Publications by authors named "Pratima Musburger"

Article Synopsis
  • The study analyzed licensing requirements for children's behavioral health care providers across all 50 states and D.C. as of October 2021.
  • It found that while all states had regulations on postgraduate training and license portability, none specifically addressed specialized training for working with children and families or cultural competence.
  • The authors suggest that to improve access to quality care for children, states should reevaluate their licensing statutes and regulations to address these gaps.
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In their article "The Civil Rights of Health," Harris and Pamukcu offer a framework connecting civil rights law to unjust health disparities with the aims of creating broader awareness of subordination as a root cause of health inequities and inviting policymakers to create new legal tools for dismantling it. They close with a call to action. Here, we take up their call and propose cooperative enterprises as a health justice intervention.

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Introduction: Minimum floor price laws (MFPLs) are an emerging tobacco control policy that sets a minimum price below which a specific tobacco product cannot be sold. MFPLs target cheaper products and may disproportionately impact consumers choosing low price brands or using discounts to reduce prices. We developed a static microsimulation model for California, United States to project short-term effects of different MFPL options for a 20-stick pack of cigarettes on adult smoking behaviors.

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