Policy & Issue Publications
Publications providing background, key information and analysis on issues
Policy & Issue Publications includes:
Policy & Issue Publications: about 176 results
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Can the President's Health Care Tax Proposal Serve
as an Effective Substitute for SCHIP Expansion? Nearly 40 percent of a low-income family’s earnings will need to be spent on health insurance if a Bush administration proposal to use the tax system to subsidize coverage is enacted, a new Urban Institute analysis has found.... |
Oct 12, 2007 | |
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Innovations in Building Consumer Demand for Tobacco-Cessation Products and Services A summary of findings stemming from the national conference Innovations in Building Consumer Demand for Tobacco-Cessation Products and Services.... |
Oct 10, 2007 | |
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Health Care Cost and Access Challenges Persist Little has changed in local health care markets since 2005 to break the cycle of rising costs, falling insurance coverage and widening access inequities, according to initial findings from the Center for Studying Health System Change’s (HSC) 2007 site visits to... |
Oct 4, 2007 | |
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New Jersey Health Care Opinion Poll: Public Concerns and Support for Reform The Rutgers Center for State Health Policy conducted a statewide poll to gauge the extent to which New Jersey residents perceive the need for health care reform, identify public concerns about the health care system, and assess what reforms state residents may s... |
Oct 3, 2007 | |
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Concerns About Parents Dropping Employer Coverage to Enroll in SCHIP Overlook Issues of Affordability The analysis from the Urban Institute documents that low-income families have difficulty affording employer-sponsored insurance when measured on CMS' affordability scale and that by limiting premiums and other out-of-pocket spending, Medicaid and SCHIP make health ca... |
Oct 2, 2007 | |
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Tobacco Cessation Treatments Among Young Adult Smokers: Research Highlight Young adult smokers are a critical target for tobacco cessation treatment. This research highlight presents findings that indicate evidence-based tobacco cessation treatments are underused by young adult smokers. Past research shows that the highest quit success rates... |
Oct 2, 2007 | |
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Associations Between Access to Food Stores and Adolescent Body Mass Index: Research Highlight This highlight presents the findings from a study conducted by Lisa M. Powell, et al, “Associations Between Access to Food Stores and Adolescent Body Mass Index.” The study examined the link between neighborhood food store availability (such... |
Oct 2, 2007 | |
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Adolescent Exposure to Food Advertising on Television: Research Highlight In a series of studies funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), Dr. Lisa Powell and colleagues at the University of Illinois at Chicago used television program ratings to examine food advertising exposure and the nutritional content of the foods advertised... |
Oct 2, 2007 | |
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Sports Participation and Physical Education in American Secondary Schools: Research Highlight This highlight presents the findings from the study conducted by Lloyd D. Johnston, Jorge Delva and Patrick M. O’Malley. Using data from the Monitoring the Future and Youth, Education, and Society surveys, the authors examined physical activity patterns... |
Oct 1, 2007 | |
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Improving Quality of Health Care Relies on Effective Language Services This issue brief highlights how data are helping hospitals improve the way they provide language services to America's increasingly diverse patient populations.... |
Oct 1, 2007 | |
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Summary of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 Key provisions of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 approved by the House and the Senate in July 2007 are summarized in this report.... |
Sep 29, 2007 | |
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Eligible But Not Enrolled: How SCHIP Reauthorization Can Help According to an analysis from the Urban Institute, SCHIP reauthorization could give states the flexibility to draw on lessons from strategies recently developed by Medicare for providing Medicaid and SCHIP to eligible low-income kids.... |
Sep 29, 2007 | |
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Revisiting Crowd-Out Recent policy discussions on SCHIP reauthorization have focused attention on how to limit crowd-out, especially as states expand eligibility beyond low-income children. This brief reviews recent findings on the size of crowd-out, the effectiveness of anti-crowd-out... |
Sep 24, 2007 | |
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Collecting Data on Patient Race, Ethnicity and Primary Language is Helping Hospitals Improve the Quality of Care To address concerns about the poor quality—and equality—of American health care, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care, is helping 10 hospitals measure the quality of cardiac treatment they provide to patients based on their race, ethnici... |
Sep 24, 2007 | |
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to and Quality of Health Care Eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health is a major national objective, one of two overall goals for Healthy People 2010. Efforts to eliminate health disparities must incorporate strategies to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care as... |
Sep 20, 2007 | |
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SCHIP Reauthorization: How Will Low-Income Kids Benefit Under House and Senate Bills? This policy brief discusses findings from empirical work examining the likely income distribution of children who would gain and/or retain health insurance coverage through the proposed Senate and House SCHIP bills.... |
Sep 18, 2007 | |
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Effects of Title IX and Sports Participation on Girls' Physical Ability and Weight: Research Highlight This highlight presents research that provides clear evidence that school-based physical activity policies can be used to reduce rising levels of childhood obesity. ... |
Aug 31, 2007 | |
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Can Vaccines Reduce Antibiotic Use? The Successes and Challenges of Pneumococcal Vaccines Children under 5 years of age and adults over 65 are most susceptible to strep (or pneumococcal) infections. At older ages, strep causes pneumonia and dangerous infections of the bloodstream. Although small children (and their parents) are made miserable by strep inf... |
Aug 30, 2007 | |
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Comparing Federal Government Surveys That Count Uninsured People in America: 2007 The number of uninsured Americans is large and growing over time, yet there continues to be debate about exactly how many Americans are uninsured. Researchers use data from several different national surveys to estimate the number of uninsured people in America and d... |
Aug 29, 2007 | |
