Poll Finding
Toplines for the Kaiser Health News Index: 2001
Complete Survey Toplines for the Kaiser Health News Index: 2001
The Kaiser Health News Index is designed to provide key tracking information on public opinion about health care topics to journalists, policymakers and the general public.
Medicare Chartbook
This Chart Book includes data and background information critical to understanding the Medicare program and the challenges it faces in keeping up with the rising costs of health care and in ensuring the program s future financial security. The document is organized into the following six sections: Medicare s Beneficiaries, Medicare Spending and Utilization, Supplemental Insurance and Out-of-Pocket Spending, the Medicare+Choice program, Medicare and Prescription Drugs, and Financing Medicare.
Medicaid Coverage During a Time of Rising Unemployment
A new brief policy analysis illustrates the relationship between rising unemployment and increased Medicaid enrollment and spending.
Medicaid and Managed Care
This fact sheet provides an overview of the Medicaid program’s increasing reliance on managed care to deliver services.
Generation Rx.com: How Young People Use the Internet for Health Information
The Internet has become a daily part of life especially for younger Americans. Teens as well as adults are now going online to look for health information. What exactly are young people looking for? Do they trust what they find? Is it influencing what they talk about with their peers, parents, or physicians? Are they worried about privacy? Pornography? Parental controls?
A panel featuring Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet & American Life Project; Gretchen Berland, MD, Assistant Professor, Yale University Department of Internal Medicine; Esther Drill, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, gURL.com; and Robert Johnson, MD, Director of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, New Jersey Medical School discussed all these issues and more at an Emerging Issues in Reproductive Health Briefing. New findings from a national survey of teens and young adults experiences with and attitudes toward online health information were presented.
Women’s Health Data Book: A Profile of Women’s Health in the United States
The Women’s Health Data Book: A Profile of Women’s Health in the United States, offers the latest data and trends on the wide range of health issues that affect women across their life spans. Published by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health, the Data Book is edited by Dawn Misra, Ph.D.
This book addresses social and economic factors and provides up-to-date information on chronic conditions, reproductive health, mental health, violence, health behaviors, and access to and quality of health services received by women. Information is included on disparities in health status and access to care among subgroups of women, highlighting the populations of women who are at greatest risk. Additional fact sheets highlighting key data from the book are also available.
- Fact Sheet: Data Book Highlights
- Fact Sheet: Highlights for Women of Color
- Fact Sheet: Highlights for Adolescents
Trends in Health Plans Serving Medicaid — 2000 Data Update
An updated study follows trends in commercial health plan participation in Medicaid managed care and includes new analyses on the performance of Medicaid-dominated and commercial plans on measures of effective care and access to care, and on the extent to which plans restrict their Medicaid service areas.
Poll Finding
Health News Index November/December 2001
Health News Index November/December, 2001
The November/December 2001 edition of the Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health Health News Index includes questions about major health stories covered in the news, including the public s knowledge of bioterrorism threats, anthrax and smallpox. The Health News Index is designed to help news media and people in the health field gain a better understanding of which health stories Americans are following and what they understand about those issues.
Disparities in Women’s Health
Disparities in Women’s Health
Disparities in health and health care continue to burden women, particularly affecting women of color or those who are poor. To shed more light on the factors contributing to inequalities in health and access to care for women, the Kaiser Family Foundation provided support for the newest issue of the Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association (JAMWA) Disparities in Women’s Health. This special issue features an editorial by Surgeon General David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., as well as articles focusing on the underlying causes of racial and ethnic inequalities in women’s health and sex differences in health care delivery. This issue also explores the impact of social-economic status, age, and disease on health disparities.
A fully downloadable copy of the article is available on the JAMWA website.
Note: This publication is no longer in circulation. However, a few copies may still exist in the Foundation’s internal library that could be xeroxed. Please email order@kff.org if you would like to pursue this option.