December 2023 (Volume 101)
From the Editor
In the December 2023 Issue of the Quarterly
With this issue of the Milbank Quarterly, we complete a year-long celebration of the journal’s centennial anniversary. In April, we released a… More
Perspective
Moving Toward Inclusion: Access to Care Models for Uninsured Immigrant Children
The United States is home to 44.9 million immigrants who contribute unique assets, economic stability, and rich lived experiences to communities… More
Advancing Dialogue About Consent and Molecular HIV Surveillance in the United States: Four Proposals Following a Federal Advisory Panel’s Call for Major Reforms
On October 17th, 2022, the US Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) adopted a nonbinding resolution about domestic molecular HIV… More
Original Scholarship
Improving Food and Drug Administration–Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Coordination for Drugs Granted Accelerated Approval
Context: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s accelerated-approval pathway expedites patient access to promising treatments. However,… More
The Role of Place in Person- and Family-Oriented Long-Term Services and Supports
A framework and analyses describing the variable relationships between LTSS-relevant environmental factors and person-reported care experiences. More
Building High-Performing Primary Care Systems: After a Decade of Policy Change, Is Canada “Walking the Talk?”
Context: Despite significant investments to transform primary care, Canada lags behind its peers in providing timely access to regular doctors or… More
Association Between Partisan Affiliation of State Governments and State Mortality Rates Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Context: Increasing polarization of states reached a high point during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the party affiliation of elected officials often… More
Unrealized Cross-System Opportunities to Improve Employment and Employment-Related Services Among Autistic Individuals
Context: Employment is a key social determinant of health. As such, high rates of unemployment, underemployment, and poverty across the rapidly… More
Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Flexibilities and Public Health: Implementation of Compulsory Licensing Provisions into National Patent Legislation
Although it will not fully solve patent barriers to the access of medicines, implementation of compulsory licensing (and specifically those for the import and export of pharmaceutical products) will provide governments with another tool to safeguard their population’s public health. More
Community Health Center Staff Perspectives on Financial Payments for Social Care
Context: A growing crop of national policies has emerged to encourage health care delivery systems to ask about and try to address patients’ social… More
Dual Barriers: Examining Digital Access and Travel Burdens to Hospital Maternity Care Access in the United States, 2020
Context: With the increases in nationwide hospital maternity unit closures, there is a greater need for telehealth services for the supervision,… More
Caught Between a Well-Intentioned State and a Hostile Federal System: Local Implementation of Inclusive Immigrant Policies
The tensions among state immigrant policies, local immigration climates, and federal policy changes indicate that state immigrant policies are not implemented equally across state communities, resulting in challenges and limited benefits from policies for many immigrant communities. More
