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Session: Providing Access to Critical Health Services Including Medications
4206.0: Tuesday, November 07, 2006: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Providing Access to Critical Health Services Including Medications
Abstracts in this session will present: the self-reported reasons why non-elderly adults and children lack insurance coverage, how various policy options could be targeted to reduce the number of uninsured, anaylzing the adherence to prescription medications using pharmacy refill data and how homeless adults access health care.
Learning Objectives: Participants will understand: 1)the self-reported reasons why non-elderly adults and children lack insurance coverage; 2)how various policy options could be targeted to reduce the number of uninsured; 3)adherence to prescription medications using pharmacy refill data and 4)how homeless adults access health care.
Moderator(s):Jewel S. Goodman, MPA, PhD(c)
2:30 PMUnderstanding healthcare utilization patterns among urban homeless adults
M. Christopher Gibbons, MD, MPH, Nadra C. Tyus, DrPH
2:45 PMWhy do people lack insurance coverage and how has that been changing over time?  [ Recorded presentation ]
John A. Graves, BA, Sharon K. Long, PhD
3:00 PMPredictors of adherence to prescription medications in a rural medication access program  [ Recorded presentation ]
Gary Harmon, MPH, Robert Federici, MSPH, Wendy Roy, MHA, Annette Beuchler, MBA, CHE, Larry S. Webber, PhD, John J. Lefante, PhD
3:15 PMEffect of medication adherence on hospital admissions in a medication access program in central Louisiana  [ Recorded presentation ]
Robert Federici, MSPH, Gary Harmon, MPH, Wendy Roy, MHA, Annette Beuchler, MBA, CHE, Larry S. Webber, PhD, John J. Lefante, PhD
3:30 PMSurveying Medicare beneficiaries during the first six months of Part D: How are they responding to the availability of prescription drug coverage  [ Recorded presentation ]
Jack H. Fyock, PhD, Ellen Gordon, PhD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by:Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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