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Barbara M. Altman is a senior research fellow at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research in Rockville, Maryland, where she has been examining disability issues for persons under age 65. Her recent research has been on access to preventive care for women with disabilities, measurement of disability in survey data, and the impact on policy analysis of different measures of disability.
Philip F. Cooper is an economist at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research in Rockville, Maryland. He conducts research primarily on issues of employment-related health insurance.
Peter J. Cunningham is a senior health researcher at the Center for Studying Health System Change in Washington, DC, where he is currently examining trends in insurance coverage, particularly the ways in which market factors affect access to care by the uninsured.
Marsha Gold is a senior fellow at Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., in Washington, DC, where she has been conducting research on managed care and its effects on access to the health care system. She is particularly interested in the construction of timely and relevant policy for meeting today’s health care challenges.
Walter N. Leutz is an associate professor at the Institute for Health Policy, Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University, in Waltham, Massachusetts. He has been engaged for many years in developing and evaluating ways to integrate medical and social care. Currently, he is helping to develop standards for Social HMO sites so that they can become an option under Medicare+choice.
Evan M. Melhado heads the Medical Humanities and Social Sciences Program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and is an associate professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. As a historian of science and medicine, he has written about the history of the physical sciences in the 18th and 19th centuries and the development of American health policy during the 20th century.
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Volume 77, Issue 1 (page 173) DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.00127 Published in 1999
