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Longitudinal Analysis of Dementia Diagnosis and Specialty Care Among Racially Diverse Medicare Beneficiaries
The burden of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias is rapidly growing. Researchers found vast majority of dementia patients don’t receive specialty diagnosis and care.
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Using the Drug Pricing Netflix Model to Help States Tackle the Hep C Crisis
Researcher Neeraj Sood has explored innovative payment models as a strategy for government entities to be able to pay for lifesaving cures that could eradicate diseases like hepatitis C. Louisiana, with some input from Sood, has just implemented a modified version of a subscription model to pay for Hep C treatments.
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Assessing the Preparedness of the Canadian Health Care System Infrastructure for an Alzheimer’s Treatment
A report on Canadian readiness to deal with new Alzheimer’s disease treatments co-authored by Jakub Hlávka found that average wait times could reach 28 months and that the most pressing issue is a lack of dementia specialists.
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We Need More Primary Care Physicians: Here’s Why and How
USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative researchers explain why we need more primary care physicians and how to close the gap between primary care and specialty medicine.
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Research Spotlight: Alzheimer’s Disease
Schaeffer Center researchers are analyzing trends associated with a greying population, including AD prevalence and cost, and what these trends mean for society.
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Factors Associated with Unintended Pregnancy, Contraceptive Risk-Taking, and Interest in Pharmacist-Provided Birth Control
Although overall rates of unplanned pregnancies have declined, significant racial and geographic disparities persist. At the same time, there are new opportunities to improve access to contraception. This study identifies contributors to the high rate of unplanned pregnancies in a rural farming community in California and assesses interest in pharmacist-prescribed contraception.
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Material–Psychosocial–Behavioral Aspects of Financial Hardship: A Conceptual Model for Cancer Prevention
RCMAR Scientist Reginald Tucker-Seeley presents a model to consistently measure financial hardship to better inform cancer prevention research identify connections between socioeconomic circumstances and cancer risk-related behaviors and cancer screening among older adults.
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Schaeffer Center Briefs Policymakers, Stakeholders on the Economic Burden of Mental Illness
Seth Seabury presented his research to Sacramento lawmakers on May 7 at a briefing co-hosted by the Schaeffer Center and the Steinberg Institute.
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Briefing: Return on Investment of Early Intervention in Mental Health Care
Join us for a briefing on what California can learn about investing in mental health prevention and early intervention and mitigating burdensome lifetime costs of untreated mental illness.
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To Help People with Mental Illness, Keep Them in School
In the struggle to help people with mental illness cope with their affliction, a powerful long term tool has been overlooked: school. Seth Seabury and Thomas Insel write on the importance of education in expanding opportunities for patients with serious mental illness.
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