BACKGROUND Racial/ethnic minority groups have higher risks for disease resulting from obesity. COMMUNITY CONTEXT The University of California, Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health partnered with community organizations to disseminate culturally targeted physical activity and nutrition-based interventions in worksites. METHODS We conducted community dialogues w...

BACKGROUND Informed decision making regarding screening mammography is recommended for women in their 40s; however, what information women want and how much involvement in decision making they prefer are not known. METHODS Surveys were mailed to women aged 40 to 44 scheduled for their first screening mammogram. Women were members of a large New England health maintenance organization and rece...

BACKGROUND Mammography use is increasing in the United States, but most women older than 50 years still are not being screened regularly. A multicomponent program, with components for women and physicians, was conducted to increase screening among women aged 50 to 74 years in an independent practice association (IPA)-model health maintenance organization (HMO). METHODS The participating women...

Avoidable hospitalizations represent a key indicator for access to, and the quality of, primary care. Therefore, understanding their behavior is essential in terms of management of healthcare resources and costs. This analysis examines the affect of 2 healthcare strategies on the rate of avoidable hospitalization, managed care and the healthcare safety net. The avoidable hospitalizations defini...

AIMS/INTRODUCTION Family physicians face the dilemma of when to refer patients with diabetes to specialists. This study examined attitudes of family physicians to referring patients with poor glucose control to diabetes specialists. MATERIALS AND METHODS At continuous medical education courses, family physicians were asked to respond anonymously, as to whether they generally manage the diabet...

Managed health care, health maintenance organizations, and other cost in different parts of the country (Lancaster and Lancaster, 1993). Several economic realities will influence the future containment measures driven by the private sector in conjunction with scope and type of health care provided in the United States Congressionally funded initiatives are serving as the guiding forces in (U.S....

the manufacturing organizations today are having a competition of supply chain versus supply chain. existing research work fails to relate human metrics with supply chain performance. the authors intend to empirically assess the effects of human metrics on supply chain performance in the context of indian manufacturing organizations. a rigorous literature review has identified 12 variables. the...

PURPOSE To characterize national physician organizations' efforts to reduce health disparities and identify organizational characteristics associated with such efforts. METHOD This cross-sectional study was conducted between September 2009 and June 2010. The authors used two-sample t tests and chi-square tests to compare the proportion of organizations with disparity-reducing activities betwe...