State Insurance Mandates and Off‐label Use of Chemotherapy
CHAS Fellow and Department of Public Health Sciences faculty member, Fabrice Smieliauskas, PhD, and other scholars, identified a lack of recent studies or published research estimating yearly trends in off‐label use or evaluating the determinants of off‐label use in the context of cancer drugs. This research team's conclusion was that policymakers should consider shifting away from mandating coverage as a way to ensure access to drugs off‐label and towards incentivizing adherence to clinical practice guidelines to improve the quality and value of off‐label use.
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Positive Parenting Practices, Health Disparities, and Developmental Progress
The examination of the development of American youth, particularly children raised in homes with incomes below the federal poverty level (FPL) in the United States, is pivotal towards determining if interventions are warranted and effective, as well as improving the likelihood of academic and economic successes later in life. Medicaid Working Group member and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Sarah Sobotka, MD, MSCP, and Professor of Pediatrics, Michael Msall, MD, helped design a study to interpret survey data from parents, of children ages 4 months to 5 years in age, in order to observe the relationship of interactive parenting practices on child development in low-income families during early childhood. The study concluded that enrichment of parenting practices should reduce educational disparities among vulnerable children experiencing poverty.
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SERVICE DELIVERY INNOVATIONS
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Gender Differences in Trends for Heroin Use and Nonmedical Prescription Opioid Use
Utilizing data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), CHAS Director and SSA Professor Jeanne Marsh, PhD, MSW, and her research team of CHAS Doctoral Stipend Awardees Cliff Bersamira, PhD, Kune Park and Yu-An Lin, compared gender difference in trends in heroin and nonmedical prescription opioid use in the U.S. between 2007 and 2014. The team's findings indicate that women are increasing heroin use at a faster rate than men but decreasing nonmedical prescription opioid use at a slower rate than men.
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Seed Grant Recipients Announced
CHAS is pleased to announced the following UChicago Faculty as recipients of 2018 CHAS Seed Grants:
- Yanilda Maria Gonzalez, PhD, MA: “Right to the City: Can a Municipal Identification Card Unlock the Door to Urban Well-being and Inclusion in Chicago?”
- Boaz Keysar, PhD, MA: “Consequences of Foreign Language Use on Medical Decision Making”
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