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| J R BloomSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Use of antipsychotic medications in treating schizophrenia among different financing and delivery systemsJoan R Bloom
School of Public Health, Uuniversity of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
J Ment Health Policy Econ 6:163-71. 2003..Pharmaceuticals were not included in the capitation rate. However, antipsychotic medications were included in the formularies for consumers who received their medical care through a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)...- Cancer screening in public health clinics: the importance of clinic utilizationJ R Bloom
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Med Care 39:1345-51. 2001..To determine how screening for breast and cervical cancer in public health clinics was associated with overall clinic utilization... - Implementing capitation of Medicaid mental health services in Colorado: is "readiness" a necessary condition?J R Bloom
University of California, Berkeley 94720 7360, USA
J Behav Health Serv Res 27:437-45. 2000..These findings suggest alternative ways of successfully implementing a capitated public mental health system... - Then and now: quality of life of young breast cancer survivorsJoan R Bloom
University of California, Berkeley 94720 7360, USA
Psychooncology 13:147-60. 2004..Women under age 50, a quarter of all cases of breast cancer, are especially vulnerable to physical and psychosocial late effects of their treatment due to having more aggressive treatment and their relative youth... - Breast cancer screening in women surviving Hodgkin diseaseJoan R Bloom
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7360, USA
Am J Clin Oncol 29:258-66. 2006..Telephone counseling is a method that can provide risk information and is easily transferable to settings where people seek health information, such as telephone information lines... 
Mental health costs and access under alternative capitation systems in ColoradoJoan R Bloom
School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, 94720-7360, USA
Health Serv Res 37:315-40. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Medicaid mental health capitation in Colorado resulted in cost reducing service changes for persons with severe mental illness. Assessment of outcome change is necessary to identify cost effectiveness...- Multi-dimensional quality of life among long-term (5+ years) adult cancer survivorsJoan R Bloom
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Psychooncology 16:691-706. 2007..Review of findings may assist researchers and clinicians wishing to enhance the QOL of the long-term survivor population by identifying the most pressing and widely experienced concerns and by providing directions for future research... - Social networks and their relationship to mental health service use and expenditures among Medicaid beneficiariesSoo Hyang Kang
Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Psychiatr Serv 58:689-95. 2007..This study examined the relationship between social networks and mental health services utilization and expenditures... 
Improving the health and well-being of cancer survivors: past as prologueJoan R Bloom
Divisionof Health Policy and Management, 247 E University Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Psychooncology 17:525-32. 2008..The challenge of our time is to translate what we already know into programs to improve quality of life and to focus research toward increasing our understanding the mechanisms...- Addressing the needs of young breast cancer survivors at the 5 year milestone: can a short-term, low intensity intervention produce change?Joan R Bloom
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94729 7360, USA
J Cancer Surviv 2:190-204. 2008..5 million survivors. The largest group of survivors are those of breast cancer. Reductions in mortality are occurring at a greater rate for women under age 50 at diagnosis than among older women... - Family history, perceived risk, and prostate cancer screening among African American menJoan R Bloom
University of California, School of Public Health, 409 Warren Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:2167-73. 2006.... - Effects of a telephone counseling intervention on sisters of young women with breast cancerJoan R Bloom
University of California, 409 Warren Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Prev Med 43:379-84. 2006..An intervention to provide objective risk information, reduce worries, and promote screening and healthy behaviors was developed... - Capitation and racial and ethnic differences in use and cost of public mental health servicesLonnie R Snowden
School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, 120 Haviland Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 7400, USA
Adm Policy Ment Health 34:456-64. 2007..Differential rejection by, or exclusion of, African American and Latino consumers did not appear to occur in response to capitation... - Capitation of public mental health services in Colorado: a five-year follow-up of system-level effectsJoan R Bloom
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Psychiatr Serv 62:179-85. 2011..This study examined the five-year effects of capitated financing in community mental health centers (CMHCs) by comparing not-for-profit with for-profit programs... - The impact of capitated financing on psychiatric emergency servicesRalph A Catalano
School of Public Health, University of California, 140 Warren Hall, Berkeley, California 94720-7360, USA. rayc@ berkeley.edu
Psychiatr Serv 56:685-90. 2005..Our findings suggest that capitation does not necessarily reduce the quality of care provided to clients... - Contextual factors affecting job satisfaction and organizational commitment in community mental health centers undergoing system changes in the financing of careAnne Morris
Center for Mental Health Services Research, University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA
Ment Health Serv Res 4:71-83. 2002..These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for research and intervention in mental health service settings... - Managed care and service capacity development in a public mental health systemE Cohen
Center for Mental Health Services Research, University of California at Berkeley, 2020 Milvia Street, Suite 405, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Adm Policy Ment Health 28:63-74. 2000..Gaps in some services still remain. These findings point to important program implementation issues for publicly funded managed care... - Organizational and individual factors affecting consumer outcomes of care in mental health servicesAnne Morris
Department of Medicine, University of California, 3333 California Street, Suite 270, MC 0920, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Adm Policy Ment Health 34:243-53. 2007..Being older, female, an ethnic minority, and having a diagnosis of schizophrenia all predicted poorer outcomes among consumers. These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for policy and future research... - Sources of support and the physical and mental well-being of young women with breast cancerJ R Bloom
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley 94720 7360, USA
Soc Sci Med 53:1513-24. 2001..Contrary to predictions, greater use of instrumental resources was related to poorer physical well-being. The results indicate the importance of social resources on well-being following life-threatening illness... - Medication treatment patterns for adults with schizophrenia in Medicaid managed care in ColoradoNeal T Wallace
Division of Public Administration of the Mark O Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University, P O Box 751, Portland, Oregon 97207 0751, USA
Psychiatr Serv 56:1402-8. 2005..These patterns were compared with patterns of psychosocial treatment and a measure of symptom change... - Evaluating health care programs by combining cost with quality of life measures: a case study comparing capitation and fee for serviceRichard Grieve
Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel St, London WC1E7HT, UK
Health Serv Res 43:1204-22. 2008..To demonstrate cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) for evaluating different reimbursement models... - Mammographic screening in women at increased risk of breast cancer after treatment of Hodgkin's diseaseAva Kwong
Department of Radiology, Standford Unviersity School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Breast J 14:39-48. 2008..However, early mammographic screening facilitated diagnosis of in situ and early invasive cancer in 3.5% of our subjects... - Surviving and thriving?Joan R Bloom
Psychooncology 11:89-92. 2002 - Two-year outcomes of fee-for-service and capitated medicaid programs for people with severe mental illnessBrian J Cuffel
United Behavioral Health, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
Health Serv Res 37:341-59. 2002..Furthermore, the type of capitation model was unrelated to outcomes in this study... - Depression experienced by young women newly diagnosed with breast cancerEvaon C Wong-Kim
Department of Social Work, College of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences, California State University, Hayward, CA 94542-3048, USA
Psychooncology 14:564-73. 2005..Early intervention may prevent these biopsychosocial symptoms progressing to major depression and, thus, enhance the quality of life... - Variation in outpatient mental health service utilization under capitationAnn F Chou
Health Services and Research Development, Richard L Roudebush VA Medical Center, and Indiana University Purdue University, 801 W Michigan St, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
J Ment Health Policy Econ 8:3-14. 2005..Community mental health centers (CMHCs), the primary providers of comprehensive mental health services to Medicaid recipients in Colorado, had to search for innovative ways to provide cost-effective services... - Body image and sexual problems in young women with breast cancerPat Fobair
Stanford University, USA
Psychooncology 15:579-94. 2006..The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of body image and sexual problems in the first months after treatment among women diagnosed with breast cancer at age 50 or younger...