Youth have concerns about sensitive health topics, including drugs, sex, and mental health. Providers often perceive that youth are uncomfortable discussing these topics and do not address these concerns. This study found that youth who discussed sensitive topics with their primary care provider...

Using consumer focus groups, a technical expert panel, and careful development and testing, this study successfully enabled and administered an existing survey on primary care to assess the health care experiences reported by adults with disabilities.

By their nature, advocacy organizations form partnerships and alliances with others to achieve their public policy goals. Some alliances are longstanding, while others are temporary or opportunistic and may bring together groups to support a particular legislative or administrative approach or...

This brief examines accountable care organizations—groupings of diverse health care providers that care for a group of people and aim to create a cohesive framework, encourage accountability, and create incentives and rewards to providers that focus on the overall scope of patient care....

Analyzes the effect of shrinking managed care benefits on enrollees by examining trends in estimated out-of-pocket costs. Those in poor health not only paid more than those in good health; they also experienced the highest growth in out-of-pocket costs—62 percent—in the three-year...

This article considers the effect of changing household wealth on changes in utilization.

This article considers differences in dental use by wealth levels across households.