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Enhancing Primary Care Capacity for Cardiovascular Disease Management Through the ECHO+ Model: A Multistate Rural Collaboration Among West Virginia, Arkansas, and Oklahoma Open
Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of mortality in Arkansas, West Virginia, and Oklahoma, underscoring the need for approaches to build primary care capacity to address CVD in these states. Methods: The “ECHO+”…
Patient Perspectives on Delayed Specialty Follow-Up After a Primary Care Visit Open
Failure to close diagnostic loops may be more likely when a patient is not given sufficient meaningful information, particularly if there is health system "friction" that reduces the patient's ability and ease to obtain a timely diagnostic…
Impact of COVID-19 on Characteristics and Funding of U.S. Healthcare Startups: Retrospective Review Open
Background The rise of telehealth and telemedicine during the pandemic allowed patients and providers to develop a sense of comfort with telehealth, which may have increased the demand for virtual-first care solutions with spillover effect…
Impact of COVID-19 on Characteristics and Funding of U.S. Healthcare Startups: Retrospective Review (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND The rise of telehealth and telemedicine during the pandemic allowed patients and providers to develop a sense of comfort with telehealth, which may have increased the demand for virtual-first care solutions with spillover effect…
Mental Health and Functioning in School Age Children of Female Entertainment Workers in Cambodia Open
Globally, approximately 10% - 20% of children and adolescents experience mental health problems and the majority of them are living in low- and middle-income countries. Children of female sex workers are often exposed to unsafe environment…
Barriers to global health development: An international quantitative survey Open
That comparatively few system-level predictors (e.g., Organization Type) were significant suggests these barriers may be relatively fundamental at the system-level. Individual-level and system-level effects do have policy implications; e.g…
Vietnam as a case example of school-based mental health services in low and middle income countries: Efficacy and effects of risk status Open
The purposes of this study were to (a) assess the efficacy of a universal classroom-based mental health and social skills program for primary school students in Vietnam, and (b) given the universal nature of the intervention, assess outcom…
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Mental health, life functioning and risk factors among people exposed to frequent natural disasters and chronic poverty in Vietnam Open
Background People living in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) are at increased risk for exposure to major natural disasters, which places them at increased risk for mental health problems. Evidence is less clear, however, regarding t…