Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research

Announcements:

IOM awards the 2009 Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health to David Mechanic
The Institute of Medicine has awarded the 2009 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health to David Mechanic. [ More...]

Louise Russell interviewed for the RU Focus
The October 22nd edition of Rutgers Today features an interview with Louise Russell, professor of economics and director of the Institute for Health's Division on Health Policy. [ More...]

Highlights from the 2009 Project L/EARN Summer Session
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded Project L/EARN program enjoyed a highly successful summer session with nine interns from Rutgers, University of Pennsylvania, University of Puerto Rico and University of Illinois. [ More...]

Judith Lucas and Colleagues Win Poster Award at ISPE
Judith Lucas and colleagues in the Institute’s Center for Pharmacology, Chronic Disease Management and Outcomes were awarded second place in their poster presentation at the recent silver anniversary meeting of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) held in Providence, RI. [ More...]

Dawne Mouzon wins graduate student paper award
Dawne Mouzon, a doctoral student in medical sociology and long-time Project L/EARN instructor at the Institute, was the 1st place winner of the Mental Health Division’s Student Paper Competition at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. [ More...]

Kristen W. Springer's research covered by local, national, and international news
Kristen W. Springer's research on masculinity and men's healthcare seeking was recently covered by over 35 news outlets including USA Today, LA Times, and MSNBC.

Springer and Rutgers colleague Dawne Mouzon, a sociology graduate student, examined data from 1,000 middle-aged men who participated in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study in 2004. [ More...]

Louise Russell featured on Columbia Journalism Review online
In four recent posts on the Columbia Journalism Review, contributing editor Trudy Lieberman has used Professor Louise Russell's research to explore the role of prevention in medical spending and raise questions about the claims being made for it in the health reform debate.

The most recent post, "Pelosi, Prevention, and PBS: Is Madame Speaker Misinformed?" (Columbia Journalism Review online, July 31, 2009) is available here.

The second post, "Sen. [ More...]

Keith Wailoo named Garrison Lecturer by AAMH
The American Association for the History of Medicine (AAMH) named Professor Keith Wailoo as its 2010 Garrison Lecturer -- awarded to a scholar distinguished for contributions to medical history or other fields of science and learning. [ More...]

Catherine Lee awarded Fellowship at Russell Sage Foundation
Assistant Professor Catherine Lee has been awarded a fellowship to be a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation for 2009-2010. [ More...]

Stephen Crystal discusses health care on NJN
Professor Stephen Crystal on NJN- Public Television Discusses Health Care Coverage for the Uninsured and Health Care System Costs. [ More...]

Stephen Crystal named Board of Governors Professor of Health Services Research

Professor Stephen Crystal has been promoted to the Board of Governors Professor of Health Services Research based on his extraordinarily productive scholarship that has gained impressive national distinction and visibility for the Institute and Rutgers University. [ More...]

Postdoctoral Opportunities Available
The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, directed by David Mechanic, offers postdoctoral opportunities for research and training in mental health research. [ More...]

Recent Publications:

	Felt Obligation to Help Others as a Protective Factor ... Emily A. Greenfield
This study examined felt obligation to help others in two domains (close others and society) as protective factors against losses in psychological well-being [ More...]

	Perceived Need for Mental Health Care Among Community-Dwelling ... Melissa M. Garrido, Robert L. Kane, Merrie Kaas, and Rosalie A. Kane
Only half of older adults with a mental disorder use mental health services, and little is known about the causes of perceived need for mental health [ More...]

	Completing Costs: Patients’ Time Louise B. Russell
Every patient knows that taking care of one’s health and seeking medical care takes time, sometimes lots of it. Yet those who study the medical system [ More...]

	Will More Prevention Lower Medical Spending? Louise B. Russell
Many people believe that prevention reduces medical spending, despite four decades of studies showing that it rarely does. Preventive interventions are [ More...]

	Childhood Physical Abuse and Midlife Physical Health: ... Kristen W. Springer
Although prior research has established that childhood abuse adversely affects midlife physical health, it is unclear how abuse continues to harm health [ More...]

	Violence from Parents in Childhood and Obesity in ... Emily A. Greenfield and Nadine F. Marks
Guided by a life course perspective and concepts from models of stress and coping, this study tested the extent to which self-reported profiles of physical [ More...]

	"Race" and "Ethnicity" in Biomedical Research: How ... Catherine Lee
Social and biomedical scientists, journal editors, and public health officials continue to debate the merits of the use of race and ethnicity in health-related [ More...]

	Preventing Chronic Disease: An Important Investment, ... Louise B. Russell
Over the four decades since cost-effectiveness analysis was first applied to health and medicine, hundreds of studies have shown that prevention usually [ More...]

	How Much Time Do Patients Spend on Outpatient Visits? ... Louise B. Russell, Yoko Ibuka and Deborah Carr
Background: In Crossing the Quality Chasm, the Institute of Medicine recommended that patient-centered care should not waste patients’ time and [ More...]

	Effects of Leisure and Non-Leisure Physical Activity ... Alejandro Arrieta, PhD and Louise Russell, PhD
PURPOSE: To estimate the effects of the components of total physical activity, leisure-time and nonleisure activity, on all-cause mortality over [ More...]

	Making Up with Mom: Why Mothers and Daughters Disagree ... Julie Halpert and Deborah Carr
Young women today have infinitely more options than their mothers and grandmothers did decades ago. “Should I become a doctor, a writer, or a stay-at-home [ More...]

	Mental Health and Social Policy David Mechanic
The fifth edition of Mental Health and Social Policy takes a multidisciplinary approach to mental health and social policy. It covers mental health issues [ More...]

	The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal ... Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield
Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year [ More...]

	The Dilemma of Federal Mental Health Policy Gerald N. Grob and Howard H. Goldman
Severe and persistent mental illnesses are among the most pressing health and social problems in contemporary America. Recent estimates suggest that more [ More...]

	A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, ... Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, Peter Guarnaccia, Editors
In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight—she had received [ More...]

	The Truth about Health Care: Why Reform Is Not Working ... David Mechanic
The United States spends significantly more per person on health care than any other country but the evidence shows that care is often poor and inappropriate. [ More...]

	The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity ... Keith Wailoo and Stephen Pemberton
Why do racial and ethnic controversies become attached, as they often do, to discussions of modern genetics? How do theories about genetic difference [ More...]

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