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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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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
In the absence of universal health insurance coverage, large numbers of low-income or disadvantaged Americans rely on safety net providers. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's safety net grantmaking has aimed at expanding access to health. This cha ...
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.
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.
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.
June 4, 2008 | Book/Issue Brief
The rising number of uninsured, an aging population, changing financial incentives and variations in medical practice all contribute to the ED crowding phenomenon.