scholarly journals Health promotion and preventive health care service guidelines for the care of people with spina bifida

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 513-523
Author(s):  
Ellen Fremion ◽  
David Kanter ◽  
Margaret Turk
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Spina Bifida ◽  
Acute Care ◽  
Preventive Care ◽  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Preventive Health Care ◽  
Preventive Health ◽  
Care Utilization ◽  
Acute Care Utilization

Individuals with Spina Bifida (SB) have unique lifelong medical and social needs. Thus, when considering how to promote health and offer preventive care, providers must adapt general healthcare screening and counseling recommendations to their patients’ physical and cognitive impairments along with discerning how to monitor secondary or chronic conditions common to the population. This article provides an update on the health promotion and preventive health care guidelines developed as part of the Spina Bifida Association’s fourth edition of the Guidelines for the Care of People with Spina Bifida. The guidelines highlight accommodations needed to promote general preventive health, common secondary/chronic conditions such as obesity, metabolic syndrome, hypertension, musculoskeletal pain, and considerations for preventing acute care utilization for the SB population throughout the lifespan. Further research is needed to understand the effectiveness of preventive care interventions in promoting positive health outcomes and mitigating potentially preventable acute care utilization.

Hospitalization for urinary tract infections and the quality of preventive health care received by people with spina bifida

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian S. Armour ◽  
Lijing Ouyang ◽  
Judy Thibadeau ◽  
Scott D. Grosse ◽  
Vincent A. Campbell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Urinary Tract ◽  
Spina Bifida ◽  
Urinary Tract Infections ◽  
Preventive Health Care ◽  
Preventive Health ◽  
Tract Infections

scholarly journals Impact of insurance type on survivor-focused and general preventive health care utilization in adult survivors of childhood cancer

Cancer ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 117 (9) ◽  
pp. 1966-1975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Casillas ◽  
Sharon M. Castellino ◽  
Melissa M. Hudson ◽  
Ann C. Mertens ◽  
Isac S. F. Lima ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Utilization ◽  
Childhood Cancer ◽  
Adult Survivors ◽  
Preventive Health Care ◽  
Preventive Health ◽  
Care Utilization ◽  
Insurance Type ◽  
Survivors Of Childhood Cancer

scholarly journals The preventive health care act and the future forum public health in Germany

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
F De Bock ◽  
Y Shajanian Zarneh ◽  
S Matusall
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health System ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
National Level ◽  
Preventive Health Care ◽  
Preventive Health ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Bottom Up

Abstract The public health system in Germany, similar to education and cultural affairs, is characterised by the federal structure. It is mainly regulated and decided at the state and municipal level, and not primarily at the national level. The preventive health care act (The Act to Strengthen Health Promotion and Preventive Health Care) (2015) underlines the setting-based approach of health promotion and takes a life course perspective by recommending goals of growing up healthy, living and working healthy and healthy ageing. The act formulates broad recommendations for prevention and health promotion at the national level, that in turn take on concrete forms in mandatory framework agreements at the federal state level with uniform health objectives. On the whole, the key objective of the act is to improve preventive health care and general health promotion. Also the financing of the act by the mandatory health insurance is a special feature and at the same time a novelty. At the same time a bottom-up project has been recently launched with the aim to develop a public health strategy in Germany. The project future forum public health (ZfPH) is a platform for public health professionals, researchers and students following incorporated concepts of policy analysis as well as methods that will ensure participation, transparency and transferability of the results into policy and practice. Over the next three years, ZfPH’s steering group will moderate a participatory process, including stakeholders from public health practice and research as well as policy makers. In an evidence-based approach, they will first analyse the current state of Germany’s public health system before developing concrete policy recommendations for a coherent and efficient public health system. The presentation will give a short overview over the German public health system and the preventive health care act, its structure and the achievements as well as the bottom-up project future forum public health.

Preventive Health Care Utilization

1989 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Gemperline ◽  
John Brockert ◽  
Lucy M. Osborn
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Utilization ◽  
Preventive Health Care ◽  
Preventive Health ◽  
Care Utilization

Acute Care Utilization and Health Care Expenditures in Medicaid‐Enrolled Children

2020 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbey R. Masonbrink ◽  
Troy Richardson ◽  
Monika K. Goyal ◽  
Matt Hall ◽  
Jennifer L. Reed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Acute Care ◽  
Health Care Expenditures ◽  
Care Utilization ◽  
Acute Care Utilization

scholarly journals Spillover Effects of Drug Safety Warnings on Preventive Health Care Use

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-208
Author(s):  
N. Meltem Daysal ◽  
Chiara Orsini
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Preventive Care ◽  
Drug Safety ◽  
Hormone Replacement ◽  
Preventive Health Care ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Health Care Use ◽  
Preventive Health

Abstract We examine how new medical information on drug safety impacts preventive health care use. We exploit the release of the findings of the Women’s Health Initiative Study (WHIS) – the largest randomized controlled trial of women’s health – which demonstrated in 2002 the health risks associated with the long-term use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). We first show that, after the release of the WHIS findings, HRT use dropped sharply among post-menopausal women. We then estimate the spillover effects of the WHIS findings on preventive care by means of a difference-in-differences methodology comparing changes in preventive care use among 60 to 69 year-old women (who have high rates of HRT use) with the change among women aged 75 and above (who have much lower rates of HRT use). Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for the period 1998–2007, we find that women aged 60–69 had statistically and economically significant declines in their annual mammography checks, checkups, cholesterol checks and blood stool tests, when compared to older women.

scholarly journals Impact of Family Caregiver Training on Hospitalization During Medicare Home Health Care

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 252-253
Author(s):  
Julia Burgdorf ◽  
Jennifer Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Acute Care ◽  
Home Health Care ◽  
Family Caregiver ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Home Health ◽  
Care Utilization ◽  
Caregiver Training ◽  
Acute Care Utilization

Abstract Medicare home health providers are required to offer family caregiver training; however, there is little information regarding the impact of family caregiver training on patient outcomes in home health or other care delivery settings. A better understanding of this relationship is necessary to guide development of caregiver training interventions and inform policy discussions surrounding family caregiver training access. This research assesses whether and how unmet need for family caregiver training is associated with acute care utilization during Medicare home health. We examine 1,217 (weighted n=5,870,905) fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries who participated in the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) and received Medicare-funded home health care between 2011-2016. We link NHATS data with home health patient assessments and Medicare claims, drawing measures of family caregivers’ need for training from home health clinician reports and determining provision of training from Medicare claims. Using weighted, multivariable logistic regressions, we model the marginal change in probability of acute care utilization during home health as a function of family caregivers’ unmet need for training. We found that older adults whose family caregivers had an unmet need for training had a probability of acute care utilization during home health that was 18 percentage points (p=0.001) greater than those whose family caregivers both needed and received training, holding all covariates at their means. Findings support the importance of connecting family caregivers to training resources and suggest one avenue by which investing in caregiver training may be cost-effective for integrated payers and providers.

scholarly journals A Community-Based Intervention Improves Preventive Health Care Utilization and Immunization Rates for a High Risk DC Population

1999 ◽  
Vol 45 (4, Part 2 of 2) ◽  
pp. 123A-123A
Author(s):  
Ayman El-Mohandes ◽  
Michal Young ◽  
Lawrence Grylack ◽  
M Nabil El-Khorazaty ◽  
Kathy Katz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Health Care Utilization ◽  
Preventive Health Care ◽  
Preventive Health ◽  
Care Utilization ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Immunization Rates
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