Janet M Bronstein

Biographic Data

ID137151
NAMEJanet M Bronstein
GIVEN NAMESJanet M
FAMILY NAMEBronstein
SIGNATUREBRONSTEIN J M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX1

  • The cultural construction of preterm birth in the United States

    Janet M Bronstein, Janet BronsteinARTICLEAnthropology and Medicine2020Cited by: 1References: 37

    This commentary explores four features of the cultural construction of pregnancy and childbirth in the United States: risk categorization as an aspect of reproductive governance, medicalization, intensive mothering with its implications for gender stratification, and the definition of personhood as beginning at conception. The cultural construction of preterm births (those that end before gestation is complete at about 37 weeks) is interwoven wit…

  • Providing General and Preconception Health Care to Low Income Women in Family Planning Settings

    Open AccessJanet M Bronstein, Janet Bronstein et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2011

  • Issues and Biases in Matching Medicaid Pregnancy Episodes to Vital Records Data

    Open AccessJanet M Bronstein, Janet Bronstein et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2008

  • Policy Levers that Improve Low Income Children's Access to Mental Health Services

    Janet M Bronstein, Janet BronsteinARTICLEMedical Care2008References: 5

    From the University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Public Health, Birmingham, Alabama. Reprints: Janet M. Bronstein, PhD, Department of Health Care Organization & Policy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Public Health, Birmingham, AL. E-mail: [email protected]

  • The Impact of Medicaid Primary Care Case Management on Office-Based Physician Supply in Alabama and Georgia

    Open AccessE Kathleen Adams, Janet M Bronstein et al.ARTICLEINQUIRY The Journal of Health…2003

    The success of the "primary care case management (PCCM)" form of managed care implemented in many state Medicaid programs over the past several years depends in part on the expanded availability of primary care physician sites to substitute for hospital-based outpatient care and to provide a medical home for enrollees. However, the PCCM requirement for physicians to accept assignment of a caseload of patients and to provide all of their primary c…

  • Rural‐Urban Differences in Health Risks, Resource Use and Expenditures Within Three State Medicaid Programs

    Open AccessJanet M Bronstein, Janet Bronstein et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Rural Health2002

    This study uses Medicaid claims data for income‐eligible enrollees in California, Georgia and Mississippi to compare expenditures, resource usage and health risks between residents of rural and urban areas of the states. Resource use is measured using the Resource Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) system for professional services, hospital days and outpatient facility visits; it also is valued at private insurance reimbursement rates for the sta…

  • How Rural Physicians Compare on Cost and Quality Measures for Medicaid Ambulatory Care Episodes

    Open AccessJanet M Bronstein, Janet Bronstein et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Rural Health1997

    This study compares the costs and quality of episodes of care for two common childhood illnesses, urinary tract infections (UTI) and otitis media (OM), across providers practicing in rural, small town, and urban counties in Alabama in 1992. The data source is Medicaid claims data for children under age 8 who were treated for these conditions. The study found that episodes cared for by rural providers were less expensive than episodes cared for in…

  • Patient's Choice of Hospital or Office for Medicaid Ambulatory Care in Alabama

    Janet M Bronstein, Janet Bronstein et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1996References: 18

    The primary policy option that has been suggested to states over the years for shifting care for Medicaid beneficiaries away from hospital sites and toward office sites has been to raise Medicaid fees to physicians on the assumption that this increases the geographic availability of office-based care, which then naturally attracts Medicaid clients away from hospital sites. This study uses Medicaid claims data from the state of Alabama to assess t…

  • The Politics of U.S. Health Care Reform

    Open AccessJanet M Bronstein, Peter Bengtsson et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly1996Cited by: 2References: 4

  • Entrance and Exit of Obstetrics Providers in Rural Alabama

    Open AccessJanet M Bronstein, Janet BronsteinARTICLEThe Journal of Rural Health1992

    In Alabama between 1985 and 1989, a total of 94 physicians outside of the four largest cities in the state dropped the obstetrics portion of their practices or left practice in their communities altogether. During the same period 82 physicians entered obstetrics pratice in this area. The study presented here used survey and archival data to compare pratice characteristics of generalists and specialists in rural and town counties who made differen…

  • Determinants of Rural Travel Distance for Obstetrics Care

    Janet M Bronstein, Janet Bronstein et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1990

    This study examines the distances traveled for inpatient obstetrics care by women residing in rural Alabama in 1983 and 1988. During that time 23 rural hospitals in the state stopped providing obstetrics services and mean travel distances increased by 6.8 miles. However, in 1988 50% of rural pregnant women bypassed the nearest rural hospital still providing obstetrics services. Multivariate techniques are used to examine the effects of distance a…