Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research

Announcements:

New Institute for Health Building

After 25 years at multiple locations on the College Avenue Campus, the Institute for Health is moving to expanded space at 112 Paterson Street (off Joyce Kilmer Avenue) in the Health Sciences Complex. [ More...]

Institute Promotions Announced
The Institute for Health is pleased to announce that Debby Carr has been promoted to the rank of professor and Allan Horwitz has been appointed a Board of Governors Professor of Sociology. [ More...]

Allan Horwitz receives Faculty Scholar-Teacher Award
Allan Horwitz has received the University’s prestigious Faculty Scholar-Teacher Award. [ More...]

Project L/EARN Recruits Nursing Students
With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation the directors of Project L/EARN have made concerted efforts to recruit more undergraduate nursing students into the program. [ More...]

Project L/EARN intern chosen for Voorhees Fellowship
Natasha Ramsey, an intern in the Institute’s Project L/EARN program (class of 2009), has been selected for the Ralph Voorhees Fellowship Program in Public Service at the Rutgers’ Edward J. [ More...]

Rutgers Today Interview with Steve Crystal
The use of antipsychotic drugs to treat very young children appears to be on the rise. That’s the conclusion of a recent study conducted by researchers at Rutgers and Columbia universities.

The study, published in the January edition of Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, examined a large database of privately insured children. [ More...]

Louise Russell one of the "Most Read" in Health Affairs
Louise Russell's paper is one of Health Affairs' 20 "most-read." The journal Health Affairs has just announced that Russell's "Preventing Chronic Disease: An Important Investment, But Don’t Count on Cost Savings," published in January/February 2009, ranked among the top 20 articles published last year. [ More...]

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...]

Recent Publications:

	Antipsychotic Medication Use in Medicaid Children ... Prepared by the Publication Committee
State Medicaid Mary Ellen Foti, M.D.; Gordon Harper, M.D.; Robert Moon, M.D.; George Oestreich, Pharm.D., M.P.A.; Roger Snow, M.D., M.P.H., Jeffery [ More...]

	How an Age of Anxiety Became an Age of Depression Allan Horwitz
Context: During the 1950s and 1960s, anxiety was the emblematic mental health problem in the United States, and depression was considered to be [ More...]

	Trends in Antipsychotic Drug Use by Very Young, Privately ... Mark Olfson, Stephen Crystal, Cecilia Huang and Tobias Gerhard
Objective This study describes recent trends and patterns in antipsychotic treatment of privately insured children aged 2 through 5 years. Method A [ More...]

	Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence: Conundrums in Modern ... Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz
In Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence, Gerald N. Grob and Allan V. Horwitz employ historical and contemporary data and case studies, combining into one [ More...]

	Race Disparities in Low Birth Weight in the U.S. South ... Lenna Nepomnyaschy
There are well-documented and as yet unexplained disparities in birth outcomes by race in the USA. This paper examines the sources of disparities in low [ More...]

	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...]

	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...]

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