Contextually appropriate measurement as the basis for culturally appropriate interventions: a case study in Managua, Nicaragua.

Despite recent advances in U.S. health care, racial and ethnic minorities experience significantly worse health and mental health outcomes.

Assessing an interdisciplinary health care model: the Governor's Wellmobile Program.

This article assesses the applicability of Bronstein's (2003) generic model of interdisciplinary collaboration in the context of a newly created collaboration providing community-based health care services, the Governor's Wellmobile Program. An analysis of the program's quarterly reports and interviews with faculty and students involved in the collaboration offers an assessment of the model and implications for interdisciplinary social work practice in community health care delivery.

Inner-city victims of violence and trauma care: the importance of trauma-center discharge and aftercare planning and violence prevention programs.

Inner-city trauma centers often provide care for disproportionately indigent populations who are victims of violence. Many of these victims of violence often return to the trauma center with more violent injuries. Research has shown that a majority of these individuals who return to the trauma center for care are expensive to treat, are uninsured and have significant social problems.