Dana Hughes
Biographic Data
| ID | 6622110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dana Hughes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dana |
| FAMILY NAME | Hughes |
| SIGNATURE | HUGHES D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-4500-181X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Increasing Health Insurance Coverage in the First Year of Life
Reducing Health Disparities among Children
The ultimate goal of providing public health insurance is to improve the health of low-income children. Yet, acknowledging the limitations of health insurance is important because children's health is shaped by a variety of factors, many of which cannot be influenced by increased access to health care. Health status is also affected by race, language, culture, geography, and socioeconomic class. This article summarizes current research about what…
Health Insurance and Access to Primary Care for Children
BACKGROUND: Numerous studies have demonstrated that insurance status influences the amount of ambulatory care received by children, but few have assessed the role of insurance as a determinant of children's access to primary care. We studied the effect of health insurance on children's access to primary care. METHODS: We analyzed a sample of 49,367 children under 18 years of age from the 1993-1994 National Health Interview Survey, a nationwide ho…
Community Health Monitoring
Managed Care and Children
This article lays the foundation for the other articles in this journal issue, which examine the effect of managed health care arrangements on a particular population: children. Although managed care has been used to finance and deliver health care services for decades, the meaning of this term often has been unclear to health care consumers and practitioners because new forms of managed care have evolved rapidly. The one consistent and unifying …
The Role of Social Change in Preventing Low Birth Weight
The authors of this article examine the relationship between social factors and low birth weight and the ways in which disparities in socioeconomic status have been addressed over time. The evidence regarding the effectiveness of various efforts to influence birth weight by mitigating the consequences of disadvantage are also assessed. Low socioeconomic status has been shown to influence low birth weight through its various correlates. Historical…
Social Support and the Outcome of Major Depression
One hundred and fifty middle-aged and elderly adults with a diagnosis of major depression were assessed initially as inpatients, and were reinterviewed 6–32 months later. Both size of social network and subjective social support were significant predictors of depressive symptoms at follow-up, with baseline depression scores and other predictors of outcome status statistically controlled. Subjective social support was most strongly associated with…
An Overview of Maternal and Infant Health Services in Rural America
Economically disadvantaged rural families, like their urban counterparts, face significant difficulties obtaining adequate maternity and infant health care resulting, in part, from an unequal distribution of resources as well as economic and racial barriers to health care nationwide. Rural women and infants must contend with additional access problems that reflect the inherent constraints of rural existence as well as specific state policies that…
Age differences in life event qualities
Effects of age on the distribution of three life events qualities (expectation, valence, importance) for specific life events experienced during the past year by community-based adults were examined, controlling for sex, race, education, marital status, and place of residence. The controlled analyses were done using multiple regression. Data were gathered via personal interviews from 3,798 respondents aged 18 + years who participated in the Epide…
Maternal and Child Health Services for Medically Indigent Children and Pregnant Women
Millions of low-income children and women of childbearing age are completely uninsured. Medicaid, the nation's largest public health financing program for the poor, is an inadequate resource for uninsured families with children. By 1984, the program served only 46% of the poor and near-poor, down from 65% in 1976. To assess the availability of maternity and pediatric services for low income uninsured women and children, a survey of 51 Title V Mat…
The Role of Social Change in Preventing Low Birth Weight
The authors of this article examine the relationship between social factors and low birth weight and the ways in which disparities in socioeconomic status have been addressed over time. The evidence regarding the effectiveness of various efforts to influence birth weight by mitigating the consequences of disadvantage are also assessed. Low socioeconomic status has been shown to influence low birth weight through its various correlates. Historical…
Reducing Health Disparities among Children
The ultimate goal of providing public health insurance is to improve the health of low-income children. Yet, acknowledging the limitations of health insurance is important because children's health is shaped by a variety of factors, many of which cannot be influenced by increased access to health care. Health status is also affected by race, language, culture, geography, and socioeconomic class. This article summarizes current research about what…
Managed Care and Children
This article lays the foundation for the other articles in this journal issue, which examine the effect of managed health care arrangements on a particular population: children. Although managed care has been used to finance and deliver health care services for decades, the meaning of this term often has been unclear to health care consumers and practitioners because new forms of managed care have evolved rapidly. The one consistent and unifying …
Age differences in life event qualities
Effects of age on the distribution of three life events qualities (expectation, valence, importance) for specific life events experienced during the past year by community-based adults were examined, controlling for sex, race, education, marital status, and place of residence. The controlled analyses were done using multiple regression. Data were gathered via personal interviews from 3,798 respondents aged 18 + years who participated in the Epide…
Maternal and Child Health Services for Medically Indigent Children and Pregnant Women
Millions of low-income children and women of childbearing age are completely uninsured. Medicaid, the nation's largest public health financing program for the poor, is an inadequate resource for uninsured families with children. By 1984, the program served only 46% of the poor and near-poor, down from 65% in 1976. To assess the availability of maternity and pediatric services for low income uninsured women and children, a survey of 51 Title V Mat…
Social Support and the Outcome of Major Depression
One hundred and fifty middle-aged and elderly adults with a diagnosis of major depression were assessed initially as inpatients, and were reinterviewed 6–32 months later. Both size of social network and subjective social support were significant predictors of depressive symptoms at follow-up, with baseline depression scores and other predictors of outcome status statistically controlled. Subjective social support was most strongly associated with…
An Overview of Maternal and Infant Health Services in Rural America
Economically disadvantaged rural families, like their urban counterparts, face significant difficulties obtaining adequate maternity and infant health care resulting, in part, from an unequal distribution of resources as well as economic and racial barriers to health care nationwide. Rural women and infants must contend with additional access problems that reflect the inherent constraints of rural existence as well as specific state policies that…
The Role of Social Change in Preventing Low Birth Weight
The authors of this article examine the relationship between social factors and low birth weight and the ways in which disparities in socioeconomic status have been addressed over time. The evidence regarding the effectiveness of various efforts to influence birth weight by mitigating the consequences of disadvantage are also assessed. Low socioeconomic status has been shown to influence low birth weight through its various correlates. Historical…
Health Insurance and Access to Primary Care for Children
BACKGROUND: Numerous studies have demonstrated that insurance status influences the amount of ambulatory care received by children, but few have assessed the role of insurance as a determinant of children's access to primary care. We studied the effect of health insurance on children's access to primary care. METHODS: We analyzed a sample of 49,367 children under 18 years of age from the 1993-1994 National Health Interview Survey, a nationwide ho…
Community Health Monitoring
Managed Care and Children
This article lays the foundation for the other articles in this journal issue, which examine the effect of managed health care arrangements on a particular population: children. Although managed care has been used to finance and deliver health care services for decades, the meaning of this term often has been unclear to health care consumers and practitioners because new forms of managed care have evolved rapidly. The one consistent and unifying …
Reducing Health Disparities among Children
The ultimate goal of providing public health insurance is to improve the health of low-income children. Yet, acknowledging the limitations of health insurance is important because children's health is shaped by a variety of factors, many of which cannot be influenced by increased access to health care. Health status is also affected by race, language, culture, geography, and socioeconomic class. This article summarizes current research about what…
Increasing Health Insurance Coverage in the First Year of Life
Medicine (10 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Health care (7 works) · Population (7 works) · Child and Adolescent Health (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works)