Seminar Series Archives

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Scholars in Health Policy Research Program

On the American Health Care System Seminar
Fall 2005

Reading List

Volume II

Seventh Session: Issues in Health Technology - Biotech, Pharma-tech, and Info-tech

Thursday, September 22, 2:00 - 4:00 P.M.
Faculty: Wade Aubrey, M.D.

Required Reading:
  1. Chapter 5 in Shi and Singh, Medical Technology. pp. 155-182.
  2. Collins, Francis, (1999) "Shattuck Lecture - Medical and Societal Consequences of the Human Genome Project," New England Journal of Medicine, July.
  3. Garber, A.M. (2001) "Evidence-Based Coverage Policy." Health Affairs, 20:5, pp.62-82.
  4. Eddy, D. (2005). "Evidence-Based Medicine: A Unified Approach." Health Affairs. Jan-Feb;24(1):9-17
  5. Garber, A. (2005) "Evidence-based Guidelines As A Foundation for Performance Incentives." Health Affairs, Jan-Feb; 24(1):174-9.
  6. Hlatky, M.A., Sanders, G.D., & Owens, D.K. (2005) "Evidence-based medicine and policy: the case of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator." Health Affairs. Jan-Feb; 24(1):42-51.
  7. Bailey, P.G. (2005) "Medicare and national coverage." Health Affairs. Jan-Feb;24(1):295-6

Eighth Session: Long Term Care and Mental Health

Tuesday, September 27, 2:00 - 4:00 P.M.
Faculty: Ray Catalano, Ph.D.

Required Reading:
  1. Shi and Singh, Chapter 9 Managed Care and Integrated Organizations. pp. 323-365.
  2. Cunningham, P.J., (1999) "Pressures on Safety Net Access: The Level of Managed Care Penetration on Un-insurance Rates in a Community," Health Services Research, April, 34 (1) Part II.
  3. Baker, L.C., (1999) "Association of Managed Care Market Share and Health Expenditures for Fee-for-Service Medicare Patients," Journal of the American Medical Association, February 3, 281 (5): 432-437.
  4. Baker, L.C., Brown, M.L. (1999) "Managed Care, Consolidation Among Health Care Providers, and Health Care: Evidence from Mammography," RAND Journal of Economics, Summer, 30 (2): 351-374.
  5. Robinson, J.C. (2001) "The End of Managed Care," Journal of the American Medical Association, , 285(20): 2622-2628
  6. Dudley, R.A., Luft, H.S., (2001) "Managed Care in Transition," New England Journal of Medicine, 344(14): 1087-1092.
  7. Streaming Video

Ninth Session: Long-Term Care and the Elderly

Thursday, September 29, 2:00 - 4:00 P.M.
Faculty: Charlene Harrington, Ph.D.

Required Reading:
  1. Harrington, C. and Swan, J.H. (2003) "Nurse Home Staffing, Turnover, and Casemix". Medical Care Research and Review. 60 (2):366-392.
  2. O'Neill, C, Harrington, C., Kitchener, M.,&Saliba, D. (2003). "Quality of Care in Nursing Homes: An Analysis of the Relationships Among Profit, Quality, and Ownership". Medical Care. 41 (12): 1318-1330.
  3. Harrington, C., Mullan, J. & Carrillo, H. 2004. "State Nursing Home Enforcement Systems". J. of Health Politics, Policy, and Law. 29 (1): 43-73.
  4. Schnelle, J.F., Simmons S.F., Harrington, C., Cadogan, M., Garcia, E.,&Bates-Jensen, B. 2004. "Relationship of Nursing Home Staffing to Quality of Care?" Health Services Research. 39 (2):225-250.
Recommended Reading:
  1. Institute of Medicine, A. Page Ed (2003). "Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses". Washington, DC. The National Academies Press. www.nap.edu page,162-225.
  2. Harrington, C., Woolhandler, S., Mullan, J., Carrillo, H.,&Himmelstein, D. (2001). "Does Investor-Ownership of Nursing Homes Compromise the Quality of Care?" American Journal of Public Health. 91 (9): 1452-1455.
  3. Harrington, C., Heller, G.V.,&Geraedts, M. (2002). "Commentary on Germany's Long Term Care Insurance Model: Lessons for the United States". Journal of Public Health Policy. 23 (1): 44-65.
  4. Kovner, C.T., Mezey, M.&Harrington, C. (2002). "Who Cares for Older Adults? Workforce Implications of An Aging Society." Health Affairs. 21 (5): 78-89.
  5. Harrington, C., O?Meara, J., Kitchener, M., Payne-Simon, L., and Schnelle, J. (2003). "Designing a Report Card for Nursing Facilities: What Information Is Needed and Why." The Gerontologist. 43 (Special Issue II):47-57.
  6. LaPlante, M.P., Kaye, H.S., Kang, T. and Harrington, C. (2004). "Unmet Need for Personal Assistance Services: Estimating the Shortfall in Hours of Help and Adverse Consequences". J. of Gerontology: Social Sciences. 59B (2): S98-S108.
  7. Kitchener, M. and Harrington, C. (2004). "Medicaid Community-Based programs: A Longitudinal Analysis of State Variation in Expenditures and Utilization". Inquiry. 40(4): 375-389.

Tenth Session: Physician Payment Incentives on a Consumer-driven Health Care System

Tuesday, October 4, 2:00 - 4:00 P.M.
Faculty: James Robinson, Ph.D.

  1. Robinson, J.C., (2004) "Reinvention of Health Insurance in the Consumer Era" JAMA, April 21, 291 (15).
  2. Robinson, J.C., "Managed Consumerism in Health Care." (under review) *This paper was supported by the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy and the California Health Care Foundation


Eleventh Session: Affective Forecasting and Health Disparities

Tuesday, October 6, 2:00 - 4:00 P.M.
Faculty: Jodi Halpern, M.D.

Readings to be distributed later


Twelfth Session: Summary, Feedback, and Wrap-up

Thursday, October 11, 2:00 - 4:00 P.M.
Faculty: Joan Bloom, Ph.D. and John Ellwood, Ph.D.

Required Readings:

  1. Chapter 14 in Shi and Singh, "The Future of Health Services Delivery," pp. 563-592.

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