Sentences with phrase «lower health care utilization»

Researchers also determined that palliative care was associated with improvements in advance care planning, patient and caregiver satisfaction with care, and lower health care utilization.

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«Medicaid expansion significantly boosts insurance coverage among low - income adults: Health care utilization, diagnoses of chronic health conditions and quality of coverage also improved.&Health care utilization, diagnoses of chronic health conditions and quality of coverage also improved.&health conditions and quality of coverage also improved.»

«More importantly, the lower level of health care access and utilization among this group is likely to impact follow - up care of these patients and may make them more susceptible to diminished quality of life.»

An example of a robust case management initiative is Health Leads, 77 an enhanced primary care strategy that uses college volunteers as advocates and advanced resource management techniques, which has improved coordination of care and utilization of collocated social services by low - income families with the intent of reducing the social barriers to good hHealth Leads, 77 an enhanced primary care strategy that uses college volunteers as advocates and advanced resource management techniques, which has improved coordination of care and utilization of collocated social services by low - income families with the intent of reducing the social barriers to good healthhealth.

On social - emotional measures, foster children in the NSCAW study tended to have more compromised functioning than would be expected from a high - risk sample.43 Moreover, as indicated in the previous section, research suggests that foster children are more likely than nonfoster care children to have insecure or disordered attachments, and the adverse long - term outcomes associated with such attachments.44 Many studies of foster children postulate that a majority have mental health difficulties.45 They have higher rates of depression, poorer social skills, lower adaptive functioning, and more externalizing behavioral problems, such as aggression and impulsivity.46 Additionally, research has documented high levels of mental health service utilization among foster children47 due to both greater mental health needs and greater access to services.