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The articles listed below have been chosen by the editor-in-chief as featured articles.
December 2002 Sherry Glied, Dahlia K. Remler, Joshua Graff Zivin,
The fate of a proposal to expand health insurance is influenced by predictions of the proposal’s effects on the number of newly insured and the cost… More
September 2002 Neal Halfon, Miles Hochstein,
The life course health development (LCHD) framework organizes research from several fields into a conceptual approach explaining how individual and… More
June 2002 Mark Schlesinger,
The political legitimacy and policymaking influence of the medical profession have greatly declined in American society over the past 30 years.… More
March 2002 John Chapin, Bruce Fetter,
In 2000, the Wisconsin Division of Public Health reorganized its allocation of federal and state funds by basing contracts on performance rather than… More
December 2001 Jan Ostermann, Frank A. Sloan,
Data from four waves of the Health and Retirement Study are used to analyze the effects of alcohol use on disability, mortality, and income transfers… More
September 2001 Rosemary A. Stevens,
The future role of national medical organizations as a moral voice in health policymaking in the United States deserves attention from both scholarly… More
June 2001 James C. Robinson,
Combining the economic literature on principal-agent relationships with examples of marketplace innovations allows analysis of the evolution of… More
March 2001 Thomas M. Wickizer, Gary M. Franklin, Roy Plaeger-Brockway, Robert D. Mootz,
Researchers and health policy analysts in Washington State set out to determine the extent to which administrative process changes and delivery system… More
December 2000 Elliot K. Wicks, Mark A. Hall,
Health insurance purchasing cooperatives were established in the early to mid-1990s for the purpose of making health insurance more affordable and… More
September 2000 Brenda C. Spillman, Liliana E. Pezzin,
Informal family care giving has been a traditional mainstay of care for the frail elderly. As the Baby Boomers approach retirement and old age, it is… More