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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2005
 
Session: Management and Analysis of Healthcare Systems
5048.0: Wednesday, December 14, 2005: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Management and Analysis of Healthcare Systems
This session will cover a variety of in-depth studies of utilization of the health care system.
Learning Objectives: To describe infectious diseases visits and return visits to emergency departments in the United States 2) Evaluate the financial benefits and improved system utilization associated with men's case management 3) Identify the most effective intervention components of an adolescent preventive health program in a managed care setting 4) Describe Medicaid-covered non-elderly adults who received care for asthma in 2000 and explain race-ethnicity national variations in utilization and expenditure rates for inpatient stays, selected severity factors and Medicaid program expenditures.
Moderator(s):Mark Bittle
8:30 AMMen's health initiative benefits individuals and systems  [ Recorded presentation ]
Rachel M. Everhart, MS, Elizabeth M. Whitley, PhD, Richard A. Wright, MD, MPH
8:50 AMDifferences in racial/ethnicity variations for acute asthma care, selected measures of severity and expenditures among medicaid-covered non-elderly adults from all states and the District of Columbia: A comparison of 1999 and 2000 patterns
M. Beth Benedict, DrPH, JD
9:10 AMCapping hospital revenues as a tool to contain expenditures on hospital services: Lessons from Israel's experience  [ Recorded presentation ]
Kineret Oren, Avishay Goldberg, PhD, Joseph S. Pliskin, PhD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Health Administration
Endorsed by:Medical Care
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA