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The articles listed below have been chosen by the editor-in-chief as featured articles.
March 2005 Stephen J. Kunitz, Irena Pesis-Katz,
The life expectancy of African Americans has been substantially lower than that of white Americans for as long as records are available. The life… More
December 2004 Trisha Greenhalgh, Glenn Robert, Fraser Macfarlane, Paul Bate, Olivia Kyriakidou,
This article summarizes an extensive literature review addressing the question, How can we spread and sustain innovations in health service delivery… More
September 2004 Bradley D. Stein, Terri L. Tanielian, David P. Eisenman, Donna J. Keyser, M. Audrey Burnam, Harold A. Pincus,
Millions of dollars have been spent improving the public health system’s bioterrorism response capabilities. Yet relatively little attention has been… More
June 2004 Vincent Mor, Jacqueline Zinn, Joseph Angelelli, Joan M. Teno, Susan C. Miller,
Nursing home care is currently a two-tiered system. The lower tier consists of facilities housing mainly Medicaid residents and, as a result, has very… More
June 2004 John Lynch, George Davey Smith, Sam Harper, Marianne Hillemeier,
This article describes U.S. income inequality and 100-year national and 30-year regional trends in age- and cause-specific mortality. There is little… More
March 2004 John Lynch, George Davey Smith, Sam Harper, Marianne Hillemeier, Nancy Ross, George A. Kaplan, Michael Wolfson,
This article reviews 98 aggregate and multilevel studies examining the associations between income inequality and health. Overall, there seems to be… More
December 2003 Mark A. Hall, Christopher J. Conover,
This article surveys the full range of health policy impacts of Blue Cross conversions from nonprofit to for-profit status. It concludes that… More
September 2003 Jonathan Lomas, Naomi Fulop, Diane Gagnon, Pauline Allen,
Although there are numerous methods for setting priorities across health services, no equivalent attention has been given to ways of setting… More
June 2003 Penny Hollander Feldman, Robert L. Kane,
Past investments in long-term care (LTC) research have improved the quality of care and the quality of life for LTC recipients by conceptualizing the… More
March 2003 Ellen O'Brien,
Even though many employers believe that health insurance and health affect employees’ productivity and firms’ performance, health economists typically… More