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December 1, 2009 | Issue Brief/Audio/Presentation Material/Report/Video
Health policy experts discuss various care management programs which seek to reduce costs while enhancing quality for people with complex health care needs. Patients with complex health care needs account for a high percentage of annual medical ex ...
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article compares the effect of socioeconomic status on consumption of health care services in Canada and the United States. Canada offers universal health care while the United States has a more complex mix of private and public insurance, and previous research has indicated that socioeconomic status is more likely to effect health care use in the United States than in Canada.
May 15, 2005 | Story
Tamera Coyne-Beasley earned an M.P.H. degree with a focus in epidemiology as part of her Clinical Scholars training.
May 1, 2002 | Program Results Report
Health Care For All evaluated, upgraded and expanded Helpline, its consumer information and referral service that provides information and assistance to consumers who face financial, cultural or other systemic barriers to accessing needed health care services.
May 15, 2008 | Program Results Report
If all that mattered to dying children and their families was an all-expenses-paid trip to the Grand Canyon or the World Series, it would be easy enough to ease the pain of young lives prematurely foreclosed.
May 15, 2008 | Program Results Report
The Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) at University Hospital in Newark is the sort of place people land without warning: a gunshot wound late at night; a car accident on the way home from the movies.
May 15, 2008 | Program Results Report
The Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation created Ikayurtem Unatai (Helping Hands), a palliative care program for Native Alaskans living in the 34 villages that comprise Bristol Bay.
May 15, 2008 | Program Results Report
The West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center is the largest in the Veterans Affairs (VA) system, and an easy place to get lost in - literally, and medically.
May 15, 2008 | Program Results Report
A large portion of the Safe Conduct team's efforts takes the form of gentle and persistent probing for problems that patients choose to keep to themselves.
May 15, 2008 | Program Results Report
The West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center operated Pathways of Caring to help dying veterans receiving health care services at the medical center.