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January 1, 2009 | Book
A new book by co-investigators David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., national coordinator for health information technology, and James Morone, Ph.D., a professor of political science at Brown University, has just been published.
January 1, 2004 | Book
The National Health Policy Forum, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation since 1973, provides high-quality non-partisan information and analysis that allows different viewpoints to be heard.
January 1, 2002 | Book
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowships Program is one of the Foundation's oldest programs, spanning nearly three decades. It provides one-year fellowships for physicians and other health care professionals to work on health policy issues in Washington, D.C., generally on Capitol Hill.
January 1, 2004 | Book
Significant debates about health policy are often highly moralistic and ideological and unrelated to the preponderance of evidence. They inevitably involve questions of personal versus collective responsibility, government versus self-help, individu ...
January 1, 2004 | Book
Sara Rosenbaum and Joel Teitelbaum approach the disparities issue from another angle, asking how the law might become an important instrument to push policy change along. They see law as a powerful instrument in American life and examine how classic ...
January 1, 2009 | Book
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has made substantial investments in a variety of programs to make families aware that their children might be eligible for SCHIP or Medicaid benefits and to address the practical obstacles to enrollment and renewal. In this chapter of the Anthology, the journalist Irene Wielawski, examines the major Foundation-funded programs with this focus.
January 1, 2006 | Book
Statistics that show aging of the American population have led health experts to issue dire warnings. Many concerns about this vulnerable population and the strain it may place on social service programs are warranted, but focusing only on the chall ...
January 1, 2006 | Book
Forty-five million Americans, many of them minorities or poor people, lack insurance coverage for basic health care. Research shows that people without health insurance receive less medical care and are in poorer health than insured people. This art ...
January 1, 2006 | Book
By the 1990s most Medicaid programs used managed care, and by 2003 some 60 percent of Medicaid beneficiaries were in managed care programs, largely HMOs. This chapter describes the evolution of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative, the Medica ...
January 1, 2005 | Book
In this chapter, the author chronicles the entire array of Foundation programs, from the early 1990s to the present day, aimed at reducing smoking in the United States.