Readings:

January 07, 2008

-- An Overview of Program Evaluation

-- A Continuum of Care - More Is Not Always Better

-- National Institute of Health Science Agenda

January 09, 2008

-- Presidential Politics and the Resurgence of Health Care Reform

January 11, 2008

-- Using Practice Guidelines to Assess Cancer Care Quality
Peter B. Bach, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Washington, DC

-- Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening in a Managed Care Health Plan

-- Practice Variation: The Achilles’ Heel in Quality Cancer Care

-- A Process for Measuring the Quality of Cancer Care: The Quality Oncology Practice Initiative

-- The Quality Oncology Practice Initiative

January 14

-- The Quality of Health Care Delivered to Adults in the United States

January 18

-- The Health of U.S. Racial and Ethnic Populations

-- Beyond Dummy Variables and Sample Selection: What Health Services Researchers Ought To Know about Race as a Variable

January 23

-- Preterm Birth: The Interaction of Traffic-related Air Pollution with Economic Hardship in Los Angeles Neighborhoods

-- Is there a Language Divide in Pap Test Use?

-- IOM: Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care

-- The Role Of Health Insurance Coverage In Reducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities In Health Care

-- Dissemination of Physical Activity Promotion Interventions in Underserved Populations
(Yancey)

January 25

-- Designing Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Health Interventions: The "Life Is Precious" Hmong Breast Cancer Study

-- A Strategy to Reduce Cross-cultural Miscommunication and Increase the Likelihood of Improving Health Outcomes

-- National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

-- Translation Is Not Enough Interpreting in a Medical Setting

January 28

-- Physical Activity as Primary Prevention to Address Cancer Disparities (Yancey)
-- Addressing Diversity and Health Literacy at the Worksite (Yancey)

January 30

-- The Democracy Owners' Manual Chapter One

-- The Politics of Public Health Policy (Oliver)

February 1

How our Laws are Made (Johnson)

-- How a Bill Becomes a Law

-- Health Care Access, Use of Services, and Experiences Among Undocumented Mexicans and Other Latinos (Ortega)

-- Hispanic Healthcare Disparities Challenging the Myth of a Monolithic Hispanic Population
(Ortega)

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