This study aims to examine the inter-district and inter-village variation of utilization of health services for institutional births in EAG states in presence of rural health program and availability of infrastructures. District Level Household Survey-III (2007-08) data on delivery care and facility information was used for the purpose. Bivariate results examined the utilization pattern by stat...

Individual risk assessment and behavior change dominate the content of high school health education instruction whereas broader social, political, and economic factors that influence health-known as upstream causes-are less commonly considered. With input from instructors and students, we developed a 10-lesson experiential Public Health Advocacy Curriculum that uses classroom-based activities t...

In 1977, Congress passed the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) to encourage federally insured depository institutions to lend in lowto moderate-income neighborhoods and to lowto moderate-income people. Since then, the profitability of the many special lending programs designed to achieve these goals has been questioned on both theoretical and practical grounds. Arguments range from “if the busin...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The main purpose of the study was to determine whether the health or economic status of a cohort of residents in an economically troubled geographical area changed between 1990 and 1993. DESIGN Longitudinal, single cohort, interview survey method with the key variables of health status and economic status. Quasi-experimental pre-post design with economic rebound as the interve...

The purpose of this article is to describe an innovative partnership among academic, community, and service to better meet the health care needs of underserved populations. The Center for Community Health Education, Research, and Service--a coalition of Boston education institutions, health services providers, and community agencies--was formed with a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Th...

For more than 40 years, community health centers (CHCs) have provided primary care and behavioral and mental health services in medically underserved communities, regardless of a patient's ability to pay. In 2001, the government launched the Federal Health Center Growth Initiative, providing funds over 5 years to increase by 60% the number of patients served in 1,200 communities. As the number ...

Immigrant Latino women represent about one fifth of the total Latino population; however, data on health status and access to care for this population is limited. Using secondary data, we used a cross-sectional study to examine sociodemographic, migration, health status, and access to health care characteristics of immigrant documented and undocumented Latino women in North Texas. Undocumented ...

E. Chow1; M. Zuberi2,3; R. Seto2; S. Hota6,7; E.N. Fish8,9 ; D. Morra1,4,5 1 Centre for Innovation in Complex Care, University Health Network; 2 Investigational Pharmacy Services, Department of Pharmacy Services, University Health Network; 3 Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto; 4 Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; 5 Centre for Interprofessional Education, Universit...

BACKGROUND Community health centers (CHCs) are nonprofit community-based providers of primary and preventive health care for medically underserved populations. At the same time, nationally, racial/ethnic minorities and low-income populations are disproportionately affected by poor access to comprehensive eye and vision care and are more likely to experience adverse outcomes. OVERVIEW This rep...