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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Alison Ledgerwood, Sa-Kiera Tiarra Jolynn Hudson, Neil A. Lewis, Keith B. Maddox, Cynthia L. Pickett, Jessica D. Remedios, Sapna Cheryan, Amanda B. Diekman, Natalia B. Dutra, Jin X. Goh, Stephanie A. Goodwin, Yuko Munakata, Danielle J. Navarro, Ivuoma N. Onyeador, Sanjay Srivastava, Clara L. Wilkins
Summary: This article calls on psychological scientists to reimagine the discipline as fundamentally open and inclusive. It discusses the historical inequalities in the field and the inadequacy of current institutional responses to address these issues. It also examines how disciplinary perspectives can both help and hinder effective solutions. Finally, it provides a roadmap for reimagining psychological science in various contexts.
PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2022)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Dawit Wondimagegn, Clare Pain, Nardos Seifu, Carrie Cartmill, Azeb Asaminew Alemu, Cynthia Ruth Whitehead
Summary: This paper suggests that the lack of significant change in the mental health of low-income and middle-income countries over the past 20 years is due to the imposition of Western models and frameworks that dismiss local non-Western traditions of healthcare. The author proposes reimagining mental health in these countries by integrating Western frameworks with local traditional approaches.
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Education & Educational Research
Tammie Visintainer
Summary: This study examines how a biology teacher in a summer science program engaged high school students of color in a three-week science unit on community health. The study explores the impact of integrating social, historical, and political aspects into the unit and the role of the teacher's identity as a Black woman scientist. Through interviews, observations, and student artifacts, the study reveals the importance of community-driven science practices in enhancing students' understanding of community health and empowering them to reimagine community narratives.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SCIENCE TEACHING
(2023)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
April Oh, Ali Abazeed, David A. Chambers
Summary: The implementation of health policies can have a significant impact on population health outcomes, but variations in implementation can limit effectiveness. Strengthening research in health policy implementation science can help reduce time lag, improve health equity, and build evidence for effective policy implementation.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Hasna Ashraf, Indradeep Ghosh, Nishanth Kumar, Anjali Nambiar, Sowmini Prasad
Summary: This paper explores the possible pathways for reform in India's commercial health insurance sector to achieve universal health coverage. It discusses the need for a different approach in meeting the needs of consumers in the demand side and the challenges faced by new entrants in the supply side. By bringing together both sides of the market, this paper sheds light on potential reforms in India's commercial health insurance sector.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Leonard E. Egede, Rebekah J. Walker, Aprill Z. Dawson, Joni S. Williams, Jennifer A. Campbell, Mukoso N. Ozieh, Anna Palatnik
Summary: Our multidisciplinary research team, comprising 6 faculty and 36 program staff, worked diligently to address the impact of COVID-19 on the ethnic minority population in inner-city Milwaukee, navigating challenges, making difficult decisions, and responding to community needs with the goal of informing policy and facilitating lasting change.
JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Elizabeth Thomas, Crystal Man Ying Lee, Richard Norman, Leanne Wells, Tim Shaw, Julia Nesbitt, Isobel Frean, Luke Baxby, Sabine Bennett, Suzanne Robinson
Summary: This study investigated the experience of Australian people who engaged in telehealth consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic and the demographic factors influencing their engagement. The results showed that 88.3% of the participants had engaged in some type of healthcare consultation in the previous 12 months, and 69.3% of those had used telehealth. Older people were more likely to have a healthcare consultation but less likely to have a telehealth consultation. Participants with a bachelor's degree or above were more likely to use telehealth and have a positive experience.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2023)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Vina M. Goghari
Summary: This article calls for the field of clinical psychology to become a socially responsive health science profession, defined by an inclusive science and a diverse and just community. To achieve this, the profession needs to reimagine who it trains and how it trains them.
CANADIAN PSYCHOLOGY-PSYCHOLOGIE CANADIENNE
(2022)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Devin M. Mann, Katharine Lawrence
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of remote patient monitoring technology. However, the current model of episodic care does not facilitate the transformation to continuous connected care augmented by remote monitoring technology. This article presents a solution that optimizes the interaction between automated technologies and human oversight, allowing for the maximal use of data-rich tools while preserving the human aspects of medical care.
JMIR MHEALTH AND UHEALTH
(2022)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Robert W. Armstrong, Michaela Mantel, Gijs Walraven, Lukoye Atwoli, Anthony K. Ngugi
Summary: Health sciences curricular planners are facing challenges in adding new content to established education programs, particularly in areas such as public health, health systems, global health, and planetary health. A convergence model is proposed to build a common framework for students to integrate and align knowledge to individual clients or patients. This framework includes five areas that influence health and wellbeing, as well as methodologies essential to understanding health at both individual and population levels.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
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Economics
Stephen T. Parente, Charles E. Phelps
Summary: In this study, we aim to develop methods that maximize researcher access to electronic health records (EHRs) data for health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) while strongly protecting patients' privacy rights. We analyzed alternative organizational structures and intellectual property rights assignments and found that new organizations and funding are required to create new HEOR data systems. We also emphasized the importance of complete health insurance coverage to ensure maximal patient participation in transmitting data to trusted third parties (TTPs).
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Education & Educational Research
Lissette M. M. Piedra, Christine Escobar-Sawicki, Carol Wilson Smith
Summary: Community college students face numerous obstacles in pursuing social work education, requiring new approaches to address these challenges. By using systems thinking, interventions and simplifications can be identified to transform social work education into a national workforce pipeline.
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION
(2022)
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Pediatrics
Zea Malawa, Jenna Gaarde, Solaire Spellen
Summary: The field of public health has long recognized racial health disparities as a major issue, but the lack of progress is partially due to a failure to address racism as the root cause. Many advocates believe systemic racial inequities should be addressed, but feel unable or unwilling to take responsibility. Empowering advocates with a solutions-centered framework is crucial for guiding the important work of dismantling racism and ensuring equal health opportunities for marginalized families.
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Business
Andrea Seaton Kelton, Uday S. Murthy
Summary: In this paper, a novel approach for reimagining the scope and impact of design science and behavioral science accounting information systems (AIS) research is presented. The broad impact of accounting on business functions is explicitly considered and the utilization of information systems artifacts in each business activity phase is highlighted. The paper encourages the synergistic collaboration of design science and behavioral science AIS research to improve the rigor and relevance of AIS research, advance knowledge in the field, and enhance the practical applicability of research findings.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS
(2023)
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Education & Educational Research
Georgia Miller, Declan Kuch, Matthew Kearnes
Summary: This article investigates the manifestation of "actually existing neoliberalism" in research policy through examining a major Australian research policy and funding instrument, the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF). The study finds that the MRFF reallocates resources from primary and preventive health care to commercially-oriented biomedical research, prioritizes commercial objectives, reorganizes the production of publicly funded health and medical knowledge, and gives political actors a prominent role in research grant assessment and funding allocation. The conclusion suggests that the state's more activist role in medical research and innovation drives neoliberalization, eroding commitments to redistributive justice in healthcare and significantly reshaping science-state relations in research policy.