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- Title
- Assessing Convergence of Community Benefit Programs and Community Health Needs Among North Carolina's Tax-Exempt Hospitals
- Author
- Fos, Elmer
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Government policy, Health services administration
- Description
- The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requires tax-exempt hospitals to conduct Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) every three years, formulate implementation strategies, and report yearly to the IRS and the public the progress of their work. Th...
- Title
- Assessment and Characterization of HIV Care Continuum in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina 2013-2019
- Author
- Owolabi, Yakubu
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Epidemiology, Health services administration
- Description
- Background: The high burden of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) disease and the increasing rate of new HIV infections among some populations and jurisdictions could reflect failed prevention strategies. Despite progress in controlling the epidem...
- Title
- Automated Meta-Actions Discovery for Personalized Medical Treatments
- Author
- Touati, Hakim
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science, Health services administration
- Description
- Healthcare, among other domains, provides an attractive ground of work for knowledge discovery researchers. There exist several branches of health informatics and health data-mining from which we find actionable knowledge discovery is underserved....
- Title
- Black MSM Oral Health Behaviors and Implications for HIV Risk
- Author
- Johnson, Darrin
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Health services administration, Social service
- Description
- The primary goal of this qualitative and quantitative mixed methods exploratory pilot study is to determine the oral health behaviors of Black men who have sex with men (MSM). The secondary goal of this mixed methods study is to determine if Black...
- Title
- CORONARY REVASCULARIZATION STRATEGIES AND THE EFFECTS OF DIABETES COMPLICATIONS ON POOR HEALTH
- Author
- Ekezue, Bola
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Medical sciences, Health services administration
- Description
- Objectives: This research assessed the effect of comorbid diabetes complications on short-term adverse outcomes: in-hospital mortality, postoperative stroke, postoperative renal failure and readmissions within 30 days of discharge after coronary a...
- Title
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in U.S. Veterans: Comorbidity, Ocular Pathology, and Cost of Care
- Author
- Davis Jr., Charles
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Health services administration, Epidemiology
- Description
- ABSTRACTCHARLES N. DAVIS JR. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in U.S. Veterans: Comorbidity, Ocular Pathology, and Cost of Care (Under the direction of DR. WILLIAM BRANDON)Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of mor...
- Title
- Communicative Needs of Patients who Experience Miscarriage: Understanding Healthcare Communication and Reproductive Self-efficacy
- Author
- Lacci-Reilly, Kandice
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Communication, Health services administration
- Description
- Miscarriage, defined as pregnancy loss in the first 20 weeks of gestation, is a profound and individualized experience. It is estimated to occur in up to one in four pregnancies, resulting in approximately one million miscarriages annually in the ...
- Title
- DISPARITIES IN WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH IN WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA: EXPLORING CONTEXTUAL DETERMINANTS OF ACCESS, USE AND QUALITY OF CARE
- Author
- Olorunsaiye, Comfort
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Health services administration, Area studies
- Description
- Background: The West and Central African region bears the highest burden of maternal mortality globally. Objectives: The aims of this study were to: examine the association between women’s perception of domestic violence (DV) and choice of contrac...
- Title
- Disentangling the Complex Racial Disparities in Health among Adult Beneficiaries under Medicaid Managed Care: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
- Author
- Sun, Chengxiu
- Date Created
- 2010
- Subjects--Topical
- Government policy, Health services administration, Public health--Study and teaching
- Description
- There are few studies of the important issue of racial and ethnic disparities in Medicaid managed care settings. This study addresses this deficiency using data collected by telephone interviews from a randomly stratified sample of adults who were...
- Title
- Effects of Medical Home Among Children With Special Health Care Needs
- Author
- Willits, Kathryn
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Health services administration
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of having access to a medical home on the use of the emergency department, primary care office visits and the number of missed school days among children with special health care needs.Analysi...
- Title
- Effects of hydrocephalus on hospital use, associated costs, and access to care among children with spina bifida
- Author
- Radcliff, Elizabeth
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Health services administration
- Description
- Objectives: This study examined hospital resource use, timeliness of surgical repair of spina bifida (SB), and geographical access to hospital care for infants and children with SB. Methods: This was a retrospective, statewide, population-based st...
- Title
- North Carolina free clinics: Effective primary care provider for the uninsured
- Author
- Hutchison, Jenny
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Health services administration
- Description
- Although the United States has recently made progress in reducing the number of uninsured in the country as a result of the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, millions will continue to be unable to access insurance, ...
- Title
- Preoperative Education and The Reduction of Parental Anxiety
- Author
- Bernardo, Sherry
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Nursing, Medicine, Health services administration
- Description
- Background: One of the most frequently reported emotions in children in the setting of surgery or a medical procedure is anxiety. Currently, many interventions are used to assist with the perioperative reduction in anxiety for both parent and chil...
- Title
- Repair Following Healthcare Institutional Betrayal
- Author
- Richie, Fallon
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Clinical psychology, Health services administration
- Description
- Institutional betrayal is a type of betrayal trauma that occurs when an organization or system perpetrates wrongdoing through acts of omission or commission, against individuals who depend on that system. Originally applied to systems responding t...
- Title
- THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER AND ASTHMA AND USE OF ADDITIONAL SERVICES FOR THEIR MANAGEMENT IN THE NATIONAL SURVEY OF CHILDREN’S HEALTH
- Author
- Hamedani, Abbas
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Health education, Medical sciences, Health services administration
- Description
- ABSTRACTABBAS G. HAMEDANI. The Association Between Autism Spectrum Disorder and Asthma and use of additional services for their management in the national survey of children’s health (Under the direction of DR. YVETTE M. HUET)This study was conduc...
- Title
- The Association of Structural and Process Factors with Medication Errors for Residents Entering a Nursing Home
- Author
- Lane, Sandi
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Nursing, Public health, Health services administration
- Description
- Objective: The purpose of the study is to elucidate the relationships and inter-relatedness of specific structure, process, and outcome elements contributing to harmful medication errors for the vulnerable people who reside in nursing homes by exp...
- Title
- The Differences between Violently and Nonviolently Injured Trauma Patients and the Factors among Violently Injured Trauma Patients following a Brief Alcohol Counseling Intervention
- Author
- Dongre, Leigh
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Counseling psychology, Mental health, Health services administration
- Description
- Alcohol use is well documented as a public health issue and a significant contributor to violent injury (Lam & Chim, 2010; World Health Organization, 2006). The purpose of this research was to examine the difference between violently and nonviolen...
- Title
- The Value of Prosthetic Rehabilitation for Current and Potential Lower Limb Prosthesis Users
- Author
- Miller, Taavy
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Economics, Medical sciences, Health services administration
- Description
- The goal of this dissertation is to inform clinicians, researchers and policy makers of the potential value of prosthesis intervention for individuals who experience a lower limb amputation. In addition, this dissertation supports the call for mor...
- Title
- VARIABILITY IN PREOPERATIVE EMERGENCY UTILIZATIONS IS ASSOCIATED WITH INITIAL PRIMARY PACEMAKER INSERTION
- Author
- Roy, Debosree
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Medical sciences, Health services administration, Surgery
- Description
- Implantable pacemaker insertions are recommended for treating bradycardia, heart block, or both by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as healthcare policy groups, such as the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Associ...