Urban Health Services

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A participatory action research pilot study of urban health disparities using rapid assessment response and evaluation. 
  • Access to healthcare services makes a difference in healthy longevity among older Chinese adults. 
  • Barriers to accessing HIV/AIDS care in North Carolina: rural and urban differences. 
  • Behavioral Health Integration into Primary Care: a Microsimulation of Financial Implications for Practices. 
  • Body mass index, physical activity, and dietary behaviors among members of an urban community fitness center: a questionnaire survey. 
  • Breast cancer presentation in an urban health care Safety Net system. 
  • Changing access to health services in urban China: implications for equity. 
  • Characteristics of HIV-infected adults in the Deep South and their utilization of mental health services: A rural vs. urban comparison. 
  • Emerging services for community-based long-term care in urban China: a systematic analysis of Shanghai's community-based agencies. 
  • General practice encounters for psychological problems in rural, remote and metropolitan areas in Australia. 
  • Health services access and use among older adults in North Carolina: urban vs rural residents. 
  • Impact of HIV-positive speakers in a multicomponent, school-based HIV/STD prevention program for inner-city adolescents. 
  • In urban and rural India, a standardized patient study showed low levels of provider training and huge quality gaps. 
  • Injection practices in a metropolis of North India: perceptions, determinants and issues of safety. 
  • Innovative bridging of the rural-urban divide: comparison of scope, safety, and impact of collaborative rural surgery camps and an urban surgical program. 
  • Internationally educated health professionals and the challenge of workforce distribution. 
  • Noninfectious disease among the Bhutanese refugee population at a United States urban clinic. 
  • Outcomes of an uncertainty management intervention in younger African American and Caucasian breast cancer survivors. 
  • Partnering together? Relationships between faith-based community health centers and neighborhood congregations. 
  • Predicting the intentions of women in domestic violence shelters to return to partners: does forgiveness play a role? 
  • Regional systems of care demonstration project: Mission: Lifeline STEMI Systems Accelerator: design and methodology. 
  • Rural/urban differences in barriers to and burden of care for children with special health care needs. 
  • The Durham Family Initiative: a preventive system of care. 
  • The complete management of extremity vascular injury in a local population: a wartime report from the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group/Air Force Theater Hospital, Balad Air Base, Iraq. 
  • The impact of urban health insurance reform on hospital charges: a case study from two cities in China. 
  • Urban health insurance reform and coverage in China using data from National Health Services Surveys in 1998 and 2003. 
  • Utilization of health care services in hard-to-reach marginalized HIV-infected individuals. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Mohanan, Manoj, Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Economics