Health Affairs May/June Issue Examines Health & Globalization
Highlights from the May/June issue of Health Affairs, available May 14, appear below:
- From the Editor: "Remembering a Distinguished Colleague."
- Appreciation: "Tributes to John M. Eisenberg."
- Canada: "Phantoms in the Snow: Canadians' Use of Health Care Services in the United States" and "The Costs of Constraint and Prospects for Health Care Reform in Canada."
- Mexico: "Addressing Inequity in Health and Health Care in Mexico."
- New Zealand: "The Patients' Complaints System in New Zealand."
- United States: "A User's Manual for the IOM's 'Quality Chasm' Report" and "Addressing Racial and Ethnic Barriers to Effective Health Care: The Need for Better Data."
- United Kingdom: "Performance Management in British Health Care: Will It Deliver?" "Further Tales from the British National Health Service"; and "Interview: A Time for Change in the British NHS: An Interview with Alan Milburn."
- Mental Health: "Removing Barriers to Care Among Persons with Psychiatric Symptoms" and "The Impacts of Mental Health Parity and Managed Care in One Large Employer Group."
- Commentary: "Globalization and the Challenges to Health Systems" and "Globalize the Evidence, Localize the Decision: Evidence-Based Medicine and International Diversity."
- Health Tracking: "Trends: Cross-National Comparisons of Health Systems Using OECD Data, 1999"; "Trends: Inequities in Health Care: A Five-Country Survey"; "Trends: Medicare Minus Choice: The Impact of HMO Withdrawals on Rural Medicare Beneficiaries"; "Marketwatch: Professionalism, Regulation and the Market: Impact on Accountability for Quality of Care"; and "Marketwatch: Having it All: National Benefit Equity and Local Payment Parity in Medicare."
- Datawatch: "Do Enrollees in 'Look-Alike' Medicaid and SCHIP Programs Really Look Alike?" and "Are HMO Enrollees Healthier than Others? Results from the Community Tracking Study."
- Grantwatch: "Special Report: Eliminating Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: Can Health Plans Generate Reports?"
