To Improve Health and Health Care, Volume V The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology

by Isaacs, Stephen L.; Knickman, James R.

• ISBN13: 9780787959463
• ISBN10: 0787959464
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-31
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Since 1972, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health. To further its mission of improving the health and health care of all Americans, it provides funds for demonstration projects, educational and communications activities, training, policy analysis, and research. As part of the Foundation's efforts to inform the public, To Improve Health and Health Care, the fifth volume in The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology series, provides an in-depth look into the programs it funds. Written for policy makers and practitioners as well as interested members of the public, the series offers useful lessons for leaders and educators developing plans for the coming years. This volume includes chapters on: * The Nurse Home Visitation Program * Strategies to treat tuberculosis * Health of Native Americans * Service credit banking * Consumer choice in long-term care * The Health Policy Fellowships Program * Recovery High School * On Doctoring, an anthology of literature and medicineAIDS * Program-related investments * The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's grantmaking in New Jersey

Author Biography

Stephen L. Isaacs is president of Health Policy Associates, San Francisco, California.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Steven A. Schroeder
Editors' Introduction: Strategies for Improving Access to Health Care---Observations from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology Series	xiii
Stephen L. Isaacs
James R. Knickman
Acknowledgments	xxiii
Part One: Programs	1	(122)
The Nurse Home Visitation Program	3	(20)
Joseph Alper
Tuberculosis: Old Disease, New Challenge	23	(30)
Carolyn Newbergh
Programs to Improve the Health of Native Americans	53	(22)
Paul Brodeur
Service Credit Banking	75	(26)
Susan Dentzer
Consumer Choice in Long-term Care	101	(22)
A. E. Benjamin
Rani E. Snyder
The Health Policy Fellowships Program	123
Richard S. Frank