Population Health and Disparities
Our work in Population Health and Disparities
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Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing
Poor information flows hamper coordination, potentially leading to suboptimal decisions in health care. We examine the effects of a nationwide policy of information integration on the quality of prescribing.
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Assessment of Rural-Urban Differences in Postacute Care Utilization and Outcomes Among Older US Adults
Although people living in rural areas of the United States are disproportionately older and more likely to die of conditions that require postacute care than those living in urban areas, rural-urban differences in postacute care utilization and outcomes have been understudied.
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Mitigating Poverty through the Formation of Extended Family Households: Race and Ethnic Differences
In times of hardship, moving in with family is one strategy for alleviating economic deprivation and uncertainty.
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Race/Ethnic Differences in Spatial Distance Between Adult Children and Their Mothers
This brief study examines race/ethnic differences in geographic distance to mothers among adults in the United States.
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Diabetes Studies Reveal How Insurance and Ethnicity Can Affect Outcomes
USC Schaeffer Center experts found significant racial and ethnic disparities in diabetes complications and examined the impact of the ACA on patients with diabetes in two separate studies.
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Prescription Opioid Use in General and Pediatric Emergency Departments
Children, adolescents, and young adults treated in pediatric emergency departments are much less likely to be prescribed opioids compared to patients of similar age and ailment treated at general EDs.
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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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Economic Evaluation of California Prenatal Participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) to Prevent Preterm Birth
There is growing evidence that prenatal participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) reduces the risk of adverse birth outcomes.
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