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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

HEALTH RCMI table at event with (left to right) Virmarie Correa-Fernandez, Shalan Washington and Evan Coleman.
Houston COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy focus groups help shed new light on reluctance amid surge of new Omicron subvariants in U.S.
As two new Omicron subvariants emerge in the U.S., Americans brave through their third…
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"Suffering in Silence: Suicide Warnings Hidden in Plain Sight” Rates of Suicide During Pandemic Rise Among Black Americans
Within the African American community, the devastating number of high-profile suicides in 2022 has…
Portrait of Dr. Chakema Carmack
“Representation is my inspiration” HEALTH Research Institute’s Dr. Chakema Carmack shares her groundbreaking approach to HIV prevention and education
“I believe that representation was my inspiration. Seeing someone before me who is doing what I…
Two women working at The Rose
COVID-19 Pandemic Poses Critical Delays and Disruptions for Regular Breast Cancer Screenings and Diagnoses
The Rose’s Dorothy Gibbons sheds new light on the pandemic’s impact on breast cancer care
Portrait of Dr. Lorraine Reitzel, Dr. Isabel Martinez Leal, and Virmarie Correa-Fernandez with TTTF printed collateral spread across a table in the foreground.
Taking Texas Tobacco Free Honored in the CPRIT 2021 Annual Report
CPRIT featured TTTF in its 2021 Annual Report because this comprehensive, evidence-based program is…
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