing disparity in access to emergency care.