Health and Health Care of HISPANIC/LATINO AMERICAN ELDERS Melissa Talamantes, MS Department of Family and Community Medicine University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio Robert Lindeman, MD New Mexico Geriatric Education Center and Division of Gerontology University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Charles Mouton, MD, MS Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology Department of Family and Commun...

Dr. Bailit is Professor Emeritus, Department of Community Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center and a Research Associate, Department of Community Dentistry, Columbia University. He received his D.M.D. degree from Tufts University and his Ph.D. degree (Anthropology) from Harvard University. Prior to his current position, he was Chair of the Department of Health Administration and Pol...

About 40 years ago, the mental health services providing strategies have been dramatically changed worldwide. As well as, it is considered as a new revolution in mental health and named as community-based mental health movement. Moreover, mental health centers in Iran have been established in order to make a change in urban community-based mental health (CMHC). The first CMHC was founded in Teh...

As a means of accomplishing its mission of studying how environmental agents affect human health, the NIEHS sponsors a program of center core grants designed to support centralized resources and facilities shared by investigators with existing research grants. The purpose of these center grants is to promote a multidisciplinary approach to environmental health sciences, bringing together scient...

OBJECTIVE To test the relationship between external environments, organizational characteristics, and technical efficiency in federally qualified health centers (FQHCs). We tested the relationship between grant revenue and technical efficiency in FQHCs. DATA SOURCES/STUDY DESIGN Secondary data were collected in each year from the Uniform Data System (UDS) on 644 eligible U.S.-based FQHCs betw...