Publications by authors named "A D Flaxman"

Background: Undernutrition remains a global crisis and is a focus of Sustainable Development Goals. While there are multiple known, effective interventions, complex interactions between prevention and treatment and resource constraints can lead to difficulties in allocating funding. Simulation studies that use in silico simulation can help illuminate the interactions between interventions and provide insight into the cost-effectiveness of alternative packages of options.

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  • Opioid overdose deaths have significantly increased in the U.S. from 2012 to 2022, with a large number of individuals having past involvement with the criminal justice system, highlighting a critical need for effective treatment options like Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD).
  • WA State has made efforts to improve access to MOUD, particularly for those incarcerated, as they experience high overdose risk upon release, yet there's a lack of strategies to connect jail-based MOUD services with community resources.
  • The SAIA-MOUD study aims to enhance MOUD care across jail and community clinics in King County, WA, through a structured implementation approach, ultimately seeking to reduce relapse and death rates among former inmates.
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Background: Entity resolution (ER) is the process of identifying and linking records that refer to the same real-world entity. ER is a fundamental challenge in data science, and a common barrier to ER research and development is that the data fields used for this fuzzy matching are personally identifiable information, such as name, address, and date of birth. The necessary restrictions on accessing and sharing these authentic data have slowed the work in developing, testing, and adopting new methods and software for ER.

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Importance: Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide and, in the US, disproportionately affects people from racial and ethnic minority groups. Glaucoma prevalence has not been estimated for the US in more than a decade, and state- and county-level estimates are not available.

Objective: To estimate glaucoma and vision-affecting glaucoma prevalence by demographic factors and US state and county for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Vision and Eye Health Surveillance System (VEHSS).

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Populations in rural communities have more limited access to health care and attention than urban populations. The present study aimed to evaluate barriers to access to health care in mothers and caregivers of children under five years of age, twelve months after an educational intervention. The study was carried out from February to September 2022, and 472 mothers from eight communities in the state of Yucatán, in the southeast of the United Mexican States, participated.

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