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Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Preventable Hospitalizations And ED Visits Five Years After ACA Medicaid Expansions

Asako S. Moriya, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland. Sujoy Chakravarty ([email protected]), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Medicaid expansions under the ...
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Primary Care: Proposed Solutions To The Physician Shortage Without Training More Physicians

Thomas S. Bodenheimer ( [email protected]) is an adjunct professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Mark D. Smith is president and CEO ...
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Prevalence And Spending Associated With Patients Who Have A Behavioral Health Disorder And Other Conditions

Ken Thorpe is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, at Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia. Sanjula Jain ( ...
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Housing Affordability And Children’s Cognitive Achievement

Sandra Newman ( [email protected]) is a professor of policy studies in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, Maryland. C. Scott ...
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Gradual Rebalancing Of Medicaid Long-Term Services And Supports Saves Money And Serves More People, Statistical Model Shows

H. Stephen Kaye ( [email protected]) is an adjunct professor at the Institute for Health and Aging and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, both at the University of California, San ...
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Discrimination: A Social Determinant Of Health Inequities

Discrimination is unequal treatment based on physical characteristics or social group assignment. While “to discriminate” simply means to divide, or make distinct, to “discriminate against” connotes ...