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Readings:

October 15, 2007 - Brown
-Reading 1- the Struggle for the Soul of Health Insurance

October 17, 2007 - Vriesman
-Reading 1- Value-based Insurance Design
-Reading 2 - Consolidation and the Transformation of Competition in Health Insurance

October 19, 2007 – Kominski
- Reading 1 – Medicare -- a Primer

October 22, 2007 – Brown
-Reading 1 - MediCaid – a Primer
-Reading 2 - Medicaid Revisited — Skirmishes over a Vast Public Enterprise

October 26, 2007 - Fielding
- Reading 1 - The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century
- Reading 2 - Public Health in the Twentieth Century: Advances and Challenges
- Reading 3 - Key Indicators of Health
(link to County of L.A. pdf)

October 29, 2007 – Vriesman
-Reading 1 - Making Profits And Providing Care: Comparing Nonprofit, For-Profit, and Government Hospitals
-Reading 2 - How The Expansion Of Hospital Systems Has Affected Consumers

October 31, 2007 – Torrens
- Reading 1 – (1) CHCF- Financial Health of California’s Hospitals
- Reading 2 - (2) CHCF- Financial Health of California’s Hospitals

November 5, 2007 – Young
-Reading 1- Services for Adults with Mental Illness

November 7, 2007 – Miranda
-Reading 1 - Use of Mental Health–Related Services Among Immigrant and US-Born Asian Americans: Results From the National Latino and Asian American Study
-Reading 2 - Immigration-Related Factors and Mental Disorders Among Asian Americans
-Reading 3 - Prevalence of DSM-IV Disorders and Attendant Help-Seeking in 2 American Indian Reservation Populations
-Reading 4 - Prevalence of Mental Disorders and Utilization of Mental Health Services in Two American Indian Reservation Populations: Mental Health Disparities in a National Context
-Reading 5 - Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders Across Latino Subgroups in the United States
-Reading 6 - State of the Science on Psychosocial Interventions for Ethnic Minorities
-Reading 7 - The Mental Health of Black Caribbean Immigrants: Results from the National Survey of American Life
-Reading 8 - Use of Mental Health Services and Subjective Satisfaction With Treatment Among Black Caribbean Immigrants: Results From the National Survey of American Life
-Reading 9 - Correlates of Past-Year Mental Health Service Use Among Latinos:
Results From the National Latino and Asian American Study

November 14, 2007 – Ponce
-Reading 1 -What Accounts For Differences In The Use Of Hospital Emergency Departments Across U.S. Communities?
-Reading 2 – MarketWatch - Community Approaches To Providing Care for the Uninsured
-Reading 3 - Availability of Safety Net Providers and Access to Care of Uninsured Persons

November 16, 2007 – Yano
-Reading 1 – The Veterans Health Administration: An American Success Story?
-Reading 2 – Effect of the Transformation of the Veterans Affairs Health Care System
on the Quality of Care
-Reading 3 - Military Health Care in the 21st Century

November 19, 2007 – Pourat
-Reading 1 – What Older People Want From Long-Term Care, And How They Can Get It

November 26, 2007 – Inkelas
-Reading 1 – Improving the Quality of Health Care for Chronic Conditions
-Reading 2 – Improving Chronic Illness Care: Translating Evidence Into Action

November 28, 2007 – Wallace
-Reading 1 – The Public Health Perspective on Aging
-Reading 2 – Improving Chronic Illness Care: Translating Evidence Into Action
-Reading 3 - Equitable Health Systems: Cultural and Structural Issues for Latino Elders

November 30, 2007 – Halfon
-Reading 1 – Crossing the Medicaid–Private Insurance Divide: The Case of EPSDT
-Reading 2 – Transforming The U.S. Child Health System

December 5 , 2007 – Kominski
-Reading 1 – The Care of Patients with Severe Chronic Illness: a Report on the Medicare Program by the Dartmouth Atlas Project
-Reading 2 – POPULIS: Providing Health Information to RHA Planners
-Reading 3 - Managing Health Services: How the Population Health Information System (POPULIS) Works for Policymakers

 



 
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