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Achieving health equity in AmericaDavid Satcher
Morehouse School of Medicine, 720 Westview Dr, SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30310, USA
Ethn Dis 16:S3-8-13. 2006..We can achieve health equity in America, but first, we all must care enough, know enough, do enough, and persist long enough...
Trends in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services at the Nation's Community Health Centers: 1998-2003Benjamin G Druss
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Am J Public Health 96:1779-84. 2006..We examined trends in delivery of mental health and substance abuse services at the nation's community health centers...
Co-occurring mental illness and health care utilization and expenditures in adults with obesity and chronic physical illnessChan Shen
Department of Economics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Dis Manag 11:153-60. 2008..Our study findings suggest cost-savings efforts should examine the reasons for high utilization and expenditures for those with obesity, chronic physical illness, and mental illness...- Paths to success: optimal and equitable health outcomes for allGeorge Rust
National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, 720 Westview Dr, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 23:7-19. 2012..We propose ten specific steps to follow on a health equity path toward optimal and equitable health outcomes for all Americans... - How can practice-based research contribute to the elimination of health disparities?George Rust
National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, 720 Westview Drive, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
J Am Board Fam Med 20:105-14. 2007..In this article, we review 12 promising strategies that could substantially increase the impact of research on eliminating health disparities in America... - Practical barriers to timely primary care access: impact on adult use of emergency department servicesGeorge Rust
National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, 720 Westview Dr, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
Arch Intern Med 168:1705-10. 2008..The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between ED visits and perceived barriers to receiving timely primary care... - Physician and provider education for improving health and eliminating disparitiesGeorge Rust
National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
Ethn Dis 17:S2-1-3. 2007..The reports in this supplement of Ethnicity & Disease provide a sample of the presentations made during the primary care and women's health sessions... - A crash-course in cultural competenceGeorge Rust
National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, 720 Westview Drive, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
Ethn Dis 16:S3-29-36. 2006..The goal of the CRASH-Course in Cultural Competency is to build confidence and competence in the clinician's ability to communicate effectively with diverse patient populations... - The Morehouse Faculty Development Program: evolving methods and 10-year outcomesGeorge Rust
National Center for Primary Care and the Department of Family Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, GA 30310, USA
Fam Med 38:43-9. 2006..This paper reports on a faculty development effort aimed at increasing the number and academic skills of underrepresented minority faculty... - Role of the primary care safety net in pandemic influenzaGeorge Rust
National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, 720 Westview Dr, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
Am J Public Health 99:S316-23. 2009..We examined the strength, capacity, and preparedness of key components of the primary care safety net in responding to pandemic influenza... - Triangulating on success: innovation, public health, medical care, and cause-specific US mortality rates over a half century (1950-2000)George Rust
National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, 720 Westview Dr, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
Am J Public Health 100:S95-104. 2010..Our nation's health success stories are consistent with a triangulation model of innovation plus public health plus medical care, even when the 3 sectors have worked more in parallel than in partnership... - Re-engineering the primary care practice to eliminate adult immunization disparitiesGeorge Rust
National Center for Primary Care, Department of Family Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, 720 Westview Drive SW, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
Ethn Dis 15:S3-21-S3-6. 2005..Quality-focused, constantly-learning practices that cultivate a culture of excellence will be most effective in adopting such changes... - Point of care testing to improve glycemic controlGeorge Rust
National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Int J Health Care Qual Assur 21:325-35. 2008.... - Economic impact of a Medicaid population health management programGeorge Rust
Department of Family Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Popul Health Manag 14:215-22. 2011..Varying levels of cost avoidance could be inferred from differences between actual and projected expenditures using each of the health-related inflation assumptions... - Presence of a community health center and uninsured emergency department visit rates in rural countiesGeorge Rust
National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30310, USA
J Rural Health 25:8-16. 2009..CHCs could potentially reduce uninsured emergency department (ED) visits in rural communities... - Racial/ethnic disparities, social support, and depression: examining a social determinant of mental healthRuth S Shim
National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Ethn Dis 22:15-20. 2012..We examined the risk of depression as it relates to social support among individuals from African American, Caribbean black, and non-Hispanic White backgrounds... - Prevalence, treatment, and control of depressive symptoms in the United States: results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 2005-2008Ruth S Shim
Morehouse School of Medicine, National Center for Primary Care, Atlanta, GA, USA
J Am Board Fam Med 24:33-8. 2011..The objective of this study was to examine the prevalence, treatment, and control of depressive symptoms in a national data sample using a common primary care screening tool for depression... - The Second Annual Primary Care Conference--Programming to eliminate health disparities among ethnic minority populations: an introduction to proceedingsMichael Heisler
Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30310, USA
Ethn Dis 13:S3-1-5. 2003..Of the attendees, 35% were physicians (MD); 13% were nurses (RN); 12% held master-level degrees; and 12% held other doctorate-level degrees... - Cardiovascular risk factors among Asian Americans: results from a National Health SurveyJiali Ye
National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
Ann Epidemiol 19:718-23. 2009..We assessed the prevalence of major cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors among Chinese, Asian Indian, Filipino, and other Asian populations compared to non-Hispanic Whites in the United States... - Translation squared: improving asthma care for high-disparity populations through a safety net practice-based research networkElvan C Daniels
National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30310, USA
J Asthma 42:499-505. 2005..Providing training and guideline-specific resources, in combination with tools for practice change, improved care significantly even in safety net health centers serving high-disparity patient populations... - Disparities in influenza treatment among disabled Medicaid patients in GeorgiaKyla Leon
National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
Am J Public Health 99:S378-82. 2009..We sought to determine whether racial/ethnic, geographic, or gender disparities existed in antiviral drugs usage in the treatment of influenza... - What if we were equal? A comparison of the black-white mortality gap in 1960 and 2000David Satcher
National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 24:459-64. 2005..In contrast, SMR improved in African American women. Using 2002 data, an estimated 83,570 excess deaths each year could be prevented in the United States if this black-white mortality gap could be eliminated... - Disparities in antidepressant treatment in Medicaid elderly diagnosed with depressionHarry S Strothers
Department of Family Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, East Point and Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:456-61. 2005..To determine whether there were racial or ethnic disparities in the use of antidepressants in low-income elderly patients insured by Medicaid... - Racial and ethnic disparities in the provision of epidural analgesia to Georgia Medicaid beneficiaries during labor and deliveryGeorge Rust
National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 191:456-62. 2004..Further studies are needed to assess perceived benefits, risks, costs, and obstacles to epidural analgesia that are perceived by patients, physicians, nurses, and midwives... - Modifiable determinants of healthcare utilization within the African-American populationGeorge Rust
National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, 720 Westview Drive, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 96:1169-77. 2004..Most previous studies of disparities in access to and utilization of healthcare have focused on black-white differences rather than focusing on "within-group" analysis of African Americans... - Do clinicians screen Medicaid patients for syphilis or HIV when they diagnose other sexually transmitted diseases?George Rust
National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30310, USA
Sex Transm Dis 30:723-7. 2003..Patients diagnosed with gonorrhea or chlamydia are at high risk for HIV and syphilis, and should be offered screening for both... - United States black:white infant mortality disparities are not inevitable: identification of community resilience independent of socioeconomic statusYvonne W Fry-Johnson
Department of Pediatrics and the National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30310, USA
Ethn Dis 20:S1-131-5. 2010..U.S. disparities in Black:White infant mortality are persistent. National trends, however, may obscure local successes... - Disparities in vision impairment among adults in the United StatesCarmen J Wilson
Clinical Research Center, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Ethn Dis 18:S2-242-6. 2008.... - Improving health, eliminating disparities: finding solutions for better health care for all populationsMichael B Heisler
Morehouse School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30310, USA
Ethn Dis 15:S1-4. 2005.... - Being uninsured: impact on children's healthcare and healthYvonne W Fry-Johnson
Maternal and Child Health Team, National Center of Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30310 1495, USA
Curr Opin Pediatr 17:753-8. 2005..Recent policy changes have produced restrictions on basic preventive and curative services, despite concurrent major efforts to increase insurance coverage rates for children... - Race-ethnicity as a predictor of attitudes toward mental health treatment seekingRuth S Shim
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
Psychiatr Serv 60:1336-41. 2009..Attitudes and beliefs about mental health treatment were examined to determine whether they contribute to these disparities... - A three-dimensional approach to the elimination of racial-ethnic disparities in lung healthDavid Satcher
Morehouse School of Medicine, 720 Westview Drive, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
Clin Chest Med 27:535-42, viii. 2006..The three dimensions include surveillance and monitoring, research into causes and potential cures, and rapid-cycle testing of interventions to reduce or eliminate disparities... - The health impact of resolving racial disparities: an analysis of US mortality dataSteven H Woolf
Department of Family Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, 3712 Charles Stewart Dr, Fairfax, VA 22033, USA
Am J Public Health 94:2078-81. 2004..Medical advances averted 176,633 deaths, but equalizing the mortality rates of Whites and African Americans would have averted 886,202 deaths. Achieving equity may do more for health than perfecting the technology of care... - E-mail in patient-provider communication: a systematic reviewJiali Ye
National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
Patient Educ Couns 80:266-73. 2010..To review systematically the role of e-mails in patient-provider communication in terms of e-mail content, and perspectives of providers and patients on e-mail communication in health care... - Ensuring consistent quality care to address disparities in cancer screeningShanita Williams-Brown
National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, 720 Westview Dr SW, NCPC Bldg, Room 245-B, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
J Nurs Care Qual 20:99-102. 2005 - Opioid addiction and abuse in primary care practice: a comparison of methadone and buprenorphine as treatment optionsJean Bonhomme
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 104:342-50. 2012.... - Summary: take-home points from the Eliminating Adult Immunization Disparities SymposiumGeorge Rust
Ethn Dis 15:S3-27-S3-8. 2005 - Ability of community health centers to obtain mental health services for uninsured patientsGeorge Rust
JAMA 293:554-6. 2005 - Ophthalmology and primary care: partners in peril?Eve J Higginbotham
Arch Ophthalmol 126:727-8. 2008