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A comparative analysis of hospital readmissions in France and the US… to improve coordination among hospitals and other health care providers. A comparison of hospital readmission … can provide important insights about the French and US health care systems. In addition, it illustrates a … reveal broader issues about system-wide differences across health care systems and policy. Using data from three French …
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How States Stand to Gain or Lose Federal Funds by Opting In or Out of the Medicaid Expansion… not to participate. In addition to providing valuable health insurance benefits to low-income state residents, and steady sources of financing to state health care providers, the Medicaid expansion will be an …
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What Matters to Low-Income Patients in Ambulatory Care Facilities?… on hospital outpatient departments (OPDs) and freestanding health centers for ambulatory care. These providers confront … The authors use a survey of patients in OPDs and health centers in New York City to determine which aspects of …
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A Community Based Intervention to Increase Preventive Health Care Seeking in Adolescents: The Gonorrhea Community Action Project… of an intervention designed to increase preventive health care seeking among adolescents. Methods. Adolescents … than female control participants to have scheduled a health care appointment (odds ratio [OR]=3.04), undergone a … group intervention significantly increased preventive health care seeking among female adolescents. Further …
Capstone Projects
Developing an at-risk self-assessment for New York City’s greatest hazards… The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) is one of the oldest departments of health in the U.S., employing more than 5,000 staff and … New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of Emergency …
Alumni In Action
David Bergman… full time for a trade association of nonprofit mental health providers in NYC, and my career path has been an … most valuable in terms of thinking about the way different health care systems around world are constructed and how they … very helpful to me. What’s the best thing about working in Health IT? What’s so exciting about working in Health IT …
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State of the Art and New Directions in Risk Assessment and Risk Management: Fundamental Issues of Measurement and Management… better management of choices concerning environmental, health and technology-based hazards that increasingly affect …
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NYU Wagner climate economist Gernot Wagner named to NYC Panel on Climate ChangeNYU Wagner climate economist Gernot Wagner has been appointed to the fourth New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), a 20-member independent advisory board that synthesizes scientific information on climate change and advises New York City …
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Better but Not Well: Mental Health Policy in the United States Since 1950… mental illnesses, increases in spending on mental health care and support of people with mental illnesses, and … and persistent disorders as well as less serious mental health conditions—are faring better today than in the past. … Rather than being a result of more effective mental health treatments, progress has come from the growth of …
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Barriers to Employment for WeCARE Clients… and Employment) program's ability to assess individual health barriers and the attainment of self-sufficiency by … of barriers, employed genograms to identify multiple health barriers within clients' families, and reviewed …
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Alumni Spotlight: Coryn Grange (MPA 2021)Advancing democracy and voter engagement is at the heart of Coryn Grange’s (MPA 2021) work. As a current research associate with the Voting Rights Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law and a former Parke Fellow with NYU Democracy Project at …
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Student Spotlight: Judy Huynh (MUP 2024)… justice and developing leaders who can make a positive impact in their communities. This corresponds with my … numerous opportunities to learn about urban policy and its impact on people's lives. As a student at Wagner, I will have … me appreciate the value of diverse perspectives and their impact on policy decisions. Furthermore, being in the heart …
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Hospitalization for ambulatory-care sensitive conditions (ACSC) in Île-de-France: A view from across the Atlantic… This raises an important question for the future of health policy. Should areas with higher hospital discharge … of ACSC be understood as having populations with poor health-seeking behaviors or health care systems not well enough organized to target …
Alumni In Action
Suhaly Bautista-Carolina… during my undergraduate studies for wanting to make an impact in the world and my desire to travel carried over into … Wagner into roles at institutions I trust to be making an impact on the world in a positive way, then going into this … I need in order to do good in these ways, too. What impact do you hope to make through your career and/or …
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Methodology for a six-state survey of primary care nurse practitioners… play an important role in improving access to high quality health care services. However, most studies on the NP role in health care use administrative data, which have many …
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Public Finance and Service Delivery… Service Delivery: Assessing Neglected Challenges in the Health Sector and Beyond . (A shorter overview of the paper … systems and applies an intergovernmental lens to health sector financing in four African countries—Ethiopia, …
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Adverse Health Effects, Environmental Attitudes, and Pesticide Usage Behavior of Farm Operators… it is important to understand what drives farmer behavior. Health belief models in public health and social psychology argue that persons who have adverse health experiences are likely to undertake preventive … Adverse Health Effects, Environmental Attitudes, and Pesticide Usage …
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Wagner community welcomes Bill de Blasio as its 2023 Marnold Visiting Fellow… service in our educational institutions as well as our health systems and community forums. Recalling the challenges … applauded the work of our healthcare professionals, public health advocates, as well as the resilience of NYU educators …
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Who Feels Included in School? Examining Feelings of Inclusion Among Students With Disabilities… students with an emotional disturbance (ED) and other health impairments (OH) feel modestly less included with …
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Financial Support for PhD Students… research apprenticeship, which carries a stipend, health insurance, a $1000 start-up grant, and 100% tuition …
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Getting Started Checklist and Resources… November Read and review the: Health Requirements Technology Requirements Activate NetID …
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Advancing Research Data Infrastructure for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research… is essential for improving the delivery of quality health care. Much of patient-centered outcomes research …
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Telephone care coordination for smokers in VA Mental Health clinics: a hybrid implementation and clinical effectiveness trial… cessation telephone care coordination program for Veterans Health Administration (VA) mental-health clinic patients. As a hybrid trial, the protocol … cessation telephone care coordination program in VA mental health clinics, (2) to determine the effectiveness of the …