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Time From Screening Mammography To Biopsy And From Biopsy To Breast Cancer Treatment Among Black And White, Women Medicare Beneficiaries Not Participating In A Health Maintenance Organization, Rebecca Selove, Barbara Kilbourne, Mary Kay Fadden, Maureen Sanderson, Maya Foster, Regina Offodile, Baqar Husaini, Charles Mouton, Robert S. Levine

Sociology Faculty Research

Purpose

There is a breast cancer mortality gap adversely affecting Black women in the United States. This study assessed the relationship between number of days between abnormal mammogram, biopsy, and treatment among Medicare (Part B) beneficiaries ages 65 to 74 and 75 to 84 years, accounting for race and comorbidity.

Methods

A cohort of non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White women residing in the continental United States and receiving no services from a health maintenance organization was randomly selected from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services denominator file. The cohort was followed from 2005 to 2008 using Center …

An Empirical Investigation Of Funding Trends In Global Health, Marie H. Martin, Megan E. Streams

Public Administration Faculty Research

Background Since 2005, funding for global health has increased, not only from donor OECD nations, but also from within low-income and middle-income countries via their own governmental health spending. However, there has been little analysis of budgetary trends in global health from a public finance angle. This study provides a quantitative analysis of the distribution of annual changes in country-level government expenditures for domestic health (1995–2012) using the theoretical lens of budgetary punctuated equilibrium theory (PET).

Methods We used health financing data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation to calculate country-level annual changes in government spending on domestic …