Douglas Shenson

Summary

Affiliation: Sickness Prevention Achieved
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Developing an integrated strategy to reduce ethnic and racial disparities in the delivery of clinical preventive services for older Americans
    Douglas Shenson
    Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration SPARC, Newton, MA 02465, USA
    Am J Public Health 102:e44-50. 2012
  2. ncbi Expanding the delivery of clinical preventive services through community collaboration: the SPARC model
    Douglas Shenson
    SPARC Sickness Prevention Achieved Through Regional Collaboration, 76 Prince St, Newton, MA 02465, USA
    Prev Chronic Dis 5:A20. 2008
  3. ncbi Are older adults up-to-date with cancer screening and vaccinations?
    Douglas Shenson
    Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration, Lakeville, Conn, USA
    Prev Chronic Dis 2:A04. 2005
  4. ncbi Putting prevention in its place: the shift from clinic to community
    Douglas Shenson
    Sickness Prevention Achieved, Regional Collaboration SPARC, Lakeville, Connecticut, USA
    Health Aff (Millwood) 25:1012-5. 2006
  5. ncbi Receipt of preventive services by elders based on composite measures, 1997-2004
    Douglas Shenson
    SPARC Sickness Prevention Achieved Through Regional Collaboration, Lakeville, Connecticut, USA
    Am J Prev Med 32:11-8. 2007
  6. ncbi Routine checkups don't ensure that seniors get preventive services
    Douglas Shenson
    SPARC, Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration, MA, USA
    J Fam Pract 60:E1-E10. 2011
  7. ncbi Delivery of preventive services to adults aged 50-64: monitoring performance using a composite measure, 1997-2004
    Douglas Shenson
    Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration, Lakeville, CT, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 23:733-40. 2008
  8. ncbi Vaccinations and preventive screening services for older adults: opportunities and challenges in the USA
    Douglas Shenson
    Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration SPARC, Newton, MA, USA
    Perspect Public Health 132:165-70. 2012
  9. ncbi The Vote and Vax program: public health at polling places
    Douglas Shenson
    SPARC Sickness Prevention Achieved Through Regional Collaboration, Lakeville, Connecticut, USA
    J Public Health Manag Pract 14:476-80. 2008
  10. ncbi Partners reducing effects of diabetes (PREDICT): a diabetes prevention physical activity and dietary intervention through African-American churches
    Zubaida Faridi
    Yale Prevention Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, Derby, CT, USA
    Health Educ Res 25:306-15. 2010

Detail Information

Publications13

  1. ncbi Developing an integrated strategy to reduce ethnic and racial disparities in the delivery of clinical preventive services for older Americans
    Douglas Shenson
    Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration SPARC, Newton, MA 02465, USA
    Am J Public Health 102:e44-50. 2012
    ..To determine the optimum strategy for increasing up-to-date (UTD) levels in older Americans, while reducing disparities between White, Black, and Hispanic adults, aged 65 years and older...
  2. ncbi Expanding the delivery of clinical preventive services through community collaboration: the SPARC model
    Douglas Shenson
    SPARC Sickness Prevention Achieved Through Regional Collaboration, 76 Prince St, Newton, MA 02465, USA
    Prev Chronic Dis 5:A20. 2008
    ..Population-based rates of adult vaccinations and cancer screenings are low, with less than 40% of older adults up to date with routinely recommended prevention services. Delivery rates are lower still in poor and minority communities...
  3. ncbi Are older adults up-to-date with cancer screening and vaccinations?
    Douglas Shenson
    Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration, Lakeville, Conn, USA
    Prev Chronic Dis 2:A04. 2005
    ..We report a composite measure of adults aged 50 years and older who receive recommended cancer screening services and vaccinations...
  4. ncbi Putting prevention in its place: the shift from clinic to community
    Douglas Shenson
    Sickness Prevention Achieved, Regional Collaboration SPARC, Lakeville, Connecticut, USA
    Health Aff (Millwood) 25:1012-5. 2006
    ..SPARC began with the conceptualization of a policy challenge, designed and evaluated interventions to address that problem, and is now influencing public health policies to expand the delivery of clinical preventive services...
  5. ncbi Receipt of preventive services by elders based on composite measures, 1997-2004
    Douglas Shenson
    SPARC Sickness Prevention Achieved Through Regional Collaboration, Lakeville, Connecticut, USA
    Am J Prev Med 32:11-8. 2007
    ..The receipt of routine vaccinations and cancer screening is typically tracked separately. Monitoring trends in this way does not measure the overall protection conferred by these services on a target population...
  6. ncbi Routine checkups don't ensure that seniors get preventive services
    Douglas Shenson
    SPARC, Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration, MA, USA
    J Fam Pract 60:E1-E10. 2011
    ..However, the effect of routine checkups on being up to date is not known. We examined the association between routine checkups and the delivery of a group of recommended clinical preventive services for US adults ages 65 and older...
  7. ncbi Delivery of preventive services to adults aged 50-64: monitoring performance using a composite measure, 1997-2004
    Douglas Shenson
    Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration, Lakeville, CT, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 23:733-40. 2008
    ..The objective of the study was to compare the delivery of routine clinical preventive services to U.S. adults aged 50-64 years between 1997 and 2004 using a composite measure that includes cancer screenings and vaccinations...
  8. ncbi Vaccinations and preventive screening services for older adults: opportunities and challenges in the USA
    Douglas Shenson
    Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration SPARC, Newton, MA, USA
    Perspect Public Health 132:165-70. 2012
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  9. ncbi The Vote and Vax program: public health at polling places
    Douglas Shenson
    SPARC Sickness Prevention Achieved Through Regional Collaboration, Lakeville, Connecticut, USA
    J Public Health Manag Pract 14:476-80. 2008
    ..Vote and Vax is a potentially national strategy that could significantly expand the delivery of influenza vaccinations...
  10. ncbi Partners reducing effects of diabetes (PREDICT): a diabetes prevention physical activity and dietary intervention through African-American churches
    Zubaida Faridi
    Yale Prevention Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, Derby, CT, USA
    Health Educ Res 25:306-15. 2010
    ..The results indicate important obstacles which impeded the successful implementation of this intervention and lessons learned for future interventions...
  11. ncbi Validation of self-reported pneumococcal vaccination in behavioral risk factor surveillance surveys: experience from the sickness prevention achieved through regional collaboration (SPARC) program
    Douglas Shenson
    Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration, Lakeville, CT, USA
    Vaccine 23:1015-20. 2005
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  12. ncbi Routine preventive services for older women: a composite measure highlights gaps in delivery
    Julie Bolen
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
    J Womens Health (Larchmt) 16:583-93. 2007
    ..We used a composite measure to examine the delivery of routine clinical preventive services to U.S. women aged 50-64 years and > or =65 years in 2004...
  13. ncbi The public's enthusiasm for cancer screening
    Douglas Shenson
    JAMA 291:1835; author reply 1836. 2004