Anticipating a growing need for health care during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services expanded telemedicine coverage in the United States on …

Background: Palliative care consultation to discuss goals-of-care (“PCC”) may mitigate end-
of-life care disparities. Objective: To compare hospitalization and cost outcomes by race and …

Background Addressing population health inequities begins with quantifying how social
factors affect the health and health care utilization of individuals. Such quantification relies …

Purpose To describe patterns of care use for Alabama Medicaid adult beneficiaries with
diabetes and the association between primary care utilization and ambulatory care sensitive …

Abstract Objectives In the Canadian context of universal health-care coverage, income
inequalities are understudied as potentially predictive of the timings and patterns of repeat …

Background Most socio-epidemiological studies on diabetes incidence, prevalence or
hospitalization focus on individual-level risk factors. This population-based cohort study …

Objetivo: Analisar possíveis associações entre as internações por condições sensíveis à
atenção primária e os gastos em ações e serviços de saúde em 50 municípios do sul do …

Background Hospitalizations contribute significantly to the country's health expenditures.
There are factors in addition to clinical care that determines whether a community can …

Epilepsy can negatively impact on children's cognition and psychosocial well-being. This
dissertation aligns with the National Academy of Medicine's call for research on healthcare …

Infectious diseases represent a unique challenge in healthcare policy decision-making, as
the risk of disease is subject to change based on factors specific to the local context, which …