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Each year the Foundation and our grantees produce materials that reflect our philanthropic investments. Below is a sampling—books, book chapters, journal articles, reports, audiovisuals and newsletters—produced in 2004. Copies may not be available throughthe Foundation.

Cover the Uninsured Week 2004: Business Guide
Available at: http://covertheuninsuredweek.org/materials/business/BusinessGuide.pdf.

An overview of national laws, regulations, health plan options, and other important information needed by small business owners as they make decisions about health coverage for themselves and their employees.

Cover the Uninsured Week 2004: Health and Enrollment Fair Planning Guide
Available at: http://covertheuninsuredweek.org/materials/healthfair/HealthFairKit.pdf.

A step-by-step guide to planning health and enrollment fairs in your community.

Cover the Uninsured Week 2004: Interfaith Kit
Available at: http://covertheuninsuredweek.org/materials/interfaith/.

The Interfaith Action Kit contains materials for highlighting the issue of the uninsured in faith communities, such as bulletin inserts, special prayers, and sermon topics.

Cover the Uninsured Week 2004: Issues Guide
Available at: http://covertheuninsuredweek.org/materials/files/IssuesGuide.pdf.

Provides basic information about the uninsured such as how Americans get coverage, who is uninsured and why coverage is important. The guide offers participants sample questions to answer in weighing the pros and cons of various options and a list of resources.

Cover the Uninsured Week 2004: “One Cause. One Goal.”

8–minute videotape that features highlights from Cover the Uninsured Week 2004.

Cover the Uninsured Week 2004: Results
Available at: http://covertheuninsuredweek.org/reports/full2004.pdf.

This report describes highlights from the largest mobilization in our nation’s history to secure affordable and stable health coverage for all Americans.

Cover the Uninsured Week 2004: State Guides to Finding Health Insurance Coverage
Available at: http://covertheuninsuredweek.org/stateguides/.

These guides outline specific state help that may be available to uninsured individuals.

Covering Kids and Families® Back-to-School Campaign Final Report, 2004.

Summarizes results of the 2004 Covering Kids and Families Back-to-School Campaign that involved more than 2,000 outreach and enrollment events to inform families about low-cost and free health care coverage programs for children.

Davidson G, Blewett L, et al. Public Program Crowd-out of Private Coverage: What Are the Issues? Princeton: The Synthesis Project, Research Synthesis Report No. 5, 2004. Available at: www.rwjf.org/publications/synthesis/reports_and_briefs/pdf/no5_researchreport.pdf.

Policy-makers are concerned about crowd-out because it limits the impact of public coverage expansions. When crowd-out occurs, scarce resources are used to cover people who would have insurance anyway. This synthesis addresses these issues by presenting what we know about the extent and dynamics of crowd-out, discussing the effectiveness of policies to limit crowd-out and outlining the policy trade-offs between reducing crowd-out and expanding coverage.

Institute of Medicine. Board of Health Care Services. Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance. Insuring America’s Health: Principles and Recommendations. Washington: National Academies Press, 2004. Available at: www.iom.edu/report.asp?id=17632.

To help policy-makers, elected officials, and others judge and compare proposals to extend coverage to the nation’s 43 million uninsured, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences offers a set of guiding principles and a checklist in this report.

McLaughlin C. (ed.). Health Policy and the Uninsured. Washington: Urban Institute Press, 2004. Available at: www.urban.org/Template.cfm?Section=ByAuthor&NavMenuID=63&AuthorID=7338&AuthorName=Catherine%20McLaughlin.

In this primer for economists and other policy analysts, leading experts in health policy synthesize a wide range of health insurance studies into a comprehensive overview of the uninsured. The book provides a framework for the health policy research needed to fill the gaps in knowledge about the uninsured.

State Health Access Data Assistance Center. Characteristics of the Uninsured: A View from the States. Minneapolis: State Health Access Data Assistance Center, 2004. Available at: www.rwjf.org/research/researchdetail.jsp?id=1364&ia=132.

A comprehensive state-by-state analysis of Americans without health insurance. Using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2002 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, researchers estimated the number of adults in each state and the number of working adults in each state who do not have health insurance. They also compared reported gaps in care between insured and uninsured adults in each state—providing an in-depth look at the consequences that adults in America face when they do not have health insurance.