ABSTRACTOpioid-related deaths are a national problem that have increased over the past two decade... more ABSTRACTOpioid-related deaths are a national problem that have increased over the past two decades. Multiple policy interventions have been enacted to decrease opioid misuse and expand treatment. The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) was passed in July 2016, just before declaring the opioid epidemic a National Emergency in 2017. CARA was enacted to combat the opioid epidemic by providing more funding yearly for items including but not limited to prevention, treatment, and opioid overdose reversal. To evaluate the impact of these policy changes, we carried out secondary data analysis for the period 2011-2019 using the CDC’s Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research and National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services databases.Research variables included: a comparison of the 50 states across the 2011-2019 timeframe, the number of opioid treatment centers, the percentage of government funding for facilities per state, percentage of opioid treatment facilit...
Remittance flows to Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to increase by 3.3 percent, reaching $34 billi... more Remittance flows to Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to increase by 3.3 percent, reaching $34 billion in 2017 according to the World Bank. This study examines the impact of remittances on economic gr ...
Community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) gives people a voice in identifying and sol... more Community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) gives people a voice in identifying and solving the health problems affecting their communities. Researchers from the University of Minnesota, health care professionals from West Side Community Health Services, and members of the Somali, Latino, and Hmong communities in St. Paul are using CBPAR to identify and study health-related problems in those communities and design initiatives to solve them.This article describes CBPAR and four projects that are currently underway within West Side's SoLaHmo Partnership for Health and Wellness: Caafimad- Salud - Kev Nyob Zoo.
ABSTRACTOpioid-related deaths are a national problem that have increased over the past two decade... more ABSTRACTOpioid-related deaths are a national problem that have increased over the past two decades. Multiple policy interventions have been enacted to decrease opioid misuse and expand treatment. The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) was passed in July 2016, just before declaring the opioid epidemic a National Emergency in 2017. CARA was enacted to combat the opioid epidemic by providing more funding yearly for items including but not limited to prevention, treatment, and opioid overdose reversal. To evaluate the impact of these policy changes, we carried out secondary data analysis for the period 2011-2019 using the CDC’s Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research and National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services databases.Research variables included: a comparison of the 50 states across the 2011-2019 timeframe, the number of opioid treatment centers, the percentage of government funding for facilities per state, percentage of opioid treatment facilit...
Remittance flows to Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to increase by 3.3 percent, reaching $34 billi... more Remittance flows to Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to increase by 3.3 percent, reaching $34 billion in 2017 according to the World Bank. This study examines the impact of remittances on economic gr ...
Community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) gives people a voice in identifying and sol... more Community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) gives people a voice in identifying and solving the health problems affecting their communities. Researchers from the University of Minnesota, health care professionals from West Side Community Health Services, and members of the Somali, Latino, and Hmong communities in St. Paul are using CBPAR to identify and study health-related problems in those communities and design initiatives to solve them.This article describes CBPAR and four projects that are currently underway within West Side's SoLaHmo Partnership for Health and Wellness: Caafimad- Salud - Kev Nyob Zoo.
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