Dr. Yuen is Research Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and a Research Associate in the Center for Research in Medical Education and Health Care. She received her PhD in Health Care Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, MBA in Healthcare Administration from Temple University, and BA from the University of Chicago. She is currently Principal Investigator in a project studying ethnic disparities in GERD recognition and treatment. She is also lead investigator in two other projects: costs and quality of cancer care in Italy; and hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in Pennsylvania. Previous projects have assessed the biopsychosocial factors contributing to asthma prevalence in Philadelphia school children; television programming and awareness of caregiver needs; mental health of Korean immigrant women as they care for their elderly relatives; and access to care and avoidable hospitalization for patients with asthma and diabetes in the greater Philadelphia area. Dr. Yuen often works with clinicians at Jefferson Medical College on specific health problems or disease states, analyzing health service use and costs with combined clinical and administrative data from various public and private sources.

Population Health Matters (Formerly Health Policy Newsletter)

• Daniel Z. Louis, Elaine J. Yuen, Vittorio Maio, Carol Rabinowitz, Mary Robeson, Kenneth D. Smith, and Joseph S. Gonnella (2005) A Population-based Longitudinal Healthcare Database in the Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy: A Resource for Planning and Research
• Vittorio Maio, Elaine J. Yuen, Masahito Jimbo, Carol Rabinowitz, and Daniel Z. Louis (2005) Assessing Chronic Disease Rates Through Automated Pharmacy Data
• Elaine J. Yuen, Salvatore Mangione, and Colin Cleary (2005) Asthma Prevalence in the Philadelphia Public Schools
• Elaine J. Yuen and Tae-Ock Kauh (2005) Mental Health and Acculturation in Korean American Caregivers
• Elain Yuen, Cora Christian, Tracy Sanders, and Dan Louis (2005) Case Management of Diabetes in the Virgin Islands
• Lamberto Manzoli, Daniel Z. Louis, Joseph S. Gonnella, Elaine J. Yuen, Carol Rabinowitz, Paolo Di Loreto, Americo Cicchetti, and Francesco Taroni (2005) Health Care Financing Reforms in Italy: Projects of Jefferson's Center for Research in Medical Education and Health Care
• Elaine Yuen (2005) Linkages between Primary Care Providers and Mental Health Specialists
• Daniel Z. Louis, Elaine J. Yuen, and Francesco Taroni (2005) Italian Health Care Reform: Jefferson Researchers Participate in Evaluation Efforts

Selected Works of Elaine Yuen

• Elaine Yuen (2001) Cultural and religious perspectives on caregiving and loss