HEALTH CARE

Calls of Duty: America Weighs Its Obligations to Veterans and Their Families (Spring 2012)

Eliminating Individual Mandate Would Decrease Coverage, Increase Spending (Spring 2012)

A Bitter Pill: Soaring Health Care Spending and the American Family (Winter 2011-2012)

Heart and Soul: For Global Health, Prescriptions of Medicine and Morality (Winter 2011-2012)

Prisoner Reentry: As California Releases Prisoners, It Must Confront the Public Health Consequences (Winter 2011-2012)

Providing Best Mental Health Treatments for All Veterans Could Save Money as Well as Lives (Winter 2011-2012)

After Nearly a Decade of War, Servicemembers and Families Report Stress, Resilience (Summer 2011)

Higher Coverage Rates, State Costs Seen Under U.S. Health Reform (Summer 2011)

How Employer-Based Health Insurance Curbs Entrepreneurship (Summer 2011)

Interactive Graphic: Higher Coverage Rates, State Costs Seen Under U.S. Health Reform (Summer 2011)

Worksite Program Can Improve Parent-Teen Chats About Sex (Summer 2011)

Facing the Music: Time to Treat Serious Mental Illness Seriously, Say Experts (Spring 2011)

From Management to Recovery: Emerging Approaches to Serious Mental Illness (Spring 2011)

Gays in the Military: Eventually, New Facts Conquer Old Taboos (Spring 2011)

Insurance Exchanges: Booster Shots to Employee Health Coverage (Spring 2011)

Likely Effects of the New U.S. Health Care Reform Law (Spring 2011)

Ongoing Treatment: RAND Can Help Rein In U.S. Health Care Costs (Spring 2011)

Shifts in Responsibility: Global Trends Presage New Era in Home Health Care (Spring 2011)

Variations in Treating Noninvasive Breast Cancer Affect Outcomes (Spring 2011)

Childhood Psychological Problems Foreshadow Long-Term Losses (Winter 2010-2011)

Older Americans Are Less Healthy Than English but Live Longer (Winter 2010-2011)

Still Shaky: A Year After the Earthquake in Haiti, the Key to Stability Is to Build the State (Winter 2010-2011)

An Aging Europe: Wonder How You Manage to Make Ends Meet (Summer 2010)

Few Health Reform Options Could Have Insured More at Less Cost (Summer 2010)

Not So Rash: Reassessing Food Allergy Diagnoses and Treatments (Summer 2010)

Spillover Effect: For the Gulf Coast, Can We Make the Smart, Long-Term Choices? (Summer 2010)

“When I’m 64”: How Aging U.S. Baby Boomers Have Begun to Carry That Weight (Summer 2010)

Collapse of Silica Litigation Suggests Ways to Improve Justice System (Spring 2010)

Marshaling the Evidence: How Science Can Help Fight the War on Poverty (Spring 2010)

Pooled Assets: Three Ways for Coping in Hard Times (Spring 2010)

Reducing Air Pollution Can Also Reduce Hospital Spending (Spring 2010)

NGOs Can Play Larger Roles in Long-Term Human Recovery (Winter 2009-2010)

Lowering Sodium Consumption Could Yield Large Societal Savings (Winter 2009-2010)

Pilgrim’s Progress: How Massachusetts Could Lead the Way in Controlling Health Care Costs (Winter 2009-2010)

Price Is an Important Lever to Reduce Alcohol Consumption in Europe (Winter 2009-2010)

Rapid Growth in Health Care Costs Hurts U.S. Industries (Winter 2009-2010)

Retail Medical Clinics Perform Well Relative to Other Medical Settings (Winter 2009-2010)

California Parolees Have High Need for Health Care but Poor Access to Services (Summer 2009)

Complete Checkup: Assessing the Vital Signs for U.S. Health Care Reform (Summer 2009)

Lucky Strike? Arkansas Gets Satisfaction from Rare State Investments in Smoking Prevention and Cessation (Summer 2009)

Of Facts and Faces (Summer 2009)

Third Opinion: A Leading Health Researcher Looks Beyond the Reform Debate (Summer 2009)

Advanced Care: The Promise of Health Information Technology for Cost, Quality, and Privacy (Spring 2009)

Health Information Technology Savings Dwarf Costs over the First 15 Years, Then Keep Growing (Spring 2009)

A Better Deal: Health: Use COMPARE for Better Policymaking (Fall 2008)

Asian Exchange: China and India Trade Lessons in Education and Health (Fall 2008)

From Microdata to Megatrends: The Continuing Legacy of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment (Fall 2008)

Issues over the Horizon: The Aging Couple (Summer 2008)

Issues over the Horizon: Beating the Germ Insurgency (Summer 2008)

Issues over the Horizon: A Second Reproductive Revolution (Summer 2008)

Stop Loss: A Nation Weighs the Tangible Consequences of Invisible Combat Wounds (Summer 2008)

Baby Steps: Comparison of Neonatal Services Points to National Health Care Lessons (Spring 2008)

Grassroots Program Seems to Reduce Malnutrition in India at Low Cost (Spring 2008)

Weighty Debate: Health Experts Seek Common Ground in Fight Against Obesity (Spring 2008)

Quick Fix: Drug Benefit Plans Driven by Short-Term Savings Could Be More Costly in the End (Fall 2007)

Serious Gaps Exist in Health Care Quality for America’s Children (Fall 2007)

Higher Levels of Religiosity Among People with HIV Can Help Prevent Its Spread (Summer 2007)

Selective Memories: For 25 Years, the RAND Health Insurance Experiment Has Stoked Competing Claims (Summer 2007)

Common Grounds: Cultivating the Field of Community-Based Participatory Research (Spring 2007)

How Your Neighborhood Is Designed May Affect How Much You Walk (Spring 2007)

Many California Hospitals Will Not Meet Seismic Safety Deadline (Spring 2007)

Missing Link: Connection Found Between Government Health Insurance and Better Child Health (Spring 2007)

State Children’s Health Insurance Program Cuts Rate of Forgone Care, Increases Quality of Life (Spring 2007)

Delta Dawning: Gulf Coast Efforts Look Beyond Recovery Toward Lasting Renewal (Fall 2006)

New Study Suggests Three Steps to Improve Mental Health Care (Fall 2006)

Public Spends Little to Provide Health Care for the Undocumented (Fall 2006)

Road Less Traveled: Four Developing Countries Blaze New Trails to Better Health (Fall 2006)

Getting Full Value from Our Health Care System (Summer 2006)

Hurricanes and Other Higher Callings: These Things We Cannot Ignore (Summer 2006)

Middle-Aged Americans Less Healthy Than English Counterparts (Summer 2006)

Public Health Preparedness: An Opportunity and a Challenge (Summer 2006)

Arthritis Care for Older Patients Deemed Poor; Medication Safety, Poorer (Spring 2006)

Cutting Copayments for Sickest Patients Can Yield Big Payoffs (Spring 2006)

Plagued by Apathy?: The Uneven Responses of Science and Public Policy to HIV and AIDS in Africa (Spring 2006)

Quality of Health Care Is an Equal Opportunity Gamble (Spring 2006)

Bulging Repertoires: Treatments and Complications for the Overweight and Obese Expand with the Population (Fall 2005)

Time Is Right to Promote Health Information Technology, Study Finds (Fall 2005)

What People in England Want When Choosing Their Own Hospitals (Fall 2005)

Doctors’ Orders: Better Electronic Prescribing Systems Could Improve Care (Summer 2005)

Suburban Sprawl, Body Sprawl: Are Land-Use Patterns Driven by Choice or by the Market? (Spring 2005)

VA Outpaces Nation in Delivering Recommended Care (Spring 2005)

Suburban Sprawl Can Be Bad for Your Health, Study Finds (Fall 2004)

Support Remains High for Family Planning at Home, Not Abroad (Fall 2004)

California Medical Malpractice Law Alters Jury Awards in Uneven Ways (Summer 2004)

Localize the Remedy: Community Efforts Can Ameliorate Poor Quality of Care (Summer 2004)

Patching Holes in the Medical Malpractice System Is No Longer Enough (Summer 2004)

Plots and Curves: What Mexican Sex Workers Can Teach Economists About Preventing HIV (Summer 2004)

Should We Give Up on Medical Product Liability? (Summer 2004)

African American Teens Are Less Likely to Become Regular Smokers (Spring 2004)

New Interventions Lead to Improvements for Minorities Suffering from Depression (Spring 2004)

Swollen Waistlines, Swollen Costs: Obesity Worsens Disabilities and Weighs on Health Budgets (Spring 2004)

Can TV Help Teach Teens About Sex? (Fall 2003)

Fastest Increasing Group of Obese Americans Are “Severely Obese” (Fall 2003)

Laboratories of Reform: State Health Insurance Experiments Yield Lessons for the Nation (Fall 2003)

Shortfalls Found in Quality of Health Care for Vulnerable Seniors (Fall 2003)

America Scores Low on Quality of Health Care (Summer 2003)

Another Kind of Safety Threat: The Health-Related Consequences of Releasing Prisoners (Summer 2003)

Vectors Without Borders: The Spread of Global Pathogens Can Imperil Us All (Summer 2003)

Employees Take Hits When Health Insurance Premiums Rise (Spring 2003)

Half of U.S. Kids Don’t Get Proper Dental Care (Spring 2003)

Preponderance of Evidence: Judging What to Do About Ephedra (Spring 2003)

A “Prudent” Approach to Smallpox Vaccinations (Spring 2003)

Study Sheds Light on Patient-HMO Conflicts (Fall 2002)

Threats to Children from Secondhand Smoke (Fall 2002)

A Call to Action Against Childhood Asthma (Summer 2002)

African Americans, Latinos Less Likely to Enroll in HIV Clinical Trials (Summer 2002)

Obesity Costs More Than Smoking, Drinking (Spring 2002)

Researchers Seek to Fill a Prescription for the Future (Spring 2002)

Brighter Futures: Improvements in Depression Care Pay for Themselves (Fall 2001)

Full Disclosure: Time for the Naked Truth About Health Care (Summer 2001)

Gulf War Illness Studies Cannot Rule Out Pesticides as Contributing Factors (Spring 2001)

Tranquilizing Effect: To Prevent Youth Violence, Try a Dose of Stability, a Shot of Self-Esteem, or Some Good Pediatric Advice (Fall 2000)

Domestic Policy for a More Perfect Union (Summer 2000)

Experimental Drug May Be Linked to Gulf War Illness (Winter 1999-2000)

Privileged Treatment: Inequities in HIV Care Demand Remedies for U.S. Health Care (Fall 1999)

Chronic Condition: Quality Deficiencies Pervade U.S. Health Care System (Fall 1999)

Debate on Patients’ Rights Emits More Heat Than Light (Fall 1999)

Insuring Children Can Help Mend Frayed Safety Nets (Fall 1999)

Care for Chronic Illnesses: Is There a Better Way? (Fall 1999)

Who’s Got Your Back?: Quality of Chiropractic Care Goes Under Observation (Winter 1998-99)

Health Insurance, 1971-Present (Fall 1998)

AIDS Costs and Care, 1987-Present (Fall 1998)

Appropriateness and Quality of Care, 1989-Present (Fall 1998)

Children’s Health: Is Insurance a Panacea? (Spring 1997)

Medicare and the Managed-Care Future (Winter 1995-96)

Let the (Quality-Based) Competition Begin! (Winter 1993-94)

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