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The relationship between external threats and smoking in central HarlemM L Ganz
Harlem Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Joseph L Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Am J Public Health 90:367-71. 2000..This study assessed the relationship between external risks, such as personal and neighborhood danger, and smoking by using a new theoretical framework based on competing mortality risk models...- Patterns of eye care use and expenditures among children with diagnosed eye conditionsMichael Ganz
Abt Associates Inc, Lexington, MA 02421, USA
J AAPOS 11:480-7. 2007..This report describes the use and expenditure patterns of eye care and non-eye care services for children under 18 years old in the United States... - The lifetime distribution of the incremental societal costs of autismMichael L Ganz
Abt Associates Inc, Lexington, MA 02421, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:343-9. 2007..To describe the age-specific and lifetime incremental societal costs of autism in the United States... - Prevalence and correlates of children's diagnosed eye and vision conditionsMichael L Ganz
Abt Associates Inc, Lexington, Massachusetts, USA
Ophthalmology 113:2298-306. 2006..The purpose of this report is to describe the prevalence of diagnosed eye and vision conditions among children younger than 18 years in the United States... - Mental health care services for children with special health care needs and their family members: prevalence and correlates of unmet needsMichael L Ganz
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pediatrics 117:2138-48. 2006..To estimate the prevalence and correlates of unmet needs for mental health care services for children with special health care needs and their families... - Family health effects: complements or substitutesM L Ganz
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Health Econ 10:699-714. 2001..These results have implications for the growing field of genetic testing and test development. These results also reinforce current practices of ascertaining family health histories in the context of medical history taking... - The economic evaluation of obesity interventions: its time has comeMichael L Ganz
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge 615, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Obes Res 11:1275-7. 2003 - Social determinants of state variation in special education participation among preschoolers with developmental delays and disabilitiesBeth M McManus
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Health Place 17:681-90. 2011..Place variation in preschool special education participation stems, in part, from child characteristics, but to a larger extent, from state socio-economic attributes... - Modeling the social determinants of caregiver burden among families of children with developmental disabilitiesBeth M McManus
Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Intellect Dev Disabil 116:246-60. 2011..428, SE (?) ?=? 0.036). Parents of poor, minority, and uninsured children experienced significantly greater caregiver burden. Bolstering services, particularly for vulnerable families, may ameliorate caregiver burden... - The financial implications of availability and quality of a usual source of care for children with special health care needsChia Ling Liu
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge Building 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Matern Child Health J 12:243-59. 2008.... - The Pediatric Alliance for Coordinated Care: evaluation of a medical home modelJudith S Palfrey
Division of General Pediatrics, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 113:1507-16. 2004.... - The doctor's dilemma: challenges for the primary care physician caring for the child with special health care needsEmily J Davidson
Children's Hospital, Department of Medicine, Division of General Pediatrics, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Ambul Pediatr 2:218-23. 2002..There is extensive dissatisfaction with the availability of mental health services, access to community resources, transition services, and availability of written information for families... - Intimate partner violence and patient screening across medical specialtiesLaura A McCloskey
Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 12:712-22. 2005.... - The effect of state early intervention eligibility policy on participation among a cohort of young CSHCNBeth McManus
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 124:S368-74. 2009..This purpose of this study was to describe differences in early intervention (EI) participation according to state among a cohort of young children with parent-reported developmental delays and disabilities... - Medicare payments, healthcare service use, and telemedicine implementation costs in a randomized trial comparing telemedicine case management with usual care in medically underserved participants with diabetes mellitus (IDEATel)Walter Palmas
Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 17:196-202. 2010..Lower implementation costs will need to be achieved using lower cost technology in order for telemedicine case management to be more widely used... - Intimate partner violence exposure and change in women's physical symptoms over timeMegan R Gerber
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:64-9. 2008..To examine the change in women's self-reported physical symptoms over 2 time points in relation to intimate partner violence (IPV) exposure... - Community preferences for health states associated with intimate partner violenceEve Wittenberg
Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Technology Assessment and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Med Care 44:738-44. 2006..One in 4 women is affected by intimate partner violence in her lifetime. This article reports on a cross-sectional survey to estimate community preferences for health states resulting from intimate partner violence... - Continuity of health insurance coverage for children with special health care needsChia Ling Liu
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Matern Child Health J 9:363-75. 2005..To assess the continuity of health insurance coverage and its associated factors for children with special health care needs (CSHCN)... - Abused women disclose partner interference with health care: an unrecognized form of batteringLaura A McCloskey
Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute, Wayne State University, 71 East Ferry Street, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:1067-72. 2007..There are no systematic investigations of the prevalence of or circumstances surrounding partner interference with health care and intimate partner violence (IPV)... - Adverse health behaviors and the detection of partner violence by cliniciansMegan R Gerber
Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, Mass, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:1016-21. 2005..By estimating the predicted probability of 12-month and lifetime IPV for a given patient based on whether she presents with these conditions, our study gives clinicians information that can help them identify patients at risk for IPV...
Research Grants
- Trends in Use of Eye Care Services for ChildrenMichael Ganz; Fiscal Year: 2005..We will use data from the 1996 through the 2000 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys (MEPS), supplemented with information from the 1995 though the 1999 National Health Interview Surveys (NHIS), to pursue these goals. ..