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Service Utilization and Expenditures among Adults with Diabetes in Maryland’s Medicaid Managed Care Program
(2017-06-24)Hilltop staff made several presentations at the 2017 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) in New Orleans. At the State Health Research and Policy Interest Group Meeting on June 24, Policy Analyst Jamie John, MPH, ... -
Opioid Use Disorders in Baltimore City Prevalence and Treatment Rates
(The Hilltop Institute, 2016-02-09)This report provides what are believed to be the most detailed estimates of opioid (including heroin) abuse, dependence, and treatment in Baltimore City from July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2014. Hilltop wrote this report with ... -
Part D Utilization Management Barriers for Persons with Serious Mental Illness
(2015-06-15)Hilltop staff made several presentations at the 2015 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) held June 13 through June 15 in Minneapolis. Senior Research Analyst Michael T. Abrams, MPH, presented this poster at an ARM ... -
Matching with Medicaid Data to Increase Benefits and Access and Improve Health Outcomes
(The Hilltop Institute, 2014-06-08)Hilltop staff made several presentations at the 2014 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) held June 8 through June 10 in San Diego. Hilltop Deputy Director Michael A. Nolin, MA, presented this poster at the State ... -
Estimating Causal Effects in Observational Studies Using Electronic Health Data: Challenges and (some) Solutions
(Ubiquity Press, 2013-12-01)Electronic health data sets, including electronic health records (EHR) and other administrative databases, are rich data sources that have the potential to help answer important questions about the effects of clinical ... -
Hospital Community Benefits after the ACA: Building on State Experience
(The Hilltop Institute, 2011-04)This is the second issue brief in a series released by Hilltoprquote s Hospital Community Benefit Program. It takes a closer look at three aspects of community benefits affected by ‘a79007 of the Affordable Care Act, ... -
The SFS Summer Research Study at UMBC: Project-Based Learning Inspires Cybersecurity Students
(2018-11-12)May 30-June 2, 2017, Scholarship for Service (SFS) scholars at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) analyzed the security of a targeted aspect of the UMBC computer systems. During this hands-on study, with ... -
Emerging Infectious Diseases Videos for Prehospital Providers
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-05-06)Introduction: The prehospital disaster and emergency medical services community stands on the front-line in the response to events such as novel influenza, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, and other high consequence ... -
Silicon Forest and Server Farms: The (Urban) Nature of Digital Capitalism in the Pacific Northwest
(2019-06)Access to inexpensive hydro-resources, such as hydro-electricity and water for cooling, cheap land, and proximity to undersea networks have created a spatial sweet spot for big tech companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook, ... -
The Good Parent: Southern Italian Mothers’ Conceptualization of Good Parenting and Parent–Child Relationships
(SAGE Journals, 2019-04-17)Thirty mothers, ranging in age between 30 and 46 years, participated in seven focus groups aimed at analyzing perceptions and ideas of the characteristics of a good parent and parent–child relationship in southern Italy ... -
The Elementary Education Act of 1870: Landmark or Transition
(Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2019-04-11)The Education Act of 1870 was only one of several factors contributing to the onset of universal schooling and literacy in England. Much of the growth of state involvement in the provision of elementary schooling occurred ... -
Effect of Birth Preparedness on Institutional Delivery in Semiurban Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study
(Ubiquity Press, 2019-03-21)Background: Ethiopia has one of the lowest rates of facility delivery and is promoting birth preparedness among pregnant women through its community health services to increase the rate of institutional delivery and reduce ... -
Who Was Beatrix Potter? by Ellen Handler Spitz
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Mitzi Is Back : Tell Me a Lore
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Gleaning Wisdom from 11 Sources
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A New Consideration of Elena Ferrante’s The Beach at Night
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Intercultural Interventions: Politics, Community and Environment in the Otavalo Valley
(Cambria Press, 2019-03)Ecuadorian and other Latin American activists and academics involved in decolonial political projects. Emanating from social sectors marginalized by the processes of modernity, interculturality provides a grounded critique ... -
Distinguishing local and global correlates of population change in migratory species
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019-01-24)Aim Understanding the processes driving population declines in migratory species can be challenging. Not only are monitoring data spatially and temporally sparse, but conditions in one location can carry over to indirectly ... -
The large-scale drivers of population declines in a long-distance migratory shorebird
(Wiley Periodicals, 2017-09-02)Migratory species can travel tens of thousands of kilometers each year, spending different parts of their annual cycle in geographically distinct locations. Understanding the drivers of population change is vital for ...
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