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Community Collaboration for Culturally Sensitive Mental Healthcare A review of culturally sensitive mental health care illustrates the importance of addressing culture and maintaining dialogue and collaboration between various constituencies within communities. The Collaborative HIV Prevention and Adolescent Mental Health Project... Published In: National Council Magazine	Journal articles	11/20/2009
Is Conventional Wisdom Wrong? This study is part of Healthcare for Communities (HCC) which reports on a cross-sectional comparative survey of state Medicaid managed care programs conducted in 2000, analyzing Medicaid data collected and compiled by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Published In: Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment	Journal articles	11/20/2009
Medicaid Managed Care, Substance Abuse Treatment, and People with Disabilities: A Review of the Literature Nearly seven million Americans with disabilities receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and, in most states, are enrolled in Medicaid managed care plans. Research has shown that there is a high rate of co-occurring substance abuse disorders among SSI... Published In: Health & Social Work	Journal articles	11/20/2009
Beyond the Cathedral: Building Trust to Engage the African American Community in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention The Center for Minority Health (CMH) at the University of Pittsburgh has developed sustainable public health interventions for the African-American community in Pittsburgh. Through one program, African-American owned barbershops and beauty salons began providing... Published In: Health Promotion Practice	Journal articles	11/17/2009
Finding the Impact in a Messy Intervention This article looks specifically at the design of the Urban Health Initiative evaluation. It highlights the program's integrated evaluation design, bringing together a theory of change and a quasi-experimental approach, including comparison city usage. Published In: American Journal of Evaluation	Journal articles	11/17/2009
Use of Inexpensive Technology to Enhance Adolescent Health Screening and Counseling Health behavior screening conducted on a personal digital assistant helped one set of doctors better counsel their teen patients during well visits. Published In: Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine	Journal articles	11/13/2009
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Asthma Self-Management Support Comparing Clinic-Based Nurses and In-Home Community Health Workers Adding home health visits by community health workers for families already receiving in-clinic support from asthma nurses, gives their asthmatic children 24 more symptom-free days per year on average and also modestly improves quality of life for... Published In: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine	Journal articles	11/13/2009
Evidence for Connections Between Prosecutor-Reported Marijuana Case Dispositions and Community Youth Marijuana-Related Attitudes and Behaviors This article examines the relationship between local drug policy, and adolescent attitudes toward and use of marijuana. More severe local drug policy on marijuana use is associated with a decreased likelihood that adolescents will use the drug and an increased... Published In: Crime & Delinquency	Journal articles	11/03/2009
Health-Related Quality of Life Among Mexican Americans Living in Colonias at the Texas?Mexico Border Mexican Americans living in colonias along the Texas-Mexico border comprise one of the most disadvantaged and difficult to reach minority groups in the United States. This article examines health-related quality of life (HRQL) in Hispanics, specifically living... Published In: Social Science & Medicine	Journal articles	09/25/2009
Does the Racial Composition of the School Environment Influence Children's Body Mass Index? This paper looks at the issues of obesity, race and gender, and determines whether school environment influences body mass index (BMI) and whether the racial and gender context one grows up in may also end up affecting BMI. Published In: Journal of Adolescent Health	Journal articles	08/06/2009

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