This study is a comprehensive analysis of the nutrient adequacy of adolescent females, older adults, children and adults at risk of overweight, individuals living in food-insufficient households, low-income individuals, and individuals targeted by and participating in food and nutrition...

Across the country, children without health insurance are a cause for concern. This report examines the design and implementation of State Children's Health Insurance Programs, noting that they were succeeding in almost all areas examined. The study focused on 10 states with a large proportion...

This report, the largest and most comprehensive examination of Americans who seek emergency food relief and the charitable network that serves them, notes that more than 23 million people received emergency hunger relief from Second Harvest in 2001, an increase of about 7.5 percent or nearly two...

Responsibility for drug coverage for over six million Medicare-Medicaid “dual eligibles†shifts from Medicaid to Medicare in January 2006 under the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. This issue brief summarizes new state-by-state data and a chartbook on Medicaid prescription drug use...

New data on Medicaid prescription drug use and reimbursement in 1999, prepared by Mathematica for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, provide a tool states can use to identify potential problems in their Medicaid prescription drug programs and explore solutions. The data are organized...

Despite America's great wealth, millions of Americans do not have enough food to eat each day, according to the largest and most comprehensive study to date of this issue. More than 25 million people use food banks and food-rescue organizations in the America's Second Harvest network each year....