Volume 82, Number 2, 2004

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• Editor's Introduction: In This Issue

• Driven to Tiers: Socioeconomic and Racial Disparities in the Quality of Nursing Home Care
  Vincent Mor, Jacqueline Zinn, Joseph Angelelli, Joan M. Teno, and Susan C. Miller
  (Featured article -- click here for full text)

• The Growing Pains of Integrated Health Care for the Elderly: Lessons from the Expansion of PACE
  Diane L. Gross, Helena Temkin-Greener, Stephen Kunitz, and Dana B. Mukamel

• A Political History of Medicare and Prescription Drug Coverage
  Thomas R. Oliver, Philip R. Lee, and Helene L. Lipton

• Is Income Inequality a Determinant of Population Health? Part 2. U.S. National and Regional Trends in Income Inequality and Age- and Cause-Specific Mortality
  John Lynch, George Davey Smith, Sam Harper, and Marianne Hillemeier

• Notes on Contributors