Rita McCracken
Biographic Data
| ID | 7593830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rita McCracken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rita |
| FAMILY NAME | McCracken |
| SIGNATURE | MCCRACKEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2962-0364 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Chronic Disease Management Among People Treated for Comorbid Serious Mental Illness and/or Substance Use Disorders
People with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorders are at high risk of chronic physical diseases like diabetes and hypertension and related acute complications but may face barriers to chronic disease management (including medication management and laboratory testing). We describe patterns of service use and chronic disease management among people with diabetes and/or hypertension treated for comorbid serious mental illness and/or …
The impact of eliminating out-of-pocket payments for medicines on low-income households
BACKGROUND: There is interest in reducing out-of-pocket payments for prescription medicines, but the effects of such interventions remain unclear. OBJECTIVE: To study the impact of changes to the public prescription drug insurance program in British Columbia (BC), Canada that eliminated copayments for low-income households. METHODS: We used administrative data from 2017 to 2021 from Population Data BC and a controlled interrupted time-series desi…
Addressing ableism in healthcare
There are limited frameworks for health services researchers to draw on that engage with critical disability theory while considering health services needs of disabled people, despite the quantity of research about disabled people. Research about people with disabilities without inclusion of their perspectives is directly in conflict with the disability rights movement and perpetuates inequity. One mean to include disabled perspectives in researc…
Government policies targeting primary care physician practice from 1998-2018 in three Canadian provinces
Primary care is the foundation of health care systems around the world. Physician autonomy means that governments rely on a limited selection of levers to implement reforms in primary care delivery, and these policies may impact the practice choices, intentions, and patterns of primary care physicians. Using a systematic search strategy to capture publicly available policy documents, we conducted a scan of such policies from 1998 to 2018 in three…
Opioid prescribing practice standard in British Columbia, Canada
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Opioid prescribing practice standard in British Columbia, Canada
Government policies targeting primary care physician practice from 1998-2018 in three Canadian provinces
Primary care is the foundation of health care systems around the world. Physician autonomy means that governments rely on a limited selection of levers to implement reforms in primary care delivery, and these policies may impact the practice choices, intentions, and patterns of primary care physicians. Using a systematic search strategy to capture publicly available policy documents, we conducted a scan of such policies from 1998 to 2018 in three…
The impact of eliminating out-of-pocket payments for medicines on low-income households
BACKGROUND: There is interest in reducing out-of-pocket payments for prescription medicines, but the effects of such interventions remain unclear. OBJECTIVE: To study the impact of changes to the public prescription drug insurance program in British Columbia (BC), Canada that eliminated copayments for low-income households. METHODS: We used administrative data from 2017 to 2021 from Population Data BC and a controlled interrupted time-series desi…
Addressing ableism in healthcare
There are limited frameworks for health services researchers to draw on that engage with critical disability theory while considering health services needs of disabled people, despite the quantity of research about disabled people. Research about people with disabilities without inclusion of their perspectives is directly in conflict with the disability rights movement and perpetuates inequity. One mean to include disabled perspectives in researc…
Chronic Disease Management Among People Treated for Comorbid Serious Mental Illness and/or Substance Use Disorders
People with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorders are at high risk of chronic physical diseases like diabetes and hypertension and related acute complications but may face barriers to chronic disease management (including medication management and laboratory testing). We describe patterns of service use and chronic disease management among people with diabetes and/or hypertension treated for comorbid serious mental illness and/or …
Medicine (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Payment (2 works) · Ableism (1 work) · Autonomy (1 work) · Chronic disease (1 work)