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From the Editor

To What Are Children Entitled? Coming Challenges John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Child Health

The Transformation Of Child Health In The United States Paul H. Wise [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Children's Coverage

PROLOGUE: Children’s Insurance Coverage: Advances And Retreats [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Children’s Health Coverage: A Quarter-Century Of Change Peter Cunningham and James Kirby [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Tracking Changes In Eligibility And Coverage Among Children, 1996–2002 Thomas M. Selden, Julie L. Hudson, and Jessica S. Banthin [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The State Children’s Health Insurance Program: Successes, Shortcomings, And Challenges Genevieve Kenney and Debbie I. Chang [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Erratum] [Reprints & Permissions]

SCHIP’s Impact In Three States: How Do The Most Vulnerable Children Fare? Andrew W. Dick, Cindy Brach, R. Andrew Allison, Elizabeth Shenkman, Laura P. Shone, Peter G. Szilagyi, Jonathan D. Klein, and Eugene M. Lewit [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Appendices] [Reprints & Permissions]

Quality & Access

PROLOGUE: Children’s Health Care: Quality And Access Issues [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Access And Quality In Child Health Services: Voltage Drops Paul J. Chung and Mark A. Schuster [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Variations In The Quality Of Care For Very-Low-Birthweight Infants: Implications For Policy Jeannette A. Rogowski, Douglas O. Staiger, and Jeffrey D. Horbar [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Childhood Vaccine Finance And Safety Issues Robert Giffin, Kathleen Stratton, and Rosemary Chalk [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Investing In Children

PROLOGUE: Investing In Children’s Health And Health Care [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Did A Rising Tide Lift All Boats? The NIH Budget And Pediatric Research Portfolio Daniel P. Gitterman, Robert S. Greenwood, Keith C. Kocis, B. Rick Mayes, and Aaron N. McKethan [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Lost In Translation? Reflections On The Role Of Research In Improving Health Care For Children Lisa Simpson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Generational Differences In U.S. Public Spending, 1980–2000 Susmita Pati, Ron Keren, Evaline A. Alessandrini, and Donald F. Schwarz [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Expanded Exhibit] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Intergenerational Equity And Public Spending Paul W. Newacheck and A.E. Benjamin [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Child Health Perspectives

PERSPECTIVE: Children’s Public Health Policy In The United States: How The Past Can Inform The Future Howard Markel and Janet Golden [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Chipping Away At The Uninsured Alan Weil [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Childhood Origins Of Adult Health: A Basis For Life-Course Health Policy Christopher B. Forrest and Anne W. Riley [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspectives

PERSPECTIVE: U.S. Child Health: What’s Amiss, And What Should Be Done About It? Barbara Starfield [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Policies To Reduce Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Child Health And Health Care Anne C. Beal [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Interview

INTERVIEW: Reagan, Clinton, Tobacco, And Children: An Interview With C. Everett Koop Fitzhugh Mullan [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Commentary

Securitization Of Tobacco Settlement Payments To Reduce States’ Conflict Of Interest Jody Sindelar and Tracy Falba [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Is ‘Moral Hazard’ Inefficient? The Policy Implications Of A New Theory John A. Nyman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

MARKETWATCH: Health Benefits In 2004: Four Years Of Double-Digit Premium Increases Take Their Toll On Coverage Jon Gabel, Gary Claxton, Isadora Gil, Jeremy Pickreign, Heidi Whitmore, Erin Holve, Benjamin Finder, Samantha Hawkins, and Diane Rowland (published online 9 September 2004) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Erratum] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Listening To Generic Prozac: Winners, Losers, And Sideliners Benjamin G. Druss, Steven C. Marcus, Mark Olfson, and Harold Alan Pincus [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Looking Inside The Nation’s Medicine Cabinet: Trends In Outpatient Drug Spending By Medicare Beneficiaries, 1997 And 2001 John F. Moeller, G. Edward Miller, and Jessica S. Banthin [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Prescription Drug Spending Trends For The Privately Insured In Maryland, 2000–2001 Fadia T. Shaya, Steven Blume, and C. Daniel Mullins [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Endangered Gifts Jennifer L. Bau [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Related Papers] [Reprints & Permissions]

No Tears Jeffrey Brosco [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Related Papers] [Reprints & Permissions]

A Pediatric Revolution At Home Polly Arango [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Related Papers] [Reprints & Permissions]

Pizza Ship W. Richard Boyte [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Related Papers] [Reprints & Permissions]

Two Poems Judy Schaefer and Mariquita MacManus Mullan [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Related Papers] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Medicaid Payment And Risk-Adjusted Nursing Home Quality Measures David C. Grabowski, Joseph J. Angelelli, and Vincent Mor [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

ESSAY: Child Health: Fertile Ground For Philanthropic Investment Anne L. Schwartz and Lauren LeRoy [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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

UpDate

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

Book Reviews

Medicare Policy Analysis As Dismal Science Bruce C. Vladeck [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Alternative Medicine, Alternative Politics David Cantor [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

When The System Fails Susan M. Allen [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Better Medical-Injury Systems Randall R. Bovbjerg [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Trust And Verify M. Gregg Bloche [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Trust And Verify: The Authors Respond David Thom for the authors [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Drug Patents In Poor Countries James Love [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Patent Status Matters Eric Goemaere, Michel Lotrofska, Yves Marchandy, and Ellen’t Hoen [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Objective Patent Study Eric Noehrenberg [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Drug Patents Abroad: The Author Responds Amir Attaran [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Quality Of Care In Five Countries Elizabeth McCaughey [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Statistical Issues And Quality Indicators Bernard C.K. Choi [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Care In Five Countries: The Authors Respond Peter Hussey for the authors [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Patient Harm Paul B. Hofmann [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Errata

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