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March 1, 2007 | Journal Article
Working adults who are poor are more likely to be women, racial and ethnic minorities, less educated, and employed in sales, service, production, and material moving sectors, and are less likely to receive insurance through employers.
May 18, 2011 | Program Result Report
Creating a set of measures that would make the connection between what nurses do and the quality of care patients receive and studying their implementation in hospitals.
December 1, 2010 | Journal Article
A study of whether housing affordability is linked to health outcomes found associations between unaffordable housing, cost-related health outcomes and some chronic conditions.
April 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
This study examines the impact of specialty hospitals--cardiac, surgical and orthopedic--on the ability of general and safety-net hospitals to care for financially vulnerable patients in Indianapolis, Little Rock and Phoenix.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
From 1991 to 1995, researchers at the University of Southern Maine, Human Services Development Institute compared health care utilization rates between previously uninsured and previously insured persons enrolled in state-sponsored insurance programs.
October 20, 2005 | Journal Article
This article explores patient-physician communication regarding discussions about prognosis. The analysis specifically reviews the association between patient race and financial status with patient and clinician self-reports of prognosis discussions ...
June 27, 2012 | Commentary
Electronic health records have the power to transform health care but they must be more than just electronic versions of current paper records.
March 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article details the P2 Collaborative of Western New York’s attempt to drive quality improvement. It offers concrete steps toward community-based improvement. P2 is one of 16 sites supported by Aligning Forces for Quality.
January 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program provided $612 million to implement programs encouraging healthy opportunities to travel to school. This article examines the implementation of the program among states.
December 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
While demand for cost and resource use information among payers, providers and consumers appears to be increasing, its value may not be fully realized by some—or all—of these stakeholder groups in each community.