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From the Editor

Disparities In Health: Expanding The Focus James C. Robinson [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Social Determinants

PROLOGUE: The Social Determinants Of Health [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Toward A Policy-Relevant Analysis Of Geographic And Racial/Ethnic Disparities In Child Health Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Theresa L. Osypuk, Nancy McArdle, and David R. Williams [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Targeting Health Disparities: A Model Linking Upstream Determinants To Downstream Interventions Sarah Gehlert, Dana Sohmer, Tina Sacks, Charles Mininger, Martha McClintock, and Olufunmilayo Olopade [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Gap Gets Bigger: Changes In Mortality And Life Expectancy, By Education, 1981–2000 Ellen R. Meara, Seth Richards, and David M. Cutler [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Race, Ethnicity, And The Education Gradient In Health Rachel Tolbert Kimbro, Sharon Bzostek, Noreen Goldman, and Germán Rodríguez [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective

PERSPECTIVE: Challenges To Using A Business Case For Addressing Health Disparities Nicole Lurie, Stephen A. Somers, Allen Fremont, January Angeles, Erin K. Murphy, and Allison Hamblin [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Definitions & Data

PROLOGUE: Health Disparities: Definitions And Data [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

When Does A Difference Become A Disparity? Conceptualizing Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Health Paul L. Hebert, Jane E. Sisk, and Elizabeth A. Howell [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Collecting Adequate Data On Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Health: The Challenges Continue Linda T. Bilheimer and Jane E. Sisk [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Specific Disparities

PROLOGUE: Addressing Specific Disparities [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

New Evidence Regarding Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Mental Health: Policy Implications Thomas G. McGuire and Jeanne Miranda [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Giving Policy Some Teeth: Routes To Reducing Disparities In Oral Health Susan A. Fisher-Owens, Judith C. Barker, Sally Adams, Lisa H. Chung, Stuart A. Gansky, Susan Hyde, and Jane A. Weintraub [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Disparities In Human Resources: Addressing The Lack Of Diversity In The Health Professions Kevin Grumbach and Rosalia Mendoza [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

States' Role

PROLOGUE: States’ Role In Addressing Disparities [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Medical Tongue: U.S. Laws And Policies On Language Access Mara K. Youdelman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Role Of States

State Variation In Health Insurance Coverage For U.S. Citizen Children Of Immigrants Dolores Acevedo-Garcia and Lisa Cacari Stone [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Moving Beyond Access: Achieving Equity In State Health Care Reform Brian D. Smedley [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Commentary

Reducing Racial And Social-Class Inequalities In Health: The Need For A New Approach S. Leonard Syme [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

MARKETWATCH: The Chinese Health System At A Crossroads Winnie Yip and William C. Hsiao [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Medigap Coverage And Medicare Spending: A Second Look Jeff Lemieux, Teresa Chovan, and Karen Heath [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Health Insurance Coverage In Central And Eastern Europe: Trends And Challenges Hugh R. Waters, Jessica Hobart, Christopher B. Forrest, Karen Kinder Siemens, Patricia M. Pittman, Ananthram Murthy, Glenn Bruce Vanderver, Gerard F. Anderson, and Laura L. Morlock [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Immunization And The Millennium Development Goals: Progress And Challenges In Latin America And The Caribbean Jon Kim Andrus, Alan Arthur Crouch, John Fitzsimmons, Andrea Vicari, and Gina Tambini [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Duality Julie R. Rosenbaum [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Crossing The Atlantic Anjali Jain [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Disparities In Physician Care: Experiences And Perceptions Of A Multi-Ethnic America Robert J. Blendon, Tami Buhr, Elaine F. Cassidy, Debra J. Pérez, Tara Sussman, John M. Benson, and Melissa J. Herrmann [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Do Hospitals Provide Lower-Quality Care To Minorities Than To Whites? Darrell J. Gaskin, Christine S. Spencer, Patrick Richard, Gerard F. Anderson, Neil R. Powe, and Thomas A. LaVeist [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Characteristics And Performance Of Hospitals That Care For Elderly Hispanic Americans Ashish K. Jha, E. John Orav, Jie Zheng, and Arnold M. Epstein [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Community Variation: Disparities In Health Care Quality Between Asian And White Medicare Beneficiaries Ernest Moy, Linda G. Greenberg, and Amanda E. Borsky [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Online Exhibit] [Reprints & Permissions]

Improving Coverage And Access For Immigrant Latino Children: The Los Angeles Healthy Kids Program Ian Hill, Lisa Dubay, Genevieve M. Kenney, Embry M. Howell, Brigette Courtot, and Louise Palmer [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Rejections Of Drug Claims For Nursing Home Residents Under Medicare Part D Haiden A. Huskamp, David G. Stevenson, Nancy L. Keating, and Joseph P. Newhouse [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

GRANTWATCH REPORT: Evaluating Interventions To Reduce Health Care Disparities: An RWJF Program Amy E. Schlotthauer, Amy Badler, Scott C. Cook, Debra J. Pérez, and Marshall H. Chin [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch: Outcomes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [GrantWatch Online 1 April][GrantWatch Online 16 April][GrantWatch Online 30 April] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

BOOK REVIEWS: Get Well—Then (Maybe) Get Rich Philip Musgrove [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Are Health Economists Fools—Or Worse? Stuart M. Butler [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Fair Testing: The Science And Politics Of Effective Health Care Daniel M. Fox [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Still Marching In A White Coat Galit M. Sacajiu and Aaron Fox [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Reform, Then Better Financing Joanne Disch [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Looking Back At Health Surveys Ronald Andersen [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Looking Back: The Authors Respond Marc L. Berk, Claudia L. Schur, and Jacob Feldman [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

AHRQ And Data Collection Steven B. Cohen and Carolyn M. Clancy [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

AHRQ And Data Collection: The Authors Respond Marc L. Berk, Claudia L. Schur, and Jacob Feldman [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Uninsured And Affordability Joseph R. Antos [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Uninsured: An Author Responds Sherry Glied [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Protecting The Veracity Of Practice Guidelines Jerome P. Kassirer [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Practice Guidelines: The Authors Respond M. Brooke Herndon, Lisa M. Schwartz, Steven Woloshin, and H. Gilbert Welch [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Caring About Geriatric Care Christine K. Cassel [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Caring About Geriatric Care: The Author Responds Jerald Winakur [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Piping A Different Tune Sally C. Pipes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Piping: The Author Responds Alan Maynard [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Self-Sufficiency In A Complex Society Roger K. Howe [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Integrated Practice Units Are Bridges, Not ‘Archipelagoes’ Richard M. Bergenstal [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Integrated Practice Units: An Author Responds Alain Enthoven [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Poland’s Nursing Brain Drain To The West Joanna Lesniowska [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Errata

Errata [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Web Exclusives

TRENDS: Waits To See An Emergency Department Physician: U.S. Trends And Predictors, 1997–2004 Andrew P. Wilper, Steffie Woolhandler, Karen E. Lasser, Danny McCormick, Sarah L. Cutrona, David H. Bor, and David U. Himmelstein (published online 15 January 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Appendix Table] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Benefits And Costs Of Immunizing Children Against Influenza At School: An Economic Analysis Based On A Large-Cluster Controlled Clinical Trial Jordana Schmier, Su Li, James C. King, Jr., Kristin Nichol, and Parthiv J. Mahadevia (published online 23 January 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

A Progress Report On State Health Access Reform John E. McDonough, Michael Miller, and Christine Barber (published online 29 January 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Hospital Pricing And The Uninsured: Do The Uninsured Pay Higher Prices? Glenn A. Melnick and Katya Fonkych (published online 5 February 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Appendix Exhibit 1] [Reprints & Permissions]

Variations In Hospital Resource Use For Medicare And Privately Insured Populations In California Laurence C. Baker, Elliott S. Fisher, and John E. Wennberg (published online 12 February 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Online Appendix Exhibits] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: The U.S. Economy And Changes In Health Insurance Coverage, 2000–2006 John Holahan and Allison Cook (published online 20 February 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Health Spending Projections Through 2017: The Baby-Boom Generation Is Coming To Medicare Sean Keehan, Andrea Sisko, Christopher Truffer, Sheila Smith, Cathy Cowan, John Poisal, M. Kent Clemens the National Health Expenditure Accounts Projections Team (published online 26 February 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

From Politics To Policy: A New Payment Approach In Medicare Advantage Robert A. Berenson (published online 4 March 2008) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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