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State Health Access Profile: A Chartbook of Health Care Access Indicators for States

April 2, 2008 | Chart/Book

This easy-to-navigate interactive chart offers a quick look at key state data and allows comparisons with up to two other states.

Fundamental Sources of Health Inequalities

January 1, 2004 | Book

Much work now focuses on economic and racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care. Bruce Link and Jo Phelan address the fundamental causes of health inequalities and raise important questions about the models through which we view the ca ...

The Southern Rural Access Program

January 1, 2007 | Book

The most consistent priority of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been to expand access to medical care for underserved individuals, a disproportionate number of whom live in rural areas. The Foundation has employed a number of approaches to improve health services for people living in rural areas. In this chapter, the award-winning author and frequent Anthology contributor Digby Diehl looks at a program designed to improve access to medical care for people living in some of the nation's most underserved areas?the rural South of the United States.

A Review of the National Access-to-Care Surveys

January 1, 1997 | Book

The authors of this chapter of the Anthology document the strategies used over time by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grantees tracking access to health care among Americans.

The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World

August 1, 2012 | Book

The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World examines how national health care reform will impact safety-net programs that serve low-income and uninsured patients. The "safety net" refers to the collection of hospitals, clinics, and doctors who ...

Expanding Health Insurance for Children

December 31, 1999 | Book/Issue Brief

This chapter of the RWJF Anthologyexamines the Foundation's efforts to secure health insurance for children whose parents do not have coverage.

Practice Sights

January 1, 2003 | Book

In this chapter, Irene Wielawski, an award-winning journalist, the evaluator of the Foundation's Reach Out program, and a frequent contributor to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology series, examines this ambitious 10-state effort.

The Swing-Bed Program

January 1, 2003 | Book

Formally called the Rural Hospital Program of Extended-Care Services, the goal of this program was to use excess hospital beds in rural areas to deliver long-term care for the frail and disabled.

Increasing Health Insurance Coverage at the Local Level

January 1, 2007 | Book

An overview of the Communities in Charge program which supported 14 communities' efforts to expand insurance coverage within their geographic area.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Efforts to Cover the Uninsured

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 ...

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