Published in Am J Public Health on May 30, 2006
A framework for public health action: the health impact pyramid. Am J Public Health (2010) 9.45
US norms for six generic health-related quality-of-life indexes from the National Health Measurement study. Med Care (2007) 3.56
Racial disparities in HIV virologic failure: do missed visits matter? J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2009) 2.58
Frequency, cost, and risk factors of readmissions among severe sepsis survivors. Crit Care Med (2015) 2.50
The ethical imperative of addressing oral health disparities: a unifying framework. J Dent Res (2013) 2.31
A spatial analysis of variations in health access: linking geography, socio-economic status and access perceptions. Int J Health Geogr (2011) 1.87
Initial integration of chiropractic services into a provincially funded inner city community health centre: a program description. J Can Chiropr Assoc (2015) 1.39
Preferred roles in treatment decision making among patients with cancer: a pooled analysis of studies using the Control Preferences Scale. Am J Manag Care (2010) 1.32
Medications prescribed in emergency departments for nontraumatic dental condition visits in the United States. Med Care (2012) 1.23
Income-related health inequalities in Canada and the United States: a decomposition analysis. Am J Public Health (2009) 1.22
Childhood immunization: Availability of primary care providers in Ontario. Can Fam Physician (2009) 1.18
Divergence in age patterns of mortality change drives international divergence in lifespan inequality. Demography (2014) 1.05
Disparities in Healthcare Access and Use: Yackety-yack, Yackety-yack. Healthc Policy (2007) 1.04
Physicians' social competence in the provision of care to persons living in poverty: research protocol. BMC Health Serv Res (2010) 1.03
Health care access and utilization among US-born and foreign-born Asian Americans. J Immigr Minor Health (2012) 1.02
Cancer survival in Ontario, 1986-2003: evidence of equitable advances across most diverse urban and rural places. Can J Public Health (2008) 1.02
Chinese and white Canadian satisfaction and compliance with physicians. BMC Fam Pract (2007) 1.00
Reducing health disparities: strategy planning and implementation in Israel's largest health care organization. Health Serv Res (2011) 0.99
Optimizing the two-step floating catchment area method for measuring spatial accessibility to medical clinics in Montreal. BMC Health Serv Res (2011) 0.98
Health need and the use of alternative medicine among adults who do not use conventional medicine. BMC Health Serv Res (2010) 0.98
Neighborhood greenspace and health in a large urban center. Sci Rep (2015) 0.96
Validation of the modified Vesikari score in children with gastroenteritis in 5 US emergency departments. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr (2013) 0.96
Emerging organisational models of primary healthcare and unmet needs for care: insights from a population-based survey in Quebec province. BMC Fam Pract (2012) 0.96
Impact of medical and behavioural factors on influenza-like illness, healthcare-seeking, and antiviral treatment during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic: USA, 2009-2010. Epidemiol Infect (2013) 0.95
Awareness of Evidence-Based Practices by Organizations in a Publicly Funded Smoking Cessation Network. J Public Adm Res Theory (2013) 0.94
Trends in social class inequalities in the use of health care services within the Spanish National Health System, 1993-2006. Eur J Health Econ (2011) 0.94
Access to primary and preventive care among foreign-born adults in Canada and the United States. Health Serv Res (2010) 0.93
Differences in income-related inequality and horizontal inequity in ambulatory care use between rural and non-rural areas: using the 1998-2001 U.S. National Health Interview Survey data. Int J Equity Health (2010) 0.92
Access to health-care in Canadian immigrants: a longitudinal study of the National Population Health Survey. Health Soc Care Community (2010) 0.91
Immigration disparities in cardiovascular disease risk factor awareness. J Immigr Minor Health (2012) 0.90
Comparing the health of low income and less well educated groups in the United States and Canada. Popul Health Metr (2007) 0.89
The impact of school-based health centers on the health outcomes of middle school and high school students. Am J Public Health (2010) 0.88
The case of Iranian immigrants in the greater Toronto area: a qualitative study. Int J Equity Health (2012) 0.88
Assessing spatial accessibility to maternity units in Shenzhen, China. PLoS One (2013) 0.86
Racial and ethnic differences among amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cases in the United States. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener (2014) 0.86
National dissemination of multiple evidence-based disease prevention programs: reach to vulnerable older adults. Front Public Health (2015) 0.86
Perceived barriers to healthcare for persons living in poverty in Quebec, Canada: the EQUIhealThY project. Int J Equity Health (2015) 0.86
Mapping the concept of vulnerability related to health care disparities: a scoping review. BMC Health Serv Res (2013) 0.85
Substance use and access to health care and addiction treatment among homeless and vulnerably housed persons in three Canadian cities. PLoS One (2013) 0.85
Implementation and Operational Research: Engagement in HIV Care Among Persons Enrolled in a Clinical HIV Cohort in Ontario, Canada, 2001-2011. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2015) 0.84
Perceptions of unmet healthcare needs: what do Punjabi and Chinese-speaking immigrants think? A qualitative study. BMC Health Serv Res (2010) 0.84
Mental health and migration: depression, alcohol abuse, and access to health care among migrants in Central Asia. J Immigr Minor Health (2014) 0.83
Examining lifetime episodes of sadness, help seeking, and perceived treatment helpfulness among US Latino/as. Community Ment Health J (2011) 0.83
Access disparity and health inequality of the elderly: unmet needs and delayed healthcare. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2015) 0.83
Small-Area Estimation of Spatial Access to Care and Its Implications for Policy. J Urban Health (2015) 0.82
Developing population interventions with migrant women for maternal-child health: a focused ethnography. BMC Public Health (2013) 0.82
Comparison of health care utilization: United States versus Canada. Health Serv Res (2012) 0.81
Medical education for equity in health: a participatory action research involving persons living in poverty and healthcare professionals. BMC Med Educ (2016) 0.81
The SEEDs of two gastrointestinal diseases: socioeconomic, environmental, and demographic factors related to cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis in Massachusetts. Environ Res (2008) 0.81
Lower extremity vascular injuries: increased mortality for minorities and the uninsured? Surgery (2011) 0.81
Substance Use to Cope with Stigma in Healthcare Among U.S. Female-to-Male Trans Masculine Adults. LGBT Health (2015) 0.81
Immigrant children's reliance on public health insurance in the wake of immigration reform. Am J Public Health (2008) 0.80
Self-Care Disparities Among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes in the USA. Curr Diab Rep (2016) 0.80
Asian American and Pacific Islander military veterans in the United States: health service use and perceived barriers to mental health services. Am J Public Health (2014) 0.79
Air pollution and general practitioner access and utilization: a population based study in Sarnia, 'Chemical Valley,' Ontario. Environ Health (2011) 0.79
Comparing population health in the United States and Canada. Popul Health Metr (2010) 0.79
Physical therapists' treatment choices for non-specific low back pain in Florida: an electronic survey. J Man Manip Ther (2015) 0.79
Using business intelligence to analyze and share health system infrastructure data in a rural health authority. JMIR Med Inform (2014) 0.79
Racial and ethnic disparities in human papillomavirus-associated cancer burden with first-generation and second-generation human papillomavirus vaccines. Cancer (2016) 0.78
Climate change, human health, and epidemiological transition. Prev Med (2014) 0.78
Variation in worldwide incidence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a meta-analysis. Int J Epidemiol (2016) 0.78
Communicating with pictures: perceptions of cardiovascular health among Asian immigrants. Am J Public Health (2009) 0.78
Not Near Enough: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Nearby Behavioral Health Care and Primary Care. J Health Care Poor Underserved (2015) 0.78
Transforming primary healthcare by including the stakeholders involved in delivering care to people living in poverty: EQUIhealThY study protocol. BMC Health Serv Res (2013) 0.77
Socio-Economic Determinants of the Need for Dental Care in Adults. PLoS One (2016) 0.77
Patterns of social inequalities across pregnancy and birth outcomes: a comparison of individual and neighborhood socioeconomic measures. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2015) 0.77
Societal context and the production of immigrant status-based health inequalities: a comparative study of the United States and Canada. J Public Health Policy (2013) 0.77
Identifying Sources of Health Care Underutilization Among California's Immigrants. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities (2014) 0.77
The role of a student-run clinic in providing primary care for Calgary's homeless populations: a qualitative study. BMC Health Serv Res (2013) 0.77
Clinician-identified problems and solutions for delayed diagnosis in primary care: a PRIORITIZE study. BMC Fam Pract (2016) 0.77
The impact of financial barriers on access to care, quality of care and vascular morbidity among patients with diabetes and coronary heart disease. J Gen Intern Med (2014) 0.76
Age Patterns in Mental Representations of Time: Underlying Constructs and Relevant Covariates. Exp Aging Res (2016) 0.76
Evaluating area-level spatial clustering of Salmonella Enteritidis infections and their socioeconomic determinants in the greater Toronto area, Ontario, Canada (2007 - 2009): a retrospective population-based ecological study. BMC Public Health (2013) 0.76
Access to treatment for HBV infection and its consistency with 2008 European guidelines in a multicentre cross-sectional study of HIV/HBV co-infected patients in Italy. BMC Res Notes (2013) 0.75
Cross-national comparison of socioeconomic inequalities in obesity in the United States and Canada. Int J Equity Health (2015) 0.75
Public preferences for government spending in Canada. Int J Equity Health (2012) 0.75
Health reform redux: learning from experience and politics. Am J Public Health (2009) 0.75
Affordable care act: comparison of healthcare indicators among different insurance beneficiaries with new coverage eligibility. BMC Health Serv Res (2016) 0.75
Medical residents reflect on their prejudices toward poverty: a photovoice training project. BMC Med Educ (2014) 0.75
Breast Cancer Care in California and Ontario. J Prim Care Community Health (2017) 0.75
Predictors of trajectories of epilepsy-specific quality of life among children newly diagnosed with epilepsy. Epilepsy Behav (2016) 0.75
Barriers to health care for chinese in the Netherlands. Int J Family Med (2011) 0.75
Residential Stability Reduces Unmet Health Care Needs and Emergency Department Utilization among a Cohort of Homeless and Vulnerably Housed Persons in Canada. J Urban Health (2016) 0.75
Access and utilization of healthcare services in Massachusetts, United States: a qualitative study of the perspectives and experiences of Brazilian-born immigrant women. BMC Health Serv Res (2016) 0.75
Socioeconomic, Geospatial, and Geopolitical Disparities in Access to Health Care in the US 2011-2015. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2017) 0.75
Health care: a brave new world. Health Care Anal (2015) 0.75
The direct healthcare costs associated with psychological distress and major depression: A population-based cohort study in Ontario, Canada. PLoS One (2017) 0.75
Mortality among men using homeless shelters in Toronto, Ontario. JAMA (2000) 4.73
Socioeconomic disparities in preventive care persist despite universal coverage. Breast and cervical cancer screening in Ontario and the United States. JAMA (1994) 4.39
Access to care is the centerpiece in the elimination of socioeconomic disparities in health. Ann Intern Med (1998) 3.90
Satisfaction with health systems in ten nations. Health Aff (Millwood) (1990) 3.81
Class - the ignored determinant of the nation's health. N Engl J Med (2004) 3.62
Inequities in health care: a five-country survey. Health Aff (Millwood) (2002) 3.52
Social conditions and self-management are more powerful determinants of health than access to care. Ann Intern Med (1998) 2.93
How does the quality of care compare in five countries? Health Aff (Millwood) (2004) 2.87
An international comparison of cancer survival: Toronto, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, metropolitan areas. Am J Public Health (1997) 2.60
Innovative strategies using SUDAAN for analysis of health surveys with complex samples. Stat Methods Med Res (1996) 2.43
The cost of health system change: public discontent in five nations. Health Aff (Millwood) (1999) 1.98
Medication management of depression in the United States and Ontario. J Gen Intern Med (1998) 1.78
Socioeconomic status, service patterns, and perceptions of care among survivors of acute myocardial infarction in Canada. JAMA (2004) 1.61
The health of Canada's immigrants in 1994-95. Health Rep (1996) 1.60
Unmet needs for health care. Health Rep (2002) 1.60
Physician use in Ontario and the United States: The impact of socioeconomic status and health status. Am J Public Health (1996) 1.34
Health expectancy by immigrant status, 1986 and 1991. Health Rep (1996) 1.15
The Health Utility Index: measuring health differences in Ontario by socioeconomic status. Health Rep (1995) 1.07
Disability among Canada's aboriginal peoples in 1991. Health Rep (1996) 0.92
Timing of new black box warnings and withdrawals for prescription medications. JAMA (2002) 9.65
Costs of health care administration in the United States and Canada. N Engl J Med (2003) 7.55
Illness and injury as contributors to bankruptcy. Health Aff (Millwood) (2006) 6.23
Proposal of the Physicians' Working Group for Single-Payer National Health Insurance. JAMA (2003) 6.10
Medical bankruptcy in the United States, 2007: results of a national study. Am J Med (2009) 5.61
Relationship between low quality-of-care scores and HMOs' subsequent public disclosure of quality-of-care scores. JAMA (2002) 5.55
The health and health care of US prisoners: results of a nationwide survey. Am J Public Health (2009) 4.73
Giving office-based physicians electronic access to patients' prior imaging and lab results did not deter ordering of tests. Health Aff (Millwood) (2012) 4.71
Paying for national health insurance--and not getting it. Health Aff (Millwood) (2002) 4.08
Hospital computing and the costs and quality of care: a national study. Am J Med (2009) 3.98
Health insurance and mortality in US adults. Am J Public Health (2009) 3.72
Single-payer national health insurance. Physicians' views. Arch Intern Med (2004) 2.86
The new Massachusetts health reform: half a step forward and three steps back. Hastings Cent Rep (2006) 2.67
A national study of chronic disease prevalence and access to care in uninsured U.S. adults. Ann Intern Med (2008) 2.67
A systematic review of studies comparing health outcomes in Canada and the United States. Open Med (2007) 2.26
Our health care system at the crossroads: single payer or market reform? Ann Thorac Surg (2007) 2.01
Collateral Damage: Pay-for-Performance Initiatives and Safety-Net Hospitals. Ann Intern Med (2015) 2.01
Treating opioid addiction with buprenorphine-naloxone in community-based primary care settings. Ann Fam Med (2007) 1.89
Why pay for performance may be incompatible with quality improvement. BMJ (2012) 1.81
Increasing length of stay among adult visits to U.S. Emergency departments, 2001-2005. Acad Emerg Med (2009) 1.75
Administrative waste in the U.S. health care system in 2003: the cost to the nation, the states, and the District of Columbia, with state-specific estimates of potential savings. Int J Health Serv (2004) 1.72
Characteristics of recipients of free prescription drug samples: a nationally representative analysis. Am J Public Health (2008) 1.68
Infective endocarditis in the U.S., 1998-2009: a nationwide study. PLoS One (2013) 1.68
Competition in a publicly funded healthcare system. BMJ (2007) 1.68
Waits to see an emergency department physician: U.S. trends and predictors, 1997-2004. Health Aff (Millwood) (2008) 1.63
Health care expenditures of immigrants in the United States: a nationally representative analysis. Am J Public Health (2005) 1.53
Cost control in a parallel universe: Medicare spending in the United States and Canada. Arch Intern Med (2012) 1.42
National health insurance: liberal benefits, conservative spending. Arch Intern Med (2002) 1.39
Medical bankruptcy in Massachusetts: has health reform made a difference? Am J Med (2011) 1.36
Hypertension, diabetes, and elevated cholesterol among insured and uninsured U.S. adults. Health Aff (Millwood) (2009) 1.26
Diabetes and cardiovascular disease among Asian Indians in the United States. J Gen Intern Med (2005) 1.24
America's neglected veterans: 1.7 million who served have no health coverage. Int J Health Serv (2005) 1.20
U.S. physicians' views on financing options to expand health insurance coverage: a national survey. J Gen Intern Med (2009) 1.20
Consumer directed healthcare: except for the healthy and wealthy it's unwise. J Gen Intern Med (2007) 1.18
Sources of U.S. physician income: the contribution of government payments to the specialist-generalist income gap. J Gen Intern Med (2008) 1.18
Hope and hype: predicting the impact of electronic medical records. Health Aff (Millwood) (2005) 1.17
Savings from the Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration. JAMA (2013) 1.16
Do minorities in the United States receive fewer mental health services than whites? Int J Health Serv (2002) 1.14
Free drug samples in the United States: characteristics of pediatric recipients and safety concerns. Pediatrics (2008) 1.13
State health reform flatlines. Int J Health Serv (2008) 1.09
Brief report: Influenza vaccination and health care workers in the United States. J Gen Intern Med (2006) 1.07
Getting more for their dollar: Kaiser v the NHS. Price adjustments falsify comparison. BMJ (2002) 1.04
Insurance status of U.S. organ donors and transplant recipients: the uninsured give, but rarely receive. Int J Health Serv (2008) 1.03
Immigrants contributed an estimated $115.2 billion more to the Medicare Trust Fund than they took out in 2002-09. Health Aff (Millwood) (2013) 1.02
Access to care after Massachusetts' health care reform: a safety net hospital patient survey. J Gen Intern Med (2012) 1.02
Lack of health coverage among US veterans from 1987 to 2004. Am J Public Health (2007) 0.97
The high costs of for-profit care. CMAJ (2004) 0.96
Does investor-ownership of nursing homes compromise the quality of care? Int J Health Serv (2002) 0.95
Reasons why patients remain uninsured after Massachusetts' health care reform: a survey of patients at a safety-net hospital. J Gen Intern Med (2011) 0.90
Gonadal steroids and body composition, strength, and sexual function in men. N Engl J Med (2013) 0.90
Obama's reform: no cure for what ails us. BMJ (2010) 0.87
Undiagnosed and uncontrolled hypertension and hyperlipidemia among immigrants in the US. J Immigr Minor Health (2013) 0.86
The crisis in mental health care: a preliminary study of access to psychiatric care in Boston. Ann Emerg Med (2011) 0.84
Discounting the debtors will not make medical bankruptcy disappear. Health Aff (Millwood) (2006) 0.84
Insurance-industry investments in tobacco. N Engl J Med (2009) 0.84
Impact of insurance status on migraine care in the United States: a population-based study. Neurology (2010) 0.84
Global amnesia: embracing fee-for-non-service--again. J Gen Intern Med (2014) 0.83
Pay-for-performance: toxic to quality? Insights from behavioral economics. Int J Health Serv (2014) 0.83
Privatization in a publicly funded health care system: the U.S. experience. Int J Health Serv (2008) 0.83
Double catastrophe: injury-related bankruptcies. Med Care (2007) 0.81
Health care administration in the United States and Canada: micromanagement, macro costs. Int J Health Serv (2004) 0.80
Medicare overpayments to private plans, 1985-2012: shifting seniors to private plans has already cost Medicare US$282.6 billion. Int J Health Serv (2013) 0.80
No care for the caregivers: declining health insurance coverage for health care personnel and their children, 1988-1998. Am J Public Health (2002) 0.79
Taking care of business: HMOs that spend more on administration deliver lower-quality care. Int J Health Serv (2002) 0.78
Administrative work consumes one-sixth of U.S. physicians' working hours and lowers their career satisfaction. Int J Health Serv (2014) 0.77
Life or debt: underinsurance in America. J Gen Intern Med (2013) 0.77
Massachusetts' approach to universal coverage: high hopes and faulty economic logic. Int J Health Serv (2007) 0.77
National health insurance. Health Aff (Millwood) (2002) 0.75
National health insurance: falling expectations and the safety net. Med Care (2004) 0.75