October 29, 2012
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New Public Health
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To follow is an excerpt of a conversation with Monica Peek, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation scholar and grantee, who presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting about new research exploring the value of high quality doctor-pa ...
April 1, 2002
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Program Result
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Center for Health Policy Research surveyed Medicaid managed care organizations on their preventive practices for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
September 1, 2002
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Program Result
The Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, Portland, Ore., developed and tested new measures to assess the frequency, extent, and quality of tobacco treatment services delivered to patients during routine doctor visits.
November 23, 2009
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Video/Story
Initiative is developing evidence about the most effective ways of organizing, financing and delivering public health services.
March 1, 2005
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Program Result
From 2000 through 2003, researchers from the Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, Ore., implemented and evaluated a tobacco cessation program that dentists provided to low-income people in public clinics.
April 1, 2007
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Program Result
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists spearheaded an effort to establish the U.S. Public Health Service's smoking cessation guideline as a routine part of prenatal care for all pregnant women in the United States.
November 1, 2007
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Story
Race and ethnicity affects how patients and their physicians interact and can impact health outcomes.