B Franz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 43043 |
|---|---|
| NOME | B Franz |
| PRENOMES | B |
| SOBRENOME | Franz |
| ASSINATURA | FRANZ B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ohio University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2091-1891 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Reducing Buprenorphine Misinformation as a Strategy to Improve Adoption in Primary Care
BACKGROUND: Buprenorphine is a highly effective medication for opioid use disorder, but it has not been widely implemented in primary care. Negative attitudes toward the medication are a well-known prescribing barrier. Health misinformation, a phenomenon which negatively informs attitudes and subsequent behavior, has been associated with lower willingness to treat OUD. Attitudinal barriers to buprenorphine prescribing may be due in part to misinf…
Primary care professionals’ perspectives on tailoring buprenorphine training for rural practice
PURPOSE: Buprenorphine is a highly effective medication for opioid use disorder (OUD) that remains substantially underutilized by primary care professionals (PCPs). This is particularly true in rural communities, which have fewer prescribers and significant access disparities. The Drug Enforcement Administration removed the X-waiver requirement in December 2022, yet many rural clinicians still report barriers to prescribing buprenorphine. In this…
National Overview of Nonprofit Hospitals’ Community Benefit Programs to Address Housing
BACKGROUND: Housing is a critical social determinant of health that can be addressed through hospital-supported community benefit programming. OBJECTIVES: To explore the prevalence of hospital-based programs that address housing-related needs, categorize the specific actions taken to address housing, and determine organizational and community-level factors associated with investing in housing. RESEARCH DESIGN: This retrospective, cross-sectional …
Positive contact and empathy as predictors of primary care providers’ willingness to prescribe medications for opioid use disorder
Introduction: Patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) have a heightened need for quality health care, including access to evidence-based medications to reduce cravings and prevent overdose. However, primary care providers (PCPs) are reluctant to work with patients with OUD and implement medication prescribing into primary care practice. Previous studies have sought to identify potential ways to overcome these barriers, but often utilize intervent…
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…
Alzheimer’s Centers in US Hospitals
Objectives: To investigate the availability of Alzheimer's Centers (ACs) in US hospitals. Methods: Utilizing the American Hospital Association Annual Survey, Area Health Resource File, and US Census ( n = 3251), we employed multivariable logistic regression to examine hospital, county, and regional predictors of AC availability. Results: Large hospitals (>399 beds) had approximately 14 times higher odds of having an AC than small hospitals ( Disc…
Religious and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Flu and Covid-19 Vaccination Intentions
Vaccination is an effective public health initiative to reduce severe illness and death due to COVID-19. Vaccine uptake in the United States has been uneven, however. One proposed mechanism to improve vaccine uptake is to engage religious groups to provide health information and encourage vaccination. It remains unclear though if Americans with differing racial/ethnic identities and religious affiliations are equally likely to receive health-rela…
Leveraging Community-Driven Anchor Activities Among US For-Profit Hospitals
Hospitals have the ability to serve as anchor institutions that not only provide clinical care but make important community investments through employment, and outreach, and engagement efforts that address the social determinants of health. In doing so, hospitals may partner with community members and community-based organizations, but the extent to which local residents participate in directing local investments varies across organizations. This…
Barriers to Working with Patients Who Misuse Opioids and Physician Burnout
BACKGROUND: Physicians are on the front lines of the U.S. opioid epidemic, providing care in multiple treatment settings. Very little is known, however, about whether this experience has contributed to physician burnout. This information is critical for guiding efforts to expand the relatively low level of training on opioid misuse currently available in medical education. METHODS: We surveyed 408 board-certified physicians practicing in Ohio abo…
The Relationship between Systemic Racism, Residential Segregation, and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Covid-19 Deaths in the United States
To understand and address disparities in infectious disease, researchers and public health practitioners should acknowledge how different forms of systemic racism shape health outcomes in the United States. More attention should be given to the mechanisms by which infectious disease pandemics exacerbate health disparities in areas of high residential segregation and should inform more targeted health policies. Such policy changes stand to make al…
Programs to address substance use in U.S. children’s hospitals
Do Black Lives Matter in the American Public’s Mitigation Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic? An Analysis of Mask Wearing and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Deaths from Covid-19
Population health partnerships and social capital
Social capital refers to the social norms and networks that build trust and enable individuals to pursue shared objectives; it can vary considerably between communities and across time. Considerable evidence suggests that the presence of social capital at the local or state level is associated with improved individual health and lower community-level mortality, chronic illness, and diseases of despair such as substance abuse. Social capital may i…
Why public health framing matters
Hospital Community Benefit in Rural Appalachia
Non-profit hospitals are important anchors in Appalachian communities, in part because of the concentration of health care dollars within these institutions. Community benefit efforts of these hospitals, therefore, have the potential to fill gaps in public health and social service provision in underserved areas with documented health disparities and access barriers. To date, however, we do not fully understand how community benefit practices var…
Are Children's Hospitals Unique in the Community Benefits They Provide? Exploring Decisions to Prioritize Community Health Needs Among U.S. Children's and General Hospitals
The Affordable Care Act expanded community benefit requirements for nonprofit hospitals, which now must demonstrate that they take into account the needs of their surrounding community in deciding where to make community benefit investments. No study to date has assessed the Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) of a large sample of nonprofit hospitals to understand how hospitals determine the priority health needs that they include for thei…
Opposition to the Affordable Care Act has Little to do with Health Care
Patient Characteristics Affect Discharge Status for Opioid-related Infective Endocarditis
BACKGROUND: Opioid overdoses have increased dramatically in the last 20 years, but secondary complications, such as infective endocarditis (IE) are also on the rise. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to understand the effect that opioid-related IE has on hospitals across the US and to understand the disposition of patients after treatment for IE, particularly in regard to insurance status and type. RESEARCH DESIGN: Secondary data analysi…
We Need to Talk About Racism—In All of Its Forms—To Understand Covid-19 Disparities
Purpose: Racism is an essential factor to understand racial health disparities in infection and mortality due to COVID-19 and must be thoroughly integrated into any successful public health response. But highlighting the effect of racism generally does not go far enough toward understanding racial/ethnic health disparities or advocating for change; we must interrogate the various forms of racism in the United States, including behaviors and pract…
Race, Religion and Support for the Affordable Care Act
Using Pew Research Center's Voter Attitudes Survey from 2012, we assess the impact race has on the relationship between religious faith and worship attendance with support for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We find that White Evangelicals, independent of partisan affiliation and social-demographic characteristics, are more likely than White Non-Evangelicals to reject the ACA. In addition, among Whites, support for the ACA weakens with increasing …
Anti-black Attitudes Are a Threat to Health Equity in the United States
Should Hospital Emergency Departments Be Used as Revenue Streams Despite Needs to Curb Overutilization
This case asks how a hospital should balance patients' health needs with its financial bottom line regarding emergency department utilization. Should hospitals engage in proactive population health initiatives if they result in decreased revenue from their emergency departments? Which values should guide their thinking about this question? Drawing upon emerging legal and moral consensus about hospitals' obligations to their surrounding communitie…
How Should Health Care Organizations and Communities Work Together to Improve Neighborhood Conditions
In the past few decades, scholars have begun to establish ethical principles for public health engagement. A key tension has been how to reconcile public health improvement with local autonomy in decision making so as to express respect for community members' on-the-ground experience. This article describes the experience of one children's hospital in learning to ethically engage a surrounding community in conversations about housing development …
Urban Hospitals as Anchor Institutions
Recent policy developments are forcing many hospitals to supplement their traditional focus on the provision of direct patient care by using mechanisms to address the social determinants of health in local communities. Sociologists have studied hospital organizations for decades, to great effect, highlighting key processes of professional socialization and external influences that shape hospital-based care. New methods are needed, however, to cap…
What Challenges Do Nonprofit Hospitals Face in Taking on Community Health Needs Assessments? A Qualitative Study From Appalachian Ohio
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to understand the experiences of Appalachian hospitals in undertaking Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs). Of particular interest is whether new requirements to undertake regular evaluation and public health programming pose challenges for rural, Appalachian hospitals. METHODS: Using a sample of nonprofit hospitals in Appalachian Ohio, we conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with hospital administ…
Why public health framing matters
We Need to Talk About Racism—In All of Its Forms—To Understand Covid-19 Disparities
Purpose: Racism is an essential factor to understand racial health disparities in infection and mortality due to COVID-19 and must be thoroughly integrated into any successful public health response. But highlighting the effect of racism generally does not go far enough toward understanding racial/ethnic health disparities or advocating for change; we must interrogate the various forms of racism in the United States, including behaviors and pract…
Urban Hospitals as Anchor Institutions
Recent policy developments are forcing many hospitals to supplement their traditional focus on the provision of direct patient care by using mechanisms to address the social determinants of health in local communities. Sociologists have studied hospital organizations for decades, to great effect, highlighting key processes of professional socialization and external influences that shape hospital-based care. New methods are needed, however, to cap…
Anti-black Attitudes Are a Threat to Health Equity in the United States
Do Black Lives Matter in the American Public’s Mitigation Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic? An Analysis of Mask Wearing and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Deaths from Covid-19
Encouraging accountability
Although scholars have thoroughly assessed American Evangelical Protestants' beliefs about government intervention in addressing socioeconomic stratification and racial discrimination, they have paid considerably less attention to interpretations of health care reform. Especially important is that American Evangelicalism in recent years has incorporated personal accountability in such a way that makes this group distinctive when considering socia…
Race, Religion and Support for the Affordable Care Act
Using Pew Research Center's Voter Attitudes Survey from 2012, we assess the impact race has on the relationship between religious faith and worship attendance with support for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We find that White Evangelicals, independent of partisan affiliation and social-demographic characteristics, are more likely than White Non-Evangelicals to reject the ACA. In addition, among Whites, support for the ACA weakens with increasing …
Religious and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Flu and Covid-19 Vaccination Intentions
Vaccination is an effective public health initiative to reduce severe illness and death due to COVID-19. Vaccine uptake in the United States has been uneven, however. One proposed mechanism to improve vaccine uptake is to engage religious groups to provide health information and encourage vaccination. It remains unclear though if Americans with differing racial/ethnic identities and religious affiliations are equally likely to receive health-rela…
Defining “Community” in Community Health Evaluation
This article examines the theoretical basis of the community as it is evoked in health evaluation. In particular, we examine how hospitals carrying out Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) define communities as well as the implications for these definitions for how to study and engage community problems. We present qualitative findings from a sample of Appalachian nonprofit hospitals, who we asked to describe their approach to defining the …
Is Community-based Work Compatible with Data Collection
Although community-based projects have introduced a successful model for addressing many social problems, less consideration has been given to how such projects should be evaluated. This paper considers whether the philosophy underlying community-based practice is compatible with data collection. Specifically at issue is whether empirical indicators are helpful to summarize a project. Although having valid knowledge is important, this paper makes…
Key theoretical distinctions in community-based health interventions
The move to community-based practice is often accompanied by doubts about the veracity of the research or clinical data that might be generated. Critics contend that the introduction of subjectivity that accompanies this maneuver obscures the empirical side of social existence, and thus compromises the discovery of facts. But this erroneous conclusion rests on confusion about several key philosophical distinctions that are discussed in this paper…
Changing medical relationships after the ACA
American health care has undergone significant organizational change in recent decades. But what is the state of core medical relationships in the wake of these changes? Throughout ACA-era health care reform, the doctor-patient relationship was targeted as a particularly important focus for improving communication and health outcomes. Recent developments however have shifted the focus from individual-level outcomes to the wellbeing of populations…
Evangelical theology, health care, and the third way
In the context of American health care, considerable attention has been paid to health disparities based on both race and socioeconomic status. Scholars of public health and other social scientists agree that these inequities are enduring and tied to important social factors. Recently, community-based interventions have become popular to address population health and improve health outcomes. These projects that occur in the third sector are thoug…
Defining “Community” in Community Health Evaluation
This article examines the theoretical basis of the community as it is evoked in health evaluation. In particular, we examine how hospitals carrying out Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) define communities as well as the implications for these definitions for how to study and engage community problems. We present qualitative findings from a sample of Appalachian nonprofit hospitals, who we asked to describe their approach to defining the …
What Challenges Do Nonprofit Hospitals Face in Taking on Community Health Needs Assessments? A Qualitative Study From Appalachian Ohio
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to understand the experiences of Appalachian hospitals in undertaking Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs). Of particular interest is whether new requirements to undertake regular evaluation and public health programming pose challenges for rural, Appalachian hospitals. METHODS: Using a sample of nonprofit hospitals in Appalachian Ohio, we conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with hospital administ…
Community Perceptions of Hospitals and Shared Physical Space
Encouraging accountability
Although scholars have thoroughly assessed American Evangelical Protestants' beliefs about government intervention in addressing socioeconomic stratification and racial discrimination, they have paid considerably less attention to interpretations of health care reform. Especially important is that American Evangelicalism in recent years has incorporated personal accountability in such a way that makes this group distinctive when considering socia…
Should Hospital Emergency Departments Be Used as Revenue Streams Despite Needs to Curb Overutilization
This case asks how a hospital should balance patients' health needs with its financial bottom line regarding emergency department utilization. Should hospitals engage in proactive population health initiatives if they result in decreased revenue from their emergency departments? Which values should guide their thinking about this question? Drawing upon emerging legal and moral consensus about hospitals' obligations to their surrounding communitie…
How Should Health Care Organizations and Communities Work Together to Improve Neighborhood Conditions
In the past few decades, scholars have begun to establish ethical principles for public health engagement. A key tension has been how to reconcile public health improvement with local autonomy in decision making so as to express respect for community members' on-the-ground experience. This article describes the experience of one children's hospital in learning to ethically engage a surrounding community in conversations about housing development …
Urban Hospitals as Anchor Institutions
Recent policy developments are forcing many hospitals to supplement their traditional focus on the provision of direct patient care by using mechanisms to address the social determinants of health in local communities. Sociologists have studied hospital organizations for decades, to great effect, highlighting key processes of professional socialization and external influences that shape hospital-based care. New methods are needed, however, to cap…
Are Children's Hospitals Unique in the Community Benefits They Provide? Exploring Decisions to Prioritize Community Health Needs Among U.S. Children's and General Hospitals
The Affordable Care Act expanded community benefit requirements for nonprofit hospitals, which now must demonstrate that they take into account the needs of their surrounding community in deciding where to make community benefit investments. No study to date has assessed the Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) of a large sample of nonprofit hospitals to understand how hospitals determine the priority health needs that they include for thei…
Opposition to the Affordable Care Act has Little to do with Health Care
Patient Characteristics Affect Discharge Status for Opioid-related Infective Endocarditis
BACKGROUND: Opioid overdoses have increased dramatically in the last 20 years, but secondary complications, such as infective endocarditis (IE) are also on the rise. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to understand the effect that opioid-related IE has on hospitals across the US and to understand the disposition of patients after treatment for IE, particularly in regard to insurance status and type. RESEARCH DESIGN: Secondary data analysi…
We Need to Talk About Racism—In All of Its Forms—To Understand Covid-19 Disparities
Purpose: Racism is an essential factor to understand racial health disparities in infection and mortality due to COVID-19 and must be thoroughly integrated into any successful public health response. But highlighting the effect of racism generally does not go far enough toward understanding racial/ethnic health disparities or advocating for change; we must interrogate the various forms of racism in the United States, including behaviors and pract…
Race, Religion and Support for the Affordable Care Act
Using Pew Research Center's Voter Attitudes Survey from 2012, we assess the impact race has on the relationship between religious faith and worship attendance with support for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We find that White Evangelicals, independent of partisan affiliation and social-demographic characteristics, are more likely than White Non-Evangelicals to reject the ACA. In addition, among Whites, support for the ACA weakens with increasing …
Anti-black Attitudes Are a Threat to Health Equity in the United States
Population health partnerships and social capital
Social capital refers to the social norms and networks that build trust and enable individuals to pursue shared objectives; it can vary considerably between communities and across time. Considerable evidence suggests that the presence of social capital at the local or state level is associated with improved individual health and lower community-level mortality, chronic illness, and diseases of despair such as substance abuse. Social capital may i…
Why public health framing matters
Hospital Community Benefit in Rural Appalachia
Non-profit hospitals are important anchors in Appalachian communities, in part because of the concentration of health care dollars within these institutions. Community benefit efforts of these hospitals, therefore, have the potential to fill gaps in public health and social service provision in underserved areas with documented health disparities and access barriers. To date, however, we do not fully understand how community benefit practices var…
Barriers to Working with Patients Who Misuse Opioids and Physician Burnout
BACKGROUND: Physicians are on the front lines of the U.S. opioid epidemic, providing care in multiple treatment settings. Very little is known, however, about whether this experience has contributed to physician burnout. This information is critical for guiding efforts to expand the relatively low level of training on opioid misuse currently available in medical education. METHODS: We surveyed 408 board-certified physicians practicing in Ohio abo…
The Relationship between Systemic Racism, Residential Segregation, and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Covid-19 Deaths in the United States
To understand and address disparities in infectious disease, researchers and public health practitioners should acknowledge how different forms of systemic racism shape health outcomes in the United States. More attention should be given to the mechanisms by which infectious disease pandemics exacerbate health disparities in areas of high residential segregation and should inform more targeted health policies. Such policy changes stand to make al…
Programs to address substance use in U.S. children’s hospitals
Do Black Lives Matter in the American Public’s Mitigation Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic? An Analysis of Mask Wearing and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Deaths from Covid-19
Positive contact and empathy as predictors of primary care providers’ willingness to prescribe medications for opioid use disorder
Introduction: Patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) have a heightened need for quality health care, including access to evidence-based medications to reduce cravings and prevent overdose. However, primary care providers (PCPs) are reluctant to work with patients with OUD and implement medication prescribing into primary care practice. Previous studies have sought to identify potential ways to overcome these barriers, but often utilize intervent…
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