Neeraj Puro
Biographic Data
| ID | 309151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neeraj Puro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neeraj |
| FAMILY NAME | Puro |
| SIGNATURE | PURO N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida Atlantic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8893-2317 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Revisiting the effects of state anesthesia policy interventions
AIMS: Rural hospitals in the United States often rely on nonphysician providers such as advanced practice nurses to care for their patients. One important role that is served by advanced practice nurses is that of anesthesia provider (certified registered nurse anesthetist or CRNA). In 2001, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) passed an opt-out law affording state governors the right to loosen physician supervision requirements on CRNA…
Covid-19 and nurse practitioner autonomy
One understudied aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic is the opportunity it provided for nurse practitioners (NPs) to practice autonomously and therefore professionalise. We undertake a quantitative analysis to understand how the pandemic impacted scope of practice laws governing NPs in the United States. We find that NPs were newly granted at least temporary autonomy in 22 US states, and that those policy changes were associated with increasing COVID…
Negotiating Choice
This study examines how women's access to resources, power in relationships and husbands' gender role attitudes affect contraceptive decisions in India. Relational empowerment, a woman's agency within her relationship, influences the extent to which resources translate into contraceptive control. While increased resources may empower women to negotiate within their relationships, traditional gender norms can constrain their autonomy, even when th…
Publicness, Organizational Strategies, and Public Value Outcomes
One of the classic questions in publicness literature is whether public and private organizations operate differently, and what implications they have for organizational outcomes. This study seeks to identify mechanisms through which publicness influences organizational outcomes that have a public value. Focusing on US acute care hospitals, we userealized publicness framework and investigate how regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive publi…
Efforts by critical access hospitals to increase health equity through greater engagement with social determinants of health
PURPOSE: Greater health care engagement with social determinants of health (SDOH) is critical to improving health equity. However, no national studies have compared programs to address patient social needs among critical access hospitals (CAHs), which are lifelines for rural communities. CAHs generally have fewer resources and receive governmental support to maintain operations. This study considers the extent to which CAHs engage in community he…
Partnerships between anchor-med institutions and community organizations to address social determinants of health in urban populations
Social determinants of health (SDOH), the external environmental factors that determine health and well-being, often play a key role in health disparities and health inequities, and are outside the control of individuals. In urban and rural settings, hospitals have a critical role to play in addressing these SDOH; however, they cannot do so as a lone entity. Hospitals may function as anchor institution and form multi-sector partnerships with othe…
Community social capital or health needs
Social determinants of health (SDOH) are strongly linked to individual and population health outcomes. Hospitals and health systems are in a unique position to initiate or partner on community-wide efforts address SDOH. However, such efforts typically require collaboration with other healthcare and local community organizations since SDOH affect more than just medical care. Despite studies that have identified specific organizational and environm…
Addressing Provider Shortages in Rural America
BACKGROUND: Shortages of anesthesia providers in rural areas have long resulted in access limitations in many US states. This situation prompted federal legislation designed to promote increased usage of certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) in hospitals. Starting in 2001, state governors were afforded the option to adopt "opt-out" provisions, giving facilities in their states flexibility in utilizing CRNAs; specifically, adopting the o…
A new kind of gatekeeper
Case management is a representation of managed care, cost-containment organizational practices in healthcare, where managed care and its constitutive parts are situated against physician autonomy and decision-making. As a professional field, case management has evolved considerably, with the role recently taken up increasingly by Advanced Practice Nurses in various health care settings. We look at this evolution of a relatively new work task for …
Physician dominance in the 21st century
Theories of physician dominance are a foundational contribution of medical sociology to the study of health care, but must be revisited in the light of ongoing changes in medicine. As non-physician specialists like nurse practitioners grow in number and acquire more autonomy, increasing medical profession differentiation presents a challenge for traditional physician dominance theories. After evaluating potential theoretical explanations for subo…
Telehealth Availability in US Hospitals in the Face of the Covid‐19 Pandemic
BACKGROUND: Telehealth is likely to play a crucial role in treating COVID-19 patients. However, not all US hospitals possess telehealth capabilities. This brief report was designed to explore US hospitals' readiness with respect to telehealth availability. We hope to gain deeper insight into the factors affecting possession of these valuable capabilities, and how this varies between rural and urban areas. METHODS: Based on 2017 data from the Amer…
Analyzing Workers’ Compensation Claims and Payments Made Using Data from a Large Insurance Provider
Workplace interventions should prioritize both the costs of claims on average and the frequency
Negotiating Choice
This study examines how women's access to resources, power in relationships and husbands' gender role attitudes affect contraceptive decisions in India. Relational empowerment, a woman's agency within her relationship, influences the extent to which resources translate into contraceptive control. While increased resources may empower women to negotiate within their relationships, traditional gender norms can constrain their autonomy, even when th…
A new kind of gatekeeper
Case management is a representation of managed care, cost-containment organizational practices in healthcare, where managed care and its constitutive parts are situated against physician autonomy and decision-making. As a professional field, case management has evolved considerably, with the role recently taken up increasingly by Advanced Practice Nurses in various health care settings. We look at this evolution of a relatively new work task for …
Physician dominance in the 21st century
Theories of physician dominance are a foundational contribution of medical sociology to the study of health care, but must be revisited in the light of ongoing changes in medicine. As non-physician specialists like nurse practitioners grow in number and acquire more autonomy, increasing medical profession differentiation presents a challenge for traditional physician dominance theories. After evaluating potential theoretical explanations for subo…
Telehealth Availability in US Hospitals in the Face of the Covid‐19 Pandemic
BACKGROUND: Telehealth is likely to play a crucial role in treating COVID-19 patients. However, not all US hospitals possess telehealth capabilities. This brief report was designed to explore US hospitals' readiness with respect to telehealth availability. We hope to gain deeper insight into the factors affecting possession of these valuable capabilities, and how this varies between rural and urban areas. METHODS: Based on 2017 data from the Amer…
Analyzing Workers’ Compensation Claims and Payments Made Using Data from a Large Insurance Provider
Workplace interventions should prioritize both the costs of claims on average and the frequency
Addressing Provider Shortages in Rural America
BACKGROUND: Shortages of anesthesia providers in rural areas have long resulted in access limitations in many US states. This situation prompted federal legislation designed to promote increased usage of certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) in hospitals. Starting in 2001, state governors were afforded the option to adopt "opt-out" provisions, giving facilities in their states flexibility in utilizing CRNAs; specifically, adopting the o…
A new kind of gatekeeper
Case management is a representation of managed care, cost-containment organizational practices in healthcare, where managed care and its constitutive parts are situated against physician autonomy and decision-making. As a professional field, case management has evolved considerably, with the role recently taken up increasingly by Advanced Practice Nurses in various health care settings. We look at this evolution of a relatively new work task for …
Physician dominance in the 21st century
Theories of physician dominance are a foundational contribution of medical sociology to the study of health care, but must be revisited in the light of ongoing changes in medicine. As non-physician specialists like nurse practitioners grow in number and acquire more autonomy, increasing medical profession differentiation presents a challenge for traditional physician dominance theories. After evaluating potential theoretical explanations for subo…
Community social capital or health needs
Social determinants of health (SDOH) are strongly linked to individual and population health outcomes. Hospitals and health systems are in a unique position to initiate or partner on community-wide efforts address SDOH. However, such efforts typically require collaboration with other healthcare and local community organizations since SDOH affect more than just medical care. Despite studies that have identified specific organizational and environm…
Publicness, Organizational Strategies, and Public Value Outcomes
One of the classic questions in publicness literature is whether public and private organizations operate differently, and what implications they have for organizational outcomes. This study seeks to identify mechanisms through which publicness influences organizational outcomes that have a public value. Focusing on US acute care hospitals, we userealized publicness framework and investigate how regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive publi…
Efforts by critical access hospitals to increase health equity through greater engagement with social determinants of health
PURPOSE: Greater health care engagement with social determinants of health (SDOH) is critical to improving health equity. However, no national studies have compared programs to address patient social needs among critical access hospitals (CAHs), which are lifelines for rural communities. CAHs generally have fewer resources and receive governmental support to maintain operations. This study considers the extent to which CAHs engage in community he…
Partnerships between anchor-med institutions and community organizations to address social determinants of health in urban populations
Social determinants of health (SDOH), the external environmental factors that determine health and well-being, often play a key role in health disparities and health inequities, and are outside the control of individuals. In urban and rural settings, hospitals have a critical role to play in addressing these SDOH; however, they cannot do so as a lone entity. Hospitals may function as anchor institution and form multi-sector partnerships with othe…
Revisiting the effects of state anesthesia policy interventions
AIMS: Rural hospitals in the United States often rely on nonphysician providers such as advanced practice nurses to care for their patients. One important role that is served by advanced practice nurses is that of anesthesia provider (certified registered nurse anesthetist or CRNA). In 2001, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) passed an opt-out law affording state governors the right to loosen physician supervision requirements on CRNA…
Covid-19 and nurse practitioner autonomy
One understudied aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic is the opportunity it provided for nurse practitioners (NPs) to practice autonomously and therefore professionalise. We undertake a quantitative analysis to understand how the pandemic impacted scope of practice laws governing NPs in the United States. We find that NPs were newly granted at least temporary autonomy in 22 US states, and that those policy changes were associated with increasing COVID…
Negotiating Choice
This study examines how women's access to resources, power in relationships and husbands' gender role attitudes affect contraceptive decisions in India. Relational empowerment, a woman's agency within her relationship, influences the extent to which resources translate into contraceptive control. While increased resources may empower women to negotiate within their relationships, traditional gender norms can constrain their autonomy, even when th…
Medicine (11 works) · Health care (10 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Business (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Global Health Workforce Issues (4 works) · Law (4 works)