A disease-specific Medicaid expansion for women

Lantz, Paula M.; Weisman, Carol S.; Itani, Z

doi:10.1016/s1049-3867(03)00032-x

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“…Given that screening is likely to become more widespread, we anticipate a parallel need for better access to treatment, if only to prevent an ethically untenable scenario where individuals are informed of their hepatitis B infection status but have no way to obtain care. The federal government has recognized this issue in the past: a CDC screening program for breast and cervical cancer created a similar scenario, and in response, the Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 2000 allowed states to expand Medicaid coverage for women screened through this program regardless of additional costs, an option that was being implemented by all 50 states within three years of the law's passage(47). The results from our model demonstrate the critical importance of linking hepatitis B screening to access to care and treatment in order to achieve maximal health gains.…”

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A Simulation Shows That Early Treatment Of Chronic Hepatitis B Infection Can Cut Deaths And Be Cost-Effective

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Sodhi

Peng³

et al. 2011

Health Affairs

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Chronic hepatitis B affects more than a million people in the U.S. and causes 4,000 deaths each year, yet the costs and benefits of treatment have not been fully evaluated. Using a model that simulates disease progression, we compare treatment programs for hepatitis B that start at an early versus late stage of disease. Early care is shown to improve health, reduce premature deaths, and prevent expensive complications, making it highly cost-effective. Our results demonstrate the importance of linking hepatitis B screening to treatment, and illustrate how predictive models can be used to evaluate strategies for improving access to care.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Simulation Shows That Early Treatment Of Chronic Hepatitis B Infection Can Cut Deaths And Be Cost-Effective

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Sodhi

Peng³

et al. 2011

Health Affairs

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“…Breast cancer incidence may be low in less developed countries, but survival rates of those suffering from this disease are also low, thus making it an important health care problem all over the world 4,5…”

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confidence: 99%

Attitudes of midwifery students towards teaching breast-self examination

Plesničar¹,

Golicnik²,

Fazarinc³

et al. 2010

Radiology and Oncology

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BackgroundThe purpose of this study was to asses the attitude of undergraduate midwifery students towards teaching other women in methods of breast self-examination (BSE).Participants and methods.The study was performed at the beginning and at the end of students’ study at the Faculty of Health Sciences in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It was carried out during the academic year 2002/2003 and involved 28 first and 25 third year undergraduate midwifery students. The data were gathered from questionnaires and processed with the use of descriptive and inferential statistics.ResultsAll study participants were of the opinion that teaching other women in methods of BSE is of great importance for an early detection of breast cancer (BC) and that this task ought to be one of their duties. There were no significant differences between the two groups when the readiness to upgrade their own knowledge of BSE or when the optimism regarding the progress in breast cancer detection and therapy in the future were concerned.ConclusionsThe readiness of midwifery students to pass the knowledge of BSE to other women could help to increase their breast health awareness and thus improve their willingness and ability to detect early changes, associated with BC.

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“…Sardell and Johnson described the implementation of a child health benefit policy in the United States through application of Kingdon’s framework [34]. Finally, Lantz, Weisman and Itani [35] have used Kingdon’s framework to understand the evolution of women’s health policy through the case of breast cancer screening. The use of Kingdon’s framework in this research has been chosen due to its accepted appropriateness for health policy research, together with its relative simplicity in tracing the evolution of policy ideas through channels which influence agenda-setting.…”

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Agenda-setting for Canadian caregivers: using media analysis of the maternity leave benefit to inform the compassionate care benefit

Dykeman

Williams

2014

BMC Women's Health

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The Compassionate Care Benefit was implemented in Canada in 2004 to support employed informal caregivers, the majority of which we know are women given the gendered nature of caregiving. In order to examine how this policy might evolve over time, we examine the evolution of a similar employment insurance program, Canada’s Maternity Leave Benefit. National media articles were reviewed (n = 2,698) and, based on explicit criteria, were analyzed using content analysis. Through the application of Kingdon’s policy agenda-setting framework, the results define key recommendations for the Compassionate Care Benefit, as informed by the developmental trajectory of the Maternity Leave Benefit. Recommendations for revising the Compassionate Care Benefit are made.

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A disease-specific Medicaid expansion for women

Cited by 25 publications

References 24 publications

A Simulation Shows That Early Treatment Of Chronic Hepatitis B Infection Can Cut Deaths And Be Cost-Effective

A Simulation Shows That Early Treatment Of Chronic Hepatitis B Infection Can Cut Deaths And Be Cost-Effective

Attitudes of midwifery students towards teaching breast-self examination

Agenda-setting for Canadian caregivers: using media analysis of the maternity leave benefit to inform the compassionate care benefit

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