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Regional Rural-Urban Differences in E-Cigarette Use and Reasons for Use in the United States

Urban‐rural disparity has increased in the last decade due to declining urban smoking and stagnant rural rates. Concomitantly, smoking‐related diseases in rural areas consistently exceed rates in…

Smoking prevalence and trends among a U.S. national sample of women of reproductive age in rural versus urban settings

The aim of the present study was to examine whether this rural-urban disparity impacts women of reproductive age (ages 15-44) including pregnant women. Data came from the ten most recent years of the…

A Medicaid Quality Improvement Collaborative on Psychotropic Medication Prescribing for Children

A Medicaid statewide quality improvement (QI) collaborative was developed to improve antipsychotic prescribing practices for children. With use of a multistrategy approach that incorporated data…

Local Income Inequality, Individual Socioeconomic Status, and Unmet Healthcare Needs in Ohio, USA

Income inequality has been implicated as a potential risk to population health due to lower provision of healthcare services in deeply unequal countries or communities. We tested whether county…

The 2018 Ohio Community Health Worker Statewide Assessment: Key Findings

In order to gain a more accurate picture of the Community Health Worker (CHW) landscape in Ohio, this statewide CHW capacity assessment sought to identify how CHWs are currently being trained,…

A Method for Accounting for Classification Error in a Stratified Cellphone Sample

State-based telephone surveys are often designed to make estimates at substate levels, such as county or county group. Under a traditional random-digit-dial design, the telephone exchange of a…

Client-Centered Contraceptive Care Change Package

The Ohio Perinatal Quality Collaborative (OPQC) partnered with Cicatelli Associates Inc (CAI), the Ohio Association of Community Health Centers (OACHC) the Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM) and the…

Transportation Challenges for Ohioans with Disabilities

The Ohio Developmental Disabilities Council (DD Council) commissioned the Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center (GRC) to study the question of access to transportation for Ohioans with…

Unique and common elements of the role of peer support in the context of traditional mental health services

Objective: The goal of this report is to clarify the unique role of peer support providers (PSPs) and define peer support as a distinct occupation in the context of traditional mental health services…

Behavioral Health and Primary Care Integration in Ohio’s Psychiatry Residency Training

Integration of behavioral health and primary care is described as a gold standard for improving quality of care [1, 2]. Widespread consensus (e.g., World Psychiatric Association, June 2015), backed…