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US Health Issues
Articles & Media
Uninsured in America: problems and possible solutions.
Davis, K. BMJ 2007 Feb 17;334:346-348. [free full text]
Ethnic Disparities in Health: The Public's Role in Working for Equality.
Satcher, D. PLoS Medicine 2006 Oct; 10(3). [free full text]
Why Should Medical Students Care About Health Policy?
Gupta, R. PLoS Medicine 2006 Oct; 10(3). [free full text]
US Health System Performance - A National Scorecard.
Schoen, C. Davis, K. How, S. Health Affairs 2006 Sept 20;w457-75. [free full text]
Katrina Underscored Need to Revamp New Orleans Health Care System.
Rudowitz, R. Rowland, D. Shartzer, A. Health Affairs Web Exclusive 2006 Aug 29; w393.
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Shortages of Medical Personnel at Community Health Centers: Implications for Planned Expansion.
Rosenblatt RA. Andrilla HA. Curtin T. Hart LG. JAMA; 2006 Mar 1: 295(9).
Hurricane Katrina: Public Health Response – Assessing Needs.
Greenough, PG. Kirsch, TD. NEJM 2005 Oct 13; 353(15). [free full text]
Health Spending in the United States and the Rest of the Industrialized World.
Anderson, G. Hussey, P. Frogner, B. Waters, H. Health Affairs 2005 July/August; 24(4):903-15.
US Health Care Spending in an International Context.
Reinhart, U. Hussey, P. Anderson, G. Health Affairs 2004; 23(3):10.
Books & Reports
Commonwealth Fund State Scorecard.
Commonwealth Fund. June 13, 2007. [free full text]
Renewing Primary Health Care in the Americas.
Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization PAHO/WHO. Washington, DC: 2007. [free full text]
Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis—and the People Who Pay the Price.
Cohn, J. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008.
Menlo Park, CA; March 2007. [free full text]
To Improve Health and Healthcare, Volume 10.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; March 2007. [free full text]
The United States Health Workforce Profile.
New York Center for Health Workforce Studies. 2006 Oct: Rensselaer, NY. [free full text]
Children left behind: How metropolitan areas are failing American’s children.
Diversity Data; 2006.
Health care coverage and access for Hispanics in “new growth communities” and “major Hispanic centers.”
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured (2006).
Diversity in the Physician Workforce: Facts and Figures, 2006.
Association of American Medical Colleges. Washington DC; 2006. [free full text]
2006 National Healthcare Disparities Report.
Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality. US Department of Health and Human Services. Rockville, MD; 2006. [free full text]
2006 National Healthcare Quality Report.
Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality. US Department of Health and Human Services. Rockville, MD; 2006. [free full text]
Human Development Report 2006.
United Nations Development Programme. New York; 2006. [free full text]
The Rationale for Diversity in the Health Professions: A Review of the Evidence
US Department of Health & Human Services; Oct 2006. [free full text]
No Shelter from the Storm: America's Uninsured Children.
Campaign for Children's Health Care; Sept 28 2006. [free full text]
Framework for a High Performance Health System for the United States.
Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System. New York; Aug 2006. [free full text]
Improving Children's Health: Understanding Children's Health Disparities and Promising Approaches to Address Them.
Washington DC: Children's Defense Fund; June 2006. [free full text]
Gaps in Health Insurance: An All-American Problem – Findings from the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey.
Collins, SR. Davis, K. Doty, M. Kriss, JL. Holmgren, A. New York: The Commonwealth Fund; April 2006. [free full text]
Toward a High Performance Health System for the United States.
Gauthier, A. Schoenbaum, SC. Weinbaum, I. New York: The Commonwealth Fund; March 2006.
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The Supply of Physician Services in OECD Countries.
Simoens, S. Hurst, J. OECD Working Papers No. 21; Jan 2006. [free full text]
The Uninsured and Rising Health Costs.
Washington, DC: Alliance for Health Care Reform; Jan 2006 [free full text]
A Need to Transform the U.S. Health Care System: Improving Access, Quality & Efficiency.
Gauthier, A. Serber M. New York: The Commonwealth Fund; Oct 2005. [free full text]
Minorities Students in Medical Education: Facts & Figures. 2005.
Association of American Medical Colleges; Spring 2005. [free full text]
In the Nation's Compelling Interest: Ensuring Diversity in the Health Workforce.
Institute of Medicine; 2004.
Missing Persons: Minorities in the Health Professions.
Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Health Care Workforce; Sep 2004. [free full text]
Community-Based Health Coverage Programs: Models and Lessons.
Silow-Carroll, S. Alteras, T. Sacks, H. W.K. Kellogg Foundation; Feb 2004. [free full text]
Community Health: Lessons for National Health Policy.
Meyer, JA. Silow-Carroll, S. Waldman, E. W.K. Kellogg Foundation; Feb 2004. [free full text]
Links
CDC's National Center for Health Statistics
Center for Health Policy Research
Center for Public Integrity Pushing Prescriptions Project – This project investigates the political influence of the pharmaceutical industry—among the largest lobbying interests in Washington DC— and the consequences for the American public. State by state reports and search capability available.
Children's Defense Fund
The Commonwealth Fund – This foundation – one of the first in the United States established by a woman – regularly publishes in-depth reports and analyses on the state of US health care.
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health – Founded in 1996, this nonprofit promotes health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions, now with a network of over 1300 communities and campuses. They collaborate to promote health through service-learning, community-based participatory research, broad-based coalitions and other partnership strategies.
DiversityData.org – This website allows visitors to explore a wide range of indicators of how people of different racial/ethnic backgrounds live in U.S. metropolitan areas.
Election 2008: Health Care
Updated as new information becomes available, this site has a quick summary chart of all the Presidential candidate's positions on health care, plus more in-depth articles and other resources on their respective health care plans.
Factline: Tracking Health in Underserved Communities – This website co-sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and Meharry Medical College, provides scholarly findings into several areas: access to health care; mental health; minority health; women's health; and sexually-transmitted diseases. It also includes an extensive bibliography to these findings.
Families USA – This national nonprofit, non-partisan organization is dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans. It works on the national, state, and community levels.
Health Policy Picks – A resource of kaiserEDU, this website collects a monthly selection of publications from organizations and government agencies conducting research and policy analysis on health care issues.
Health08.org – Kaiser Family Foundation site dedicated to the 2008 presidential election and health care, with analysis of health care policy issues, surveys and news from the campaign trail.
Healthcare Now.org
Herndon Alliance – The Herndon Alliance (HA) is a national coalition of seventy minority, faith, labor, advocacy, and provider organizations—both national and state—advocating for a health justice movement. Our goal is to achieve quality, affordable health care accessible to all.
Kaiser Family Foundation
Kaiser Health Disparities Report: A Weekly Look at Race, Ethnicity and Health.
National Hispanic Medical Association
Physicians for a National Health Plan
Population Reference Bureau – This database contains data on 136 population, health, and environment variables for more than 220 countries, including the Untied States), 28 world regions and sub-regions, and the world as a whole.
Resources on Child and Family Health Coverage – This resource from the Kaiser Family Foundation has a variety of current indicators, data, and analysis including state-by-state SCHIP data, state-by-state insurance coverage for children data, and information about access and insurance coverage for low-income, non-citizen children.
State-by-State Minority Health Indicators – This Kaiser Family Foundation resource presents state-by-state data by race for various health indicators such as infant mortality, annual AIDS cases and percentage uninsured.
State Health Data
The Urban Institute – Health Policy
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