Predictors of the Transition to Regular Smoking During Adolescence and Young Adulthood

To identify predictors of the transition from experimentation to regular smoking in middle adolescence, late adolescence, and young adulthood.

Regulating Hearts and Minds: The Mismatch of Law, Custom, and Resuscitation Decisions

People coming to the end of life with fragile health do not do well with resuscitation.

Combining Surveys and Case Studies to Examine Standards-Based Education Reform

This paper uses examples from the study of the effects of the Washington education reform to explore how these methods can be used in complementary ways. It presents specific examples of the benefits of using both methods and makes recommendations for more effective integration of case study and survey methods in the future.

Effects of CAHPS Performance Information on Health Plan Choices by Iowa Medicaid Beneficiaries

The authors found that CAHPS information did not affect health plan choices by Iowa Medicaid beneficiaries.

Reducing Firearms Violence Through Directed Police Patrol

A specific deterrence strategy whereby the police utilize directed patrol to focus on suspicious activities and locations reduced violent gun crime.

The Effects of the Washington Education Reform on Schools and Classrooms: Initial Findings

Managed Care and the Workers' Compensation Bargain

Summarizes the October 1999 issue of Medical Care. Thie issue reports the results of an evaluation of a workers' compensation managed-care pilot in Washington State.

Toward a K-12 Education Accountability System in Washington State

This report sketches a strong and unique accountability system for Washington State, one that is driven by measurements of student performance and incentives to improve, creates clear lines of responsibility, gives every school a chance to perform and improve, employs powerful incentives, and doesn't stop until every child is in a good school.

Medical Necessity and Defined Coverage Benefits in the Oregon Health Plan

The qualitative study described in this article addressed whether medical necessity remains a salient and useful concept in the Oregon Health Plan.

Defining and Implementing Medical Necessity in Washington State and Oregon

This paper reports on a qualitative study of how health care providers in the states of Washington and Oregon define and implement medical necessity.

The Oregon Priority-Setting Exercise: Quality of Life and Public Policy

In 1989 the Oregon State legislature passed the Oregon Basic Health Services Act, which created a Health Services Commission charged with developing a priority list of health services. The goal of this legislation was to permit the expansion of Medicaid to 100 percent of all Oregonians living in poverty by covering only services deemed to be of sufficient importance or priority.