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Joan R. Bloom
Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Publications - 111
Citations - 7520
Joan R. Bloom is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Breast cancer & Capitation. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 110 publications receiving 7235 citations. Previous affiliations of Joan R. Bloom include Cancer Prevention Institute of California & University of California.
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Improving hypertension control through tailoring: A pilot study using selective assignment of patients to treatment approaches
TL;DR: Improvement in blood pressure control in a low income, minority community was attempted by adding a counseling approach to physician care; the tailored intervention was most effective for the traditionally hard-to-reach: men, the poor, and the unmarried.
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Capitation and racial and ethnic differences in use and cost of public mental health services.
TL;DR: As service use and costs declined under capitation, Latino, and white levels of use and cost tended to converge, and African American utilization patterns in the capitated areas tended to parallel their white counterparts.
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Collective bargaining in hospitals: an organizational and environmental analysis.
TL;DR: As predicted, organizational complexity was significantly related to the adoption of collective bargaining agreements and the effects of environmental resource change on collective bargaining differed for human and material resources.
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The effect of system-level access factors on receipt of reconstruction among Latina and white women with DCIS
Celia P. Kaplan,Leah S. Karliner,E. Shelley Hwang,Joan R. Bloom,Susan L. Stewart,Dana Nickleach,Jessica Quinn,Angela Thrasher,Anna María Nápoles +8 more
TL;DR: Multivariable analysis showed that women who were aged 65 and older, unemployed, and had a lower ratio of plastic surgeons in their county were less likely to have reconstructive surgery after mastectomy and the most frequent reasons mentioned not to receive reconstruction.
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Psychosocial Assessment Of The Recovery From Mastectomy: A Comparison Of Static And Dynamic Modeling
TL;DR: The results suggest that psychological intervention may continue to be important as time post-surgery increases when the immediate trauma has lessened as well as soon after surgery.