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Full-Text Articles in Public Health
Community-Level Characteristics Associated With Variations In Rates Of Homelessness Among Families And Single Adults, Jamison D. Fargo, Ellen A. Munley, Thomas H. Byrne, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Dennis P. Culhane
Community-Level Characteristics Associated With Variations In Rates Of Homelessness Among Families And Single Adults, Jamison D. Fargo, Ellen A. Munley, Thomas H. Byrne, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Dennis P. Culhane
Dennis P. Culhane
The Relationship Between Coping Styles In Response To Unfair Treatment And Understanding Of Diabetes Self-Care, Michelle Dyke, Yendelela Cuffee, Jewell Halanych, Richard Mcmanus, Carol Curtin, Jeroan Allison
The Relationship Between Coping Styles In Response To Unfair Treatment And Understanding Of Diabetes Self-Care, Michelle Dyke, Yendelela Cuffee, Jewell Halanych, Richard Mcmanus, Carol Curtin, Jeroan Allison
Richard H. McManus
Purpose This study examined the relationship between coping style and understanding of diabetes self-care among African American and white elders in a southern Medicare-managed care plan. Methods Participants were identified through a diabetes-related pharmacy claim or ICD-9 code and completed a computer-assisted telephone survey in 2006-2007. Understanding of diabetes self-care was assessed using the Diabetes Care Profile Understanding (DCP-U) scale. Coping styles were classified as active (talk about it/take action) or passive (keep it to yourself). Linear regression was used to estimate the associations between coping style with the DCP-U, adjusting for age, sex, education, and comorbidities. Based on the …
Active Presecription Drug Safety Surveillance: Exploring Omop 2011-2012 Experiments, Susan Gruber, James M. Robins
Active Presecription Drug Safety Surveillance: Exploring Omop 2011-2012 Experiments, Susan Gruber, James M. Robins
Susan Gruber
The Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP), a consortium of pharmaceutical, FDA, and academic researchers focuses on developing and evaluating electronic records-based methods for enhancing post-market drug safety surveillance. The OMOP 2011-2012 experiment consists of applying variants of seven analysis methods to five different EMR or claims databases to estimate the increase (decrease) in risk associated with drug-outcome pairs whose causal association has been previously established, and serves as a gold standard for comparison. Variants of each method can produce very different effect estimates, sometimes at odds with the gold standard. We explore the reasons behind this heterogeneity, and in doing …
Designing The Search Trial: Ph250b In Practice, Laura Balzer
Designing The Search Trial: Ph250b In Practice, Laura Balzer
Laura B. Balzer
No abstract provided.
Rates Of Insurance For Injured Patients Before And After Health Care Reform In Massachusetts: Another Case Of Double Jeopardy?, Heena P. Santry, Courtney E. Collins, Jason T. Wiseman, Julie M. Flahive, Charles M. Psoinos, Zeling Chau, Shimul A. Shah, Catarina I. Kiefe
Rates Of Insurance For Injured Patients Before And After Health Care Reform In Massachusetts: Another Case Of Double Jeopardy?, Heena P. Santry, Courtney E. Collins, Jason T. Wiseman, Julie M. Flahive, Charles M. Psoinos, Zeling Chau, Shimul A. Shah, Catarina I. Kiefe
Catarina I. Kiefe
Background: As a result of healthcare reform (HCR), insurance rates among Massachusetts (MA) residents increased from 86.6% (2006) to 94.4% (2010) and conferred a 7.6% higher probability of being insured compared to neighboring states. The effect of an individual mandate on insurance rates among trauma patients is unknown.
Methods: This was retrospective analysis of adult (18-64yrs) trauma patients from MA and surrounding states (NH, RI, CT, NY, VT) treated at our level 1 trauma center in central MA before (2004-2005) and after (2009-2010) MA-HCR. We estimated changes in insurance rates across time-periods and state-residence.
Results: Before MA-HCR, 76.7% (1647/2,148) of …
Correlates Of Hiv Acquisition In A Cohort Of Black Men Who Have Sex With Men In The United States: Hiv Prevention Trials Network (Hptn) 061, Sheldon D. Fields
Correlates Of Hiv Acquisition In A Cohort Of Black Men Who Have Sex With Men In The United States: Hiv Prevention Trials Network (Hptn) 061, Sheldon D. Fields
Sheldon D. Fields
No abstract provided.
Effect Of Serum Insulin On The Association Between Hyperuricemia And Incident Heart Failure, Ravi Desai, Mustafa Ahmed, Gregg Fonarow, Gerasimos Filippatos, Michel White, Inmaculada Aban, Wilbert Aronow, Ali Ahmed
Effect Of Serum Insulin On The Association Between Hyperuricemia And Incident Heart Failure, Ravi Desai, Mustafa Ahmed, Gregg Fonarow, Gerasimos Filippatos, Michel White, Inmaculada Aban, Wilbert Aronow, Ali Ahmed
Ravi V Desai MD
No abstract provided.
Managed Care, Hospice Use, Site Of Death, And Medical Expenditures In The Last Year Of Life, Ezekiel Emanuel, Arlene Ash, Wei Yu, Gail Gazelle, Norman Levinsky, Olga Saynina, Mark Mcclellan, Mark Moskowitz
Managed Care, Hospice Use, Site Of Death, And Medical Expenditures In The Last Year Of Life, Ezekiel Emanuel, Arlene Ash, Wei Yu, Gail Gazelle, Norman Levinsky, Olga Saynina, Mark Mcclellan, Mark Moskowitz
wei yu
BACKGROUND: We examined deaths of Medicare beneficiaries in Massachusetts and California to evaluate the effect of managed care on the use of hospice and site of death and to determine how hospice affects the expenditures for the last year of life.
METHODS: Medicare data for beneficiaries in Massachusetts (n = 37 933) and California (n = 27 685) who died in 1996 were merged with each state's death certificate files to determine site and cause of death. Expenditure data were Health Care Financing Administration payments and were divided into 30-day periods from the date of death back 12 months.
RESULTS: …
Screening Colonoscopy And Risk For Incident Late-Stage Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis In Average-Risk Adults: A Nested Case-Control Study, Chyke Doubeni, Sheila Weinmann, Kenneth Adams, Aruna Kamineni, Diana Buist, Arlene Ash, Carolyn Rutter, V. Paul Doria-Rose, Douglas Corley, Robert Greenlee, Jessica Chubak, Andrew Williams, Aimee Kroll-Desrosiers, Eric Johnson, Joseph Webster, Kathryn Richert-Boe, Theodore Levin, Robert Fletcher, Noel Weiss
Screening Colonoscopy And Risk For Incident Late-Stage Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis In Average-Risk Adults: A Nested Case-Control Study, Chyke Doubeni, Sheila Weinmann, Kenneth Adams, Aruna Kamineni, Diana Buist, Arlene Ash, Carolyn Rutter, V. Paul Doria-Rose, Douglas Corley, Robert Greenlee, Jessica Chubak, Andrew Williams, Aimee Kroll-Desrosiers, Eric Johnson, Joseph Webster, Kathryn Richert-Boe, Theodore Levin, Robert Fletcher, Noel Weiss
Chyke A. Doubeni
BACKGROUND: The effectiveness of screening colonoscopy in average-risk adults is uncertain, particularly for right colon cancer. OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between screening colonoscopy and risk for incident late-stage colorectal cancer (CRC). DESIGN: Nested case-control study. SETTING: Four U.S. health plans. PATIENTS: 1039 average-risk adults enrolled for at least 5 years in one of the health plans. Case patients were aged 55 to 85 years on their diagnosis date (reference date) of stage IIB or higher (late-stage) CRC during 2006 to 2008. One or 2 control patients were selected for each case patient, matched on birth year, sex, health plan, …
Estimating The Effect Of A Community-Based Intervention With Two Communities, Mark Van Der Laan, Maya Petersen, Wenjing Zheng
Estimating The Effect Of A Community-Based Intervention With Two Communities, Mark Van Der Laan, Maya Petersen, Wenjing Zheng
Wenjing Zheng
Due to the need to evaluate the effectiveness of community-based programs in practice, there is substantial interest in methods to estimate the causal effects of community-level treatments or exposures on individual level outcomes. The challenge one is confronted with is that different communities have different environmental factors affecting the individual outcomes, and all individuals in a community share the same environment and intervention. In practice, data are often available from only a small number of communities, making it difficult if not impossible to adjust for these environmental confounders. In this paper we consider an extreme version of this dilemma, in …
Editorial: Thematic Issue: Infection Control: A Paradigm Shift, Vineet Gupta, Mohamed H. Yassin
Editorial: Thematic Issue: Infection Control: A Paradigm Shift, Vineet Gupta, Mohamed H. Yassin
Vineet Gupta, MD, FACP
No abstract provided.
Why Are There Delays In Seeking Treatment For Childhood Diarrhoea In India?, Nisha Malhotra
Why Are There Delays In Seeking Treatment For Childhood Diarrhoea In India?, Nisha Malhotra
Nisha Malhotra
Abstract Aim To examine the barriers and facilitating factors for seeking treatment for childhood diarrhoea and to determine the main causes for delay in seeking treatment.
Methods Data from Indian Demographic and Health survey 2005–06 (NFHS-III) was used. Mothers were asked if their children (<5-years) had suffered from diarrhoea during the two weeks preceding the survey. Data were collected on the time of seeking treatment after start of the illness, and days waited to seek treatment after the diarrhoea started. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to find the determinants of seeking treatment at the health facility and the factors responsible for the “delay” in seeking advice/treatment.
Results Out of a sample of 41,287 children, 3890 (9.4%) reportedly had diarrhoea. Sixty percent of children with diarrhoea were taken to a health facility. Mother's education till higher secondary and above (OR 1.65; 95% CI, 1.08 – 2.54), richest (OR 1.76; 95% CI, 1.24 – 2.48) wealth index, mother's lack of knowledge of oral …
5-years)>Estimating Effects On Rare Outcomes: Knowledge Is Power, Laura B. Balzer, Mark J. Van Der Laan
Estimating Effects On Rare Outcomes: Knowledge Is Power, Laura B. Balzer, Mark J. Van Der Laan
Laura B. Balzer
Many of the secondary outcomes in observational studies and randomized trials are rare. Methods for estimating causal effects and associations with rare outcomes, however, are limited, and this represents a missed opportunity for investigation. In this article, we construct a new targeted minimum loss-based estimator (TMLE) for the effect of an exposure or treatment on a rare outcome. We focus on the causal risk difference and statistical models incorporating bounds on the conditional risk of the outcome, given the exposure and covariates. By construction, the proposed estimator constrains the predicted outcomes to respect this model knowledge. Theoretically, this bounding provides …
Hiv Risk Perception And Distribution Of Hiv Risk Among African, Caribbean And Other Black People In A Canadian City: Mixed Methods Results From The Blacch Study., Shamara Baidoobonso, Greta Bauer, Kathy Speechley, Erica Lawson
Hiv Risk Perception And Distribution Of Hiv Risk Among African, Caribbean And Other Black People In A Canadian City: Mixed Methods Results From The Blacch Study., Shamara Baidoobonso, Greta Bauer, Kathy Speechley, Erica Lawson
Shamara M Baidoobonso, PhD
BACKGROUND: African, Caribbean and other Black (ACB) people are a priority group for HIV prevention in Canada, but little is known about the epidemiology of HIV risk in this population. This paper helps fill the knowledge gap by: presenting service providers' and ACB people's perceptions about HIV risk in ACB populations; describing the distribution of HIV risk behaviours among ACB people according to markers of social status and position; and comparing results from these two analyses. METHODS: The Black, African and Caribbean Canadian Health (BLACCH) Study is a mixed methods study that used semi-structured interviews and a cross-sectional quantitative questionnaire …
Special Report: Immigration Experience And Health, Shamara M. Baidoobonso, Roxanne Longman Marcellin, Julius Ehiemua, Rob Haile, Leah Meidinger, Harina Mokanan
Special Report: Immigration Experience And Health, Shamara M. Baidoobonso, Roxanne Longman Marcellin, Julius Ehiemua, Rob Haile, Leah Meidinger, Harina Mokanan
Shamara M Baidoobonso, PhD
No abstract provided.
A Case-Control Study Of Physical Activity Patterns And Risk Of Non-Fatal Myocardial Infarction, Jian Gong, Hannia Campos, Mark Fiecas, Stephen Mcgarvey, Robert Goldberg, Caroline Richardson, Ana Baylin
A Case-Control Study Of Physical Activity Patterns And Risk Of Non-Fatal Myocardial Infarction, Jian Gong, Hannia Campos, Mark Fiecas, Stephen Mcgarvey, Robert Goldberg, Caroline Richardson, Ana Baylin
Mark Fiecas
Background The interactive effects of different types of physical activity on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk have not been fully considered in previous studies. We aimed to identify physical activity patterns that take into account combinations of physical activities and examine the association between derived physical activity patterns and risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Methods We examined the relationship between physical activity patterns, identified by principal component analysis (PCA), and AMI risk in a case-control study of myocardial infarction in Costa Rica (N=4172), 1994-2004. The component scores derived from PCA and total METS were used in natural cubic spline models …
Progression From New Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Colonisation To Infection: An Observational Study In A Hospital Cohort, Michelle Nd Balm, Andrew A. Lover, Sharon Salmon, Paul A. Tambyah, Dale A. Fisher
Progression From New Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Colonisation To Infection: An Observational Study In A Hospital Cohort, Michelle Nd Balm, Andrew A. Lover, Sharon Salmon, Paul A. Tambyah, Dale A. Fisher
Andrew Lover
Quantifying Effect Of Geographic Location On Epidemiology Of Plasmodium Vivax Malaria, Andrew A. Lover, Richard J. Coker
Quantifying Effect Of Geographic Location On Epidemiology Of Plasmodium Vivax Malaria, Andrew A. Lover, Richard J. Coker
Andrew Lover