Health Behaviors

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Research conducted by: RAND Health; RAND Europe

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The Design of Healthcare for Communities: A Study of Health Care Delivery for Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Conditions — Jan 1, 1999

This paper describes Healthcare for Communities (HCC), a component of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Tracking Initiative that was designed to fill this gap for alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health care.

Research Brief

The Benefits and Costs of Drug Use Prevention: Clarifying a Cloudy Issue — Jan 1, 1999

The United States has for some time now been spending tens of billions of dollars a year in an attempt to control the trafficking and use of illicit drugs; most of those dollars have been used to support stricter enforcement.

Report

Effects of Substance Abuse Parity in Private Insurance Plans Under Managed Care — Jan 1, 1999

Testimony presented Submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources on October 21, 1999.

Journal Article

Preventing Adolescent Substance Abuse: Lessons from the Project ALERT Program — Jan 1, 1998

Lessons that project ALERT has to teach about what kind of program can effectively curb substance abuse, for whom it is effective.

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Drug Abuse Treatment as HIV Prevention: Changes in Social Drug Use Patterns Might Also Reduce Risk — Jan 1, 1998

Beneficial effects of the detoxification treatment by showing dramatic decreases in rates and amounts of opiate drug use during treatment.

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Drug Abuse Treatment and Risky Sex: Evidence for a Cumulative Treatment Effect? — Jan 1, 1998

Cumulative effect of drug-abuse treatment on reducing risky sexual behavior among individuals entering drug-abuse treatment in the United States.

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Promoting Recovery from Drug Abuse: An Africentric Intervention — Jan 1, 1998

Describes a culturally congruent intervention in which Africentric concepts are applied in single-session counseling for African American drug users.

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What Do Sequential Behavioral Patterns Suggest About the Medical Decision-Making Process? Modeling Home Case Management of Acute Illnesses in a Rural Cameroonian Village — Jan 1, 1998

It is well recognized that much of the world's medical care is in the hands of laypeople.

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Self-control and Criminal Opportunity: A Prospective Test of the General Theory of Crime — Jan 1, 1998

This study conducted a prospective test of self-control and opportunity as predictors of property crime and personal crime among drug-using offenders.

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Mental Health and Substance Abuse Benefits in Carve-Out Plans and the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 — Jan 1, 1998

The authors analyze the benefit designs of 4,000 current behavioral health carve-out plans and contrast them to medical benefits.

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Drug Problem Recognition Among Mexican-American Drug-Using Arrestees — Jan 1, 1998

Implications of findings are cited for help-seeking and engagement in treatment by Mexican American drug users.

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Desire for Help Among Drug-Using Mexican-American Arrestees — Jan 1, 1998

In a sample of 88 drug-using Mexican-American arrestees, this study examined demographic factors, drug-problem severity indicators, and personal and social resources as correlates of self-reported desire for help with problems related to drug use.

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The Relationship Between Modifiable Health Risks and Health Care Expenditures: An Analysis of the Multi-Employer Hero Health Risk and Cost Database — Jan 1, 1998

This investigation estimates the impact of ten modifiable health risk behaviors and measures and their impact on health care expenditures, controlling for other measured risk and demographic factors.

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Health-Related Behaviors and the Benefits of Marriage for Elderly Persons — Jan 1, 1998

In this article, we investigate the relationship between health behaviors, marital status, and gender in the elderly population. We estimate logistic regression models to determine the factors that affect the likelihood of undertaking healthy behaviors. Using data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey, we find that marriage has positive impacts on health behaviors in the elderly population and that, when these effects differ by gender, they tend to be larger for elderly men than for elderly women. These results extend earlier findings showing that marriage encourages healthy behaviors for a younger population and demonstrate that these benefits continue later in life.

Journal Article

Psychometric Properties of the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire — Jan 1, 1998

NEI-VFQ should be a useful tool for group-level comparisons of vision-targeted, health-related quality of life in clinical research.

Journal Article

Costs and Utilization of Substance Abuse Care in a Privately Insured Population Under Managed Care — Jan 1, 1998

Cost and utilization patterns of substance abuse and mental health treatment under private, employer-sponsored, managed behavioral health care plans.

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Breast Cancer Screening Adherence: Does Church Attendance Matter? — Jan 1, 1998

Little is known about the health behaviors of church attendees.

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Influencing physician response to prenatal substance exposure through state legislation and work-place policies — Jan 1, 1998

Influencing physician response to prenatal substance exposure through state legislation and work-place policies

Journal Article

Is crack cheaper than (powder) cocaine? — Jan 1, 1998

Is crack cheaper than (powder) cocaine?

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Profiles of violent youth : substance use and other concurrent problems — Jan 1, 1998

Profiles of violent youth : substance use and other concurrent problems

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