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Current Grey Literature Report
Vol. 11, No. 3 - May 2009

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AARP Knowledge Management

2007 survey of AARP Florida African-American members on health care reform - 2009

2007 survey of AARP Florida Hispanic members on health care reform - 2009

2007 survey of AARP Florida members age 50-64 on health care reform - 2009

AARP Public Policy Institute

19 million working-age Americans have a disability that limits or prevents work Most are poor or low income - 2009

Beyond 5009 : chronic care : a call to action for health reform - 2009

A first look at how Medicare advantage benefits and premiums in individual enrollment plans are changing from 2008 to 2009 - 2009

An illustrative analysis of Medicare options compare : what's there and what's not? - 2009

Rx watchdog report trends in manufacturer prices of prescription drugs used by Medicare beneficiaries 2008 year-end update - 2009

Access Project

2007 Health Insurance Survey of Farm and Ranch Operators - 2009

AHIP Center for Policy and Research

Small group health insurance in 2008 : a comprehensive survey of premiums, product choices, and benefits - 2009

Alan Guttmacher Institute

The impact of laws requiring parental involvement for abortion : a literature review - 2009

Trends in the characteristics of Women obtaining abortions, 1974 to 2004 - 2008

Alzheimer's Association

2009 Alzheimer's disease facts and figures - 2009

American Benefits Council

Condition critical : ten prescriptions for reforming health care quality, cost and coverage - 2009

American Lung Association Epidemiology & Statistics Unit

Trends in COPD (chronic bronchitis and emphysema) : morbidity and mortality - 2009

Atlantic Institute for Market Studies

Use as needed : the mixed impact of reference pricing for prescription drugs - 2009

Break the Cycle

State-by-state teen dating violence report card - 2009

California Commission on Aging

Senior center literature review : reflecting & responding to community needs - 2009

California State Library ; California Research Bureau

Individual mandate : a background report - 2009

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Short changed : broken promises on tobacco control place millions of kids across New England at risk for addiction and early death - 2009

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Drug safety and health canada : going, going, gone? - 2009

Innovations in community care : from pilot project ot system change - 2009

An uncertain future for seniors : BC's restructuring of home and community health care, 2001-2008 - 2009

Understanding the link between welfare policy and the use of food banks - 2009

Carsey Institute

Paid sick time helps workers balance work and family - 2009

Center for American Progress Action Fund

Competitive health care : a public health insurance plan that delivers market discipline - 2009

Coverage when it counts : how much protection does health insurance offer and how can consumers know? - 2009

Health reform, deliverling for those who deliver health care by Robert A Berenson and Ellen-Marie Whelan - 2009

Lessons from Medicare for health care reform by Marilyn Moon - 2009

Pre-existing conditions can lead to insurance discrimination : millions of Americans with medical conditions face discrimination in the individual market in 44 states - 2009

Statement of Karen Davenport Director of Health Policy Center for American Progress Action Fund before the Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions United States House of Representatives - 2009

Center for Global Development

AIDS treatment in South Asia : equity and efficiency arguments for shouldering the fiscal burden when prevalence rates are low - 2008

Center for Health Care Strategies

Building a Medicaid rapid-learning network : a key investment for Medicaid's future - 2009

Case study : Washington state Medicaid : an evolution in care delivery - 2008

Long-term care insurance partnership : consideration for cost-effectiveness - 2009

Center for Health Workforce Studies, State University of New York at Albany

The health care workforce in New York, 2007 : trends in the supply and demand for health workers - 2009

Trends in New York registered nursing graduations, 1996 - 2009 - 2009

Center for Reproductive Rights

Brining rights to bear : female genetial mutilation and other harmful practices : government duties to protect the rights of women and girls - 2008

Brining rights to bear : preventing maternal mortality and ensuring safe pregnancy : government duties to ensure pregnant women's survival and health - 2008

Center for Retirement Research at Boston College

Long-term care costs and the national retirement risk index - 2009

Center for Strategic and International Studies

The dramatic expansion of university engagement in global health : implications for US policy : a report by the CSIS Global Health Policy Center - 2009

Health in Latin America and the Caribbean : challenges and opportunities for US engagement : a report by the CSIS Global Health Policy Center - 2009

Policies and practices to advance global health technologies : a report by the CSIS Global Health Policy Center - 2009

Public health in Africa : a report by the CSIS Global Health Policy Center - 2009

US global health and national security policy : a report by the CSIS Global Health Policy Center - 2009

US national security and global health : an analysis of global health engagement by the US Department of Defense : a report by the CSIS Global Health Policy Center - working draft - 2009

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Curbing Medicare advantage overpayments could benefit millions of low income and minority Americans - 2009

New children's health law reduces the harmful impact of documentation requirement - 2009

Centre for Health Economics, University of York

Does cost sharing affect the quality of pharmaceutical care for the elderly? - 2009

The effect of supplemental insurance on health care demand with multiple information : a latent class analysis - 2009

Exploring the impact of public services on quality of life indicators - 2008

Health programme evaluation by propensity score matching : accounting for treatment intensity and health externalities with an application to Brazil - 2009

Why does the utilization of pharmaceuticals vary so much across Europe? : evidence from micro data on older Europeans - 2009

Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology, Sydney

Issues in evaluating the costs and cost-effectiveness for cognitive behavioural therapy for overweightobese adolescents - 2009

Use of discrete choice experiments in health economics : an update of the literature - 2009

Child Trends

Children's access to health insurance and health status in Washington state : influential factors - 2009

The well-being of Maryland parents and their children : differences by income status and family structure - 2009

What gets measured gets done : high priority opportunities to improve our nation's capacity to monitor child and youth well-being : a white paper for the Annie E Casey Foundation - 2009

Children's HealthWatch

Feeding our future : growing up healthy with WIC - 2009

Commonwealth Fund

Baylor health care system : high-performance integrated health care - 2009

The continuing cost of privatization : extra payments to Medicare Advantage Plans jump to $114 Billion in 2009 - 2009

Health care opinion leaders' views on slowing the growth of health care costs - 2009

Health care opinion leaders' views on slowing the growth of health care costs [chartpack] - 2009

Hill physicians medical group : independent physicians working to improve quality and reduce costs - 2009

Increasing participation in benefit programs for low-income seniors - 2009

Maximizing quality and value in Medicaid: using return on investment forecasting to support effective policymaking - 2009

Oklahoma heart hospital : clinician leaders establish culture of quality - 2009

Progressive or regressive? a second look at the tax exemption for employer-sponsored health insurance premiums - 2009

Progressive or regressive? a second look at the tax exemption for employer-sponsored health insurance premiums [exhibits] - 2009

Putting the US health system on the path to high performance : Invited testimony US House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Mean Hearing on "Health Reform in the 21st Century : Expanding Coverage, Improving Quality, and Controlling Costs" - 2009

Putting the US health system on the path to high performance : Invited testimony US House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Mean Hearing on "Health Reform in the 21st Century : Expanding Coverage, Improving Quality, and Controlling Costs" [chartpack] - 2009

Reforming provider payment : essential building block for health reform - 2009

Reforming provider payment : essential building block for health reform [chartpack] - 2009

St Mary's health center : focus on core measures improves quality - 2009

Women at risk : why many women are forgoing needed health care - 2009

Young and vulnerable : the growing problem of uninsured young adults and how new policies can help - 2009

Young and vulnerable : the growing problem of uninsured young adults and how new policies can help [chartpack] - 2009

Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice

Hospital and physician capacity update : a brief report from the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care - 2009

Linking workforce policy to health care reform - 2009

Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd.

Fixing healthcare : the professionals' perspective - 2009

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Consultation of the ECDC competent bodies for preparedness and response - 2009

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ; World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe

Tuberculosis surveillance in Europe, 2007 - 2009

Families United for Senior Action Foundation

Covering more children, rewarding success : state performance bonuses - 2009

CoverTN, Tennessee's barebones health plan : a case study - 2009

New Yorkers without health insurance - 2009

States act to help people laid off from small firms : more needs to be done - 2009

Too great a burden : Americans face rising health care costs : a report - 2009

Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit

Ageing, health and life satisfaction of the oldest old : an analysis for Germany - 2009

Do the obese really die younger or do health expenditures buy them extra years - 2009

Does job loss cause ill health? - 2009

The effect of an employer health insurance mandate on health insurance coverage and the demand for labor : evidence from Hawaii - 2009

Evaluating the impact of community-based health interventions : evidence from Brazil's family health program - 2009

Life satisfaction - 2009

Overweight and obesity and the demand for primary physician care - 2009

The puzzle of Muslim advantage in child survival in India - 2009

Religion and intimate partner violence in Chile : macro- and micro-level influences - 2009

Fraser Institute

How good is Canada's medical technology inventory? - 2008

George Washington University Center for Health Services Research and Policy

Americans with Disabilities Act : implications for managed care for persons with mental illness and addiction disorders - 1999

George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Department of Health Policy

Stronger partnerships for safer food : an agenda for strengthening state and local roles in the nation's food safety system : executive summary key findings and recommendations - 2009

Stronger partnerships for safer food : an agenda for strengthening state and local roles in the nation's food safety system : final report - 2009

Green Century Capital Management ; As You Sow

Seeking safer packaging : ranking packaged food companies on BPA - 2009

HealthGrades

HealthGrades seventh annual hospital quality and clinical excellence study - 2009

HealthGrades third annual America's 50 Best Hospitals report - 2009

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

2009 survey of Americans on HIVAIDS - 2009

2009 survey of Americans on HIVAIDS : summary of findings on the domestic epidemic : survey report - 2009

Community care of North Carolina : putting health reform ideas into practice in Medicaid - 2009

The coverage and cost impacts of expanding Medicaid - 2009

Expanding health coverage for low-income adults : filling the gaps in Medicaid eligibility - 2009

How is the primary care safety net faring in Massachusetts? : community health centers in the midst of health reform - 2009

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll : April 2009 - 2009

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll : April 2009 : chartpack - 2009

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll : public opinion on health care issues - 2009

Medicaid as a platform for broader health reform : supporting high-need and low income population - 2009

Medicaid performance bonus - 2009

Medicaid performance bonus : "5 of 8" requirements - 2009

National ADAP Monitoring Project : ADAP formularies, as of March 30, 2009 - 2009

National ADAP monitoring project : annual report - 2009

The public and the health care delivery system - 2009

The public and the health care delivery system : summary & chartpack - 2009

Snapshots from the kitchen table : family budgets and health care - 2009

Heritage Foundation

A first big step toward Medicare sustainability - 2009

How Washington pushes Americans into low-quality health care - 2009

Medicare reform : setting attainable goals for sustainability - 2009

The real price of a public health plan : less innovation and lower quality - 2009

Single payer : why government-run health care will harm both patients and doctors - 2009

Why a new public plan will not improve American health care - 2009

Human Rights Campaign Foundation ; Gay and Lesbian Medical Association

Healthcare equality index : creating a national standard for equal treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender patients and their families - 2009

Institute for America's Future

Massachusetts health reform : near universal coverage, but no cost controls or guarantee of quality, affordable health care for all - 2009

Institute of Health Economics ; Alberta Mental Health Board

Effectiveness of organizational interventions for the prevention of workplace stress - 2009

How much should we spend on mental health? - 2008

Insure the Uninsured Project

Health reform : lessons from California - 2008?

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / World Bank

Urban crime and violence in LAC : status report on activities - 2008

International Monetary Fund

Social security reforms in Colombia : striking demographic and fiscal balances - 2009

Universal health care 101 : lessons for the eastern Caribbean and beyond - 2009

International Policy Network

Feed the world : the challenge of agricultural development - 2009

Japan Center for International Exchange, Inc.

G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit follow-up : global action for health system strengthening : policy recommendations to the G8 - 2009

Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

Supportive housing: the most effective and integrated housing for people with mental disabilities - 2009

Leadership for Health Communities

Supporting healthy communities through the American recovery and reinvestment act of 2009 [Policy Brief] - 2009

Supporting healthy communities through the American recovery and reinvestment act of 2009 [Charts] - 2009

Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service

The 2009 influenza A (H1N1) outbreak : selected legal issues - 2009

Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy

Employers who have fifty or more employees using Masshealth, Commonwealth care, or the uncompensated care pool in state FY08 : a report by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services Division of Health Care Finance and Policy - 2009

Massachusetts Technology Collaborative ; New England Healthcare Institute

Saving lives, saving money in practice : strategies for computerized physician order entry in Massachusetts hospitals - 2009

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Health benefits for the uninsured : design and early implementation of the accelerated benefits demonstration - 2008

Improving access to language services in health care : a look at national and state efforts - 2009

Third report to Congress on the evaluation of the Medicare coordinated care demonstration - 2008

Using physician payment reform to enhance health system performance - 2008

Medicaid Institute at United Hospital Fund

Rethinking service delivery for high-cost Medicaid patients - 2009

Metlife

The 2009 MetLife study of the American dream - 2009

National Academy for State Health Policy

Improving care coordination, case management, and linkages to service for young children : opportunities for states - 2009

Re-figuring federalism : nation and state in health reform's next round - 2009

National Academy of Social Insurance

Curbing high health costs : the linchpin for successful health reform - 2009

Long-term services and supports as part of health care reform : relief for the invisible uninsured? : a one-year review of the 2008 Conference Roundtable - 2009

Sharing risks in a new era of responsibility - 2009

National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors

HIVAIDS : crisis among young Black and Latino gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) - 2009

Report on the centers for disease control and prevention (CDC) expanded testing initiative : successes and challenges for health department HIVAIDS programs - 2009

National Association of Community Health Centers

Primary care access : an essential building block of health reform - 2009

National Business Coalition on Health

eValue8 employer report : 2008 health plan diabetes care performance - 2009

National Business Group on Health

An employer's guide to child and adolescent mental health : recommendations for the workplace, health plans and employee assistance programs - 2009

National Institute for Health Care Management

The challenges of health system capacity growth - 2008

National Institute on Drug Abuse ; National Institutes of Health

Monitoring the future : national results on adolescent drug use : overview of key findings, 2008 - 2009

New England Healthcare Institute

Balancing act : comparative effectiveness research and innovation in US health care : a white paper - 2009

New York State Health Foundation

Reducing enrollee churning in Medicaid, Child Health Plus, and Family Health Plus : findings from eight focus groups with recently disenrolled individuals - 2009

New York State Health Policy Research Center

Assessing asset transfer for Medicaid eligibility in New York State - 2009

NGA Center for Best Practices

Small business initiatives for health coverage and disease prevention - 2009

Nuffield Trust

Critical issues for electronic health records : considerations from an expert workshop - 2008

Only connect : policy options for integrating health and social care - 2009

Open Society Institute

Human rights abuses in the name of drug treatment : reports from the field - 2009

Open University

Global public action in health and pharmaceutical policies : politics and policy priorities - 2009

Organisation for Economics Co-operation and Development

Policies for healthy ageing : an overview - 2009

Oxford Health Alliance

Chronic disease : an economic perspective - 2006

Pacific Research Institute

Leviathan's drug problem : federal monopoly of pharmaceutical regulation and its deadly cost - 2009

Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease

The burden of chronic disease on business and US competitiveness : excerpt from the 2009 almanac of chronic disease - 2009

Policy Research Initiative

Economic valuation of mortality risk reduction : review and recommendations for policy and regulatory analysis : research paper - 2009

Population Reference Bureau

Integrating population, health, and environment in Rwanda - 2009

Population Studies Center, University of Michigan

Does managed care reduce federal spending? : evidence from Medicare - 2009

Medicare Advantage? : the effects of managed care on quality of care - 2009

RAND

Ambulatory care sensitive hospitalizations and emergency visits in Baltimore City - 2008

Assessing changes in global drug problems, 1998-2007 - 2008

Assessing the operation of the global drug market. Report 1 - 2008

The economic cost of methamphetamine use in the United States, 2005 - 2009

Estimating the size of the global drug market : a demand-side approach. Report 2 - 2008

Initial evaluation of the Cities Readiness Initiative - 2008

Issues in estimating the economic cost of drug abuse in consuming nations. Report 3 - 2008

Out of the Ivory Tower, into the real world : examples of street-smart community health research - 2008

The socioeconomic, health, safety, and education disparities faced by boys and men of color in California - 2009

Study on the requirements and options for RFID application in healthcare : identifying areas for Radio Frequency Identification deployment in healthcare delivery : a review of relevant literature - 2008

The unintended consequences of drug policies. Report 5 - 2008

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

At the brink : trends in America's uninsured : a state-by-state analysis - 2009

Insurance choices : behaviors of firms and their workforces - 2009

Robert Wood Johnson Commission to Build a Healther America

Beyond health care : new directions to a healthier America : recommendations - 2009

RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis

Eligible but not enrolled? : potential for targeting over a half-million rural Medicare beneficiaries for enrollment in the low-income subsidy prescription drug program - 2008

Save the Children

State of the world's mothers, 2009 : investing in the early years - 2009

SHADAC

The impact of wireless-only households on state surveys of health insurance coverage - 2009

Section 125 plans for individual insurance and HIPAA's group insurance provisions - 2009

Sitra

The Finnish health care system : a value-based perspective - 2009

Trust for America's Health

Keeping America's food safe : a blueprint for fixing the food safety system at the US Department of Health and Human Services - 2009

U.S. PIRG

Paying for what works : a US PIRG policy primer on health care delivery and payment reform - 2009

United Nations, Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industries Division, Food and Agriculture Organization

Milk for health and wealth - 2009

United States Agency for Healthcare Research And Quality

Asthma preventive medicine in 2006—who takes them? - 2009

Family-level expenditures on health care and insurance premiums among the US nonelderly population, 2006 - 2009

Health insurance coverage of near elderly individuals, ages 55-64, 2006 - 2009

Impact of primary care case management (PCCM) implementation on Medicaid and SCHIP - 2009

National healthcare disparities report 2008 - 2009

Prescription drug estimates for Medicare beneficiaries, 2005 and 2006 - 2009

The top five therapeutic classes of outpatient prescription drugs ordered by total expense for the Medicare population age 65 and older in the US civilian noninstitutionalized population, 2006 - 2009

Total medical and prescription expenditures by current asthma status and whether asthma daily preventive medicine is being taken, United States, 2006 - 2009

United States Congressional Budget Office

Potential impacts of climate change in the United States - 2009

United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Is dietary knowledge enough? : hunger, stress, and other roadblocks to healthy eating - 2008

The cost of food safety technologies in the meat and poultry industries - 2008

The decline in consumer use of food nutrition labels, 1995-2006 - 2008

WIC and the battle against childhood overweight - 2009

The WIC program : background, trends, and economic issues - 2009

United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General

Aberrant claim patterns for inhalation drugs in South Florida - 2009

Effect of the Part D coverage gap on Medicare beneficiaries without financial assistance in 2006 - 2009

United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Inspector General

Audit of Veterans Health Administration mental health initiative funding - 2009

United States Government Accountability Office

Army health care : progress made in staffing and monitoring units that provide outpatient case management, but additional steps needed : report to congressional requesters - 2009

Drug control : better coordination with the Department of Homeland Security and an updated accountability framework can further enhance DEA's efforts to meet post-911 responsibilities : report to the Co-chairman, Caucus on International Narcotics Control, US Senate - 2009

Health-care-associated infections : HHS action needed to obtain nationally representative data on risks in ambulatory surgical centers ; report to congressional requesters - 2009

Methadone-associated overdose deaths : factors contributing to increased deaths and efforts to prevent them : report to Congressional Requesters - 2009

Ryan White Care Act : implementation of the new minority AIDS initiative provisions : report to congressional committees - 2009

United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies

Alcohol treatment : need, utilization, and barriers - 2009

Children living with substance-dependent or substance-abusing parents : 2002 to 2007 - 2009

Concurrent illicit drug and alcohol use - 2009

Exposure to substance use prevention messages and substance use among adolescents : 2002 to 2007 - 2009

Nonmedical use of Adderall among full-time college students - 2009

Treatment outcomes among clients discharged from outpatient substance abuse treatment - 2009

Trends in adolescent inhalant use : 2002 to 2007 - 2009

Urban Institute

Disability onset among working parents : earnings drops, compensating income sources, and health insurance coverage - 2009

Health insurance exchanges : organizing health insurance marketplaces to promote health reform goals : timely analysis of immediate health policy issues - 2009

Improving health insurance markets and promoting competition under health care reform - 2009

Los Angeles healthy kids improves access to care and health status : longitudinal findings on the impact of healthy kids - 2008

Nine in ten : using the tax system to enroll eligible, uninsured children into Medicaid and SCHIP - 2009

Visiting Nurse Service of New York Center for Home Care Policy and Research

Care coordination, management & transitions : evidence brief - 2009

Chronic pain management : evidence brief - 2009

Cognitive function : evidence brief - 2009

Framework for geriatric home health care : brief - 2009

Medication management : evidence brief - 2009

Palliative care & advanced illness management : evidence brief - 2009

Physical function : evidence brief - 2009

Northwest Federation of Community Organizations

Equal treatment? : Seattle hospitals put to the test - 2009

World Bank

Averting a human crisis during the global downturn : policy options from the World Bank's Human Development Network - 2009

How can donors help build global public goods in health? - 2009

World Health Organization

Mental health aspects of women's reproductive health : a global review of the literature - 2009

World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe

Mental health, resilience and inequalities - 2009