...Jane Root; Sue Stableford Effective consumer communication is key to successfully moving Medicaid recipients into managed care systems and realizing the promised cost savings from the upheaval. Yet, little attention has been paid to educating these consumers with easy-to-read materials. The Maine...

.... Report from the Field The Medicare Reforms of 1997: Headlines You Didn’t Read Lynn Etheredge George Washington University Abstract The 1997 Medicare...

..., by Paul Starr. Nature 304 : 667 -668. What the Doctors Read Joel D. Howell University of Michigan The rise of corporate enterprise in health services . . . is already having...

...Thomas L. Greaney Clark C. Havighurst, Health Care Law and Policy: Readings, Notes and Questions (Westbury, NY: Foundation Press, 1988), 1299 pp. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 References Annas , G. , S. Law, R. Rosenblatt, and K. Wing. Forthcoming. American...

...Sara Rosenbaum Marsha Gold, ed. Contemporary Managed Care: Readings in Structure, Operations, and Public Policy. Chicago: Health Administration Press, 1998. 370 pp. $40.0 paper. Walter A. Zelman and Robert A. Berenson. The Managed Care Blues and How to Cure Them . Washington, DC...

...-Reading the Invisible Hand: A Critical Examination of Pro-Competitive Reform Proposals Daniel W. Sigelrnan Abstract. The conviction that competition could discipline the medical market- place more adequately than regulation is rapidly ascendant among...

...Daniel Skinner Abstract This article examines an important but largely overlooked dimension of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), namely, its significance for Native American health care. The author maintains that reading the ACA against the politics of Native American health...

... of paid advertising campaigns, and conclude that readers were exposed to different perspectives and arguments about managed care regulation if the newspapers they read were published in states targeted by political advertisements. Specifically, newspaper coverage was 17 percent less likely...

... Errata for Anna Kirkland, “The Legitimacy of Vaccine Critics: What Is Left after the Autism Hypothesis?” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 37, no. 1 (February 2012): . On page 80, the text starting with “The foundation was also the source” should read as follows: The foundation was also...

... of quantitative techniques, so long applied to problems in the private and industrial sectors, would be the mainstay of such an approach. It is the goal of this article, therefore, to identify, classify, and briefly describe elements of the emerging set of materials (texts, edited readings, and monographs) which...

...) influenza pandemic. We gathered and performed close textual readings of official federal, state, and municipal government documents; media coverage; and academic publications. Lastly, we conducted oral history interviews with public health and education officials in our selected cities. We found...

...) identify, categorize, and briefly describe statistical and other data-analytic techniques of potential use to the evaluation researchers; and (2) identify currently available resources, i.e., texts, books of readings, monographs, etc., that offer discussions and analyses of these techniques. It is hoped...

... panel ( N = 1,326) were randomized to a control arm or to read one of three brief narratives about SMI emphasizing violence, systemic barriers to treatment, or successful treatment and recovery. Narratives, or stories about individuals, are a common communication strategy used by policy makers...

... be useful course readings. At the same time, the republication of this collection as a book raises several general problems of organization and content. I begin my review by outlining these general problems. I then turn to the specific articles. One methodological problem runs through many...

.... Reverby, a historian in women’s studies at Wellesley, also seeks to straddle this gap and thereby explore the fundamental dilemma of being a nurse: how to serve without sacrifice. Reverby connects her book to the two other books in the field that are required reading for students of nursing...

... more of an incentive to further reading than a final word. Most readers are likely to find little of immediate use in these pages. Forrester chooses to concentrate on the history of ideas, and his discus- sion is oriented to a genealogy of certain themes important to psycho- analysis. Similarly...

...)” , not “(y* = 4yr1 a Item 1, line 3 on page 107 should read ‘‘Pois the y-intercept term,” not ‘‘PIis the y-intercept term.” In the last paragraph on page 92, the first sentence (line 2) should read “that portion of the U.S. which can be characterized as ‘catchment areas’ for DAWN...

... policy provides the right incentives, the actual implementation of policy should be left to firms and individuals responding to the revamped market forces they are made to confront. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in toxics and haz- ardous waste policy. It combines...

.... . Wing Abortion 971 If O’Connor’s analysis in this portion of her Casey opinion is to be read broadly, a restriction that merely adds to the costs of an abortion or results in a delay does not “unduly burden” or present a “substantial obstacle” to a woman’s choice and therefore survives...