Documenting the Health Insurance Needs of Cancer Patients and Providing Scarce Resolutions
January 31, 2013 | Journal Article
HIAS can offer lasting insight into the meaning of health care reform implementation.
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The Affordable Care Act Has Led to Significant Gains in Health Insurance and Access to Care for Young Adults
January 1, 2013 | Journal Article
The Affordable Care Act enables young adults to remain as dependents on their parents’ health insurance until age 26, and recent evidence suggests that as many as three million young adults have gained coverage as a result.
Using Social Network Analysis to Predict Early Collaboration Within Health Advocacy Coalitions
June 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This study found that early collaboration between advocacy organizations—even those that have not worked together in the past—can strengthen advocacy efforts.
The Association of Health Insurance and Disease Impairment with Reported Asthma Prevalence in U.S. Children
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
While children with persistent asthma symptoms are treated similarly regardless of insurance status, insured children with intermittent symptoms are more likely than uninsured children to be diagnosed and receive treatment, suggesting insuring more asthmatic children is unlikely to result in treatment cost savings.
Defining, Building, and Measuring Capacity
January 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The evaluation by Mathematica Policy Research found that funding capacity building increased five of the six core advocacy components measured.
September Issue of Health Affairs Full of RWJF-Funded Research on Key Health Topics
September 8, 2011 | Journal Article
By funding diverse research and furthering its dissemination, RWJF helps inform policy-makers, key health care stakeholders and the public.
Special Issue of JHPPL Features RWJF-Supported Research and Commentary
July 26, 2011 | Journal Article
The focus of this special issue is on affordability of health care, a key element to ensuring that people in the United States have affordable access to the care they need when they need it.
Why Behavioral and Environmental Interventions are Needed to Improve Health at Lower Cost
May 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This analysis compared the likely impacts of three approaches to reducing avoidable deaths and lowering health care costs for Americans.
How Do Consumer-Directed Health Plans Affect Vulnerable Populations?
April 20, 2011 | Journal Article
Benefit design has similar effects on health care use for low- and high-risk patients.
Special Issue of Health Services Research Highlights State Health Access Reform Evaluation (SHARE) Studies
January 18, 2011 | Journal Article
This special issue of HSR: Health Services Research presents studies funded by the State Health Access Reform Evaluation (SHARE) initiative, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).