Understanding multi-level barriers to medication adherence among adults living with sickle cell disease.

There is limited research that identifies and examines multi-level barriers to medication adherence among adults with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD); Identify multi-level barriers to medication adherence among adults with SCD; and Examine the relationship between multi-level barriers and medication adherence levels. A cross-sectional study included 130 adults (ages ≥ 18 years old) living with SCD who receive treatment/care from one of the 10 adult SCD clinics within the Networking California for sickle cell care initiative. Study measures included the medication adherence report scale (Professor Rob Horne), Beliefs about Medicine Questionnaire (Professor Rob Horne), and patient reported outcomes measurement information system.

Predictors of fall-related injuries due to common consumer products among elderly adult emergency department visits in the United States during 2007-2017.

Falls are the leading cause of injuries and death among the elderly in the United States (U.S.).

Increasing Diversity in the Health Professions: Reflections on Student Pipeline Programs.

Despite major advances and technological improvements in public health and medicine, health disparities persist by race and ethnicity, income and educational attainment, and in some cases are increasing (Jackson & Garcia, 2014). These health disparities among these populations have even worsened or remained about the same since the landmark 1985 Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Black & Minority Health released by then Secretary Margaret M. Heckler.

How African Americans express their intentions to be organ donors.

Context: As part of an organ sharing network's outreach, African American adults were interviewed to assess their awareness of the network's efforts and willingness to donate their organs after death.

Objective: To describe (1) the proportion who expressed their intentions to be an organ donor, (2) the means they had used, and (3) sociodemographic characteristics of the participants who used a particular means.

Design: A repeated, cross-sectional, random-digit dialing telephone interview was conducted from July 2005 (start of wave 1) to April 2006 (end of wave 3).

African Americans' organ donor intentions: who has used which registration mode to express her or his intentions?

Aim: To describe the various means that African American adults had used to express their intention to become an organ donor, as well as to determine whether there were characteristics that distinguished those individuals who had expressed their intention from those individuals who had not.

Participants: Participants were 1 567 African American adults who resided in four urban areas in New Jersey.

Methods: From July 2005 to April 2006, university survey center interviewers conducted 7-minute, random-digit-dial telephone interviews.

A diagnostic approach to understanding entrepreneurship in health care.

Health care is quite different from other industries because of its organizational structure, service delivery, and financing of health services. Balancing costs, quality, and access presents unique challenges for each stakeholder group committed to promoting the health and healing of its citizens. Using the diagnostic approach to health care entrepreneurship, we created a framework from research in the field to understand the predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors most relevant to successful entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurial propensity in health care: models and propositions for empirical research.

We maintain that entrepreneurial propensity is a focal construct in entrepreneurial research. We synthesize the literature to develop models depicting the antecedents and consequents of entrepreneurial propensity in a network of other constructs and variables of interest in the health care industry. We advance propositions for empirical investigation and validation of competing research models associated with entrepreneurial propensity.