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Medication Mismanagement Among Elderly In Starr County, Romeo Garcia Jr.
Medication Mismanagement Among Elderly In Starr County, Romeo Garcia Jr.
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
Given the current and projected rises in prescription drug use among the elderly in the United States and the current and projected rises in prescription drug costs, this research attempts to examine this national trend within the specific context of poverty and rurality manifested in Starr County, Texas. Starr County offers an ideal naturalistic laboratory for examining demographic predictors for improper medication use in the United States, poverty and rural residence. Hence within this context of poverty and rural location, the following questions are posited for investigation in Starr County. To what extent do high drug costs and low incomes …
Quiet While 'They' Die: Unraveling The Hiv/Aids Pandemic In Africa, Prexy Nesbitt
Quiet While 'They' Die: Unraveling The Hiv/Aids Pandemic In Africa, Prexy Nesbitt
Rozell 'Prexy' Nesbitt Writings and Speeches
Prexy Nesbitt, a Chicago-based anti-apartheid activist and educator, delivered this talk at the University of Arizona College of Public Health, Tucson, Arizona. 5 pages, handwritten.
Health As Foreign Policy: Between Principle And Power, David P. Fidler
Health As Foreign Policy: Between Principle And Power, David P. Fidler
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Spending Health Care Dollars Wisely: Can Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Help?, Milton C. Weinstein
Spending Health Care Dollars Wisely: Can Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Help?, Milton C. Weinstein
Center for Policy Research
Are we getting the most health improvement possible for our money. In other words, are all the things that we do in medicine really worth it? That is where cost-effectiveness comes in. As a nation, we have been unwilling, at least publicly, to look explicitly at the value, in terms of improved health outcome, that we get for our health care dollars. With advances in medical technology putting unsustainable pressure on health care costs, our historical reluctance to measure value for health care may have to change. I start this brief by describing cost-effectiveness analysis as a method of determining …