Population Health and Disparities
Our work in Population Health and Disparities
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The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life
In this review of “The Slumbering Masses,” the author says that book is a thoughtful and in-depth examination of how we define the normative sleep experience.
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Did Medicare Part D Reduce Disparities?
This study assessed whether Medicare Part D reduced disparities in access to medication and found that the Part D coverage gap is disruptive to minorities and those living in low-income areas.
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Medicaid Access Restrictions on Psychiatric Drugs: Penny-Wise or Pound-Foolish?
Not only do formulary restrictions save little — if any — money on drug spending, they increase overall Medicaid spending for serious mental illnesses and may drive up incarceration costs.
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Economic Burden of Community‐Based Disease‐Associated Malnutrition in the United States
This study found that disease‐associated malnutrition (DAM) exacts a large burden on American society and improved diagnosis and management of community‐based DAM to alleviate this burden are needed.
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A Comparison of Methods for Assessing Mortality Risk
In a comparison of how well concepts such as Allostatic Load, Framingham Risk Score, and Biological Age can predict subsequent all‐cause and disease‐specific mortality within a large nationally representative US sample, researchers found that, out of the three measures, Biological Age had the strongest association with all‐cause and cancer mortality, while the Framingham Risk Score had the strongest association with cardiovascular disease mortality.
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Are State Medicaid Policies Sentencing People with Mental Illnesses to Prison?
Researchers have linked tighter Medicaid policies governing antipsychotic drugs with increased incarceration rates for schizophrenic individuals.
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Medicaid Prior Authorization Policies and Imprisonment Among Patients With Schizophrenia
This study examines the impact of Medicaid prior authorization for atypical antipsychotics on the prevalence of schizophrenia among the prison population.
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The Association Between Employee Obesity and Employer Costs: Evidence from a Panel of US Employers
This study estimated employer costs associated with employee obesity and found that obesity is associated with large employer costs from direct health care and insurance claims and indirect costs from lost productivity owing to workdays lost because of illness and disability.
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Nearly 60,000 Uninsured and Low-Income People with HIV/AIDS Live in States That Are Not Expanding Medicaid
Using national HIV surveillance data and data from the National Health Interview Survey, this study estimated that nearly 115,000 uninsured, low-income people living with HIV/AIDS would be eligible for Medicaid if all states adopted the Medicaid expansion sought by the Affordable Care Act.
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The Affordable Care Act May Increase the Number of People Getting Tested for HIV by Nearly 500,000 By 2017
This study modeled the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on HIV testing, diagnoses, and awareness of being HIV-positive, and found that the ACA will result in an additional 466,153 people’s being tested for HIV and 2,598 new diagnoses of HIV by 2017.
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