Rachel Gold
Biographic Data
| ID | 260049 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Gold |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Gold |
| SIGNATURE | GOLD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6326-5012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“The start of something that I hope could be greater”
Federal policies and professional guidelines in the United States increasingly encourage and incentivize health systems to collect and meaningfully respond to patients' social risks. In response, many health systems employ health information technology to implement, standardize, and scale these social care activities. We created and evaluated electronic health record tools to support the collection and documentation of social risk information, an…
Heterogeneity in associations between food insecurity and diabetes outcomes
BACKGROUND: Food insecurity is associated with worse diabetes outcomes, but how that association may vary across individuals is unclear. We sought to better understand possible heterogeneity in the association between food insecurity and diabetes outcomes. METHODS: Longitudinal cohort study of adults with type 2 diabetes assessed for food insecurity in community-based health centres. Diabetes outcomes were haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), systolic and di…
Applying Realist Retroduction to EHR-Based Clinical Decision Support Tool Development
The application of realist-informed approaches to implementation research can produce answers to why, for whom and under what circumstances social determinants of health interventions work. In the context of a study to develop and test EHR-based clinical decision support tools that suggest adjusting care plans in response to patient-reported financial, housing, food, transportation, and utilities insecurity, the authors applied an innovative use …
Recruiting Community Health Centers for Implementation Research
Estimating the impact of addressing food needs on diabetes outcomes
We estimated that not experiencing food needs may be associated with modestly better diabetes outcomes. These findings support testing interventions that address food needs as part of their mechanism of action
Health Care Delivery Site– and Patient-Level Factors Associated With Covid-19 Primary Vaccine Series Completion in a National Network of Community Health Centers
Objectives. To assess multilevel factors associated with variation in COVID-19 vaccination rates in a US network of community health centers. Methods. Using multilevel logistic regression with electronic health record data from ADVANCE (Accelerating Data Value Across a National Community Health Center Network; January 1, 2022–December 31, 2022), we assessed associations between health care delivery site–level (n = 1219) and patient-level (n = 1 8…
Role of Health Information Technology in Addressing Health Disparities
Over the last decade, health information technology (IT) has dramatically transformed medical practice in the United States. On May 11–12, 2017, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, in partnership with the National Science Foundation and the National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved, convened a scientific workshop, “Addressing Health Disparities with Health Information Technology,” with the goal of ensuring…
Building Meaningful Patient Engagement in Research
BACKGROUND: Strategies to engage patients to improve and enhance research and clinical care are increasingly being implemented in the United States, yet little is known about best practices for or the impacts of meaningful patient engagement. OBJECTIVE: We describe and reflect on our patient stakeholder groups, engagement framework, experiences, and lessons learned in engaging patients in research, from generating proposal ideas to disseminating …
Publicly Funded Family Planning Under Unprecedented Attack
The article discusses the authors' claim that publicly funded family planning services such as contraceptive care are under attack due to the policy agendas of U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, America's Congress, and various state governments as of 2017. The U.S. Medicaid health insurance program and Title X of America's Public Health Service Act are examined, along with abortions, women's health, and unintended pregnancies
Healthcare Utilization After a Children’s Health Insurance Program Expansion in Oregon
Lessons From Texas
The recently published analysis by Gerdts et al. on the impact of abortion restrictions in Texas adds to the body of evidence showing that these laws—enacted under the pretense of protecting women’s health—actually threaten women’s health and well-being.1 This study uses various measures of accessibility, availability and affordability to assess how Texas House Bill 2 (HB2), a multifaceted law passed in 2013, has complicated women’s ability to ob…
Health Care Utilization Rates After Oregon’s 2008 Medicaid Expansion
BACKGROUND: Although past research demonstrated that Medicaid expansions were associated with increased emergency department (ED) and primary care (PC) utilization, little is known about how long this increased utilization persists or whether postcoverage utilization is affected by prior insurance status. OBJECTIVES: (1) To assess changes in ED, PC, mental and behavioral health care, and specialist care visit rates among individuals gaining Medic…
The Association Between Medicaid Coverage for Children and Parents Persists
Linkage Methods for Connecting Children with Parents in Electronic Health Record and State Public Health Insurance Data
Does change in the neighborhood environment prevent obesity in older women
Prioritizing research needs based on a systematic evidence review
Background/context Systematic evidence reviews (SERs) identify knowledge gaps in the literature, a logical starting place for prioritizing future research. Varied methods have been used to elicit diverse stakeholders’ input in such prioritization. Objective To pilot a simple, easily replicable process for simultaneously soliciting consumer, clinician and researcher input in the identification of research priorities, based on the results of the 20…
Built environment and change in body mass index in older women
Trends in Health Insurance Status of US Children and their Parents, 1998–2008
Specialized Family Planning Clinics in the United States
Built Environment and Lower Extremity Physical Performance
Neighborhood walkability may protect against decline in physical performance
The Public Costs of Births Resulting from Unintended Pregnancies
Public insurance programs are central in assisting American families in affording pregnancy and childbirth; however, they pay for a disproportionately high number of births resulting from unintended pregnancy. The resulting budgetary impact warrants increased public efforts to reduce unintended pregnancy
Insurance Continuity and Receipt of Diabetes Preventive Care in a Network of Federally Qualified Health Centers
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Having health insurance is usually associated with better access to care and better health outcomes. For patients receiving care at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), where care is provided regardless of insurance status, the role health insurance status plays in affecting receipt of services is less well understood. RESEARCH DESIGN: We used practice management data from a coalition of FQHCs in Oregon, and link…
Role of Medicaid Family Planning Waivers and Title X In Enhancing Access to Preconception Care
Predicting Time to Subsequent Pregnancy
U.S. Insurance Coverage of Contraceptives and the Impact Of Contraceptive Coverage Mandates, 2002
Coverage of reversible contraception--and by extension, choice within a range of covered methods--has increased substantially since 1993, in part because of state mandates. This state-by-state approach, however, has inherent limitations that can best be dealt with at the federal level
Teen births, income inequality, and social capital
Does change in the neighborhood environment prevent obesity in older women
U.S. Insurance Coverage of Contraceptives and the Impact Of Contraceptive Coverage Mandates
The Public Costs of Births Resulting from Unintended Pregnancies
Public insurance programs are central in assisting American families in affording pregnancy and childbirth; however, they pay for a disproportionately high number of births resulting from unintended pregnancy. The resulting budgetary impact warrants increased public efforts to reduce unintended pregnancy
Built environment and change in body mass index in older women
Income inequality and pregnancy spacing
Lessons From Texas
The recently published analysis by Gerdts et al. on the impact of abortion restrictions in Texas adds to the body of evidence showing that these laws—enacted under the pretense of protecting women’s health—actually threaten women’s health and well-being.1 This study uses various measures of accessibility, availability and affordability to assess how Texas House Bill 2 (HB2), a multifaceted law passed in 2013, has complicated women’s ability to ob…
Built Environment and Lower Extremity Physical Performance
Neighborhood walkability may protect against decline in physical performance
U.S. Insurance Coverage of Contraceptives and the Impact Of Contraceptive Coverage Mandates, 2002
Coverage of reversible contraception--and by extension, choice within a range of covered methods--has increased substantially since 1993, in part because of state mandates. This state-by-state approach, however, has inherent limitations that can best be dealt with at the federal level
Publicly Funded Family Planning Under Unprecedented Attack
The article discusses the authors' claim that publicly funded family planning services such as contraceptive care are under attack due to the policy agendas of U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, America's Congress, and various state governments as of 2017. The U.S. Medicaid health insurance program and Title X of America's Public Health Service Act are examined, along with abortions, women's health, and unintended pregnancies
Managed Care and Unintended Pregnancy
Ecological Analysis of Teen Birth Rates
Teen births, income inequality, and social capital
U.S. Insurance Coverage of Contraceptives and the Impact Of Contraceptive Coverage Mandates, 2002
Coverage of reversible contraception--and by extension, choice within a range of covered methods--has increased substantially since 1993, in part because of state mandates. This state-by-state approach, however, has inherent limitations that can best be dealt with at the federal level
U.S. Insurance Coverage of Contraceptives and the Impact Of Contraceptive Coverage Mandates
Income inequality and pregnancy spacing
Predicting Time to Subsequent Pregnancy
Role of Medicaid Family Planning Waivers and Title X In Enhancing Access to Preconception Care
Insurance Continuity and Receipt of Diabetes Preventive Care in a Network of Federally Qualified Health Centers
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Having health insurance is usually associated with better access to care and better health outcomes. For patients receiving care at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), where care is provided regardless of insurance status, the role health insurance status plays in affecting receipt of services is less well understood. RESEARCH DESIGN: We used practice management data from a coalition of FQHCs in Oregon, and link…
Built Environment and Lower Extremity Physical Performance
Neighborhood walkability may protect against decline in physical performance
The Public Costs of Births Resulting from Unintended Pregnancies
Public insurance programs are central in assisting American families in affording pregnancy and childbirth; however, they pay for a disproportionately high number of births resulting from unintended pregnancy. The resulting budgetary impact warrants increased public efforts to reduce unintended pregnancy
Trends in Health Insurance Status of US Children and their Parents, 1998–2008
Specialized Family Planning Clinics in the United States
Prioritizing research needs based on a systematic evidence review
Background/context Systematic evidence reviews (SERs) identify knowledge gaps in the literature, a logical starting place for prioritizing future research. Varied methods have been used to elicit diverse stakeholders’ input in such prioritization. Objective To pilot a simple, easily replicable process for simultaneously soliciting consumer, clinician and researcher input in the identification of research priorities, based on the results of the 20…
Built environment and change in body mass index in older women
Linkage Methods for Connecting Children with Parents in Electronic Health Record and State Public Health Insurance Data
Does change in the neighborhood environment prevent obesity in older women
The Association Between Medicaid Coverage for Children and Parents Persists
Healthcare Utilization After a Children’s Health Insurance Program Expansion in Oregon
Lessons From Texas
The recently published analysis by Gerdts et al. on the impact of abortion restrictions in Texas adds to the body of evidence showing that these laws—enacted under the pretense of protecting women’s health—actually threaten women’s health and well-being.1 This study uses various measures of accessibility, availability and affordability to assess how Texas House Bill 2 (HB2), a multifaceted law passed in 2013, has complicated women’s ability to ob…
Health Care Utilization Rates After Oregon’s 2008 Medicaid Expansion
BACKGROUND: Although past research demonstrated that Medicaid expansions were associated with increased emergency department (ED) and primary care (PC) utilization, little is known about how long this increased utilization persists or whether postcoverage utilization is affected by prior insurance status. OBJECTIVES: (1) To assess changes in ED, PC, mental and behavioral health care, and specialist care visit rates among individuals gaining Medic…
Publicly Funded Family Planning Under Unprecedented Attack
The article discusses the authors' claim that publicly funded family planning services such as contraceptive care are under attack due to the policy agendas of U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, America's Congress, and various state governments as of 2017. The U.S. Medicaid health insurance program and Title X of America's Public Health Service Act are examined, along with abortions, women's health, and unintended pregnancies
Building Meaningful Patient Engagement in Research
BACKGROUND: Strategies to engage patients to improve and enhance research and clinical care are increasingly being implemented in the United States, yet little is known about best practices for or the impacts of meaningful patient engagement. OBJECTIVE: We describe and reflect on our patient stakeholder groups, engagement framework, experiences, and lessons learned in engaging patients in research, from generating proposal ideas to disseminating …
Role of Health Information Technology in Addressing Health Disparities
Over the last decade, health information technology (IT) has dramatically transformed medical practice in the United States. On May 11–12, 2017, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, in partnership with the National Science Foundation and the National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved, convened a scientific workshop, “Addressing Health Disparities with Health Information Technology,” with the goal of ensuring…
Recruiting Community Health Centers for Implementation Research
Medicine (27 works) · Environmental health (19 works) · Health care (14 works) · Population (14 works) · Demography (13 works) · Nursing (13 works) · Demography (11 works) · Family medicine (11 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (9 works) · Public health (9 works)