Michele Thornton

ORCID: 0000-0002-9021-084X
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Research Areas
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism
  • Travel-related health issues
  • Disaster Response and Management
  • Conferences and Exhibitions Management
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
  • Diverse Scientific Research in Ukraine
  • Cruise Tourism Development and Management
  • Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Urbanization and City Planning
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Public Health Policies and Education
  • Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
  • Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
  • Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
  • Global Health Workforce Issues
  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Nursing Roles and Practices
  • Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership

State University of New York at Oswego
2019-2024

Starship Children's Health
2024

University of Illinois Chicago
2017

Royal London Hospital
1987

Like COVID-19, new infectious disease outbreaks emerge almost annually, and studies predict that this trend will continue due to a variety of factors, including an aging population, ease travel, globalization the economy. In response episodic public health crises, governments organizations develop, implement, enforce policies, procedures, protocols, programs. The epidemiological triad is both model causation fundamentally used design deploy such control measures. Here we adapt workplace...

10.1017/beq.2021.32 article EN Business Ethics Quarterly 2021-10-11

Objectives. A community-based training with core competencies in health insurance, care resources, and outreach for over 1,700 Affordable Care Act navigators Illinois from 2013 to 2014 was designed, delivered, evaluated by an academic–community partnership expertise care, social services, policy, community outreach. Methods. Pre- posttraining scores on a knowledge-based certification exam were linked navigators’ baseline sociodemographic characteristic. Additionally, self-reported evaluation...

10.1177/2373379919866216 article EN Pedagogy in Health Promotion 2019-08-20

Purpose Medical tourism, characterized by patients leaving their home community to seek health-care services elsewhere, is on the rise globally. In New York state, approximately 5% of 35,661,559 hospital visits in 2018 were non-residents. Although some are visiting for other reasons, and unintentionally wind up hospitalized – a percentage this population come intentionally care. Understanding make-up, needs patterns allows hospitals tailor investments marketing, technological resources...

10.1108/ijphm-02-2021-0017 article EN International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing 2022-08-10

Purpose: Small employers, while motivated to implement wellness programs, often lack knowledge and resources do so. As a result, these firms rely on external decision-making support from insurance brokers. The objective of this study was analyze brokers’ familiarity with programs characterize their role interactions small employers. Design: Using newly developed common interview guide (20 questions), protocol analysis plan, 20 interviews were conducted health brokers in Illinois, Minnesota,...

10.1177/0890117120957159 article EN American Journal of Health Promotion 2020-09-11

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandated that creation of online health insurance websites to ease the complex process shopping for and enrolling into coverage. Ensuring these sites are not only available but also meet digital accessibility standards is important so individuals with disabilities able access healthcare services efficiently obtain coverage.We evaluated each marketplace in 2020 assess whether they digitally accessible. We employed a custom audit tool based on subset Web Content...

10.1080/17538068.2022.2046899 article EN Journal of Communications In Healthcare 2022-03-09

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has made several refinements to their model calculating hospital quality star ratings (Hospital Compare) amidst criticism evidence of bias against some institutions. We argue that the CMS does align with important internal metrics encourage a measured approach redesign, potentially using categorizations or tiers, rather than complete abandonment system. find institutional characteristics (available resources, average severity illness,...

10.1097/jhq.0000000000000347 article EN Journal for Healthcare Quality 2022-06-24
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