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From The Editor

A Job Well Done John K. Iglehart [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

UpDate

Publications & Reports [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicare+Choice provisions in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 S Christensen [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Publications And Reports [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Journal Article

Performance measurement: problems and solutions D M Eddy [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Improving Health: The Reason Performance Measurement Matters Samuel O. Thier and Annetine C. Gelijns [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Are Performance Measures Relevant? Robert S. Galvin [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Physician, Measure Thyself Lee N. Newcomer [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Moving Ahead, Measure By Measure Cary Sennett [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Reordering Performance Measurement Priorities Dennis S. O'Leary [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: Measuring What Matters To The Public David Lansky [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Assessing managed care for children with chronic conditions K Kuhlthau, D K Walker, J M Perrin, L Bauman, S L Gortmaker, P W Newacheck, and R E Stein [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Financial capital and intellectual capital in physician practice management J C Robinson [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective: The Doctor's Bottom Line Lawrence C. Marsh [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Understanding the managed care backlash R J Blendon, M Brodie, J M Benson, D E Altman, L Levitt, T Hoff, and L Hugick [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The managed care backlash and the task force in California A C Enthoven and S J Singer [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Why Britain is reorganizing its national health service--yet again R Klein [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

Wall Street's love affair with health care S Srinivasan, L Levitt, and J Lundy [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Marketing HMOs to Medicare beneficiaries P Neuman, E Maibach, K Dusenbury, M Kitchman, and P Zupp [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Rules of the game: how public policy affects local health care markets L S Solomon [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Accountable communities: how norms and values affect health system change C R Steinberg and R J Baxter [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The role of employers in community health care systems J B Christianson [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health system change in 1997 P B Ginsburg [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Commentary

HIV testing of infants: privacy and public health A Etzioni [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

What does Medicare pay for? Disentangling the flow of funds to health care providers W P Welch [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

What does treatment of depression really cost? T W Croghan, R L Obenchain, and W E Crown [Abstract] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

Reflections on the challenges of philanthropy S A Schroeder [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Grants And Grant Outcomes [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

Winning The Lottery For Designer Genes Kenneth F. Schaffner [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Mental Health Policy: A Complex History Christopher G. Hudson [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Mental Health Care: A Commodity? Dwight McNeill [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Mental Health Care Costs\emdash Not The Whole Story Michael S. Jellinek [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Mental Health Care Costs: The Authors Respond William Goldman, Joyce McCulloch, and Roland Sturm [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Mental Health Carve-Outs Jay M. Pomerantz [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Mental Health Carve-Outs: The Authors Respond Ching-To Albert Ma and Thomas G. McGuire [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Media's Role In Managed Care Reform Hale Champion [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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