ReviewPopulation health management2022
Mobile Medical Clinics in the United States Post-Affordable Care Act: An Integrative Review.
Review in Population health management, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Assessing the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Mobile Medical Unit Program-(IFE4Her) to Enhance PrEP Awareness and Access Among Cis-gender Women in Low-Income Southeastern Communities: A Pilot Study.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Promoting access to chronic illness management and nursing education in a rural Illinois nurse-led mobile health unit.Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners · 2026Article
- Mobile Health Unit Outreach to Socially Disadvantaged Urban Communities Detects Uncontrolled Cardiometabolic Risk Factors.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2026Article
- The Strategic Advantage of FQHCs in Implementing Mobile Health Units: Lessons Learned from a Pilot Initiative.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Observational
- Utilization and Costs of Mobile Medical Units for Veterans Experiencing Homelessness.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Development of a Composite Measure to Identify Priority Areas of Need for Cancer Screening Interventions.JCO clinical cancer informatics · 2025Article
- Development of an automated device and mobile application for digoxin detection and quantification from dried blood spots using gold-coated magnetic nanoprobes and the lateral-flow immunoassay.Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry · 2025Article
- Enhancing Competencies and Professional Upskilling of Mobile Healthcare Unit Personnel at the Hellenic National Public Health Organization.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Pharmacist-driven mobile health clinics: a qualitative analysis of logistics for program development, implementation, and operation.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Association of Hospital-Based Social Needs Interventions with Potentially Preventable Admissions.Journal of general internal medicine · 2025Article
- The Use of Mobile Medical Units for Populations Experiencing Homelessness in the United States: A Scoping Review.Journal of general internal medicine · 2024Article
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- Factors associated with mobile medical clinic use: a retrospective cohort study.International journal for equity in health · 2023Article
- Characterizing pharmacy deserts and designing a model to minimize inequities in pharmacy distribution in Virginia.Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhAArticle
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Authors and funding
6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Despite changes brought about by the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA), millions of individuals are still unable to access health care in the United States. Mobile medical clinics have been an invisible force of care delivery for vulnerable and marginalized populations for decades; however, little is known about their impact post-ACA. Guided by the Anderson Behavioral Model, the purpose of this article was to review and critique the state of the current literature about mobile medical clinics in the United States since 2010. Following Whittemore and Knafl's integrative review methodology, the search was conducted in 6 databases and delivered 1934 results; 341 articles were removed as duplicates. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) guidelines, 2 independent reviewers screened and adjudicated the remaining titles, abstracts, and full-texts, yielding 12 articles in the final review. The Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT) was used to evaluate the quality of the articles. Studies revealed variation in quality, study design, and location; and diversity of chronic diseases and populations addressed (eg, children with asthma, complementary alternative medicine use with children, adults with diabetes and hypertension, patients with chronic disease with an emphasis on the patient experience, utilization patterns in migrant farmers). Mobile medical clinics provide care for the prevention, treatment, and management of chronic illness and their wide geographic spread confirms their broad use across the United States. They provide a return on investment through emergency room avoidance, decreasing hospital length of stay, and improving chronic disease management.
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