Nicoleta Serban

Biographic Data

ID6084190
NAMENicoleta Serban
GIVEN NAMESNicoleta
FAMILY NAMESerban
SIGNATURESERBAN N
AFFILIATIONSGeorgia Institute of Technology
ORCID0000-0002-5813-7435
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Evaluating access to psychosocial services for the medicaid-insured children in Georgia

    Open AccessYujia Xie, Pravara Harati et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    The main source of network inadequacy was the scarcity of MH providers available to Medicaid-insured children in Georgia, coming from both the limited caseload of existing MH providers and low Medicaid participation, rather than travel constraints. Increasing provider caseload and expanding Medicaid participation were found to reduce unmet demand. Interventions increasing caseloads were the most effective intervention since existing Medicaid-part…

  • Prevalence of diagnosed mental health conditions among US children with public and commercial insurance

    Open AccessW H Liu, Wanmeng Liu et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Variations in prevalence differed widely across states and by communities' rurality-urbanity. Medicaid-insured children had consistently higher prevalence than commercially insured children throughout all states. Suburban communities demonstrated the highest prevalence rates for both insurance types, with geographic clustering of high-prevalence areas observed particularly in eastern states for Medicaid-insured children and primarily in urban are…

  • Opioid utilization after orthopaedic trauma hospitalization among Medicaid-insured adults

    Open AccessNicholas A Giordano, Guantao Zhao et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Opioids are vital to pain management and sedation after trauma-related hospitalization. However, there are many confounding clinical, social, and environmental factors that exacerbate pain, post-injury care needs, and receipt of opioid prescriptions following orthopaedic trauma. This retrospective study sought to characterize differences in opioid prescribing and dosing in a national Medicaid eligible sample from 2010–2018. The study population i…

  • Dental care access for children in the United States

    Open AccessNicoleta Serban, Simin Ma et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2024

    This study found that dental care access was lower for children with public insurance than those with private access across all states, although states responded differently to changes in Medicaid/CHIP participation. Increasing access for children with public insurance would reduce disparities, but overall children's access to dental care would be better improved by expanding the oral health workforce

  • Evaluating scenarios for school reopening under Covid19

    Open AccessArden Baxter, Buse Eylul Oruc et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Reopening schools following a regular reopening strategy would lead to higher deaths, hospitalizations, and infections. Hybrid in-person and online reopening strategies, especially if offered as an option to families and teachers who prefer to opt-in, provide a good balance in reducing the infection spread compared to the regular reopening strategy, while ensuring access to in-person education

  • The impact of dentists' availability in delivering dental care in Florida Elementary Schools

    Open AccessSimin Ma, Nicoleta Serban et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2022

    School-based programs improve dental care access; the improvement was however different by insurance status, with uninsured children benefiting the most. Accounting to the dentists' availability in prioritizing schools resulted in effective resource allocation to school-based programs. Access disparities between public and private-insured children did not improve; school-based programs shifted resources from public-insured to uninsured. School-ba…

  • Homebound by Covid19

    Open AccessBuse Eylul Oruc, Arden Baxter et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Voluntary quarantine combined with school closure significantly reduced the number of infections and deaths with a considerably smaller number of homebound person-days compared to shelter-in-place

  • Assessing Health and Wellness Outcomes of Medicaid-Enrolled Infants Born to Adolescent Mothers

    Open AccessToyya A Pujol, Anna Smith et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2020

  • Projecting the economic impact of silver diamine fluoride on caries treatment expenditures and outcomes in young U.S. children

    Open AccessBen Johhnson, Nicoleta Serban et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2019

    Providing SDF as a caries management strategy can reduce Medicaid program dental care expenditures by averting expensive caries treatment options. It could also prevent stressful restorative procedures. State Medicaid programs should consider reimbursing for SDF to arrest the progression of dental caries in young children

  • ADA Health Policy Institute's methodology overestimates spatial access to dental care for publicly insured children

    Open AccessNicoleta Serban, Scott L TomarARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2018

    The estimates provided by HPI substantially overestimate access for children with public insurance. The overestimation comes from both the data limitations and the shortcomings of the methodology employed

  • Projecting the Impact of the Affordable Care Act Provisions on Accessibility and Availability of Primary Care Providers for the Adult Population in Georgia

    Monica Gentili, Pravara Harati et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2016References: 10

    Objectives. To evaluate how met need for accessibility and availability of primary care among nonelderly individuals in Georgia will be affected by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) over the next 10 years. Methods. We used a stock-and-flow model to predict the number of available visits from 2013 to 2025, regression models to project needed visits, and an optimization model to estimate met need. The outputs of these models were…

  • Small-Area Estimation of Spatial Access to Care and Its Implications for Policy

    Open AccessMonica Gentili, Kimberley R Isett et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2015Cited by: 1References: 3