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The Interdisciplinary Research Center in Behavioral Economic Epidemiology (BEE): A New Approach to Understanding and Addressing Youth Sexual Risk Behavior and Disease Prevention
Carol Medlin, PhD, MPA — Institute for Global Health; Martin Gross — BEE Center
An emerging interdisciplinary approach, called Behavioral Economic Epidemiology (BEE), focuses on strategies that integrate economic and psychosocial interventions to better enable young people to control the terms of their sexual risk-taking and protect their health. Mr. Gross and Dr. Medlin will present an overview of this new methodology and discuss challenges and opportunities in interdisciplinary global health research.
Wellpartner, 340B, and the Health Care Safety Net: An Invitation to Collaboration
Jason M. Hardaway — Director, Medicaid and 340B Programs; Wellpartner, Incorporated
The 340B program is a federally administered program that allows qualified health care safety net providers to purchase outpatient medications at or below a defined discount price. A mail-order pharmacy facility, Wellpartner's expertise in this area has both garnered national attention and expanded pharmacy access for vulnerable patient populations across the country. Mr. Hardaway will present an overview of the Wellpartner's work with the 340B Program and discuss topics for potential research collaborations.
Thoughts About a New Approach to Health Research
Len Syme, PhD — Professor, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
Much of health research is focused on specific diseases or disease risk factors (such as smoking, obesity, diet). The hope is that this research will result in better health outcomes. Unfortunately, most interventions to help people fail to achieve their intended results. Dr. Syme would suggest that a reason for this disappointing outcome is that health improvement messages rarely coincide with the realities of people's daily lives. He suggests a need to develop new ways to classify disease and new targets on which to focus our research.
Overcoming Barriers in the Adoption and Use of Telehealth Technologies
Karlene Roberts,PhD — Professor, Haas School of Business; Vinit Desai, ABD — Doctoral Candidate in Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations
This talk reviews preliminary findings of a collaborative and interdisciplinary research effort to identify and examine barriers to the adoption of potentially life-saving telehealth technologies in the health care arena. Dr. Roberts and Mr. Desai will discuss findings from open-ended field interviews, a structured survey of chief information officers, and lab experiments modeling technology adoption decisions.
Challenges and Reforms in the French Health Insurance System
Francis Megerlin, MCU — Professor, Pharmacy School, Paris-V University
Professor Megerlin offers an analysis of the current state of the French national health insurance system, which offers universal and comprehensive coverage and enjoys high patient satisfaction, but which also suffers from significant financial problems. He will place particular emphasis on initiatives in the domains of pay-for-performance and diffusion of information technology. He will also discuss the role of health insurance policy in the presidential elections, to be held in 2007.
Monitoring Member Health and Health-Related Behaviors Over Time: The Kaiser Permanente Adult Member Health Surveys Project
Nancy Gordon, ScD — Research Investigator, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Northern California
The Kaiser Permanente Adult Member Health Survey is a mailed questionnaire survey that has been conducted with independent stratified random samples of approximately 40,000 adult health plan members aged 20 and over in Kaiser Permanente's Northern California region every three years since 1993. Dr. Gordon will use data from these surveys to focus on trends in adult member demographics, overall health, selected health conditions, behavioral health risks, and use of complementary and alternative therapies at each survey year, as well as race/ethnic differences in health and health-related behaviors.
