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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

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