OBJECTIVE To determine if group well-child visits (WCV) can be cost neutral compared with individual WCV by varying health care providers, group size, and physician salary. METHOD We created 6 economic models to evaluate the costs of WCV: 3 for individual WCV delivered by (1) advanced practice registered nurse (APRN), (2) resident, and (3) attending and 3 for group WCV delivered by (4) APRN w...

A chronic disease (e.g., diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, hypertension, dementia, some cancers, rheumatological diseases, human immunodeficiency virus) can occur and cycle in flare ups throughout the lifetime. Chronic illnesses, with their effect on the patient’s symptoms, mood, and need for emotional and physical support, exert a burden on family members. Additionally, families influe...

own area of expertise, and treat just one aspect of a child’s health. For the typical community eye worker this focus is, of course, on providing eye care. In reality, most children and their families will have much broader needs and priorities. Without addressing these other issues, or at least referring families to other services, your work may have less impact. In this article we share some ...

This dissertation examines the sources and effects of the dramatic increase of the paid domestic sector in Europe, particularly in Spain. This project addresses three main questions about social inequality. First, the thesis analyzes how public policy debates framed the change in this economic sector in relation to issues of gender equality and shifts in immigration across the EU and in Spain. ...

A phylogenetic hypothesis of termite relationships was inferred from DNA sequence data. Seven gene fragments (12S rDNA, 16S rDNA, 18S rDNA, 28S rDNA, cytochrome oxidase I, cytochrome oxidase II and cytochrome b) were sequenced for 40 termite exemplars, representing all termite families and 14 outgroups. Termites were found to be monophyletic with Mastotermes darwiniensis (Mastotermitidae) as si...

In high-income countries, both single parents and migrants face elevated risks of living in poverty, but research has paid little attention to the intersection parent migrant status. I examine ways which immigration policies make dependent either on labor market or their families as a spouse partner how these dependencies present women who are parents. draw qualitative data women’s experiences ...

It is known that micro-task worker performance fluctuates. While between-worker variability has been studied and has been used to define filters (e.g., to filter out “bad” workers), within-worker variability (i.e. how each worker's performance varies over time) has received less attention. Better understanding of the sources of such variability will result in the design of better filters, and m...

We consider a frictional labor market in which firms want to insure their senior employees against income fluctuations and, at the same time, want to recruit new employees to fill their vacant positions. Firms can commit to a wage schedule, i.e. a schedule that specifies the wage paid by the firm to its employees as function of their tenure and other observables. However, firms cannot commit to...

BACKGROUND Very little is known about female injecting drug users (IDU) in Bangladesh but anecdotal evidence suggests that they are hidden and very vulnerable to HIV through both their injection sharing and sexual risk behaviors. In order to better understand the risks and vulnerability to HIV of female IDU, a cohort study was initiated through which HIV prevalence and risk behaviors was determ...

background influenza is a world-wide public health concern. it is one of the most important viral causes of acute respiratory illness, affecting all age groups, recurring several times during a lifetime. we assessed the antibody titers after vaccination against influenza among hiv-infected patients and health care workers (hcws). patients and methods during this before-after study, the antibody...