Alfred C Marcus
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 274545 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alfred C Marcus |
| NOMBRES | Alfred C |
| APELLIDO | Marcus |
| FIRMA | MARCUS A C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 218 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Long-Term Results of a Smoking Reduction Program
INTRODUCTION: There have been few comprehensive evaluations of smoking reduction, especially in health care delivery systems, and little is known about its cost, maintenance of reduced smoking, or robustness across patient subgroups. METHODS: A generally representative sample of 320 adult smokers from an HMO scheduled for outpatient surgery or a diagnostic procedure was randomized to enhanced usual care or a theory-based smoking reduction interve…
Why Don’t We See More Translation of Health Promotion Research to Practice? Rethinking the Efficacy-to-Effectiveness Transition
The gap between research and practice is well documented. We address one of the underlying reasons for this gap: the assumption that effectiveness research naturally and logically follows from successful efficacy research. These 2 research traditions have evolved different methods and values; consequently, there are inherent differences between the characteristics of a successful efficacy intervention versus those of an effectiveness one. Moderat…
Increasing Cervical Cancer Screening Among Underserved Women in a Large Urban County Health System
BACKGROUND: Further reduction in avoidable cervical cancer morbidity and mortality may require system-wide, integrated approaches implemented in the public health facilities serving the nation's indigent and minority women. OBJECTIVES: Report on the evaluation of a 5-year demonstration project testing a multicomponent (provider, system, and patient) intervention to increase cervical cancer screening among women who receive their health care throu…
Reducing Loss-to-Follow-Up Among Women With Abnormal Pap Smears
OBJECTIVES: This study evaluates the efficacy of two interventions designed to reduce loss-to-follow-up among women with abnormal Pap smears. METHODS: The two interventions were evaluated in two large public hospitals using a randomized 2 x 2 factorial design. One intervention involved an intensive follow-up protocol that relied on multiple attempts (mail and telephone) to contact the patient. The second intervention provided patients with econom…
Improving Adherence to Screening Follow-Up Among Women with Abnormal Pap Smears
In a large randomized trial involving over 2,000 women with abnormal cervical cytology (pap smear), three clinic-based interventions were tested as strategies to increase return rates for screening follow-up: 1) a personalized follow-up letter and pamphlet; 2) a slide-tape program on pap smears; and 3) transportation incentives (bus passes/parking permits). The three interventions were evaluated using a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial design. Results of this…
Telephone Surveys in Public Health Research
The last 10 years have seen increasing use of telephone surveys in public health research. This paper reviews issues of sampling, data quality, questionnaire development, scheduling of interviewers, respondent burden, interviewer effects, and the use of the computer in telephone interviewing. Throughout, the authors focus on findings from recent research, with particular emphasis on those studies suggesting new advances or protocols for conductin…
Smoking behavior among US Latinos
In this paper we review evidence on smoking and lung cancer among Latinos, including findings from several unpublished studies and technical reports. Recent surveys of smoking behavior in California, Texas, and New Mexico indicate a notable sex difference in smoking among Latinos, with Latino males smoking at least as frequently as White males, while Latino females report smoking rates considerably lower than White females. Our analysis of the 19…
Mode of Payment and Identification With a Regular Doctor
Despite the apparent success of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) in lowering the costs of health care, they have been criticized for other reasons, including the lack of doctor-patient continuity in the patient's having a regular doctor. Consistent with previous research, HMO members sampled from Los Angeles County (N = 190) were less likely to identify with a regular doctor than comparable fee-for-service (FFS) subscribers (N = 653) (P le…
Teetering on the horns of a dilemma
Non-participation in telephone follow-up interviews
The present analysis examined sample attrition in a one-year longitudinal health survey that made use of telephone follow-up interviews (N = 1210). Overall, respondent attrition had little impact on the sociodemographic and health status characteristics of the sample at the final interview. However, certain subgroups were statistically less likely to participate in the follow-up interviews, including younger respondents, the non-employed, people …
Sex differences in reports of illness and disability
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Access to Health Care
Indicators of access to health care generally fall into one of two broad groups. The first group of indicators focuses on factors responsible for differential rates of use and often are assessed through reports of patient satisfaction. The second group of indicators focuses more specifically on actual rates of use, and therefore represents a more objective measure of access. One of the most widely used objective indicators of access is the use-di…
Memory aids in longitudinal health surveys
The use of memory aids to improve respondent recall is becoming increasingly popular in health surveys. In a one-year field experiment involving over 1,200 respondents, people assigned memory aids reported over 50 per cent more symptom episodes than those not assigned memory aids. Differences in reporting levels were particularly striking during the first six to 12 weeks of the survey, for symptoms related to acute, transitory illness, and among …
Sex Differences in the Use of Physician Services
Alfred C. Marcus, Judith M. Siegel, Sex Differences in the Use of Physician Services: A Preliminary Test of the Fixed Role Hypothesis, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Sep., 1982), pp. 186-197
Mode of Payment as a Predictor of Health Status, Use of Health Services and Preventive Health Behavior
Several issues relevant to Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) were examined in this article using data collected from the Los Angeles Health Survey. No support was found for the hypothesis that HMOs disproportionately attract people in poorer health. In fact, HMO members actually reported lower rates of acute or occasional illness and disability than fee-for-service subscribers (FFS). HMO members also reported lower total family incomes and …
Underprovision of Elective Surgery in a Prepaid Group Practice
Program Director for Evaluation Services, Division of Cancer Control, The Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Sex Differences in Health Status
Sex Differences in Reports of Illness and Disability
Data from health surveys typically show higher rates of morbidity among women than among men, while mortality data show the opposite pattern. Medical sociologists have formulated several key hypotheses to explain this female excess in morbidity-particularly as it occurs in milder forms of illness and disability. In this paper we examine one such hypothesis, using data from the Los Angeles Health Survey. According to the role hypothesis, inflexibl…
Monitoring Health Status, Access to Health Care, and Compliance Behavior in a Large Urban Community
This article summarizes results from 2 health surveys conducted in Los Angeles County in 1974 and 1977. The original objective of this analysis was to identify aggregate changes in the health status of this population, in access as measured by the use/disability ratio, and in self-reported compliance with medical regimens. Additionally, we have suggested that this study illustrates the value of local population surveys for health policy--particul…
Response Styles in Telephone and Household Interviewing
Two independent groups from the Los Angeles metropolitan area were sampled and interviewed—one was sampled by a form of random digit dialing and interviewed by telephone; the other was sampled on an area probability basis and interviewed face-to-face in households. Few sociodemographic differences were found between the telephone and household samples, suggesting that the two methods sampled essentially the same population. There were differences…
Leo G. Reeder 13 March, 1921–1925 September, 1978
Obituary
The Nonutilization of Evaluation Research
Perceptions of Medical Care
Satisfaction with Health Services
Although consumer satisfaction with health services is a frequently measured variable in health services research, the relevance of this variable for health policy is not always clear. The present paper suggests two criteria for specifying the relevance of satisfaction with health services for policy at the organizational level. First, it should be shown that consumer satisfaction is the result of organizational behaviors that are manipulable by …
Why Don’t We See More Translation of Health Promotion Research to Practice? Rethinking the Efficacy-to-Effectiveness Transition
The gap between research and practice is well documented. We address one of the underlying reasons for this gap: the assumption that effectiveness research naturally and logically follows from successful efficacy research. These 2 research traditions have evolved different methods and values; consequently, there are inherent differences between the characteristics of a successful efficacy intervention versus those of an effectiveness one. Moderat…
Response Styles in Telephone and Household Interviewing
Two independent groups from the Los Angeles metropolitan area were sampled and interviewed—one was sampled by a form of random digit dialing and interviewed by telephone; the other was sampled on an area probability basis and interviewed face-to-face in households. Few sociodemographic differences were found between the telephone and household samples, suggesting that the two methods sampled essentially the same population. There were differences…
Smoking behavior among US Latinos
In this paper we review evidence on smoking and lung cancer among Latinos, including findings from several unpublished studies and technical reports. Recent surveys of smoking behavior in California, Texas, and New Mexico indicate a notable sex difference in smoking among Latinos, with Latino males smoking at least as frequently as White males, while Latino females report smoking rates considerably lower than White females. Our analysis of the 19…
Sex Differences in the Use of Physician Services
Alfred C. Marcus, Judith M. Siegel, Sex Differences in the Use of Physician Services: A Preliminary Test of the Fixed Role Hypothesis, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Sep., 1982), pp. 186-197
Sex Differences in Reports of Illness and Disability
Data from health surveys typically show higher rates of morbidity among women than among men, while mortality data show the opposite pattern. Medical sociologists have formulated several key hypotheses to explain this female excess in morbidity-particularly as it occurs in milder forms of illness and disability. In this paper we examine one such hypothesis, using data from the Los Angeles Health Survey. According to the role hypothesis, inflexibl…
Sex differences in reports of illness and disability
Sex Differences in Health Status
Teetering on the horns of a dilemma
The Nonutilization of Evaluation Research
Non-participation in telephone follow-up interviews
The present analysis examined sample attrition in a one-year longitudinal health survey that made use of telephone follow-up interviews (N = 1210). Overall, respondent attrition had little impact on the sociodemographic and health status characteristics of the sample at the final interview. However, certain subgroups were statistically less likely to participate in the follow-up interviews, including younger respondents, the non-employed, people …
Memory aids in longitudinal health surveys
The use of memory aids to improve respondent recall is becoming increasingly popular in health surveys. In a one-year field experiment involving over 1,200 respondents, people assigned memory aids reported over 50 per cent more symptom episodes than those not assigned memory aids. Differences in reporting levels were particularly striking during the first six to 12 weeks of the survey, for symptoms related to acute, transitory illness, and among …
Perceptions of Medical Care
Satisfaction with Health Services
Although consumer satisfaction with health services is a frequently measured variable in health services research, the relevance of this variable for health policy is not always clear. The present paper suggests two criteria for specifying the relevance of satisfaction with health services for policy at the organizational level. First, it should be shown that consumer satisfaction is the result of organizational behaviors that are manipulable by …
The Nonutilization of Evaluation Research
Leo G. Reeder 13 March, 1921–1925 September, 1978
Obituary
Monitoring Health Status, Access to Health Care, and Compliance Behavior in a Large Urban Community
This article summarizes results from 2 health surveys conducted in Los Angeles County in 1974 and 1977. The original objective of this analysis was to identify aggregate changes in the health status of this population, in access as measured by the use/disability ratio, and in self-reported compliance with medical regimens. Additionally, we have suggested that this study illustrates the value of local population surveys for health policy--particul…
Response Styles in Telephone and Household Interviewing
Two independent groups from the Los Angeles metropolitan area were sampled and interviewed—one was sampled by a form of random digit dialing and interviewed by telephone; the other was sampled on an area probability basis and interviewed face-to-face in households. Few sociodemographic differences were found between the telephone and household samples, suggesting that the two methods sampled essentially the same population. There were differences…
Mode of Payment as a Predictor of Health Status, Use of Health Services and Preventive Health Behavior
Several issues relevant to Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) were examined in this article using data collected from the Los Angeles Health Survey. No support was found for the hypothesis that HMOs disproportionately attract people in poorer health. In fact, HMO members actually reported lower rates of acute or occasional illness and disability than fee-for-service subscribers (FFS). HMO members also reported lower total family incomes and …
Underprovision of Elective Surgery in a Prepaid Group Practice
Program Director for Evaluation Services, Division of Cancer Control, The Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Sex Differences in Health Status
Sex Differences in Reports of Illness and Disability
Data from health surveys typically show higher rates of morbidity among women than among men, while mortality data show the opposite pattern. Medical sociologists have formulated several key hypotheses to explain this female excess in morbidity-particularly as it occurs in milder forms of illness and disability. In this paper we examine one such hypothesis, using data from the Los Angeles Health Survey. According to the role hypothesis, inflexibl…
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Access to Health Care
Indicators of access to health care generally fall into one of two broad groups. The first group of indicators focuses on factors responsible for differential rates of use and often are assessed through reports of patient satisfaction. The second group of indicators focuses more specifically on actual rates of use, and therefore represents a more objective measure of access. One of the most widely used objective indicators of access is the use-di…
Memory aids in longitudinal health surveys
The use of memory aids to improve respondent recall is becoming increasingly popular in health surveys. In a one-year field experiment involving over 1,200 respondents, people assigned memory aids reported over 50 per cent more symptom episodes than those not assigned memory aids. Differences in reporting levels were particularly striking during the first six to 12 weeks of the survey, for symptoms related to acute, transitory illness, and among …
Sex Differences in the Use of Physician Services
Alfred C. Marcus, Judith M. Siegel, Sex Differences in the Use of Physician Services: A Preliminary Test of the Fixed Role Hypothesis, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Sep., 1982), pp. 186-197
Non-participation in telephone follow-up interviews
The present analysis examined sample attrition in a one-year longitudinal health survey that made use of telephone follow-up interviews (N = 1210). Overall, respondent attrition had little impact on the sociodemographic and health status characteristics of the sample at the final interview. However, certain subgroups were statistically less likely to participate in the follow-up interviews, including younger respondents, the non-employed, people …
Sex differences in reports of illness and disability
Mode of Payment and Identification With a Regular Doctor
Despite the apparent success of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) in lowering the costs of health care, they have been criticized for other reasons, including the lack of doctor-patient continuity in the patient's having a regular doctor. Consistent with previous research, HMO members sampled from Los Angeles County (N = 190) were less likely to identify with a regular doctor than comparable fee-for-service (FFS) subscribers (N = 653) (P le…
Teetering on the horns of a dilemma
Smoking behavior among US Latinos
In this paper we review evidence on smoking and lung cancer among Latinos, including findings from several unpublished studies and technical reports. Recent surveys of smoking behavior in California, Texas, and New Mexico indicate a notable sex difference in smoking among Latinos, with Latino males smoking at least as frequently as White males, while Latino females report smoking rates considerably lower than White females. Our analysis of the 19…
Telephone Surveys in Public Health Research
The last 10 years have seen increasing use of telephone surveys in public health research. This paper reviews issues of sampling, data quality, questionnaire development, scheduling of interviewers, respondent burden, interviewer effects, and the use of the computer in telephone interviewing. Throughout, the authors focus on findings from recent research, with particular emphasis on those studies suggesting new advances or protocols for conductin…
Improving Adherence to Screening Follow-Up Among Women with Abnormal Pap Smears
In a large randomized trial involving over 2,000 women with abnormal cervical cytology (pap smear), three clinic-based interventions were tested as strategies to increase return rates for screening follow-up: 1) a personalized follow-up letter and pamphlet; 2) a slide-tape program on pap smears; and 3) transportation incentives (bus passes/parking permits). The three interventions were evaluated using a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial design. Results of this…
Reducing Loss-to-Follow-Up Among Women With Abnormal Pap Smears
OBJECTIVES: This study evaluates the efficacy of two interventions designed to reduce loss-to-follow-up among women with abnormal Pap smears. METHODS: The two interventions were evaluated in two large public hospitals using a randomized 2 x 2 factorial design. One intervention involved an intensive follow-up protocol that relied on multiple attempts (mail and telephone) to contact the patient. The second intervention provided patients with econom…
Increasing Cervical Cancer Screening Among Underserved Women in a Large Urban County Health System
BACKGROUND: Further reduction in avoidable cervical cancer morbidity and mortality may require system-wide, integrated approaches implemented in the public health facilities serving the nation's indigent and minority women. OBJECTIVES: Report on the evaluation of a 5-year demonstration project testing a multicomponent (provider, system, and patient) intervention to increase cervical cancer screening among women who receive their health care throu…
Why Don’t We See More Translation of Health Promotion Research to Practice? Rethinking the Efficacy-to-Effectiveness Transition
The gap between research and practice is well documented. We address one of the underlying reasons for this gap: the assumption that effectiveness research naturally and logically follows from successful efficacy research. These 2 research traditions have evolved different methods and values; consequently, there are inherent differences between the characteristics of a successful efficacy intervention versus those of an effectiveness one. Moderat…
Long-Term Results of a Smoking Reduction Program
INTRODUCTION: There have been few comprehensive evaluations of smoking reduction, especially in health care delivery systems, and little is known about its cost, maintenance of reduced smoking, or robustness across patient subgroups. METHODS: A generally representative sample of 320 adult smokers from an HMO scheduled for outpatient surgery or a diagnostic procedure was randomized to enhanced usual care or a theory-based smoking reduction interve…
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