Health Disparities Research

Research Interests

Publications

Presentations

Honors

Fellowships, Grants, and Research Contracts

Professional Service

Dr. Chung's Research Interests

• Long-term Care: Minority issue in hospice care, issues around caregiver, regulations on long-term care facilities
• Health Workforce: Supply and demand of non-physician providers, hospice and nursing home care workers
• Healthcare Informatics: The role of information technology to improve patient safety and quality of care
• Certificate of Need Program: CON laws, rules and regulations, bed need methodology, comparative assessment

Research in Progress

• Palliative Care Need Assessment for African American Elders with Advanced Dementia (funded)
• Preference Setting of Hospice Care Among Minority Elders (funded)
• State Policy on Hospice Residence (under review)
• Affecting Decisions on When to Enter Hospice: Minority Elderly Relying on Formal Caregivers (funded)
• Population Projection and Need Inventory for Need Determination in Illinois (funded)
• Increased Public Awareness of Hospice Care (funded)
• Acceptance of the Need for End-of-Life and Bereavement Services (funded)
• Source of Low Quality of Hospice Care: Ethnicity and Formal Caregiving
• Trends and risk factors of hospital patients who leave against medical advice (under revision- to be submitted to Medical Care)
• Do Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants Practicing in Private Sector Contribute to Increasing Access to Health Care in Impoverished Areas? (under revision – to be submitted to Journal of Public Health Policy, MS-18 pages)
• A Proposed Technique For The Recovery of Partitioned Distributed Databases. (under revision – to be submitted to Journal of Medical Systems, MS-9 pages)
• A Comparison of Characteristics of Medical Groups: With versus Without Non-physician   Providers in Practice: Chicago Metropolitan Case Study (under revision – to be submitted to the Illinois Issues, MS-13 pages) 
• Perceptions of Nursing Home and Hospice Administrators about Hospice (under revision – to be submitted to the Hospice Journal, MS-12 pages