Reducing Racial Bias Among Health Care Providers
June 1, 2007 | Journal Article
Lessons from Social-Cognitive Psychology
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Career and Time Management Strategies for Clinical and Health Services Researchers
October 1, 2007 | Journal Article
This paper is aimed at junior clinical researchers and addresses time management issues associated with balancing the competing demands of academic medicine. The authors identify a number of strategies, including: figuring out which goals are the mo ...
Portland Ladder to Leadership Fellow Moves From Medicine to Public Health Advocacy
April 10, 2013 | Story
As a physician in Hood River, Ore., Helen Bellanca was comfortable as a medical authority but not in spearheading health care change. She became a Ladder to Leadership fellow and in the process a public health advocate.
Oregon Works!: Promoting Change Through Person-Directed Care
April 25, 2011 | Program Result
The Oregon Works! project of Better Jobs Better Care aimed to improve recruitment and retention of direct-care workers at eight participating long-term-care sites. The union representing the state's independent home-care workers also participated.
Are Preventable Hospitalizations Sensitive to Changes in Access to Primary Care?
August 1, 2007 | Journal Article
This paper examined whether expanded access to health care, such as provided by Oregon's comprehensive Oregon Health Plan (OHP), affected rates of preventable hospitalization (PH). The authors used a retrospective study to analyze PH rates for Medic ...
Studying Cultural Competence, Race and Quality of Care
July 14, 2009 | Story
"This program was pivotal in my career. It gave me unconditional support to do the work I wanted to do and made me really feel my work was valued and important," said Saha.
Dentists Can Convince Their Patients to Quit Smoking Through CRUSE Counseling
March 1, 2005 | 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.
Oregon Hospital Helps Establish Faith in Action Volunteer Caregivers Program
April 1, 2007 | Program Result
From 2001 to 2004, staff at Sherwood Faith in Action in Sherwood, Ore., recruited, trained and deployed volunteers to provide caregiver services locally to both disabled and frail elderly people.
State Action for Oral Health Access
November 1, 2007 | Program Result
State Action for Oral Health Access supported six state-based demonstration projects that tested innovative and comprehensive ways to increase access to oral health services for low income and minority populations.