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Public Health Care Policies And Their Impact On Patient Satisfaction, Bryan John Henderson, Ph.D.
Public Health Care Policies And Their Impact On Patient Satisfaction, Bryan John Henderson, Ph.D.
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Health care is a trillion-dollar industry, but without public policies in place to support a sustainable health care system, life would decline. For instance, health care providers now receive decreased payments from federal agencies if their health facility scores do not meet national benchmarks. The purpose of this retrospective, quantitative, comparative study was to examine the extent to which patient satisfaction was impacted by national public health policies in the United States and Canada. The research questions related to how health care reimbursement policies and patients’ financial responsibility of both the eastern United States and eastern Canada would predict country-specific …
Childhood Blood Lead Levels And Adolescent Crime Rates In The United States, Jude Juiye Soweh
Childhood Blood Lead Levels And Adolescent Crime Rates In The United States, Jude Juiye Soweh
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Juvenile violent crime rates in the United States have been on a continuous decline since 1996. Despite this decrease, youth violence as well as racial differences in crime rates continues to be a public health issue in the United States. Researchers have linked externalization behavior in children to factors including genetics, parental upbringing, abuse, school environment, and media exposure but have not fully considered the relationship between early childhood lead contamination and youth violence. This was an ecologic study of the relationship between early childhood blood lead levels (BLLs; ≥ 10µg/dL before 2012 or ≥ 5µg/dL after 2012) and crime …