Journal Article
To plan to care for its AIDS patients in the future, China needed to get a handle on how much it has been spending to treat HIV. So, Chinese and U.S. researchers — including Center Associate Director Gerald F. Kominski — examined actual expenditures under the free China CARES program, as well as factors influencing costs for patients in rural China after antiretroviral treatment has begun.
Journal Article
To plan to care for its AIDS patients in the future, China needed to get a handle on how much it has been spending to treat HIV. So, Chinese and U.S. researchers — including Center Associate Director Gerald F. Kominski — examined actual expenditures under the free China CARES program, as well as factors influencing costs for patients in rural China after antiretroviral treatment has begun.
Journal Article
To plan to care for its AIDS patients in the future, China needed to get a handle on how much it has been spending to treat HIV. So, Chinese and U.S. researchers — including Center Associate Director Gerald F. Kominski — examined actual expenditures under the free China CARES program, as well as factors influencing costs for patients in rural China after antiretroviral treatment has begun.
Journal Article
To plan to care for its AIDS patients in the future, China needed to get a handle on how much it has been spending to treat HIV. So, Chinese and U.S. researchers — including Center Associate Director Gerald F. Kominski — examined actual expenditures under the free China CARES program, as well as factors influencing costs for patients in rural China after antiretroviral treatment has begun.
Journal Article
How can HMOs increase screening for Chlamydia trachomatis (CT), a readily treatable infection that affects an estimated 2.8 million Americans each year? Guidelines call for annual screening of all sexually active young females to combat this "silent epidemic," but physicians don't always adhere to the guidelines.
Journal Article
How can HMOs increase screening for Chlamydia trachomatis (CT), a readily treatable infection that affects an estimated 2.8 million Americans each year? Guidelines call for annual screening of all sexually active young females to combat this "silent epidemic," but physicians don't always adhere to the guidelines.
Policy Research Report
This report provides a pre-reform snapshot of health status and utilization characteristics of Californians who were either enrolled in commercial or public managed care plans or who were uninsured in 2007. Using the most recently available data from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), this report provides a detailed profile of demographic characteristics, disease conditions, health status, health care use, and barriers to care among California residents.
Policy Research Report
This report provides a pre-reform snapshot of health status and utilization characteristics of Californians who were either enrolled in commercial or public managed care plans or who were uninsured in 2007. Using the most recently available data from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), this report provides a detailed profile of demographic characteristics, disease conditions, health status, health care use, and barriers to care among California residents.
Journal Article
Authors examine the Medical Services Initiative program — a safety net-based system of care — in Orange County, which assigned uninsured, low-income residents to a patient-centered medical home. The medical home provided case management, a team-based approach for treating disease, and increased access to primary and specialty care among other elements of a patient-centered medical home.
Journal Article
Authors examine the Medical Services Initiative program — a safety net-based system of care — in Orange County, which assigned uninsured, low-income residents to a patient-centered medical home. The medical home provided case management, a team-based approach for treating disease, and increased access to primary and specialty care among other elements of a patient-centered medical home.
Journal Article
In this journal article, Center researchers Meng, Pourat and Kominksi and their co-author examine the impacts on coverage, utilization, and costs of a California bill that requires health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to expand coverage for pediatric asthma self-management educational services. The study population includes 503,000 children ages 1-17 years with symptomatic asthma and 134,000 children with uncontrolled asthma insured by California HMOs.
Journal Article
In this journal article, Center researchers Meng, Pourat and Kominksi and their co-author examine the impacts on coverage, utilization, and costs of a California bill that requires health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to expand coverage for pediatric asthma self-management educational services. The study population includes 503,000 children ages 1-17 years with symptomatic asthma and 134,000 children with uncontrolled asthma insured by California HMOs.
Policy Brief
This policy brief examines the experience of ten California counties participating in the Health Care Coverage Initiative (HCCI), a demonstration project to expand coverage to low-income and indigent residents, in overcoming these barriers and creating provider networks based on existing safety-net systems
Policy Brief
This policy brief examines the experience of ten California counties participating in the Health Care Coverage Initiative (HCCI), a demonstration project to expand coverage to low-income and indigent residents, in overcoming these barriers and creating provider networks based on existing safety-net systems
Journal Article
A comprehensive population health-forecasting model has the potential to interject new and valuable information about the future health status of the population based on current conditions, socioeconomic and demographic trends and potential changes in policies and programs.
Journal Article
A comprehensive population health-forecasting model has the potential to interject new and valuable information about the future health status of the population based on current conditions, socioeconomic and demographic trends and potential changes in policies and programs.
Policy Brief
This policy brief uses data from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) to examine delays in fulfilling prescribed medication, delays in obtaining needed medical care, visits to emergency rooms and the presence of a usual source of care among insured African Americans in public and commercial HMOs.
Policy Brief
This policy brief uses data from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) to examine delays in fulfilling prescribed medication, delays in obtaining needed medical care, visits to emergency rooms and the presence of a usual source of care among insured African Americans in public and commercial HMOs.
Policy Brief
Only 27 percent of non-elderly adults in the United States have a "medical home" –- a place where they regularly receive medical care and advice. Shifting from more costly emergency care to the preventative and coordinated care provided by a medical home impacts costs, access, quality of care and the overall health status of low-income uninsured individuals.
Policy Brief
Only 27 percent of non-elderly adults in the United States have a "medical home" –- a place where they regularly receive medical care and advice. Shifting from more costly emergency care to the preventative and coordinated care provided by a medical home impacts costs, access, quality of care and the overall health status of low-income uninsured individuals.