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2005

Berry, C.A., Quinn, K., Wolf, R., Mosnaim, G., and Shalowitz, M. Validation of Spanish and English versions of the asthma portion of the Brief Pediatric Asthma Screen Plus (BPAS+) among Hispanics, Annals of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology, in press.

 

2005

Brecher, C., Silver, D. and Weitzman, B.C. Following the money: using expenditure analysis as an evaluation tool. American Journal of Evaluation, in press.

 

2005

Kaplan, S.A. and Garrett, K.E. The use of logic models by community-based initiatives. Evaluation and Program Planning, in press.

 

2005

Weitzman, B.C., Silver, D., and Brazill, C. Efforts to improve public policy and programs through improved data practice: experiences in fifteen distressed American cities. Public Administration Review, in press.

 

2005

Yedidia M.J., Gillespie C.C., Bernstein CA. “Training Psychiatrists for Public Sector Care: A Survey of Residency Directors on Current Priorities and Preparation,” Psychiatric Services, in press.

 

2004

Frohna, J.G., Kalet, A., Kachur, E., Zabar, S., Cox, M., Halpern, R., Hewson, M., Yedidia, M.J., Williams BC. Assessing residents' competency in care management: report of a consensus conference. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 16, 77-84.

 

2004

Gallup-Black, A. and Weitzman, B.C., “Teen Pregnancy and Urban Youth: Competing Truths, Complacency, and Perceptions of the Problem” Journal of Adolescent Health, 34(5), 366-375.

 

2004

Kaplan, S.A. , Dillman, K.N. , Calman, N.S., and Billings, J. Opening doors and building capacity: Employing a community-based approach to surveying. Journal of Urban Health. 2004;81:291-300.

 

2004

MacGregor B, Yedidia MJ. “Eight Motifs of Dying: An Investigation into Dying and the Inner Life,” in Schlitz M, Amorok T, Micozzi M (eds), Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Health Sciences Press.

 

2004

Rafferty, Y., Shinn. M. and Weitzman, B.C., “Academic achievement among formerly homeless adolescents and their continuously housed peers” Journal of School Psychology, 42(3), 179-199.

 

2004

Toohey, S. M., Shinn, M., & Weitzman, B.C. "Social networks and homelessness among women heads of household" American Journal of Community Psychology, 33(1-2), 7-20.

 

2003

Alonso, E. M., Neighbors, K., Mattson, C., Sweet, E., Ruch-Ross, H., Berry, C. and Sinacore, J. Functional outcomes of pediatric liver transplantation, Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition, 37(2), 155-60.

 

2003

Billings, J. Management matters: strengthening the research base to help improve performance of safety net providers. Health Care Management Review, 28(4), 323-34.

 

2003

Kerner, J.F., Yedidia M.J., Padgett, D., Muth, B., Washington, K.S., Teft, M., Yabroff, R., Makarious, E., Freeman, H., Mandelblatt, J. Realizing the promise of breast cancer screening: Clinical follow-up after abnormal screening among black women. Preventive Medicine, 37, 92-101.

 

2003

Mijanovich, T. and Weitzman, B.C. "Which 'broken windows' matter? School, neighborhood, and family characteristics associated with youth's feelings of unsafety" Journal of Urban Health, 80(3), 400-415.

 

2003

 Weitzman, B., Guttmacher, S., Weinberg, S., Kapadia, F., Low response rate schools in surveys of adolescent risk-taking behaviors: possible biases, possible solutions. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 57:1, 63-7.

 

2003

 Wolf, R.L., Berry, C.A., and Quinn, K. Development and Validation of a Brief Pediatric Screen for Asthma and Allergies Among Children, Annals of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology, 90, 500-507.

 

2003

Yedidia MJ, Gillespie CC, Kachur E, Schwartz MD, Ockene J, Chepaitis AC, Snyder CW, Lazare A, Lipkin M. "Effect of Communications Training on Medical Student Performance," Journal of the American Medical Association, 290, 1157-1165.

 

2002

Cook, S., Solomon, M.C. and Berry, C.A. Nutrient intake of adolescents with diabetes, Diabetes Educator, 28(3), 382-388.

 

2002

Cowal, K., Shinn, M., Weitzman, B.C., Stojanovic, D., and Labay, L.E. "Mother-child separations among homeless and housed families receiving public assistance in New York City, " American Journal of Community Psychology, 30(5).

 

2002

 Ospina, S., Godsoe, B., and Schall, E., Co-producing knowledge: Practitioners and scholars working together to understand leadership. Eds Cynthia Cherrey and
Larraine R. Matusak. International Leadership Association: College Park, MD.

 

2002

Guttmacher, S., Weitzman, B.C., Kapadia, and Weinberg. Classroom based surveys of adolescent risk-taking behaviors: reducing the bias of absenteeism (link courtesy of American Journal of Public Health). American Journal of Public Health, 92, 235-237.

 

2002

Schall, E., Ospina, S., Godsoe, B., and Dodge, J. Appreciative narratives as leadership research: Matching method to lens. Advances in Appreciative Inquiry, a new book series edited by David Cooperrider and Michel Avital, Case Western Reserve University.

 

2002

Silver, D., Weitzman, B., and Brecher, C. Setting an agenda for local action: Reconciling the opinions of experts and the community. Policy Studies Journal, 30(3), 363-378.

 

2002

Weitzman, B.C., Silver, D., and Dillman, K. Integrating a comparison group design into a theory of change evaluation: the case of the Urban Health Initiative. American Journal of Evaluation, 23, 371-385.

 

2002

 Williams, B.C., Kachur, E., Frohna, J.G., Halpern, R., Jensen, J., and Yedidia, M. Measuring residents' care management knowledge: How are we doing? Academic Medicine, 77, S105-S107.

 

2002

 Yedidia M.J., Greene J., and Moore G.T., Collaborative interdisciplinary team education. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 16, 175-176.

 

2001

Berry, C.A., Butler, P., and Budetti, P. Child health and development services in Medicaid managed care organizations, Ambulatory Child Health, 7, 157-167.

 

2001

Berry, C.A., Shalowitz, M.U, Quinn, K.A., and Wolf, R. Validation of the revised CRISYS, a contemporary measure of life stressors. Psychological Reports, 88, 713-724.

 

2001

Cook, S., Aikens, J.E., Berry, C. A. and McNabb, W.L. The development of the diabetes problem solving measure for adolescents (DPSMA). The Diabetes Educator, 27(6): 1-18.

 

2001

Ellen, I.G., Mijanovich, T., and Dillman, K.,. Neighborhood effects on health: exploring the links and assessing the evidence. Journal of Urban Affairs, 23(3-4):391-408.

 

2001

Gordon, J.A., Billings, J., Asplin, B.R., and Rhodes, K.V. Safety net research in emergency medicine: Proceedings of the Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference on "The unraveling safety net". Academic Emergency Medicine, 8(11), 1024-1029.

 

2001

Greene J.K., Blustein J., Laflamme, K.B. Use of preventive care services, beneficiary characteristics, and Medicare HMO performance. Health Care Financing Review, 22, 41-50.

 

2001

Padgett, D., Yedidia, M.J, Kerner, J., and Mandelblatt, J. The emotional consequences of false positive mammography: African-American women's reactions in their own words," Women and Health, 33, 1-14.

 

2001

Shalowitz, M.U., Berry, C.A., Quinn K., Wolf, R.L. The relationship of life stressors and maternal depression to pediatric asthma morbidity in a subspecialty practice. Ambulatory Pediatrics, 1(4), 185-193.

 

2001

Yedidia, M.J, Bickel, J. "Why aren't there more women as leaders in academic medicine? the views of clinical chairs, Academic Medicine, 76, 453-465.

 

2001

Yedidia, M.J, and MacGregor, B. Confronting the prospect of dying: Reports of terminally ill patients," Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 22, 807-819.

 

2000

Billings, J., Mijanovich, T., Frenkel, T., and Cantor, J. Analysis of selection effects in New York City's Medicaid managed care population. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 77, 625-644.

 

2000

Blustein J. Medicare and drug coverage: A women's health issue. Women's Health Issues, 10, 47-53.

 

2000

Blustein J. Drug coverage and drug purchases by Medicare beneficiaries with hypertension. Health Affairs, 19, 219-230.

 

2000

Blustein J., Hoy EC. Who is enrolled in for-profit vs. nonprofit Medicare HMOs?. Health Affairs,19, 210-220.

 

2000

Freudenberg, N., Silver, D., Carmona, J.M., Kass, D., Lancaster, B., and Speers, M. Health promotion in the city: A structured review of the literature on interventions to prevent heart disease, substance abuse, violence and HIV infection in US metropolitan areas, 1980-1995. Journal of Urban Health, 77(3), 443-457.

 

2000

Kovner A., Elton J., and Billings J. Transforming health management: An evidence-based approach. Frontiers, 16, 3-24.

 

2000

Yedidia, M.J., Gillespie, C., and Moore, G. Specific clinical competencies for managing care: views of residency directors and managed care medical directors, Journal of the American Medical Association, 284,1093-1098.

 

1999

Duchon, L.M., Weitzman, B.C., and Shinn, B. The relationship of residential instability to medical care utilization among poor mothers in New York City. Medical Care, 37(12): 1282-1293.

 

1999

Stojanovic, D., Weitzman, B.C., Shinn, M., Labay, L.E. Williams, N.P. Tracing the path out of homelessness: the housing patterns of families after exiting shelter. Journal of Community Psychology, 27(2),199-208.

 

1999

Yedidia, M.J. and Berry, C.A. The impact of residency training on physicians' AIDS-related practice behavior: A longitudinal panel study. Academic Medicine, 74(5), 532-538.

 

1998

Shinn, M., Weitzman, B.C., Stojanovic, D., Knickman, J.R., Jimenez, L., Duchon, L., James, S., and Krantz, D.H. Predictors of homelessness from shelter request to housing stability among families in New York City. American Journal of Public Health, 88(11), 1651-57.

 

1998

Yedidia, M.J. Challenges to effective medical school leadership: Perspectives of twenty-two current and former deans. Academic Medicine, 73, 631-639.

 

1996

Billings, J., Anderson, G., and Newman, L. Recent findings on preventable hospitalizations. Health Affairs, 15(3), 239-249.

 

1996

Billings, J., Kretz, S.E., Rose, R., Rosenbaum, S., Sullivan, M., Fowles, J., and Weiss, K.B. National Asthma Education and Prevention Program working group report on the financing of asthma care. American Journal of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, 154, s119-130.

 

1996

Ostroff, J.S., Woolverton, K.S., Berry, C.A., Lesko, L. Use of the mental health inventory with adolescents: A secondary analysis of the RAND health insurance study. Psychological Assessment, 8, 105-107.

 

1996

Yedidia, M.J. and Berry, C.A. The impact of residency training on physicians' outlook on AIDS: A cohort analysis. Medical Care Research and Review, 53, 207-224.

 

1996

Yedidia, M.J., Berry, C.A., and Barr, J.K. Changes in physicians' attitudes toward AIDS during residency training: A longitudinal study of medical school graduates. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 37, 179-191.

 

1995

Bindman A., Grumbach K., Osmond D., Komaromy M, Vranizan K, Lurie N, and Billings J. Preventable hospitalizations and access to health care. Journal of the American Medical Association, 274(4), 305-311.

 

1995

Blustein, J. and Weitzman, B.C. Access to hospitals with high-technology cardiac services: How is race important? American Journal of Public Health, 85(3).

 

1995

Yedidia, M.J., Lipkin, M. Schwartz, M., and Hirschkorn, C. Learners as teachers: The conflicting roles of medical residents," Journal of General Internal Medicine, 10, 615-623.

 

1994

Yedidia, M.J. Differences in treatment of ischemic heart disease at a public and a voluntary hospital: Sources and consequences, Milbank Quarterly, 72, 299-327.

 

1994

Shinn, M. and Weitzman, B.C. You can't eliminate homelessness without housing. American Behavioral Scientist, 37(3), 435-442.

 

1994

Smith, D., Knickman, J., and Berry, C.A. Managing the demand for emergency service: The New York City EMS. Disaster Management, 6, 151-159.

 

1993

Berry, C.A. and Weitzman, B.C. Factors affecting housing comfort among formerly homeless families: Housing quality or individual vulnerabilities? The Community Psychologist, 26, 27-29.

 

1993

Weitzman, B.C. and Berry, C.A. Impact of employment-based health insurance on home attendants. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 4, 374-385.

 

1993

Yedidia, M.J. Lipkin, M. Schwartz, M., and Hirschkorn, C. Doctors as workers: Work-hour restrictions and interns' perceptions of responsibility, quality of care, and training. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 8, 429-435.

 

1993

Yedidia, M.J., Barr, J.K., and Berry, C.A. Physicians' attitudes toward AIDS at different career stages: A comparison of internists and surgeons. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 34, 272-284.

 

1993

Yedidia, M.J. and Hanson, K. Integrating HIV-related primary care and substance abuse treatment: Lessons from New York State. AIDS and Public Policy Journal, 8, 135-141.

 

1992

Weitzman, B.C., Knickman, J.R., and Shinn, M. Predictors of shelter use among low income families: Psychiatric history, substance abuse, and victimization. American Journal of Public Health, 82(11), 1547-1550. (featured in Homelessness in America, Daniel Herman and Ezra Susser, editors, APHA reprint series #3, 1998).

 

1992

Weitzman, B.C. and Berry, C.A. Health status and health care utilization among New York City home attendants: An illustration of the needs of working poor immigrant women. Women and Health, 19, 87-105.

 

1992

Yedidia, M.J. The impact of social factors on the content of care: Treatment of ischemic heart disease at a public and a voluntary hospital. Archives of Internal Medicine, 152, 595-600.

 

1992

Yedidia, M.J., Barr, J.K., and Berry, C.A. The impact of AIDS and other factors on residency program choice. AIDS and Public Policy, 7, 128-134.

 

1991

Shinn, M, Knickman, J.R., and Weitzman, B.C. Social relations and vulnerability to homelessness. American Psychologist, 46(11), 1180-87.

 

1990

Shinn, M and Weitzman, B.C. Research on homelessness: An introduction. Journal of Social Issues, 46(4), 1-12.

 

1990

Weitzman, B.C., Knickman, J.R., and Shinn, M. Pathways to homelessness. Journal of Social Issues, 46(4), 125-139.

 

1989

Weitzman, B.C., Pregnancy and childbirth: Risk factors for homelessness? Family Planning Perspectives, 21(4), 175-178.