Researchers from the mental health and substance abuse services and systems program at the Sheps Center examined the effect that primary-care based medical homes had on access to care and costs among Medicaid enrollees with severe mental illness using a variety of estimation techniques. They found that medical homes increased access to both primary care… Read more »
Tamera Coyne-Beasley profiled in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
Tamera Coyne-Beasley, MD MPH, is profiled in the first issue of The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
Sleath Receives AHRQ Grant to Help African-Americans with Glaucoma
Betsy Sleath, Ph.D. Sleath Receives $1.6 Million AHRQ Grant to Help African-Americans with Glaucoma Betsy Sleath, Ph.D., has received a grant worth nearly $1.6 million over four years from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to help reduce vision problems in African-Americans caused by glaucoma. Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness… Read more »
Rural Team authors win ‘Article of the Year’ award 2017
Brystana Kaufman, MSPH, graduate student in health policy and management at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, is first author of an article selected as The Journal of Rural Health’s inaugural Article of the Year. The article, “The Rising Rate of Rural Hospital Closures,” published in the journal’s winter 2016 print issue, was… Read more »
Announcing New Editors-In-Chief JAMDA: Dr. Phil Sloane and Dr. Sheryl Zimmerman
The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine and JAMDA – The Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine are proud to announce the appointment of our new JAMDA Editors-in-Chief: Philip D. Sloane, MD, MPH, and Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD. Dr. Sloane is the Elizabeth and Oscar Goodwin Distinguished Professor of Family Medicine at the University… Read more »
Camille McGirt, who works with Sheps Fellow Carol Golin, leads Healthy Girls Save the World (HGSW), a nonprofit organization that seeks to improve health outcomes for middle school girls through the promotion of healthy minds, bodies and relationships. HGSW has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust. Read more… Read more »
George Pink from our Rural Program was recently featured on the Georgia NPR. Read the story here: http://wabe.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/georgia-rural-hospitals-struggle-survive
Brystana Kaufman from our Rural Program won an award for her work! HPM authors win ‘Article of the Year’ award
In a landmark study, UNC School of Medicine researchers have shown that blood glucose testing does not offer a significant advantage in blood sugar control or quality of life for type 2 diabetes patients who are not treated with insulin. The paper, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, details findings from a randomized trial called “The… Read more »
Dr. Laura Hanson on Improving Advanced Dementia Care in Nursing Homes
Sheps investigator Laura Hanson, MD, MPH is featured on the GeriPal podcast discussing her randomized control trial of a Goals of Care intervention for family decision makers of nursing home residents with advanced dementia. You can listen to the podcast here and watch the Goals of Care decision aid here.
Study analyzes how parents of children with ADHD get online information about the condition
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects approximately 5% of the children in the United States, making it one of the most prevalent mental health disorders in the pediatric population. A group of researchers from the UNC Sheps Center for Health Services Research published an analysis of online information-seeking behaviors of parents of children with ADHD in… Read more »
New UNC project to create hub for connecting rural health providers with innovative techniques to combat opioid use disorders and overdose deaths
New UNC ECHO for Medication Assisted Treatment project to research barriers and enabling factors for primary care providers to offer medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorders and thereby impact opioid overdose death rates in North Carolina [CHAPEL HILL, NC] – A new research initiative at UNC-Chapel Hill will help to increase North Carolinian’s access… Read more »
Youth Views on Communication About ADHD and Medication Adherence
Child & Adolescent Health Services Program director, Betsy Sleath, PhD, RPH, and colleagues just recently published the article “Youth Views on Communication About ADHD and Medication Adherence” in Community Mental Health Journal. Other authors associated with the Child & Adolescent Health Services Program are Delesha Carpenter, PhD, MSPH, Kathleen Thomas, PhD, and Sandra Sulzer, PhD…. Read more »
Researchers from Child and Adolescent Health Services Program receive award from international conference
Sheps Center researchers, along with two adolescent participants and their parents, were part of a team recognized for their work at the European Society for Patient Adherence, Compliance and Persistence (ESPACOMP) in Lisbon, Portugal in November. The team won third place for their poster entitled, “Teen acceptance of an educational video and question prompt list… Read more »
A paper by Dr. Marisa Domino and Mental Health colleagues is in press at the premier journal, Health Services Research
Drs. Marisa Domino, Joe Morrissey, and Mona Kilany (T32 alum) have a paper in press at the premier journal, Health Services Research. The paper, entitled “Through the Looking Glass: Estimating Effects of Medical Homes for People with Severe Mental Illness,” found positive associations between medical homes and access to primary care, specialty mental health care,… Read more »
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