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Health Services Research Projects
Investigators• James R. Campbell, M.D., M.P.H. (* Denotes faculty who are accepting students in the SCRC Summer Program.) |
Access to Health Care
- Health insurance impact on children’s quality of care and outcomes
- The burden of foster care and strategies to improve care
- Access to preventive care for vulnerable children
Immunization
- Improving immunization status of children and adolescents
- New vaccines, adolescent vaccines, burden of preventable disease
Asthma
- Community- and school approaches to treat childhood asthma
- The health burden of children with asthma
Mental Health
- Detection and management of mental health problems in primary care
- The psychosocial consequences of childhood chronic illness
- Primary care assessments of mental status in foster care children
Nutrition and Obesity
- Primary care monitoring and management of child obesity risk
- Effective methods to increase breastfeeding rates
Adolescent risk behavior and prevention
- Studies of sexually transmitted diseases and substance abuse counseling and care for high risk adolescent youth
- Studies of prevention in adolescence
Tobacco use and reduction
- The effects of children’s passive exposure to cigarette smoke
- New roles for pediatricians in tobacco prevention/smoking cessation
Disparities
- Impact of public insurance in reducing racial/ethnic disparities
- Eliminating immunization disparities by region and race/ethnicity
