Using a variety of data sources, this paper examines health care utilization patterns of Healthy San Francisco … enrollees. The findings suggest that the program, designed to increase uninsured people's access to health care, is increasing … access to primary care for participating adults, improving self-reported health status, and altering care-seeking behavior. …

This article examines successful models used by hospital emergency departments, health department outpatient clinics …

There is broad consensus that family structure is inextricably linked with poverty and the well-being of children. This … paper reviews the connections between poverty, family structure, and child well-being; explains the rationale for a new …

work limitation live in households below the poverty level, as compared to about 26 percent of men with a work limitation. …

This report looks at spending patterns for food, housing, health care, and other categories of low-income households in … might change under an expenditure-based poverty threshold and explores savings and credit for these three groups. …

, poverty, and other measures. This book reviews what current data on this population can and cannot tell us, as well as how …