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Improving Childhood Immunization Rates |
Smallpox
Vaccination Policy - the Need for Change. NEJM
Editorial, 3/28/02.
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The
Costs of Covering Mental Health and Substance Abuse Care at the Same
Level as Medical Care in Private Insurance Plans
Testimony: Health Insurance Committee, National Conference
of
Insurance Legislators, 7/13/01, Chicago, IL
(Full Text - PDF)
( Rand
Health CT-180 ) |
The
Role of Performance Information for Quality Improvement. Health
Services Research, (36) 3, 619-641, 07/2001.
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The
Impact of Computer-generated Messages on Childhood Immunization
Coverage. Amer. J. Prev. Med. (19) 1, 68-70, 2000.
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IMM/Scrub:
A Domain-specific Tool for the Deduplication of Vaccination History
Records in Childhood Immunization Registries. Computers
and Biomedical Research (33) 2, 126-143, 2000.
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Using
Semantic Constraints to help Verify the Completeness of a
Computer-based Clinical Guideline for Childhood Immunization. Comput.Methods
Programs Biomed. (58) 3, 267-280, 1999.
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Tools
for Immunization Guideline Knowledge Maintenance I. - Automated
Generation of the Knowledge "Kernel" for Immunization
Forecasting. Computers and Biomedical Research (31) 3, 172-189,
1998.
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Tools
for Immunization Guideline Knowledge Maintenance II. - Automated
Web-based Generation of User-customized Test Cases. Computers and
Biomedical Research (31) 3, 190-208, 1998.
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Combining
Tabular, Rule-based, and Procedural Knowledge in Computer-based
Guidelines for Childhood Immunization. Computer
and Biomedical Research (30) 3, 211-231, 1997.
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Using
Computer-tailored Calendars to Promote Childhood Immunization. Public
Health Report (111) 2, 176-178, 1996.
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Would
Better Adherence to Guidelines Improve Childhood Immunization Rates?
Pediatrics (98) 6, 1062-1068, 1996.
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Measles
Vaccination Levels of Children Enrolled in WIC during the 1991
Measles Epidemic in NYC. Amer. J. Public Health
(86) 11, 1551-1556, 1996.
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Vaccination
Coverage Levels Among Children Aged 19-35 months - U.S., April-June,
1994. MMWR (44) 20, 396-398, 5/26/1995.
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Low
Vaccination Levels of US Preschool and School-age Children. JAMA
(271) 11, 833-839, 3/16/1994.
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Progress on the
Childhood Immunization Initiative. Public Health
Reports (109) 5, 594-600, 1994.
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A
Neonatal Hepatitis B Surveillance and Vaccination Program: NYC,
1987-1988. Amer. J. Public Health (82) 6,
885-888, 1992.
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General
Recommendations on Immunization. Recommendations
of the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP), MMWR (38)
13, 205-227, 4/7/1989.
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Mental Illness, Substances Use
Disorders, the Underserved and the U.S. Public Health Policy |
Americas' Views on Health Policy: A Fifty Year Historical Perspective.
Health Affairs, March / April, 2001,
PDF format.
-- "A
review of data from more than 100 public opinion surveys conducted over
a fifty-year period finds that the American public has conflicting views
about the nation's health policy... The review finds that confidence in
the leaders of medicine has declined but that most Americans maintain
trust in the honesty and ethical standards of individual physicians."
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Are
People with Mental Illness Getting the Help They Need?
New
Findings About Parity Laws, Insurance Coverage, and Care Access
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"Despite
parity legislation, insurance coverage remains problematic for persons
at risk for mental disorders. Parity mandates have not resulted in
either increased use of mental health services or higher insurance
costs, as opponents had feared."
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The
Costs of Covering Mental Health and Substance Abuse Care at the Same
Level as Medical Care in Private Insurance Plans -
Rand
Health, Strum, 7/2001, CT-180:
Testimony: Health Insurance Committee, National Conference of
Insurance Legislators, 7/13/01, Chicago, IL, PDF
format.. -- "Our results suggest that parity
in employer-sponsored health plans is not very costly under
comprehensively managed care... There also is no support
for excluding substance abuse from parity efforts because of cost
reasons... However, decoupling is likely to create difficulties in
coordinating treatment and lead to less efficient care."
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Public Health Physicians, An Endangered Species.
Tilson, 2001, Amer. Journal of Preventative Medicine Vol. 21 No. 3, PDF
format. -- "Questions have arisen regarding the
competency levels of the various professions within the public health
sector, including those of physicians... Identification of the essential
knowledge, skills, and attitudes for public health physicians is the
first step toward narrowing gaps in required competencies."
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Substance Abuse as a Public
Health Problem collection |
Alcohol, Drugs and Violence. Parker, 1998,
Annual. Review Sociology. 1998. 24:291-311, PDF format.
-- "... [First,] we find no
significant evidence suggesting that drug use is associated with
violence. Second, there is substantial evidence to suggest that alcohol
use is significantly associated with violence of all kinds."
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Alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes: deterrence and intervention.
McCammon, 2001, Department of Emergency Medicine,
United Hospital Center, Clarksburg, WV. [Abstract only] "Impaired
driving continues to be a major factor in many injuries and fatalities
on our nation's highways. In 1998, alcohol was involved in 38% of all
fatal crashes, contributing to 15,935 deaths."
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Innovations
in the Treatment For Drug Abuse: Solutions to a Public Health Problem
Annual Review of Public Health. by Sindelar, 2001.
Volume: 22; Pages: 249–72.
Copyright © 2001 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved.
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Enter
methadone maintenance - Chapter 14 of the classic "Licit
and Illicit Drugs" by Brecher, 1972.
The story of how Dr. Vincent Dole brought the results of his early work with
a few patients to the then NYC Commissioner of Hospitals Ray E. Trussell who enthusiastically went about raising the money and finding
the hospital beds needed to launch what would become largest
Methadone Maintenance treatment system in the world.
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Alexander DeLuca, M.D.