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Access to Care

To maintain health, groups must have access to quality care. Access to health care greatly impacts one’s overall quality of life and physical and mental wellness. Barriers to health care include cost, lack of services, lack of culturally competent care and location of health services. As a result of poor access, populations have unmet health care needs and increased hospitalizations. Our research determine how to improve health outcomes through access to care for all.

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Featured Publications

  • Clinician Training in the Adaptation of a Comprehensive Tobacco-Free Workplace Program in Agencies Serving the Homeless and Vulnerably Housed
  • Refusing to treat noncompliant patients is bad medicine
  • The association between acculturation and health insurance coverage for immigrant children from socioeconomically disadvantaged regions of origin
  • Disconnected: A survey of users and non-users of telehealth and their use of primary care
  • Trends in thyroid cancer incidence in Texas from 1995 to 2008 by socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity

Latest News

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Pandemic Stress: New Mobile App designed to treat anxiety and depression
During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, loneliness, isolation, fear of infection and financial…
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Lung Cancer Care: New NOSI grant awarded to HEALTH-RCMI researchers to help expand lung cancer screenings and interventions
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S., according to the American Lung…
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Reducing Harm from Cannabis Use: New Mobile Intervention designed by UH researcher slated to help Black American Cannabis Users
Recent data suggests that 30 percent of those who use Cannabis may have some degree of Cannabis Use…
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How to Talk to College Students about Alcohol Addiction and Binge Drinking
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Monkeypox Outbreak: How Concerned Should College Students be about Monkeypox?
Q & A with Houston Health Department’s Dr. David Persse
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