Publications by authors named "Juliette S Hong"
Importance: The Veterans Affairs (VA) Community Care (CC) Program supplements VA care with community-based medical services. However, access gains and value provided by CC have not been well described.
Objectives: To compare the access, cost, and quality of elective coronary revascularization procedures between VA and CC hospitals and to evaluate if procedural volume or publicly reported quality data can be used to identify high-value care.
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- In 2012, over 25% of young adults in Oklahoma were cigarette smokers, influenced by targeted tobacco marketing at social venues like bars and nightclubs.
- The study aimed to assess the effectiveness of the "HAVOC" Social Branding intervention, which sought to promote a smoke-free lifestyle among young adults known as "Partiers," characterized by their nightlife habits and social values.
- Results indicated that while overall smoking rates remained unchanged, those who recognized the intervention had significantly lower odds of smoking daily, suggesting that recall of anti-tobacco messaging had a positive impact on smoking behavior.
This study evaluates the impact of California's full-service partnership (FSP) program using a multidimensional measure of outcomes. The FSP program is a key part of California's 2005 Mental Health Services Act. Secondary data were collected from the Consumer Perception Survey, the Client and Service Information System, and the Data Collection and Reporting System, all data systems which are maintained by the California Department of Mental Health.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe authors estimated the following levels of technical efficiency for three types of dental practices in California where technical efficiency is defined as the maximum output that can be produced from a given set of inputs: generalists (including pediatric dentists), 96.5 percent; specialists, 77.1 percent; community dental clinics, 83.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study estimates the impact that the entrance of hypothetical allied dental professionals into the dental labor market may have on the earnings of currently practicing private practice dentists. A simulation model that uses the most reliable available data was constructed and finds that the introduction of hypothetical allied dental professionals into the competitive California dental labor market is likely to have relatively small effects on the earnings of the average dentist in California.
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