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Underlying causes of the emerging nonmetropolitan mortality penaltyJeralynn S Cossman
Mississippi State, 39762, USA
Am J Public Health 100:1417-9. 2010..Future work should explore why the top causes of death are higher in nonmetropolitan areas than they are in metropolitan areas...
Policy, autonomy, and physician satisfactionJeralynn S Cossman
Department of Sociology, Mississippi State University, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 21:898-912. 2010..However, the data indicate that the effects of malpractice experiences may be quite short-lived...
Mississippi burnout. Part I: Personal characteristics and practice contextJeralynn S Cossman
Mississippi State University, Starkville, USA
J Miss State Med Assoc 50:306-10. 2009..We discuss the implications of our findings for devising strategies to reduce burnout and retain qualified health care providers for Mississippi residents...
Mississippi burnout part II: satisfaction, autonomy and work/family balanceJeralynn S Cossman
Mississippi State University, Starkville, USA
J Miss State Med Assoc 50:338-45. 2009..The associations in our findings are suggestive; however, to minimize deleterious effects of burnout on the Mississippi physician workforce, future research should examine the causal factors underlying stress and burnout...
Preliminary evidence for an emerging nonmetropolitan mortality penalty in the United StatesArthur G Cosby
Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University, P O Box 5287, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
Am J Public Health 98:1470-2. 2008..7 excess deaths, or approximately 35,000 excess deaths. We recommend that research be undertaken to evaluate and utilize our preliminary findings of an emerging US nonmetropolitan mortality penalty...
Evaluating heart disease presciptions-filled as a proxy for heart disease prevalence ratesRonald E Cossman
Mississippi State University, USA
J Health Hum Serv Adm 30:503-28. 2008..This information can be used to provide a better understanding of sub-state variations in disease patterns and subsequently target the delivery of health resources to small areas in need...
Perspectives on Mississippi's 21st century Physician Workforce Supply: findings from the 2007 MSMD surveyDebra Street
Department of Sociology, UB Regional Institute, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA
J Miss State Med Assoc 49:99-103. 2008..This analysis updates perspectives on the physician workforce supply in the aftermath of malpractice legislative reform and Hurricane Katrina...
Correlating pharmaceutical data with a national health survey as a proxy for estimating rural population healthRonald E Cossman
Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, USA
Popul Health Metr 8:25. 2010..This makes it difficult to assess trends in prevalence and impossible to measure sub-state differences. Such county-level differences could inform and direct the delivery of health services to those with the greatest need...
Does one medical school's admission policy help a rural state "grow their own" physicians?Philip B Mason
Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina Aiken, 471 University Pkwy, Aiken, South Carolina 29801, USA
J Miss State Med Assoc 53:284-6, 288-92. 2012..Recruiting out-of-state physicians is difficult in Mississippi, and stakeholders frequently talk of "growing our own" physicians, especially challenging with a single public medical school...
Does familiarity breed respect? Physician attitudes toward nurse practitioners in a medically underserved stateDebra Street
Department of Sociology, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
J Am Acad Nurse Pract 22:431-9. 2010..We analyze how physician characteristics and close working relationships (presence of NPs in practice) influence physicians' attitudes toward NPs...
Medicaid reimbursement and access to physicians: does lower reimbursement mean less access to care?Jeralynn S Cossman
Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University, USA
J Miss State Med Assoc 47:323-36. 2006..Any negative impacts from the reimbursement rate decrease on access to care for Medicaid beneficiaries appear to have been temporary. Long-term effects can be assessed with more recent claims data...
