Vol.8, No.3 - May 2006

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AARP Public Policy Institute

Learning from abroad : lessons and questions on personal health records for national policy - 2006

The Medicaid program : a brief overview - 2005

Opinions on the federal budget among US adults - 2006

Training programs for certified nursing assistants - 2006

Trends in manufacturer prices of brand name prescription drugs used by older Americans : 2005 year-end update - 2006

AARP, Knowledge Management

Enrollees' perceptions of Medicare Part D : three months and counting - 2006

Physical activity survey, 2006 : data collected by International Communications Research - 2006

Agency for Healthcare Research And Quality

Costs and benefits of health information technology - 2006

The long-term uninsured in America 2000-2003 estimates for the US population under age 65 - 2006

Out-of-pocket expenditures on health care and insurance premiums among the nonelderly population, 2003 - 2006

Telemedicine for the Medicare population : update - 2006

AHIP Center for Policy and Research

January 2006 census shows 32 million people covered by HSA plans: enrollment in Health Savings Account (HSA) plans tripled in ten months - 2006

Alan Guttmacher Institute

Abortion in Women's lives - 2006

American Enterprise Institute

The WTO and access to essential medicines : recent agreements, new assignments - 2006

American Lung Association

American Lung Association : lung disease data : 2006 ; improving life, one breath at a time - 2006

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials

Strategies for enumerating the public health workforce - 2005

California Endowment

Migration and health issues in Mexico and California : 2003-2005 - 2006?

California HealthCare Foundation

Health care cost 101 - 2006

Insurance markets: alternatives to catastrophic coverage for the uninsured - 2006

Medicaid hospital waivers, comparing California, Florida, and Massachusetts - 2006

The Medicare drug benefit : how good are the options? - 2006

California Office of Statewide Health Planning & Development

The California report on coronary artery bypass graft surgery : 2003 hospital data - 2006

Canada. Public Health Agency of Canada

Reducing health disparities, roles of the health sector : discussion paper - 2004

Canadian Institute for Health Information

Health care in Canada - 2005

Improving the health of Canadians : promoting healthy weights : patterns of health and disease are largely a consequence of how we learn, live and work - 2006

Medical imaging in Canada, 2005 - 2005

Waiting for health care in Canada : what we know and what we don't know - 2006

Center for an Urban Future

Between hope and hard times : New York's working families in economic distress - 2004

More hard times for New York's working families - 2006

Center for Global Development

Vaccines for development - 2006

Center for Retirement Research at Boston College

How portfolios evolve after retirement : the effect of health shocks - 2005

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Administration defense of health savings accounts rests on misleading use of statistics - 2006

The administration's Medicaid proposals would shift federal cost to states - 2006

The cost and coverage impact of the president's health insurance budget proposals - 2006

Expansion in HSA tax breaks is larger--and more problematic--than previously understood - 2006

The new Medicaid citizenship documentation requirement: a brief overview - 2006

President greatly reduced his health proposals for lower-income families while expanding health benefits for the more affluent - 2006

President's health care tax cut proposals are likely to weaken employer-based health insurance, primarily benefit high-income people, and worsen deficits - 2006

The slowdown in Medicaid expenditure growth - 2006

Social Security Administration proposal to revise disability determinations is not justified : African Americans would be disproportionately affected - 2006

Survey indicates the Deficit Reduction Act jeopardizes Medicaid coverage for 3 to 5 million US citizens - 2006

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Promoting physical activity among tweens: evaluation results of CDC's VERB campaign - 2005

Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis

Economic evaluation across the four faces of prevention : a canadian perspective - 2006

Child Trends Data Bank

ADHD - 2005?

Children with limitations - 2005

Heavy drinking among parents - 2006?

Infant, child, and youth death rates - 2006?

Life expectancy - 2006?

Parental smoking - 2006?

Parental symptoms of depression - 2006?

Commonwealth Fund

Mirror, mirror on the wall : an update on the quality of American health care through the patient's lens - 2006

Multinational comparisons of health systems data, 2005 - 2006

A need to transform the US health care system: improving access, quality, and efficiency - 2006

The US health care divide : disparities in primary care experiences by income : findings from the Commonwealth Fund 2004 International Health Policy Survey - 2006

Employment Policies Institute

European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

The "Fair Share for Health Care Act" and New York's labor market - 2006

Primary care in the driver's seat? : organizational reform in European primary care, - 2006

Families USA Foundation

The Enzi Bill : bad medicine for America - 2006

The Medicare drug program fails to reach low-income seniors : more than three out of every four low-income seniors eligible for special subsidies are still without drug coverage - 2006

Family Violence Prevention Fund

Activist dialogues : how domestic violence and child welfare systems impact women of color and their communities - 2005

Genworth Fincancial

Genworth Financial 2006 cost of care survey: nursing homes, assisted living facilities and home care providers - 2006

Government Offices of Sweden

Patriarchal violence: an attack on human security - 2006

Harris Interactive Inc.

M any USadults believe healthcare quality can be fairly assessed, but few willing to pay significantly higher premiums for superior care - 2006

Health Grades

HealthGrades fourth annual hospital quality and clinical excellence study - 2006

HealthGrades third annual patient safety in American hospitals study - 2006

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

2002 State and National Medicaid Enrollment and Spending Data (MSIS) - 2006

2004 State and National Medicaid Spending Data [CMS--64] - 2006

A brief overview of our Medicaid data sources - 2006

Asset transfer and nursing home use : empirical evidence and policy significance - 2006

Beyond cash and counseling : an inventory of individual budget-based community long-term care programs for the elderly - 2006

Health coverage for low-income populations : a comparison of Medicaid and SCHIP - 2006

An in-depth examination of formularies and other features of Medicare drug plans - 2006

Medicaid long-term services reforms in the deficit reduction act - 2006

Medicaid's high cost enrollees : how much do they drive program spending? - 2006

Medicaid's role for women - 2006

National ADAP monitoring project : annual report - 2006

Nursing home transition programs : perspectives of Medicaid care planners - 2006

Nursing home transition programs : perspectives of state Medicaid officials - 2006

Opening doorways to health care for children : 10 steps to ensure eligible but uninsured children get health insurance - 2006

Outreach strategies for Medicaid and SCHIP : an overview of effective strategies and activities - 2006

Seniors' early experiences with the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit : selected findings from the Kaiser Health Poll Report Survey - 2006

Seniors' early experiences with the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit : selected findings from the Kaiser Health Poll Report Survey : chartpack - 2006

The stability of Medicaid coverage for low-income dually eligible Medicare beneficiaries - 2006

An update on the clawback : revised health spending data change state financial obligations for the new Medicare drug benefit - 2006

Voices of beneficiaries : early experiences with the Medicare Drug Benefit - 2006

Who needs Medicaid? - 2006

International Monetary Fund

The global economic and financial impact of an avian flu pandemic and the role of the IMF - 2006

International Policy Network

Civil Society report on intellectual property, innovation and health - 2006

Counterfeit medicines in less developed countries: problems and solutions - 2006

King's Fund

Assessing the new NHS consultant contract : a something for something deal? - 2006

Deficits in the NHS - 2006

Securing good care for older people : taking a long-term view - 2006

Social enterprise and community-based care : is there a future for mutually owned organisations in community and primary care? - 2006

Working to sustain progress : black and minority ethnic non-executive directors in London - 2006

Lewin Group

Mail-service pharmacy savings : a ten-year outlook for public and private purchasers - 2005

Medicaid capitation expansion's potential cost savings - 2006

Policy framework : ensuring access to health care services while redesigning Louisiana's healthcare delivery system - 2006

Rate setting and actuarial soundness in Medicaid managed care - 2006

A study of hospital charge setting practices - 2006

Long Term Care Community Coalition

Action plan : to encourage the use of funds from civil money penalties and fines to improve nursing home resident care and quality of life : for consumer advocates, nursing home staff, long term care ombudsmen and citizens - 2006

Funding for innovation: a review of state practices with civil monetary penalties and fines : case studies : use of funds in six states - 2006

Funding for innovation : a review of state practices with civil monetary penalties and fines : opportunities to improve nursing home care : with recommendations for state and federal governments and strategies for stakeholders to help implement recommendations - 2006

Resource brief : federal and state civil monetary penalties (CMPs)fines : opportunities for improving resident quality of life and care : long term care Ombudsmen and citizen advocates' knowledge of and involvement in states' use of civil monetary penalties and fines for nursing homes - 2006

Maternal & Child Health Policy Research Center

Promising approaches for strengthening the interface between primary and specialty pediatric care - 2006

Mathematica Policy Research

Beyond coverage : SCHIP makes strides toward providing a usual source of care to low-income children : final report - 2005

Budget estimates for selected Medicare savings program reform proposals - 2006

Hospital compare highlights potential challenges in public reporting for hospitals - 2006

Reaching out to Kith and Kin caregivers in Early Head Start - 2006

Tracking Medicare health and prescription drug plans, monthly report for March 2006 : a brief summary of selected significant facts and activities this month to provide background for those involved in monitoring and research, Medicare advantage and prescription drug plans - 2006

National Academies Press

Child health in complex emergencies - 2006

Evaluating the HRSA Traumatic Brain Injury Program - 2006

Examining the health disparities research plan of the National Institutes of Health : unfinished business - 2006

The impact of globalization on infectious disease emergence and control : exploring the consequences and opportunities : workshop summary - 2006

Rebuilding the unity of health and the environment in rural America : workshop summary - 2006

Treating infectious diseases in a microbial world : report of two workshops on novel antimicrobial therapeutics - 2006

National Academy for State Health Policy

Evaluating community-based child health promotion programs : a snapshot of strategies and methods - 2006

How states are working with physicians to improve the quality of children's health care - 2006

Improving the delivery of health care that supports young children's healthy mental development : early accomplishments and lessons learned from a five-state consortium - 2006

National Academy of Sciences

Frontiers of bioinformatics : unsolved problems and challenges - 2005

National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

Pregnancy among sexually experienced teens, 2002 - 2006

National Cancer Institute

Methods for measuring cancer disparities : using data relevant to Healthy People 2010 cancer-related objectives - 2006

National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, Columbia University

The commericial value of underage and pathological drinking to the alcohol industry - 2006

National Child Traumatic Stress Network

Facts on trauma and homeless children : from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Homelessness and Extreme Poverty Working Group - 2005

National Governors Association

Creating healthy states : actions for governors - 2006?

National Quality Forum

CMS-NQF conference : implementing NQF-endorsed consensus standards : conference proceedings - 2006

Implementing a national voluntary consensus standard for informed consent : a user's guide for healthcare professionals - 2005

National Resource Center on Domestic Violence

Marital rape : new research and directions - 2006

National Sleep Foundation

2006 Sleep in America poll : summary of findings - 2006

New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services

Cardiac surgery in New Jersey, 2003 : a consumer report - 2006

Report and recommendations of the bariatric work group - 2005

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Obesity in early childhood : more than 40% of Head Start children in NYC are overweight or obese - 2006

NJPIRG Law and Policy Center

Turning medicine into snake oil : how pharmaceutical marketers put patients at risk - 2006

Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration, Dept. of Health & Human Services

Alcohol dependence or abuse: 2002, 2003, and 2004 - 2006

Characteristics of recent adolescent inhalant initiates - 2006

Sources of payment for substance use treatment - 2006

Open Society Institute

Harm reduction developments 2005 : countries with injection-driven HIV epidemics - 2006

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Health care quality indicators project conceptual framework paper - 2006

Health care quality indicators project initial indicators report - 2006

Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council

Hospital-acquir ed infections in Pennsylvania : numbers rise as data submission improves, additional insurance payments could total $6137 million - 2006

Measuring the quality of Pennsylvania's commerical HMOs - 2006

PHC4 2005 financial analysis : an annual report on the financial health of Pennsylvania's hospitals - 2006

Physician Insurers Association of America

The determinants of the cost of medical liability insurance - 2006

RAND

Forging the link between alcohol advertising and underage drinking - 2006

Nanomaterials in the workplace : policy and planning workshop on occupational safety and health - 2006

Smart Growth British Columbia

Promoting public health through smart growth : building healthier communities through transportation and land use policies and practices - 2005?

Temple University, Beasley School of Law

The OSI seminar on the global governance of health : conference report - 2005

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Audit of selected states' Medicaid disproportionate share hospital programs - 2006

Consultations in Medicare : coding and reimbursement - 2006

Pilot long-term care awareness campaign : phase I final report - 2006

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

National strategy for pandemic influenza : implementation plan - 2006

U.S. Department of Justice, National Drug Intelligence Center

National drug threat assessment 2006 - 2006

U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice

Violence & Victimization Research Division's Compendium of research on violence against women, 1993-2005 - 2006

U.S. Federal Trade Commission

Agreements filed with the Federal Trade Commission under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 : summary of agreements filed in FY 2005 - 2005

U.S. Geological Survey

The quality of our nation's waters : volatile organic compounds in the nation's ground water and drinking-water supply wells - 2006

U.S. Government Accountability Office

Children's health insurance : recent HHS-OIG reviews inform the congress on improper enrollment and reductions in low-income, uninsured children : [letter to Congressional Committees - 2006

Drug safety : improvement needed in FDA's postmarket decision-making and oversight process : report to congressional requesters - 2006

Food and Drug Administration : decision process to deny initial application for over-the-counter marketing of the emergency contraceptive drug Plan B was unusual : report to congressional requesters - 2006

General hospitals : operational and clinical changes largely unaffected by presence of competing specialty hospitals : report to the Chairman, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives - 2006

Global health : spending requirement presents challenges for allocating prevention funding under the President's emergency plan for AIDS relief : report to congressional committees - 2006

Health information technology : HHS is continuing efforts to define a national strategy: testimony before the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce and Agency Organization, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives - 2006

Hurricane Katrina : status of the health care system in New Orleans and difficult decisions related to efforts to rebuild it approximately 6 months after Hurricane Katrina : [letter to congressional committees] - 2005

Information security : Department of Health and Human Services needs to fully implement its program : report to the Chairman, Committee on Finance, US Senate - 2005

Long-term care insurance : federal program compared favorably with other products, and analysis of claims trend could inform future decisions : report to congressional committees - 2006

Medicaid integrity: implementation of new program provides opportunities for federal leadership to combat fraud, waste, and abuse : testimony before the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, US Senate - 2006

Medicare : communications to beneficiaries on the prescription drug benefit could be improved : report to congressional requesters - 2006

Medicare : little progress made in targeting outpatient therapy payments to beneficiaries' needs : report to congressional committees - 2006

Medicare : quality of CMS communications to beneficiaries on the prescription drug benefit could be improved : testimony before the Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives - 2006

Medicare payment : CMS methodology adequate to estimate national error rate : report to congressional committees - 2006

Ryan White Care Act : AIDS drug assistance programs, perinatal HIV transmission, and partner notification: testimony before the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, US Senate - 2006

Ryan White Care Act : changes needed to improve the distribution of funding : testimony before the Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives - 2006

Ryan White Care Act : improved oversight needed to ensure AIDS drug assistance programs obtain best prices for drugs : report to congressional requesters - 2006

Tobacco settlement : states' allocations of fiscal year 2005 and expected fiscal year 2006 payments: report to congressional requesters - 2006

VA and DOD health care : opportunities to maximize resource sharing remain: report to congressional requesters - 2006

VA health care : experiences in Denver and Charleston offer lessons for future partnerships with medical affiliates : report to the Chairman, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives - 2006

VA long-term care : data gaps impede strategic planning for and oversight of state veterans' nursing homes : report to congressional committees - 2006

VA long-term care : trends and planning challenges in providing nursing home care to veterans : testimony before the Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, US Senate - 2006

Workplace safety and health : OSHA could improve federal agencies' safety programs with a more strategic approach to its oversight : report to the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, US Senate - 2006

U.S. Small Business Administration

Health insurance deductibility and entrepreneurial survival - 2006

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Chronic conditions of Californians : findings from the 2003 California Health Interview Survey - 2005

United Nations. Division for the Advancement of Women

Violence against women : a statistical overview, challenges and gaps in data collection and methodology and approaches for overcoming them - 2005

University of Michigan Institute for Social Research

The impact of AIDS on older-age parents in Cambodia - 2006

Job insecurity and health in the United States - 2006

University of York, Centre for Health Economics

Income, relative income, and self-reported health in Britain, 1979-2000 - 2006

The main methodological issues in costing health care services : a literature review - 2005

Trends in health care commissioning in the English NHS : an empirical analysis - 2006

Urban Institute

In-home care for frail childless adults : getting by with a little help from their friends? - 2006

A profile of frail older Americans and their caregivers - 2006

Taking a checkup on the Nation's Health Care Tax Policy : a prognosis : Before the United States Senate Committee on Finance - 2006

What do parents say about the Los Angeles healthy kids program? : findings from the first evaluation focus groups - 2006

World Health Organization

How effective would antiviral vaccination and antiviral drug prevention and treatment strategies be for reducing the impact of the next influenza pandemic? - 2006