“Improving Youth Question-Asking and Provider Education during Pediatric Asthma Visits” will be published in the Patient Education and Counseling Journal. It was authored by Betsy Sleath, Delesha M. Carpenter, Scott A. Davis, Claire Hayes Watson, Charles Lee, Ceila E. Loughlin, Nacire Garcia, Daniel S. Reuland, and Gail Tudor. “The question prompt list and video intervention… Read more »
How can we improve health and health care in rural America?
How can we improve health and health care in rural America? Mark Holmes, PhD Professor of health policy and management Director, UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research George Pink, PhD Humana Distinguished Professor of health policy and management Read the entire article here: How can we improve health and health care… Read more »
Access to Mental Health Care Has Increased Under the Affordable Care Act
ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 15, 2017 – People with mental illness reported that they were more likely to be insured and thus better able to access health and mental health services following implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to a new study published online today in Psychiatric Services in Advance. Effects were seen in states that had expanded… Read more »
Kathleen C. Thomas Receives 2017 Banks Award for Mentoring
Kathleen C. Thomas, PhD, MPH, was awarded the 2017 Steven M. Banks Award from the Mental Health Section of the American Public Health Association in recognition of outstanding mentoring and sponsorship of diverse mental health services researchers. Dr. Thomas is a Senior Research Fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, and… 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
FutureDocs Issue Brief Released: Nation Has Enough Physicians to Meet the Nation’s Overall Needs – For Now. Distribution to Worsen
The Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy released the first in a series of issue briefs for the FutureDocs Forecasting Tool, built with support from the Physicians Foundation. The innovative tool helps policy makers, physicians and health systems plan for what type of practitioners will be needed to meet the growing utilization of healthcare in… 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 »
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 »
Mental Health Postdoc Faculty Mentor, Byron Powell, receives Early Career Award
Byron Powell, PhD, Assistant Professor with Health Policy and Management and core faculty member for the Mental Health Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program here at Sheps, received the Early Career Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Dissemination and Implementation Science Special Interest Group at their Annual Convention in New York this past… Read more »
Video showcases community advisors’ experience in engaged research in Latino community
A recently completed PCORI-funded research project called Padres Efectivos at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research in partnership with El Futuro, Inc. asked community members to provide advice on the researcher’s work in mental health care for Latino children. The advisors had the opportunity to participate in the research process, which… Read more »
Mental Health Postdoctoral Research Fellows and Faculty Celebrate Postdoc Appreciation Week
Members of the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Systems and Services Research Postdoctoral Fellowship gathered to celebrate the 7th Annual National Postdoc Appreciation Week in September. The group participated in several events and activities that week that were sponsored by the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and the UNC Postdoctoral Association. Their participation even won them… Read more »
Sheps Center names two new deputy directors
The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research has named two new Deputy Directors, one for Research and one for Policy. Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP is the new Deputy Director for Policy. Fraher is the Director of the Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy. Although she is recognized internationally as an expert on… Read more »
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