December 2005  (Volume 83)

Kathleen S. Andersen,  John R. Ball,  Paul D. Cleary,  Daniel M. Fox,  Peter M. Gottsegen,  Bradford H. Gray,  Rosemary A. Stevens,  John D. Stoeckle, 

In This Issue

Ray Lyman Wilbur, 

The Economics of Public Health and Medical Care

George St.J. Perrott,  Selwyn D. Collins, 

Sickness and the Depression: A Preliminary Report upon a Survey of Wage-Earning Families in Birmingham, Detroit, and Pittsburgh

George St.J. Perrott,  Edgar Sydenstricker,  Selwyn D. Collins, 

Medical Care during the Depression: A Preliminary Report upon a Survey of Wage-Earning Families in Seven Large Cities

I. S. Falk, 

The Present and Future Organization of Medicine

Michael M. Davis, 

The American Approach to Health Insurance

Albert G. Milbank, 

The Relationship of the Milbank Memorial Fund to the Field of Health and the Medical Profession

Dorothy F. Holland,  George St.J. Perrott, 

Health of the Negro

George St.J. Perrott,  Dorothy F. Holland, 

Population Trends and Problems of Public Health

Frank G. Boudreau, 

Nutrition in War and Peace

R. R. Puffer, 

Industrial and Occupational Environment and Health

R. H. Felix,  R. V. Bowers, 

Mental Hygiene and Socio-Environmental Factors

Morton Kramer, 

Long-Range Studies of Mental Hospital Patients: An Important Area for Research in Chronic Disease

Antonio Ciocco,  Paul M. Densen,  Daniel G. Horvitz, 

On the Association between Health and Social Problems in the Population: I. Methods and Preliminary Findings

Paul M. Densen,  Neva R. Deardorff,  Eva Balamuth, 

Longitudinal Analyses of Four Years of Experience of a Prepaid Comprehensive Medical Care Plan

Alexander H. Leighton,  Jane M. Hughes, 

Cultures as a Causative of Mental Disorder

Avedis Donabedian, 

Evaluating the Quality of Medical Care

Irwin M. Rosenstock, 

Why People Use Health Services

Abdel R. Omran, 

The Epidemiologic Transition: A Theory of the Epidemiology of Population Change

Paul M. Ellwood, 

Models for Organizing Health Services and Implications of Legislative Proposals

Rashi Fein, 

On Achieving Access and Equity in Health Care

Lester Breslow, 

The Organization of Personal Health Services

Ronald Andersen,  John F. Newman, 

Societal and Individual Determinants of Medical Care Utilization in the United States

Barbara Starfield, 

Measurement of Outcome: A Proposed Scheme

Ernest M. Gruenberg, 

The Failures of Success

Clark C. Havighurst, 

Antitrust Enforcement in the Medical Services Industry: What Does It All Mean?

Theodore R. Marmor,  James A. Morone, 

Representing Consumer Interests: Imbalanced Markets, Health Planning, and the HSAs

James F. Fries, 

The Compression of Morbidity

Anne A. Scitovsky, 

“The High Cost of Dying”: What Do the Data Show?

Daniel M. Fox, 

AIDS and the American Health Polity: The History and Prospects of a Crisis of Authority

The Future of Communicable Disease Control: Toward a New Concept in Public Health Law

William G. Weissert,  Cynthia Matthews Cready,  James E. Pawelak, 

The Past and Future of Home- and Community-Based Long-Term Care

Stephen B. Soumerai,  Thomas J. McLaughlin,  Jerry Avorn, 

Improving Drug Prescribing in Primary Care: A Critical Analysis of the Experimental Literature

Irving Kenneth Zola, 

Toward the Necessary Universalizing of a Disability Policy

Mark A. Schuster,  Elizabeth A. McGlynn,  Robert H. Brook, 

How Good Is the Quality of Health Care in the United States?