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From the Editor

The Mental Health Maze: Some Progress, Many Pitfalls John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Finance & Value

PROLOGUE: Finance And Value In Mental Health Care [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Changes In Mental Health Financing Since 1971: Implications For Policymakers And Patients Richard G. Frank and Sherry Glied [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Online Appendices] [Reprints & Permissions]

Rising Mental Health Costs: What Are We Getting For Our Money? Benjamin G. Druss [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Costs Of Mental Health Parity: Still An Impediment? Colleen L. Barry, Richard G. Frank, and Thomas G. McGuire [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Prices, Profits, And Innovation: Examining Criticisms Of New Psychotropic Drugs’ Value Haiden A. Huskamp [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Specialization & Integration

PROLOGUE: Specialization And Integration In Mental Health Care [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Substance Abuse With Mental Disorders: Specialized Public Systems And Integrated Care M. Audrey Burnam and Katherine E. Watkins [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

From Silos To Bridges: Meeting The General Health Care Needs Of Adults With Severe Mental Illnesses Marcela Horvitz-Lennon, Amy M. Kilbourne, and Harold Alan Pincus [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Beyond Integration: Challenges For Children’s Mental Health Jane Knitzer and Janice Cooper [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Quality & Access

PROLOGUE: Ensuring Quality And Access In Mental Health Services [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

What Is Necessary To Transform The Quality Of Mental Health Care Kavita K. Patel, Brittany Butler, and Kenneth B. Wells [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Struggle To Provide Community-Based Care To Low-Income People With Serious Mental Illnesses Peter Cunningham, Kelly McKenzie, and Erin Fries Taylor [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Regulation & Policy

PROLOGUE: Regulation And Policy In Mental Health [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Mental Health In The Medicare Part D Drug Benefit: A New Regulatory Model? Julie Donohue [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Patient As A Policy Factor: A Historical Case Study Of The Consumer/Survivor Movement In Mental Health Nancy Tomes [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Extended Bibliography] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: A Seat At The Table: Trend Or Illusion? Robert Bernstein [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Psychiatry And The Consumer Movement Steven S. Sharfstein and Faith B. Dickerson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Defining ‘Mental Illness’ In Mental Health Policy Howard H. Goldman and Gerald N. Grob [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

MARKETWATCH: Malpractice Premiums And Physicians’ Income: Perceptions Of A Crisis Conflict With Empirical Evidence Marc A. Rodwin, Hak J. Chang, and Jeffrey Clausen [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: The Relationship Between Health Plan Advertising And Market Incentives: Evidence Of Risk-Selective Behavior Ateev Mehrotra, Sonya Grier, and R. Adams Dudley [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Exhibit] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Consumer-Directed Health Insurance Products: Local-Market Perspectives Lydia Regopoulos, Jon B. Christianson, Gary Claxton, and Sally Trude [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Exhibit] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Why Employer-Sponsored Insurance Coverage Changed, 1997–2003 James D. Reschovsky, Bradley C. Strunk, and Paul Ginsburg [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Methodological Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Construction Activity In U.S. Hospitals Gloria J. Bazzoli, Anneliese Gerland, and Jessica May [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: National Trends In Adult Hospice Use: 1991–1992 To 1999–2000 Beth Han, Robin E. Remsburg, William J. McAuley, Timothy J. Keay, and Shirley S. Travis [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Influencing Cancer Policy Roger Herdman, William McGuire, and Joseph Simone [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Doctoring Across The Language Divide Alice Chen [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Innocence Abroad Jack Coulehan [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Health Care Spending And Use Of Information Technology In OECD Countries Gerard F. Anderson, Bianca K. Frogner, Roger A. Johns, and Uwe E. Reinhardt [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Generosity And Adjusted Premiums In Job-Based Insurance: Hawaii Is Up, Wyoming Is Down Jon Gabel, Roland McDevitt, Laura Gandolfo, Jeremy Pickreign, Samantha Hawkins, and Cheryl Fahlman [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Predictive Accuracy Of The New York State Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Report-Card System Ashish K. Jha and Arnold M. Epstein [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

GRANTWATCH: REPORT: Strengthening A State’s Health Advocacy Infrastructure Ruth Holton-Hodson and Ruth Brousseau [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch: Outcomes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Grantwatch Online 2 June][GrantWatch Online 19 June][GrantWatch Online 30 June] [Reprints & Permissions]

UpDate

UPDATE: SPECIAL REPORT: Defining A Future For Fee-For-Service Medicare Susan Bartlett Foote and Gwen Wagstrom Halaas [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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

Book Reviews

BOOK REVIEWS: U.S. Health Reform Failures: The Elusive Quest For Explanations Theodore R. Marmor [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

A Five-Step Health Spending Diet: More Homeopathy Than Free-Market Therapy Tom Miller [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Chaoulli v. Quebec: Charter Rights, Private Health Insurance, And The Future Of Canadian Medicare Timothy Stoltzfus Jost [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Specialty Hospitals: Pro And Kahn James Grant [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Specialty Hospitals: The Author Responds Charles N. Kahn, III [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Examining Hospital Costs Jeff Goldsmith [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Examining Hospital Costs: The Authors Respond Stuart H. Altman [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Nurse Staffing And Quality Dave Kieffer [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Nurse-To-Patient Ratios Robert Kaestner [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Cost Sharing Revisited Tom Miller [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Cost Sharing: Authors Respond Meredith Rosenthal [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Managing Consumerism Trapier K. Michael [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Web Exclusives

INTERVIEW: Extracting Knowledge From Science: A Conversation With Elias Zerhouni Barbara J. Culliton (published online 9 March 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

INTERVIEW: Confessions Of A Serial Entrepreneur: A Conversation With Alfred E. Mann Molly Joel Coye (published online 14 March 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Understanding Social Insurance: Fairness, Affordability, And The ‘Modernization’ Of Social Security And Medicare Theodore R. Marmor and Jerry L. Mashaw (published online 21 March 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: A Message To Friends Of Social Insurance: Wake Up! Henry J. Aaron (published online 21 March 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Social Insurance And Elderly Entitlement Reform: Are They Compatible? Thomas R. Saving (published online 21 March 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: The Effect Of Population Aging On Future Hospital Demand Bradley C. Strunk, Paul B. Ginsburg, and Michelle I. Banker (published online 28 March 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Charge Of The Right Brigade? Communities, Coverage, And Care For The Uninsured Lawrence D. Brown and Beth Stevens (published online 11 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Impermanent Politics: The Hillsborough County Health Care Plan And Community Innovation For The Uninsured Lawrence D. Brown (published online 11 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Community Approaches To Providing Care For The Uninsured Erin Fries Taylor, Peter Cunningham, and Kelly McKenzie (published online 11 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Who Enrolls In Community-Based Programs For The Uninsured, And Why Do They Stay? Erin Fries Taylor, Catherine G. McLaughlin, Anne W. Warren, and Paula H. Song (published online 11 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Applying Lessons Learned In Communities To Programs And Policies At The Federal Level Debbie I. Chang (published online 11 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Public Employees’ Health Benefits Survive Major Threats, So Far Robert E. Hurley, Laurie Felland, Anneliese Gerland, and Jeremy Pickreign (published online 18 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

An Early Look At Ten State HIFA Medicaid Waivers Teresa A. Coughlin, Sharon K. Long, John A. Graves, and Alshadye Yemane (published online 25 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

INTERVIEW: TennCare—A Failure Of Politics, Not Policy: A Conversation With Gordon Bonnyman Robert E. Hurley (published online 25 April 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Consumer Decision Making In The Individual Health Insurance Market M. Susan Marquis, Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, José J. Escarce, Kanika Kapur, Thomas A. Louis, and Jill M. Yegian (published online 2 May 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum] [Reprints & Permissions]

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