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The DC Healthcare Alliance and Access to Care: The effect of increased insurance coverage and a dispersed safety net on access to healthcare in the District of Columbia
(Georgetown University, 2012)
In 2001, the District of Columbia (DC) fundamentally changed its system of safety-net healthcare. The District closed its public hospital; created an insurance program for low-income residents, the DC Healthcare Alliance; ...
HIV AND CHILD MALNUTRITION: EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP OF MATERNAL HIV ON NUTRITIONAL OUTCOMES FOR DEPENDENT CHILDREN IN KENYA
(Georgetown University, 2012)
This paper examines the relationship of maternal HIV on nutritional outcomes for dependent children, aged 0-60 months, in Kenya. While current literature has begun to examine the effect of parent HIV status on educational ...
Sterile Gauzes and Latent Causes: Inside the Black Box of Transfusion in CABG Patients
(Georgetown University, 2012)
Proponents of tort reform argue that liability concerns drive physicians to overutilize medical services. There is abundant research within the transfusion medicine community showing that significant variation in transfusion ...
EFFECT OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS ON ADULT CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK FACTORS
(Georgetown University, 2012)
In recent years, the role of socioeconomic inequities in influencing diseases and health conditions has become an important issue in health and socioeconomic policy development. It is not surprising that cardiovascular ...