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From the Editor

Remembering A Distinguished Colleague John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Appreciation

Tributes to John M. Eisenberg [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Canada

Phantoms In The Snow: Canadians’ Use Of Health Care Services In The United States Steven J. Katz, Karen Cardiff, Marina Pascali, Morris L. Barer, and Robert G. Evans [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Costs Of Constraint And Prospects For Health Care Reform In Canada Carolyn Hughes Tuohy [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Mexico

Addressing Inequity In Health And Health Care In Mexico Mariana Barraza-Lloréns, Stefano Bertozzi, Eduardo González-Pier, and Juan Pablo Gutiérrez [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Africa And The AIDS Crisis

The HIV/AIDS Epidemic In Africa: Implications For U.S. Policy Jeff Gow [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

New Zealand

The Patients’ Complaints System In New Zealand Ron Paterson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

United States

A User’s Manual For The IOM’s ‘Quality Chasm’ Report Donald M. Berwick [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Addressing Racial And Ethnic Barriers To Effective Health Care: The Need For Better Data Arlene S. Bierman, Nicole Lurie, Karen Scott Collins, and John M. Eisenberg [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

United Kingdom

Performance Management In British Health Care: Will It Deliver? Peter C. Smith [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Further Tales From The British National Health Service Julian Le Grand [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

INTERVIEW: A Time For Change In The British NHS: An Interview With Alan Milburn Nicholas Timmins [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Mental Health

PROLOGUE: Mental Health [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Removing Barriers To Care Among Persons With Psychiatric Symptoms David Mechanic [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Impacts Of Mental Health Parity And Managed Care In One Large Employer Group Samuel H. Zuvekas, Darrel A. Regier, Donald S. Rae, Agnes Rupp, and William E. Narrow [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Commentary

Globalization And The Challenges To Health Systems Julio Frenk and Octavio Gómez-Dantés [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Globalize The Evidence, Localize The Decision: Evidence-Based Medicine And International Diversity John M. Eisenberg [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

TRENDS: Cross-National Comparisons Of Health Systems Using OECD Data, 1999 Uwe E. Reinhardt, Peter S. Hussey, and Gerard F. Anderson [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Inequities In Health Care: A Five-Country Survey Robert J. Blendon, Cathy Schoen, Catherine M. DesRoches, Robin Osborn, Kimberly L. Scoles, and Kinga Zapert [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Medicare Minus Choice: The Impact Of HMO Withdrawals On Rural Medicare Beneficiaries Michelle Casey, Astrid Knott, and Ira Moscovice [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Professionalism, Regulation, And The Market: Impact On Accountability For Quality Of Care L. Gregory Pawlson and Margaret E. O’Kane [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Having It All: National Benefit Equity And Local Payment Parity In Medicare Bryan Dowd and Roger Feldman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Purple Is The Color Of The Future Fitzhugh Mullan [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Butterfly And The Sword: AIDS In China Kyna Rubin [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Medicaid Managed Care And STDs: Missed Opportunities To Control The Epidemic Nadereh Pourat, E. Richard Brown, Natasha Razack, and William Kassler [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Do Enrollees In ‘Look-Alike’ Medicaid And SCHIP Programs Really Look Alike? Jennifer N. Edwards, Janet Bronstein, and David B. Rein [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Are HMO Enrollees Healthier Than Others? Results From The Community Tracking Study Elizabeth Schaefer and James D. Reschovsky [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

SPECIAL REPORT: Eliminating Racial/Ethnic Disparities In Health Care: Can Health Plans Generate Reports? David R. Nerenz, Vence L. Bonham, Robbya Green-Weir, Christine Joseph, and Margaret Gunter [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Grants & Grant Outcomes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

UpDate

Publications And Reports [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

The Politics Of Science Richard A. Rettig [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Caring Sisters Barbra Mann Wall [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Health Care Spending In One Chart Richard A. Cooper and Thomas E. Getzen [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Youth Tobacco Ads: Looking At The Wrong Magazines Robert A. Levy [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Unclear Link Between Cigarette Ads And Adolescent Smoking Jacob Sullum [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Insufficient Evidence On Youth Tobacco Ads Sam Kazman [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Tobacco Industry Responds Ellen Merlo, Craig F. Garfield, and Paul J. Chung [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Obesity And Health Care Costs Christopher D. Still and Gordon L. Jensen [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

An Epidemic In Need Of Control Robert G. Harmon and Rebecca Dachman [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Policymakers Don’t Address Obesity Morgan Downey [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Success With Obesity-Reduction Lifestyle Changes W. Bradley Pifalo [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Errata

Erratum [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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