Community Health Services

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A cluster-randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effects of a simplified cardiovascular management program in Tibet, China and Haryana, India: study design and rationale. 
  • A community-based approach to non-communicable chronic disease management within a context of advancing universal health coverage in China: progress and challenges. 
  • A community-based intervention increases physical activity and reduces obesity in school-age children in North Carolina. 
  • A model interdisciplinary diagnostic and treatment nursery. 
  • A practical plan for medical direction of nursing homes. 
  • A quantitative measure of diabetes risk in community practice impacts clinical decisions: the PREVAIL initiative. 
  • A randomized trial of population-based clinical decision support to manage health and resource use for Medicaid beneficiaries. 
  • Absconders from a rural health centre in Papua New Guinea. 
  • An Integrated Clinic-Community Partnership for Child Obesity Treatment: A Randomized Pilot Trial. 
  • Anaemia prevention in the community: students as change agents. 
  • Analyzing strategies for developing a prenatal health care outreach program to reduce social and cultural barriers. 
  • Assessing the consequences of delisting publicly funded community-based physical therapy on self-reported health in Ontario, Canada: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Association of patient and physician characteristics with follow-up of abnormal laboratory results. 
  • Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening in Rural Kenya: Perspectives from a Provider Survey. 
  • Bringing basic health care to the rural poor. 
  • Building geographic information system capacity in local health departments: lessons from a North Carolina project. 
  • Can lay-led walking programmes increase physical activity in middle aged adults? A randomised controlled trial. 
  • Caring for patients with sickle cell disease in North Carolina. 
  • Caring for the uninsured and underinsured. 
  • Center for Child and Family Health-North Carolina. What is it? And why? 
  • Changing CHANGE: adaptations of an evidence-based telehealth cardiovascular disease risk reduction intervention. 
  • Collecting data on quality is feasible in community-based palliative care. 
  • Community Health Workers Improve Linkage to Hypertension Care in Western Kenya. 
  • Community-Based Long-Term Care Services: If We Build It, Will They Come? 
  • Community-based HCV screening: knowledge and attitudes in a high risk urban population. 
  • Community-based aquatic exercise and quality of life in persons with osteoarthritis. 
  • Community-based newborn care in Bangladesh. 
  • Comparative Assessment of Utilization and Hospital Outcomes of Veterans Receiving VA and Non-VA Outpatient Dialysis. 
  • Congregational health ministries: a national study of pastors' views. 
  • Cooperative medical schemes in contemporary rural China. 
  • Cost Offset Associated With Early Start Denver Model for Children With Autism. 
  • Cost effectiveness of home and community-based care. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of free HIV voluntary counseling and testing through a community-based AIDS service organization in Northern Tanzania. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of new-generation oral cholera vaccines: a multisite analysis. 
  • Creating a Community Radiology Division: An Academic Radiology Department's 3-Year Experience. 
  • Cultural competence and perceptions of community health workers' effectiveness for reducing health care disparities. 
  • Defining and supporting the diverse information needs of community-based care using the web and hand-held devices. 
  • Delisting publicly funded community-based physical therapy services in Ontario, Canada: a 12-month follow-up study of the perceptions of clients and providers. 
  • Demonstration of a sustainable community-based model of care across the palliative care continuum. 
  • Design and Rationale of the Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (MaRCC) Registry: A Prospective Academic and Community-Based Study of Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Cancer. 
  • Development of a virtual multidisciplinary lung cancer tumor board in a community setting. 
  • Development of level of institutionalization scales for health promotion programs. 
  • Diagnosed mental disorder in children and use of health services in four organized health care settings. 
  • Diffusing a research-based physical activity promotion program for seniors into diverse communities: CHAMPS III. 
  • Effect of a Community Agency-Administered Nurse Home Visitation Program on Program Use and Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Emerging services for community-based long-term care in urban China: a systematic analysis of Shanghai's community-based agencies. 
  • Empowering communication: a community-based intervention for patients. 
  • Enhanced recovery after cardiac surgery program to improve patient outcomes. 
  • Evaluation of the North Country on the Job Network: a model of facilitated care for injured workers in rural upstate New York. 
  • Evaluation of the effectiveness of UK community pharmacists' interventions in community palliative care. 
  • Evening continuity clinic: preserving primary care education in the face of duty hour limitations? 
  • Factors Impacting Perceived Access to Early Prenatal Care among Pregnant Veterans Enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs. 
  • Factors relating to the use of mental health services in a neighborhood health center. 
  • Family Home Food Environment and Nutrition-Related Parent and Child Personal and Behavioral Outcomes of the Healthy Home Offerings via the Mealtime Environment (HOME) Plus Program: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Feasibility of using a web-based nutrition intervention among residents of multiethnic working-class neighborhoods. 
  • Financing health care in rural China: preliminary report of a nationwide study. 
  • Follow YOUR Heart: development of an evidence-based campaign empowering older women with HIV to participate in a large-scale cardiovascular disease prevention trial. 
  • Genetic testing for Alzheimer's and long-term care insurance. 
  • Geographic information systems (GIS): an emerging method to assess demand and provision for rehabilitation services. 
  • HIV medical care provider practices for reducing high-risk sexual behavior: results of a qualitative study. 
  • Health Promotion Through Existing Community Structures: A Case of Churches' Roles in Promoting Rotavirus Vaccination in Rural Zambia. 
  • Health Service Use Among Chinese American Older Adults: Is There a Somatization Effect? 
  • Health diplomacy and the adaptation of global health interventions to local needs in sub-Saharan Africa and Thailand: evaluating findings from Project Accept (HPTN 043). 
  • Health status and service needs of the oldest old: current patterns and future trends. 
  • Health status and severity of illness as predictors of outcomes in primary care. 
  • Healthcare cost differences with participation in a community-based group physical activity benefit for medicare managed care health plan members. 
  • Hearing Norton Sound: a community randomised trial protocol to address childhood hearing loss in rural Alaska. 
  • Hearing Norton Sound: mixed methods protocol of a community randomised trial to address childhood hearing loss in rural Alaska. 
  • Hearing care across the life course provided in the community. 
  • Home and community-based waivers for disabled adults: program versus selection effects. 
  • Hypertension improvement project: randomized trial of quality improvement for physicians and lifestyle modification for patients. 
  • Implementation and outcomes of a community-based self-help smoking cessation program. 
  • Impregnated bed nets for malaria control: biological success and social responsibility. 
  • Improving the health of the community: Duke's experience with community engagement. 
  • Increasing cardiopulmonary resuscitation provision in communities with low bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation rates: a science advisory from the American Heart Association for healthcare providers, policymakers, public health departments, and community leaders. 
  • Informal and formal care infrastructure and perceived need for caregiver training for frail US veterans referred to home and community-based services. 
  • Initiating community self-help: a model for public health workers. 
  • Institutional care for elders in rural China. 
  • Institutional review board training for community practices: advice from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality Practice-Based Research Network listserv. 
  • Just for Us: an academic medical center-community partnership to maintain the health of a frail low-income senior population. 
  • Making a home in the community for the academic medical center. 
  • Making the case for school-based health: where do we stand? 
  • Measuring Distress Levels of Refugee Women to Enhance Community-Based Psycho-social Interventions. 
  • Medicaid managed care partnerships to improve perinatal outcomes. 
  • Medical education in the community: a Nigerian experience. 
  • Medication adherence: a call for action. 
  • Mental health screenings for couples at churches in Nigeria: a strategy for enhancing community-based maternal mental health services in low-resource settings. 
  • Minor depression in family practice: functional morbidity, co-morbidity, service utilization and outcomes. 
  • Minor depression: a review of the literature. 
  • Missed opportunities for diagnosis of tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus co-infection in Moshi, Tanzania. 
  • Models for delivering survivorship care. 
  • Models of cancer survivorship health care: moving forward. 
  • Morbidity and mortality among a cohort of HIV-infected adults in a programme for community home-based care, in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania (2003-2005). 
  • Motivation and satisfaction among community health workers administering rapid diagnostic tests for malaria in Western Kenya. 
  • NIMH Project Accept (HPTN 043) HIV/AIDS community mobilization (CM) to promote mobile HIV voluntary counseling and testing (MVCT) in rural communities in Northern Thailand: modifications by experience. 
  • National Imaging and Antibiotic Practice Patterns in Children Presenting With Urinary Tract Infection to Community Practices: Little Impact From the American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines? 
  • Neighborhood clinics: an academic medical center-community health center partnership. 
  • New models of care: building medical homes in empowered communities. 
  • Nurse-led behavioral management of diabetes and hypertension in community practices: a randomized trial. 
  • Obesity and departments of family medicine. 
  • On residents' satisfaction with community health services after health care system reform in Shanghai, China, 2011. 
  • Optimizing linkage and retention to hypertension care in rural Kenya (LARK hypertension study): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Pairing nurses and social workers in schools: North Carolina's school-based Child and Family Support Teams. 
  • Participant-centered adaptations in caregiver trials: strategies for managing confounds. 
  • Patient, Caregiver, and Taxpayer Knowledge of Palliative Care and Views on a Model of Community-Based Palliative Care. 
  • Paying for Palliative Care in Medicare: Evidence From the Four Seasons/Duke CMMI Demonstration. 
  • Perceived helpfulness of messages on a community-based telephone support service for ex-smokers. 
  • Perspectives of older African-American women on a community-based weight loss program: qualitative findings from the Senior Wellness Initiative and Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) Collaboration for Health. 
  • Philadelphia Telemedicine Glaucoma Detection and Follow-up Study: Methods and Screening Results. 
  • Pillars for the care of older persons in the Caribbean. 
  • Place-Based Initiatives to Improve Health in Disadvantaged Communities: Cross-Sector Characteristics and Networks of Local Actors in North Carolina. 
  • Practice-based Research Network Research Good Practices (PRGPs): Summary of Recommendations. 
  • Predicting nursing home placement among home- and community-based services program participants. 
  • Prevalence and Management of Symptoms Associated With Statin Therapy in Community Practice: Insights From the PALM (Patient and Provider Assessment of Lipid Management) Registry. 
  • Professional nursing education in the future: changes and challenges. 
  • Promoting community practitioners' use of evidence-based approaches to increase breast cancer screening. 
  • Provider specialty and atrial fibrillation treatment strategies in United States community practice: findings from the ORBIT-AF registry. 
  • Providing contextually relevant health literature for at-risk patients using free-standing touchscreen computer kiosks in community settings. 
  • Public health approaches to obesity and its management. 
  • Quality of colonoscopy reporting in community practice. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) Detroit partnership: improving diabetes-related outcomes among African American and Latino adults. 
  • Rationale, objectives and design of the Direct Analysis of Nonvertebral Fracture in the Community Experience (DANCE) study. 
  • Reducing cardiovascular disease in a rural community. 
  • Referring heroin users from compulsory detoxification centers to community methadone maintenance treatment: a comparison of three models. 
  • Reforming nursing education for future practice. 
  • Results of the NIMH collaborative HIV/sexually transmitted disease prevention trial of a community popular opinion leader intervention. 
  • Sample size calculations for the design of cluster randomized trials: A summary of methodology. 
  • Scaling up cervical cancer prevention in Western Kenya: Treatment access following a community-based HPV testing approach. 
  • Scaling up global health interventions: a proposed framework for success. 
  • Screening for diabetes and hypertension in a rural low income setting in western Kenya utilizing home-based and community-based strategies. 
  • Screening in the community to reduce fractures in older women (SCOOP): a randomised controlled trial. 
  • Social Determinants of Health: If You Aren't Measuring Them, You Aren't Seeing the Big Picture. 
  • Social issues of the Alzheimer's patient and family. 
  • Standardization and Scaling of a Community-Based Palliative Care Model. 
  • Steroid Use for Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A CHEER Network Study. 
  • Study protocol: home-based telehealth stroke care: a randomized trial for veterans. 
  • Survivorship care plans: is there buy-in from community oncology providers? 
  • Sustainability and performance of the National Cancer Institute's Community Clinical Oncology Program. 
  • Systems-level barriers to treatment in a cervical cancer prevention program in Kenya: Several observational studies. 
  • Teaching Chinese health care professionals about community-based long-term care (CBLTC) in China. 
  • Temporal Trends in Difficult and Failed Tracheal Intubation in a Regional Community Anesthetic Practice. 
  • The 'offset effect' of mental health treatment on ambulatory medical care utilization and charges. Month-by-month and grouped-month analyses of a five-year study. 
  • The Edgemont Community Clinic: Durham's student-operated free clinic begins its second decade. 
  • The Educational Innovations Project: a community of practice. 
  • The Impact of Military Status on Cognitive Processing Therapy Outcomes in the Community. 
  • The North Carolina Community Preceptor Experience: Third Study of Trends Over 12 Years. 
  • The North Country on the Job Network: a unique role for occupational health nurses in a community coalition. 
  • The Primary Care Leadership Track at the Duke University School of Medicine: creating change agents to improve population health. 
  • The comprehensive assessment of community dwelling elderly: why functional status is not enough. 
  • The effect of a weight gain prevention intervention on moderate-vigorous physical activity among black women: the Shape Program. 
  • The effectiveness of two community-based weight loss strategies among obese, low-income US Latinos. 
  • The efficacy of an HIV risk reduction intervention for Hispanic women. 
  • The history and challenge of HIV prevention. 
  • The relative effects of home care client characteristics on the resource allocation process: do personality and demeanor matter? 
  • The safety and effectiveness of adenosine diphosphate receptor inhibitor pretreatment among acute myocardial infarction patients treated with percutaneous coronary intervention in community practice: Insights from the TRANSLATE-ACS study. 
  • Tracking Patients in Community-Based Palliative Care through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Healthcare Innovation Project. 
  • Treatment retention and care transitions during and after the scale-up of HIV care and treatment in Northern Tanzania. 
  • Unintended consequences of steps to cut readmissions and reform payment may threaten care of vulnerable older adults. 
  • Use of general medical care services by persons with mental disorders. 
  • Using a latent variable approach to inform gender and racial/ethnic differences in cocaine dependence: a National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network study. 
  • Using tailored interventions to enhance smoking cessation among African-Americans at a community health center. 
  • Village-based distribution of oral rehydration therapy packets in Bangladesh. 
  • Vital exhaustion and retinal microvascular changes in cardiovascular disease: atherosclerosis risk in communities study. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Boulware, L. Ebony, Eleanor Easley Distinguished Professor in the School of Medicine, Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Engle, Deborah Lynn, Associate Professor of the Practice of Medical Education, Medical Education
  • Fisher, Deborah Anne, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, with tenure, School of Nursing
  • Silberberg, Mina Ruth, Associate Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Community Health
  • Whetten, Kathryn, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, School of Nursing
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine