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Grey Literature Report - May 2007
Vol. 9, No. 3 - May 2007

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AARP

Connecticut long term care : 2005 AARP member survey - 2006

AARP Knowledge Management

AARP 2006 prescription drug study with Hispanics and African Americans - 2007

Access to physicians survey - 2007

Are Americans age 45+ using prescription drugs wisely : a 2006 study - 2007

Long-term care : a survey of AARP members in New Mexico - 2006

AARP Public Policy Institute

Can 1+ 1 = 3? : a look at hybrid insurance products with long-term care insurance - 2007

Disease management in fee-for-service Medicaid programs - 2007

No-fault medical malpractice compensation : policy considerations for design of a demonstration project - 2007

Protections in Medicaid estate recovery : findings, promising practices, and model notices - 2007

AcademyHealth

Profiles in coverage : Arizona healthcare group - 2007

Advocates for Youth

Improving US global AIDS policy for young people : assessing the president's emergency plan for AIDS relief - 2007

AEI-Brookings

Testimony of Stuart H Altman on Universal Health Coverage before the US Senate Finance Committee - 2007

Agency for Healthcare Research And Quality

Adverse drug events in US Hospitals, 2004 - 2007

Attitudes toward health insurance and their persistence over time, adults 2003-2004 - 2007

Trends in outpatient prescription drug utilization and expenditures, 1997-2004 - 2007

Alzheimer's Society

Dementia UK : the full report - 2007

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Language access solutions for OBGYN medical practices - 2004

American Hospital Association

When I'm 64 : how boomers will change health care - 2007

American Lung Association Research and Scientific Affairs, Epidemiology and Statistics Unit,

Trends in tuberculosis morbidity and mortality - 2007

American Psychiatric Association

SSRI prescription rates after a terrorist attack - 2006

Americans for Insurance Reform

Medical malpractice insurance : stable lossesunstable rates 2007 - 2007

Anxiety Disorders Association of America

An audit of mental health care at US colleges and universities : focus on anxiety disorders - 2006?

Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs

Newborn screening long-term follow-up assessment - 2007

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials

Innovations in public health : understanding state public health - 2007

Australian Government, National Health and Medical Research Council

Animal Welfare Committee : guidelines for the generation, breeding, care and use of genetically modified and cloned animals for scientific pruposes - 2007

Berkeley Media Studies Group

Interactive food & beverage marketing : targeting children and youth in the digital age - 2007

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation

Roadmap to coverage : synthesis of findings : executive summary : report for the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation - 2005

Brookings Institute

A wellness trust to prioritize disease prevention - 2007

Contracting for health : evidence from Cambodia - 2006

Transforming US health care : policy challenges affecting the integration and improvement of care - 2006

Why is there no AIDS vaccine? - 2006

California Endowment ; Urban Institute

Access gaps among uninsured children in Los Angeles County : baseline findings from the 20022003 Los Angeles County Health Survey - 2006

How far can the healthy kids program go in closing coverage gaps for children in Los Angeles County? : a baseline analysis with the 20022003 Los Angeles County Health Survey - 2006

Variation in access to care for low- income children with public coverage : baseline findings from the 20022003 Los Angeles County Health Survey - 2006

California HealthCare Foundation

California health care market report, 2006 - 2007

Denti-Cal facts and figures : a look at California's Medicaid Dental Program - 2007

Health information technology : are long term care providers ready? - 2007

Racial, cultural, and ethnic factors affecting the quality of end-of-life care in California : findings and recommendations - 2007

Racial, cultural, and ethnic factors affecting the quality of end-of- life care in California : supplemental materials - 2007

Rethinking the use of intensive care beds in California Hospitals - 2007

Canada. Public Health Agency of Canada

Emergency clothing service - 2007

Canadian Health Care Consensus Group

A first look at the numbers - 2007

Canadian Health Services Research Foundation

Teamwork in healthcare : promoting effective teamwork in healthcare in Canada : policy synthesis and recommendations - 2006

Canadian Institute for Health Information

Public-sector expenditures and utilization of home care services in Canada : exploring the data - 2007

Resident safety : characteristics associated with falling in Ontario complex continuing care - 2007

Surgical volume trends within and beyond wait time priority areas - 2007

Understanding emergency department wait times : how long do people spend in emergency departments in Ontario? - 2007

Canadian Policy Research Networks Inc.

Economic arguments for action on the social determinants of health - 2006

Matching methods with policy purpose: two case examples of public engagement - 2007

Center for American Progress

Living without health insurance : why every American needs coverage - 2007

Opportunity costs and opportunities lost : businesses speak out about the US Health Care System : ten case studies of company health care programs - 2007

Center for Global Development

A trickle or a flood : commitmemts and disbursement for HIVAIDS from the Global Fund, PEPFAR - 2007

Do visas kill? : health effects of African health professional emigration - 2007

Following the money : toward better tracking of global health resources - 2007

Performance-based incentives for health : a way to improve tuberculosis detection and treatment completion? - 2007

Performance-based incentives for health : conditional cash transfer programs in Latin America and the Caribbean - 2007

Performance-based incentives for health : demand- and supply-side incentives in the Nicaraguan Red de ProteccioLn Social - 2007

Performance-based incentives for health : six years of results from supply-side programs in Haiti - 2007

Center for Health Care Strategies

After the deficit reduction act : using Medicaid to design accountable systems of care for people with complex and special needs - 2007

Physician pay-for-performance in Medicaid : a guide for states - 2007

The consumer voice in Medicaid managed care : state strategies - 2007

Center for Retirement Research at Boston College

Medicaid and long-term care : how will rising costs affect services for an aging population? - 2007

Center for Stragegic and Budgetary Assessments

Avoiding the plague : an assessment of us plans and funding for countering bioterrorism - 2007

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Advancing US leadership on Global HIVAIDS opportunities in the PEPFAR reauthorization process ; a report of the Task Force on HIVAIDS Center for Strategic and International Studies - 2007

Center for Health Economics Research and Evaluation

Assessing the costs of organised health programs : the case of the National Cervical Screening Program - 2007

Center for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British COlumbia

Patient experiences with ambulatory cancer care in British Columbia, 200506 - 2007

Child Trends Data Bank

Children in immigrant families, the US and 50 states : national origins, language, and early education - 2007

Children's Partnership ; Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured

Harnessing technology to improve Medicaid and SCHIP enrollment and retention practices - 2007

Clean Air Task Force

A multi-city investigation of exposure to diesel exhaust in multiple commuting modes : Columbus OH, Austin TX, Boston MA, New York City, NY - 2007

No escape from diesel exhaust : how to reduce commuter exposure - 2007

Commonwealth Fund

Administrative costs for advance payment of health coverage tax credits : an initial analysis - 2007

Evidence-informed case rates : a new health care payment model - 2007

Health care opinion leaders' views on priorities for SCHIP reauthorization - 2007

Health system performance in selected nations : a chartpack - 2007

Hospital performance improvement : trends in quality and efficiency : a quantitative analysis of performance improvement in US Hospitals - 2007

Mirror, mirror on the wall : an international update on the comparative performance of American health care - 2007

Pay-for-performance in state Medicaid programs : a survey of state Medicaid directors and programs - 2007

Too sick to work, too soon for Medicare : the human cost of the two-year Medicare waiting period for Americans with disabilities - 2007

Women and health coverage: the affordability gap - 2007

Community Catalyst

Affordable health care for all : what does affordable really mean? - 2007

Defining affordability for Massachusetts : how can research inform the individual mandate? - 2007

Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress

Alcohol use among youth - 2007

FDA's authority to ensure that drugs prescribed to children are safe and effective - 2007

Genetic non-discrimination in employment : a comparison of Title II provisions in S 358 and HR 493, 110th congress - 2007

Genetic nondiscrimination in health insurance : a side-by-side comparison of the Title I provisions in HR 493 and S 358 - 2007

Medicaid citizenship documentation - 2007

Scientific evaluations of approaches to prevent teen pregnancy - 2007

Connecticut Health Foundation

Seeking solutions : state approaches to covering medical interpreter services in Medicaid and SCHIP programs - 2007

Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General

Cost-sharing for older Americans Act services - 2006

European Commission

eHealth priorities and strategies in European countries : towards the establishment of a European eHealth research area - 2007

Express Scripts

2006 drug trend report - 2006

Federal Communications Commission

In the matter of violent television programming and its impact on children : report - 2007

Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit

Agency in health-care : are medical care-givers perfect agents? - 2007

Comparing subjective and objective measures of health : evidence from hypertension for the incomehealth gradient - 2007

Love on the rocks : alcohol abuse and domestic violence in rural Mexico - 2007

Frameworks Institute : W.K. Kellog Foundation

Implications of the consumer frame for food and fitness : cognitive analysis of media depictions - 2007

Fraser Institute

The misguided war against medicines : are drug expenditures making public health insurance financially unsustainable? - 2007

George Washington University School of Public Healthand Health Services Department of Health Policy

An initial assessment of the effects of Medicaid documentation requirements on health centers and their patients - 2007

Georgetown University, Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth

Still growing after all these years : youth exposure of alcohol advertising on television, 2001- 2005 - 2006

Harris Interactive Inc.

Democrats and Senator Clinton gaining public trust in their ability to improve US healthcare system - 2007

Eighty-one percent of US adults say that birth control pills and procedures should be covered by health insurance : support for medical use approval and insurance coverage varies greatly for different medical treatments - 2007

Many US adults disregard doctors' course of treatment : over one quarter choose not to fill prescriptions they feel are unnecessary - 2007

Most adults satisfied with care at retail-based health clinics - 2007

The public is willing to support many options to expand health insurance coverage, but not all - 2007

Health Consumer Alliance

Medi-Cal lost : how overly complex rules end health coverage for low-income consumers - 2007

Health Grades,

HealthGrades fourth annual patient safety in American hospitals study - 2007

Health Protection Agency

Chemical incidents in England and Wales 2005 - 2007

Guidelines for malaria prevention in travellers from the United Kingdom - 2007

Health protection agency : pandemic influenza contingency plan - 2006

Healthcare Financial Management Association

Healthcare payment : goals, trends, and strategies - 2007

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Enrolling children in Medicaid and SCHIP : insights from focus group with low-income parents - 2007

Family coverage under SCHIP waivers - 2007

Food for thought : television food advertising to children in the United States - 2007

Giving voice to the people of New Orleans : the kaiser post-Katrina baseline survey : chartpack - 2007

Giving voice to the people of New Orleans : the Kaiser post-Katrina baseline survey - 2007

Health insurance coverage and access to care for low-income non-citizen Children - 2007

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll : Election 2008 - 2007

National ADAP monitoring project : annual report - 2007

SCHIP turns 10 : an update on enrollment and the out look on reauthorization from the program's directors - 2007

The State Children's Health Insurance Program : lessons and outlook - 2007

Young South Africans, broadcast media, and HIVAIDS awareness : results of a national survey - 2007

Incenter Strategies

The public health insurance cliff for older Adolescents - 2007

Institute for Fiscal Studies

The SES health gradient on both sides of the Atlantic - 2006

The impact of income shocks on health : evidence from cohort data - 2006

Institute of Psychiatry

International experiences of using community treatment orders - 2007

International Monetary Fund

Health aid and infant mortality - 2007

International Policy Network

On the trail of a cure : reality and rhetoric on treating Malaria - 2007

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations ; California Endowment

Hospitals, language, and culture : a snapshot of the nation ; exploring cultural and linguistic services in the nation's hospitals ; a report of findings - 2007

Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy

Issue brief : racial and ethnic health disparities - 2007

Realizing the transformative potential of personal health records - 2007

Keystone Center

The public engagement project on community control measures for pandemic influenza: findings and recommendations from citizen and stakeholder deliberation days in Atlanta, GA, Lincoln, NE, Seattle, WA, Syracuse, NY, and Washington DC - 2007

King's Fund

Health and ten years of labour government - 2007

Professional leadership in pharmacy : exploring the case for a Royal College for the pharmacy profession - 2007

Professional regulation - 2007

Mathematica Policy Research,Inc.

Considerations in designing personal health records for underserved populations - 2007

Impacts of four Title V, section 510 abstinence education programs : final report - 2007

Personal health records : what do underserved consumers want? - 2007

Santa Clara County Children's Health Initiative improves children's health - 2007

The evaluation of the Medicare coordinated care demonstration : findings for the first two years - 2007

Tracking Medicare health and prescription drug plans, monthly report for April 2007 - 2007

Tracking Medicare health and prescription drug plans, monthly report for March 2007 - 2007

Who are the top earners in the Medicaid buy-in program? - 2007

Medicaid Institute at United Hospital Fund

Gaps in coverage among the elderly in New York - 2007

Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research

Recent private health insurance policies in Australia: health resource utilization, distributive implications and policy options - 2007

The value of the divisions network : an evaluation of the effect of divisions of general practice on primary care performance - 2007

National Academies Press

Cancer in elderly people workshop proceedings - 2007

Global environmental health in the 21st century from governmental regulation to corporate social responsibility : a workshop summary - 2007

PEPFAR implementation progress and promise - 2007

National Academy of Social Insurance

Medicare finances: findings of the 2007 trustees report - 2007

National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors

Why we can't wait : the tipping point for HIVAIDS among African Americans - 2007

National Association of Community Health Centers

Health center-hospital affiliation opportunities under the deficit reduction act - 2007

National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

One in three : the case for wanted and welcomed pregnancy - 2007

Science says : American opinion on teen pregnancy and related issue 2007 - 2005

National Center for Policy Analysis

The market for medical care : why you don't know the price ; why you don't know about quality ; and what can be done about it - 2007

National Health Policy Forum

Health care price transparency and price competition - 2007

Review of access and quality of care in SCHIP using standardized national performance measures - 2007

The fundamentals of health savings accounts and high- deductible health plans - 2007

The prescription drug safety net : access to pharmaceuticals for the uninsured - 2007

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence

One to one interventions ot reduce the transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV, and to reduce the rate of under 18 conceptions, especially among vulnerable and at risk groups - 2007

National Institute on Drug Abuse

Overview of key findings 2006 : monitoring the future: national results on adolescent drug use - 2007

National Poverty Center

Education and health - 2007

National Quality Forum

A national framework and preferred practices for palliative and hospice care quality - 2006

Local coalitions identified as platform for national quality reporting effort - 2007

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Lead poisoning : prevention, indentification, and managment - 2007

NGA Center for Best Practices

Integrating schools into healthy community design - 2007

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

Depression and the initiation of alcohol and other drug use among youths aged 12 to 17 - 2007

Heroin, changes in how it is used : 1995-2005 - 2007

Hispanic female admissions in substance abuse treatment : 2005 - 2007

Patterns and trends in inhalant use by adolescent males and females : 2002-2005 - 2007

Patterns and trends in nonmedical prescription pain reliever use : 2002 to 2005 - 2007

Primary alcohol admissions aged 21 or older : alcohol only vs alcohol plus a secondary drug : 2005 - 2007

Religious involvement and substance use among adults - 2007

Sexually transmitted diseases and substance use - 2007

Use of marijuana and blunts among adolescents : 2005 - 2007

Youth activities, substance use, and family income - 2007

Older Women's League

Give'em health revisited : Medicare-for-all - 2007

Women and long- term care : where will I live, and who will take care of me? - 2006

Open Society Institute

Improving outcomes : blueprint for a national AIDS plan for the United States - 2007

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Trends in severe disability among elderly people : assessing the evidence in 12 OECD countries and the future implications - 2007

Pacific Research Institute

California's uninsured : crisis, conundrum or chronic condition? - 2006

Questionable cure for a questionable crisis : the massachusetts heatlh plan takes shape - 2006

Pan American Health Organization

Renewing primary health care in the Americas : a position paper of the Pan American Health OrganizationWorld Health Organization (PAHOWHO) - 2007

Pharmaceutical Care Management Association

Consumer access to pharmacies in the United States, 2007 - 2007

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

Pharmaceutical industry profile 2007 - 2007

Philippine Health Insurance Corp.

Conference on extending social health insurance to informal economy workers : synthesis report: 18th - 20th October 2006, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Manila, Philippines - 2007

Produced by COI for the Dept. of Health

Health inequalities : Europe in profile - 2006

Published by the Ministry of Health (NZ)

Primary health care strategy : key directions for the information environment - 2007

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

A checkup on health care markets : study of 14 communities shows why quality improvement efforts must account for local, regional variations - 2007

Workers who care : a graphical profile of the frontline health and health care workforce - 2006

Save the Children

State of the world's mothers, 2007 : saving the lives of children under 5 - 2007

Summit Health Institute for Research and Education, Inc.

From awareness to action : stakeholders' strategies to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities - 2007

Perspectives on the HITHealth disparities connection - 2007

Tax Policy Center

The president's health insurance proposal, a first look - 2007

The president's proposed standard deduction for health insurance: an evaluation - 2007

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Low-income Californians bear unequal burden of Asthma - 2007

Pets and smoking in the home associated with asthma symptoms and asthma-like breathing problems - 2007

United Hospital Fund

Health care without borders : non-residents' use of New York City hospitals - 2007

Trends through June 2005 - 2005

Trends through June 2006 - 2006

United States Congressional Budget Office

The Medicare advantage program : enrollment trends and budgetary effects - 2007

United States Dept. of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Homeland Defense

Department of Defense implementation plan for pandemic influenza - 2006

United States Dept. of Defense, Office of Inspector General

Protecting public health and human services programs : a 30 - year retrospective - 2006

United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy

Does high caregiver stress lead to nursing home entry? - 2007

Nursing home selection : how do consumers choose? - 2007

Report on health information exchange in post-acute and long-term care - 2007

Service use and transitions : decisions, choices and care management among an admissions cohort of privately insured disabled elders - 2006

United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs

Medical malpractice insurance claims in seven states, 2000-2004 - 2007

United States Federal Trade Commission

Federal Trade Commission cigarette report for the years 2004 and 2005 - 2007

Federal Trade Commission smokeless tobacco report fopr the years 2002-2005 - 2007

United States Government Accountability Office

DOD and VA health care : challenges encountered by injured servicemembers during their recovery process : testimony before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives - 2007

Employer-sponsored health and retirement benefits : efforts to control employer costs and the implications for workers : report to the Chairman, Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives - 2007

Information technology : VA and DOD are making progress in sharing medical information, but are far from comprehensive electronic medical records : testimony before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives - 2007

Medicare : concerns remain about sufficiency of data for oversight of children's dental services : testimony before the Subcommittee on Domestic Policy, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives - 2007

Medicare : providing systematic feedback to physicians on their practice patterns is a promising step toward encouraging program efficiency : testimony before the Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives - 2007

Medicare : thousands of Medicare Part B providers abuse the federal tax system : testimony before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, US Senate - 2007

Medicare financing: federal oversight initiative is consistent with Medicaid payment principles but needs greater transparency : report to the Committee on Finance, US Senate - 2007

Medicare Part D : challenges in enrolling new dual-eligible beneficiaries : report to congressional requesters - 2007

Medicare Part D : enrolling new dual-eligible beneficiaries in prescription drug plans : testimony before the Committee on Finance, US Senate - 2007

Medicare Part D low-income subsidy : progress made in approving applications, but ability to identify remaining individuals is limited : testimony before the Senate Committee on Finance - 2007

Nursing home reform: continued attention if needed to improve quality of care in small but significant share of homes : testimony before the Special Committee on Aging, US Senate - 2007

Saving our future requires tough choices today : fiscal, retirement, and health care insecurity - 2007

Securing wastewater facilities : costs of vulnerability assessments, risk management plans, and alternative disinfection methods vary widely : report to the Chairman, Committee on Environment and Public Works, US Senate - 2007

VA health care : VA should better monitor implementation and impact of capital asset alignment decisions : report to the Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives - 2007

University of British Columbia, Center for Health Services and Policy Research

Asthma in British Columbia - 2006

University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research

Neighborhoods and disability in later life - 2007

Urban Institute

A profile of young children in the Los Angeles Healthy Kids program : who are they and what are their experiences on the program? - 2006

Caring for the uninsured in New York : what does it cost, who pays, and what would full coverage add to health care spending - 2006

W.K. Kellog Foundation

The collective leadership framework : a workbook for cultivating and sustaining community change - 2007

World Bank

Government expenditures on education, health, and infrastructure : a naive look at levels, outcomes, and efficiency - 2007

World Health Organization

Berlin recommendations for action : final version : International Conference on Social Health Insurance in Developing Countries Berlin, 05-07 December 2005 - 2006

World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe

Economic consequences of noncommunicable diseases and injuries in the Russian Federation - 2007

The European tobacco control report : 2007 - 2007