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Grey Literature Report-September 2009
Vol. 11, No. 5 - September 2009

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The following are our recent grey literature acquisitions:



AARP Knowledge Management

50+ Hispanic workers : a growing segment of the US workforce - 2009

Achieving affordable, quality health care in Puerto Rico : a survey of residents age 25+ - 2009

State budgets & older adult services : 2009 Minnesota survey - 2009

The tier 4 phenomenon : shifting the high cost of drugs to consumers - 2009

AARP Public Policy Institute

The GINA law : consumer protection in a new era of genetic testing - 2009

Health care reform : what's at stake for 50- to 64- year-olds - 2009

How consumer choice affects health coverage plan design - 2009

Medicare beneficiaries' out-of- pocket spending for health care services - 2009

Active Living Research,

Walking and biking to school, physical activity and health outcomes - 2009

American Lung Association

Estimated prevalence and incidence of lung disease by lung association territory - 2009

Americans for Insurance Reform

True risk : medical liability, malpractice insurance and health care - 2009

Association for Community Affiliated Plans

Improving Medicaid's continuity of coverage and quality of care - 2009

California HealthCare Foundation

Fewer and more specialized : a new assessment of physician supply in California - 2009

Freestanding emergency departments : do they have a role in California? - 2009

Governance models among California public hospitals - 2009

Health care without the doctor : how new devices and technologies aid clinicians and consumers - 2009

Managing California's Medicaid dental program : lessons from other states - 2009

Reducing ambulance diversion in California : strategies and best practices - 2009

Unexpected charges : what states are doing about balance billing - 2009

California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

Health care reform for a diverse nation : the voices of California's communities of color - 2009

California Public Interest Research Group Education Fund

Cutting red tape in health care : how streamlining billing can reduce California's health care cost - 2009

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Deadly in pink : Big Tobacco steps up its targeting of women and girls - 2009

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Exposure to radiation and health outcomes - 2009

Canadian Institute for Health Information

Drug expenditure in Canada 1985 to 2008 National Health Expenditure Database - 2009

Health indicators 2009 - 2009

Canadian Institute for Health Information | Canadian Population Health Initiative

Improving the health of Canadians 2009 : exploring positive mental health - 2009

Carsey Institute

Navigating the teen years : promise and peril for northern New Hampshire youth - 2009

Center for American Progress Action Fund

LGBT issues in health reform : issue brief on making health reform work for all Americans - 2009

Too sick for health care : how insurers limit and deny care in the individual health insurance market - 2009

Center for Global Development

Performance incentives for global health : potential and pitfalls - 2009

Center for Strategic and International Studies

International family planning : a common-ground approach to an expanded US role - 2009

US - Russia collaboration on health : moving toward engagements - 2009

Centre for the Study of Adolescence | Population Action International

A measure of commitment : women's sexual and reproductive risk index for Sub Saharan Africa - 2009

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Coburn-Ryan health bill would jeopardize coverage for many, while failing to reduce the number of uninsured significantly/ - 2009

House health bill's high-income surcharge : a reasonable approach impact on small businesses would be modest - 2009

Senate finance committee faces difficult choices in lowering cost of health bill : subsidy change could leave some without affordable coverage - 2009

Commonwealth Fund

Chronic burdens : the persistently high out-of-pocket health care expenses faced by many americans with chronic conditions - 2009

Comparative effectiveness review with the UK's national institute for health and clinical excellence - 2009

Emergency department operations in top-performing safety net hospitals - 2009

Evidence-based decision-making within Australia's pharmaceutical benefits scheme - 2009

Failure to protect : why the individual insurance market is not a viable option for most US families - 2009

Failure to protect : why the individual insurance market is not a viable option for most US families [figures] - 2009

Finding resources for health reform and bending the health care cost curve - 2009

Gundersen Lutheran health system : performance improvement through partnership - 2009

Henry Ford Health System : a framework for system integration, coordination, collaboration, and innovation - 2009

How health care reform can lower the costs of insurance administration - 2009

How health care reform can lower the costs of insurance administration [exhibits] - 2009

Institute for quality and efficiency in health care : Germany - 2009

Marshfield Clinic: health information technology paves the way for population health management - 2009

Medicaid and CHIP strategies for improving child health - 2009

Medicaid and CHIP strategies for improving child health [figures] - 2009

National authority for health : France - 2009

North Carolina's ABCD program : using community care networks to improve the delivery of childhood developmental screening and referral to early intervention services - 2009

Paying Medicare advantage plans by competitive bidding : how much competition is there? - 2009

Paying the price : how health insurance premiums are eating up middle-class incomes : state health insurance premium trends and the potential of national reform - 2009

Communities and Local Government

Houses in multiple occupation and possible planning responses : consultation - 2009

World class places : the Government's strategy for improving quality of place - 2009

Economic Policy Institute

Health care reform : big benefits for small businesses - 2009

Families United for Senior Action Foundation

The clock is ticking : more Americans losing health coverage - 2009

Coverage for America : we all stand to gain - 2009

Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit

Birth weight and the dynamics of early cognitive and behavioural development - 2009

Child care subsidies and childhood obesity - 2009

Does schooling affect health behavior? : evidence from the education expansion in western Germany - 2009

The impact of childhood health on adult labor market outcomes - 2009

George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute | George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services

The H1N1 influenza A virus : a test case for a global response - 2009

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Children and health care reform : assuring coverage meets their health care needs - 2009

Consumers' experience in Massachusetts : lessons for national health reform - 2009

The crunch continues : Medicaid spending, coverage and polcy in the midst of a recession : results from a 50-state Medicaid budget survey for state fiscal years 2009 and 2010 - 2009

The effects of the economic recession on communities of color - 2009

Emergency departments under growing pressures - 2009

Examining sources of supplemental insurance and prescription drug coverage among Medicare beneficiaries : findings from the Medicare current beneficiary survey, 2007 : chartpack - 2009

Financing the response to AIDS in low- and middle- income countries : international assistance from the G8, European Commission and other donor governments, 2008 - 2009

Health care and the middle class : more costs and less coverage - 2009

How will the uninsured be affected by health reform? - 2009

How will uninsured children be affected by health reform? - 2009

How will uninsured parents be affected by health reform? - 2009

In pursuit of affordable health care on the ground lessons families in Massachusetts - 2009

Individuals with special needs and health reform : adequacy of health insurance coverage - 2009

Kaiser Family Foundation survey of healthy San Francisco participants - 2009

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll : July 2009 - 2009

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll : July 2009 : chartpack - 2009

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll : August 2009 - 2009

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll : August 2009 : chartpack - 2009

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll : September 2009 - 2009

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll : September 2009 : chartpack - 2009

New option for states to provide federally funded Medicaid and CHIP coverage to additional immigrant children and pregnant women - 2009

Oral histories : report from a dental fair for uninsured adults - 2009

A profile of American Indians and Alaska natives and their health coverage - 2009

Rising health pressures in an economic recession : a 360° look at four communities - 2009

Strategies for simplifying the Medicare Advantage market - 2009

Struggling with financing : the recession and national health reform dominated state Medicaid concerns going into FY 2010 - 2009

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation | American Cancer Society

Patients under pressure : profiles of how families affected by cancer are faring in the recession - 2009

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation | Project for Excellence in Journalism

Health news coverage in the US media : January - June 2009 - 2009

Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Initial national priorities for comparative effectiveness research - 2009

Lewin Group

Medicaid non- emergency out-of-network payment study - 2009

Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service

The Emergency Alert System (EAS) and all-hazard warnings - 2009

Emergency communications : the future of 911 - 2009

Health care reform : an introduction - 2009

Medical marijuana : review and analysis of federal and state policies - 2009

Private health insurance provisions of HR 3200 - 2009

The role of the Department of Defense during a flu pandemic - 2009

Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy

Health care in Massachusetts : key indicators - 2009

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health care : partnerships between employers and health plans - 2009

Medicaid Institute at United Hospital Fund

An overview of Medicaid long-term care programs in New York - 2009

National Academies Press

Ensuring quality cancer care through the oncology workforce sustaining care in the 21st century : workshop summary - 2009

National Academy of Social Insurance

Administrative solutions in health reform : report of the study panel on administrative issues in expanding access to health care - 2009

National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors | Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

The national HIV prevention inventory : the state of HIV prevention across the US - 2009

National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University

CASA national survey of American attitudes on substance abuse XIV : teens and parents - 2009

National Council on Crime and Delinquency

Created equal : racial and ethnic disparities in the US criminal justice system - 2009

National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission

A healthier future for all Australians : final report, June 2009 - 2009

National Institute on Drug Abuse

Monitoring the future national survey results on drug use, 1975-2008 - 2009

National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center

Promoting oral health in schools : a resource guide - 2009

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Improving the health of people who use drugs - 2009

Helping children reach and maintain a healthy weight - 2009

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

Characteristics of substance abuse treatment facilities offering acupuncture - 2009

Employment and major depressive episode - 2009

Race/ethnicity of female substance abuse treatment admissions aged 25 to 34 - 2009

Substance abuse treatment facilities serving American Indians and Alaska Natives - 2009

Substance use treatment need and receipt among Hispanics - 2009

Treatment for substance use and depression among adults, by race/ethnicity - 2009

Young adults' need for and receipt of alcohol and illicit drug use treatment : 2007 - 2009

Pacific Research Institute

2009 US index of health ownership - 2009

Population Action International

Making aid effectiveness work for family planning and reproductive health - 2009

Population and reproductive health in National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) for climate change - 2009

Public Health Agency of Canada

Obesity in Canada : snapshot - 2009

Public Health Research Consortium

Tackling the wider social determinants of health and health inequalities : evidence from systematic reviews - 2008

RAND Corporation

Assessing patient safety practices and outcomes in the US health care system - 2009

The potential cost savings of greater use of home- and hospice- based end of life care in England - 2009

Strategies and models for promoting adolescent vaccination for low-income populations - 2009

Public health preparedness and response to chemical and radiological incidents functions, practices, and areas for future work - 2009

Understanding the public health implications of prisoner reentry in California : phase I report - 2009

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | SHADAC

An introduction to the American community survey health insurance coverage estimates - 2009

Comparing federal government surveys that count uninsured people in America - 2009

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

Trends in demand for new physicians, 2002-2008 : a summary of demand indicators for 35 physician specialties - 2009

Transportation Construction Coalition

On a crash course : the dangers and health costs of deficient roadways - 2009

USPIRG Research Group Education Fund

The small business dilemma : how rising health care costs are tough on small business - 2009

United States Agency for Healthcare Research And Quality

Characteristics of people insured through COBRA versus through a current job, 2005-2006 - 2009

Characteristics of uninsured workers estimates for the US civilian noninstitutionalized population 19-64 years of age, 2006 - 2009

Trends in health care expenditures for children under age 18 : 2006 versus 1996 - 2009

Trends in health care expenditures for adults ages age 18-44 : 2006 versus 1996 - 2009

Trends in health care expenditures for adults ages 45-64 : 2006 versus 1996 - 2009

Trends in health care expenditures for the elderly age 65 and over : 2006 versus 1996 - 2009

The long-term uninsured in America, 2004-2007 estimates for the US civilian noninstitutionalized population under age 65 - 2009

The uninsured in America, 1996-2008 estimates for the US civilian noninstitutionalized population under age 65 - 2009

United States Department of Health and Human Services, HealthReform.GOV

Health insurance reform and Medicare : making Medicare stronger for America's seniors - 2009

United States Government Accountability Office

Biological research : observations on DHS's analysis concerning whether FMD research can be done as safely on the mainland as on Plum Island : report to congressional committees - 2009

Bottled water : FDA safety and consumer protections are often less stringent than comparable EPA protections for tap water : report to congressional requesters - 2009

Disaster assistance : greater coordination and an evaluation of programs' outcomes could improve disaster case management : report to congressional requesters - 2009

Disaster recovery : experiences from past disasters offer insights for effective collaboration after catastrophic events : report to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, US Senate - 2009

Drug control : US counternarcotics cooperation with Venezuela has declined : report to the Ranking Member, Committee on Foreign Relations, US Senate - 2009

Electronic health records : DOD and VA efforts to achieve full interoperability are ongoing ; program office management needs improvement : report to congressional committees - 2009

Food and Drug Administration : FDA faces challenges meeting its growing medical product responsibilities and should develop complete estimates of its resource needs : report to congressional requesters - 2009

Hurricane Katrina : barriers to mental health services for children persist in greater New Orleans, although federal grants are helping to address them : report to congressional requesters - 2009

Hurricane Katrina : barriers to mental health services for children persist in greater New Orleans, although federal grants are helping to address them : testimony before the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U - 2009

Hurricane Katrina : federal grants have helped health care organizations provide primary care, but challenges remain : report to congressional requesters - 2009

Influenza pandemic : gaps in pandemic planning and preparedness need to be addressed : testimony before the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives - 2009

Project BioShield : HHS can improve agency internal controls for Its new contracting authorities : report to congressional committees - 2009

Ryan White Care Act : program changes affecting Minority AIDS Initiative and Part D grantees : testimony before the Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives - 2009

VA health care : preliminary findings on VA's provision of health care services to veterans : testimony before the Subcommittees on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs and Health, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives - 2009

VA health care : preliminary findings on VA's provision of health care services to women veterans : testimony before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, US Senate - 2009

Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut

Overweight and obesity in Connecticut : precursors , policies and possibilities - 2009

University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research

Demographic subgroup trends for various licit and illicit drugs 1975-2008 - 2009

Urban Institute

Current health reform proposals : no government takeover of American health care - 2009

Health reform in Massachusetts : an update on insurance coverage and support for reform as of fall 2008 - 2009

How will the uninsured be affected by health reform? : childless adults - 2009

How will the uninsured be affected by health reform? : children : timely analysis of immediate health policy issues - 2009

How will the uninsured be affected by health reform? : non-elderly uninsured - 2009

How will the uninsured be affected by health reform? : parents - 2009

Making a business case for reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health care : key issues and observations - 2009

Urban Institute Health Policy Center

The nursing workforce challenge : public policy for a dynamic and complex market - 2009

World Health Organization

Global status report on road safety time for action - 2009

World Health Organization on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

Health technology assessment and health policy-making in Europe : current status, challenges, and potential - 2008