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From the Editor

A Time Of Trial On The Home Front, Too John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Foreword

A Tale Of Two Cities Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, William C. Richardson, Robert K. Ross, and John W. Rowe [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Origins Of Disparities

PROLOGUE: The Origins Of Racial/Ethnic Disparities [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Racial And Ethnic Health Disparities And The Unfinished Civil Rights Agenda David Barton Smith [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Social Sources Of Racial Disparities In Health David R. Williams and Pamela Braboy Jackson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Policy Challenges In Addressing Racial Disparities And Improving Population Health David Mechanic [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Communities And Health Policy: A Pathway For Change Judith Bell and Marion Standish [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Disparities By Race And Class: Why Both Matter Ichiro Kawachi, Norman Daniels, and Dean E. Robinson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Public Response

PROLOGUE: The Public-Sector Response To Disparities [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Disparities And Quality Improvement: Federal Policy Levers Nicole Lurie, Minna Jung, and Risa Lavizzo-Mourey [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicare As A Catalyst For Reducing Health Disparities June Eichner and Bruce C. Vladeck [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Compiling The Evidence: The National Healthcare Disparities Reports Ernest Moy, Elizabeth Dayton, and Carolyn M. Clancy [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Creating A State Minority Health Policy Report Card Amal N. Trivedi, Brian Gibbs, Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson, John Z. Ayanian, and Deborah Prothrow-Stith [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Insurers' Response

PROLOGUE: Insurers’ Response To Health Disparities [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Role Of Health Insurance Coverage In Reducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities In Health Care Marsha Lillie-Blanton and Catherine Hoffman [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Care Organizations’ Use Of Race/Ethnicity Data To Address Quality Disparities David R. Nerenz [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Taking On Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Health Care: The Experience At Aetna Patricia Hassett [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Verizon Works To Eliminate Disparities In Health Care For Its Diverse Workforce Audrietta C. Izlar [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Crossing The Language Chasm Cindy Brach, Irene Fraser, and Kathy Paez [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Pay Now Or Pay Later: Providing Interpreter Services In Health Care Leighton Ku and Glenn Flores [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspectives From Congress

Overcoming Disparities In U.S. Health Care William H. Frist [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Role Of The Federal Government In Eliminating Health Disparities Edward M. Kennedy [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

TRENDS: What If We Were Equal? A Comparison Of The Black-White Mortality Gap In 1960 And 2000 David Satcher, George E. Fryer, Jr., Jessica McCann, Adewale Troutman, Steven H. Woolf, and George Rust [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Health Center Trends, 1994–2001: What Do They Portend For The Federal Growth Initiative? Ann S. O’Malley, Christopher B. Forrest, Robert M. Politzer, John T. Wulu, and Leiyu Shi [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: The Impact Of Blue Cross Conversions On Health Spending And The Uninsured Christopher J. Conover, Mark A. Hall, and Jan Ostermann [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Genetic Testing For Alzheimer’s Disease And Its Impact On Insurance Purchasing Behavior Cathleen D. Zick, Charles J. Mathews, J. Scott Roberts, Robert Cook-Deegan, Robert J. Pokorski, and Robert C. Green [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Making Health Equality A Reality: The Bronx Takes Action Neil Calman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Cultural Competence And Health Care Disparities: Key Perspectives And Trends Joseph R. Betancourt, Alexander R. Green, J. Emilio Carrillo, and Elyse R. Park [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

She Walked From El Salvador Glenn Flores [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Concordance Alok A. Khorana [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Use Of Geocoding In Managed Care Settings To Identify Quality Disparities Allen M. Fremont, Arlene Bierman, Steve L. Wickstrom, Chloe E. Bird, Mona Shah, José J. Escarce, Thomas Horstman, and Thomas Rector [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medical School Tuition And Young Physicians’ Indebtedness Paul Jolly [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicaid Policies To Contain Psychiatric Drug Costs Chris Koyanagi, Sandra Forquer, and Elaine Alfano [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Supplemental Exhibit] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

REPORT: Public-Private Partnerships And Antiretroviral Drugs For HIV/AIDS: Lessons From Botswana Ilavenil Ramiah and Michael R. Reich [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Outcomes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Grant Watch Online - March 31st, 2005][GrantWatch Online - April 18th, 2005][GrantWatch Online - April 29, 2005] [Reprints & Permissions]

UpDate

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

Book Reviews

Social Disparities In Health: An Anglo-European Perspective James S. House [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Is Evidence-Based Medicine Evidence Based? Thomas Bodenheimer [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Is It Time For A Government-Run Health Care System? Lynn Etheredge [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Consolidation In Health Care Donald J. Palmisano [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Disease Management’s Economic Impact: Unproven? Thomas Wilson and Ariel Linden [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Disease Management: The Authors Respond Bruce Fireman for the authors [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Moral Hazard Health Spending Roger K. Howe [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Moral Hazard: The Author Responds John A. Nyman [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Errata

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

Acknowledgments

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

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