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From the Editor

Health Affairs Reaches 25: How It All Got Started John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Definitions & Determinants

PROLOGUE: Vulnerable Populations: Definitions And Determinants [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Vulnerable People, Groups, And Populations: Societal View David Mechanic and Jennifer Tanner [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Early-Life Conditions And Mechanisms Of Population Health Vulnerabilities Alice Furumoto-Dawson, Sarah Gehlert, Dana Sohmer, Olufunmilayo Olopade, and Tina Sacks [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Immigrants And Health Care: Sources Of Vulnerability Kathryn Pitkin Derose, José J. Escarce, and Nicole Lurie [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Preparing Racially And Ethnically Diverse Communities For Public Health Emergencies Dennis P. Andrulis, Nadia J. Siddiqui, and Jenna L. Gantner [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspectives

PERSPECTIVE: How Useful Is ‘Vulnerable’ As A Concept? Bruce C. Vladeck [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Making A Difference In Differences For The Health Inequalities Of Individuals Tom Miller [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: The Social Response To Genetic Conditions: Beware Of The Antidiscrimination Law Richard A. Epstein [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Health Policy Approaches To Population Health: The Limits Of Medicalization Paula M. Lantz, Richard L. Lichtenstein, and Harold A. Pollack [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Data & Measurement

PROLOGUE: Vulnerable Populations: Data And Measurement Issues [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Improving Population Health And Reducing Health Care Disparities Kenneth Keppel, Linda Bilheimer, and Leda Gurley [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Appendix Figures] [Reprints & Permissions]

Measuring Racial And Ethnic Health Care Disparities In Massachusetts Robin M. Weinick, Jacquelyn M. Caglia, Elisa Friedman, and Katherine Flaherty [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health System

PROLOGUE: Vulnerable Populations And The Health System [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Spillovers And Vulnerability: The Case Of Community Uninsurance Mark V. Pauly and José A. Pagán [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Consumer-Directed Health Care And The Disadvantaged M. Gregg Bloche [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Supplement] [Reprints & Permissions]

Pharmacy Benefit Caps And The Chronically Ill Geoffrey F. Joyce, Dana P. Goldman, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, and Yuhui Zheng [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Insurance Expansions: Do They Hurt Those They Are Designed To Help? Barak D. Richman [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Perspective

PERSPECTIVE: Lowering The Barriers To Consumer-Directed Health Care: Responding To Concerns Katherine Baicker, William H. Dow, and Jonathan Wolfson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Commentary

Barriers To Serving The Vulnerable: Thoughts Of A Former Public Official Christine C. Ferguson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

‘Redefining Health Care’: Medical Homes Or Archipelagos To Navigate? Alain C. Enthoven, Francis J. Crosson, and Stephen M. Shortell [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

MARKETWATCH: Adoption Of Health Information Technology In Community Health Centers: Results Of A National Survey Alexandra E. Shields, Peter Shin, Michael G. Leu, Douglas E. Levy, Renée Marie Betancourt, Dan Hawkins, and Michelle Proser [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Would Greater Transparency And Uniformity Of Health Care Prices Benefit Poor Patients? Margaret K. Kyle and David B. Ridley [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Direct-To-Consumer Advertisements For HIV Antiretroviral Medications: A Progress Report Alexander Kallen, Steven Woloshin, Jennifer Shu, Ellen Juhl, and Lisa Schwartz [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Medicare And Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Time To Ask The Taxpayers Marthe R. Gold, Shoshanna Sofaer, and Taryn Siegelberg [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Health Benefits In 2007: Premium Increases Fall To An Eight-Year Low, While Offer Rates And Enrollment Remain Stable Gary Claxton, Jon Gabel, Bianca DiJulio, Jeremy Pickreign, Heidi Whitmore, Benjamin Finder, Paul Jacobs, and Samantha Hawkins [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Trends In The Health Of Older Americans, 1970–2005 Ellen Kramarow, James Lubitz, Harold Lentzner, and Yelena Gorina [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Down In New Orleans Benjamin Springgate [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Breakfast At Midnight Judy Karasik [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Disparities In Health: Perspectives Of A Multi-Ethnic, Multi-Racial America Robert J. Blendon, Tami Buhr, Elaine F. Cassidy, Debra J. Perez, Kelly A. Hunt, Channtal Fleischfresser, John M. Benson, and Melissa J. Herrmann [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Separate And Unequal: Racial Segregation And Disparities In Quality Across U.S. Nursing Homes David Barton Smith, Zhanlian Feng, Mary L. Fennell, Jacqueline S. Zinn, and Vincent Mor [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Methodological Supplement][Erratum] [Reprints & Permissions]

Access To Specialty Care And Medical Services In Community Health Centers Nakela L. Cook, LeRoi S. Hicks, A. James O’Malley, Thomas Keegan, Edward Guadagnoli, and Bruce E. Landon [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Appendix Tables] [Reprints & Permissions]

Restoring Fiscal Integrity To Medicaid Financing? Teresa A. Coughlin, Stephen Zuckerman, and Joshua McFeeters [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Spending In OECD Countries In 2004: An Update Gerard F. Anderson, Bianca K. Frogner, and Uwe E. Reinhardt [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

GRANTWATCH REPORT: America’s Health Care Safety Net: Revisiting The 2000 IOM Report Marion E. Lewin and Raymond J. Baxter [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch: Outcomes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [GrantWatch Online 27 September][GrantWatch Online 17 October] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

BOOK REVIEWS: A Despairing Optimist Lights A Candle In The Dark Robert Cunningham [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Silicon Valley To The Rescue, Version 2.0 J.D. Kleinke [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

‘Tough Love’ To Arrogant, Underperforming Foundations Lewis G. Sandy [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

CEA Is Not A Price Control Joshua Cohen [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Getting The Innovation We Want Steven D. Pearson [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

CEA: The Authors Respond Anupam B. Jena and Tomas J. Philipson [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Moving Toward The Exit Roy Jacobson [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Living Will For A Handicapped Child Susan B. Bianchi [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Living Will: The Author Responds Victoria Sweet [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Infant Mortality In Chile Reflects Socioeconomic Status Alexander Hertel-Fernandez [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Infant Mortality: The Authors Respond Jorge Jiménez and María Inés Romero [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Eliminating Neglected Diseases: Impact Of Published Paper Sam Brownback [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Web Exclusives

Are Citizens Of The World Satisfied With Their Health? Jim Clifton and Newt Gingrich (published online 17 July 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Appendices] [Reprints & Permissions]

INTERVIEW: Consumerism And Controversy: A Conversation With Regina Herzlinger Robert S. Galvin (published online 24 July 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Why Millions Of Children Eligible For Medicaid And SCHIP Are Uninsured: Poor Retention Versus Poor Take-Up Benjamin D. Sommers (published online 26 July 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange: What Happened? Robert H. Miller and Bradley S. Miller (published online 1 August 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Table Of Contents] [Reprints & Permissions]

From Santa Barbara To Washington: A Person’s And A Nation’s Journey Toward Portable Health Information David J. Brailer (published online 1 August 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Retrospective: Lessons Learned From The Santa Barbara Project And Their Implications For Health Information Exchange Jonah Frohlich, Sam Karp, Mark D. Smith, and Walter Sujansky (published online 1 August 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Another Lesson From Santa Barbara Donald L. Holmquest (published online 1 August 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Health Information Exchange: ‘Lex Parsimoniae’ J. Marc Overhage (published online 1 August 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Dynamics In Medicaid And SCHIP Eligibility Among Children In SCHIP’s Early Years: Implications For Reauthorization Anna S. Sommers, Lisa Dubay, Linda J. Blumberg, Fredric E. Blavin, and John L. Czajka (published online 7 August 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

SCHIP Reconsidered Sara Rosenbaum (published online 14 August 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Children’s Eligibility And Coverage: Recent Trends And A Look Ahead Julie L. Hudson and Thomas M. Selden (published online 16 August 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Online Exhibit] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Progress Report: Findings From A 2006 National Survey Of Seniors Patricia Neuman, Michelle Kitchman Strollo, Stuart Guterman, William H. Rogers, Angela Li, Angie Mae C. Rodday, and Dana Gelb Safran (published online 21 August 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Online Exhibit][Interview With The Author] [Reprints & Permissions]

INTERVIEW: Rebuilding A Community Health Center Following A Natural Disaster: Interview In Biloxi, Mississippi Tom Bearden (published online 29 August 2007) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Multimedia Extras] [Reprints & Permissions]

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