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Mortgage Delinquency and Changes in Access to Health Resources and Depressive Symptoms in a Nationally Representative Cohort of Americans Older Than 50 Years

December 1, 2011 | Journal Article

Researchers evaluate associations between mortgage delinquency and changes in health and health-relevant resources over two years (between 2006 and 2008).

Associations Between Income Inequality and Mortality Among U.S. States

August 1, 2005 | Journal Article

Previous research has documented an association between income inequality and mortality in the United States. To further explore this association, this study compared census data and tax return income data for the period between 1949 and 1999 with m ...

Being Poor and Coping With Stress

May 1, 2008 | Journal Article

This study examined whether smoking, alcohol use, and physical inactivity moderate the relationship between perceived stress and the risk of death in the U.S. population as a whole and across socioeconomic strata.

Early Childhood Origins of the Income/Health Gradient

September 1, 2007 | Journal Article

Recent studies have demonstrated a connection between low-socioeconomic status and poor health in children. This study builds upon previous work on the income gradient in child health by testing whether the mother's health and behaviors during pregn ...

The Effect of Financial Incentives on Hospitals that Serve Poor Patients

September 1, 2010 | Journal Article

Providing financial incentives to hospitals to improve quality is increasingly common, yet little is known about its effect on hospitals that provide care for poorer patients. In this study, researchers looked at how financial incentives affected those hospitals serving larger, poorer populations.

Private Insurers' Payments For Routine Physician Office Visits Vary Substantially Across The United States

September 9, 2013 | Journal Article

This study examines variations in private payments to physicians.

The History of Debates Over the Right to Medical Care in the United States

July 24, 2013 | Program Results Report

With her Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, Beatrix Hoffman, PhD, an historian, researched the history of the debate on the right to medical treatment, and how that debate has affected policy and practice.

Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change

National Program

Seek and evaluate promising interventions in health care settings to reduce racial and ethnic disparities.

Social Security and Mortality

May 1, 2011 | Journal Article

For millions of elderly Americans, Social Security has eliminated the burden of poverty and improved their health.

Study Finds Reverse Mortgages Benefit Older Homeowners - and Saves Medicaid Money, too

September 5, 2008 | Program Results Report

"Use Your Home to Stay at Home: Expanding the Use of Reverse Mortgages for Long-Term Care: A Blueprint for Action" contains estimates of the number of seniors who could benefit from reverse mortgages and the potential savings for the Medicaid.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Barriers to care: financial