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Pain, anxiety, and depression likely linked in primary care patients
Awareness of the links between pain, anxiety and depression could be especially helpful in primary care settings.
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Access to care and race in public assistance programs
A recent study found no racial/ethnic disparities in health services utilization among enrollees in IMPACT, a prostate cancer treatment program providing free prostate cancer treatment to low-income or underinsured men in California..
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August RAND Health Congressional Newsletter
The August RAND Health Congressional newsletter highlights research tying neighborhood economic conditions to the consumption of fruits and vegetables, findings that life expectancy is a better predictor of health care spending than age is, and a report showing that the Institute of Medicine's Quality Improvement framework is useful for behavioral health care.
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PTSD in Latino Patients: Illness Beliefs, Treatment Preferences, and Implications for Care
Little is known about how Latinos with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) understand their illness and their preferences for mental health treatment.
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Assessment of AHRQ patient safety initiative
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is carrying out its congressional mandate to establish a patient-safety research and development initiative to help health care providers reduce medical errors and improve patient safety. This report is the second of four annual reports prepared by RAND as AHRQ's Patient Safety Evaluation Center.
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Neurophysiological Pathways to Obesity: Below Awareness and Beyond Individual Control
This article identifies 10 neurophysiological pathways that can lead people to make food choices subconsciously or, in some cases, automatically.
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Examining the regional public health system in the Washington, D.C., area.
The regional public health system for the Washington, D.C. area is largely informal and based on voluntary self-organization by both governmental and non-governmental institutions.
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This study explores a model in which active-duty medical personnel would be assigned to civilian settings during peacetime in an effort to maintain the medical skills necessary for deployment.
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