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 has moved to expanded space at 112 Paterson Street (off Joyce Kilmer Avenue) in the Health Sciences Complex. [ 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...]

Louise B. Russell named Deputy Editor of Medical Decision Making
Medical Decision Making is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Louise B. [ More...]

Louise B. Russell featured editor of Medical Decision Making, July/August 2011
Louise B. Russell, Research Professor in the Institute and Professor in the Department of Economics, is the featured editor of the July/August 2011 issue of Medical Decision Making titled Simulation Modeling in Health. [ More...]

Beth Angell's Research Featured in Rutgers Today
A story about Beth Angell's research on a mother's attitude toward her child's mental illness is featured in the June 27 issue of Rutgers Today. [ More...]

Jane Miller to receive Leaders in Faculty Diversity Award
Congratulations to Professor Jane Miller who will receive a 2011 Faculty Leadership in Diversity Award. [ More...]

Louise Russell is Co-Editor of special supplement for Medical Decision Making
This special supplement to the journal Medical Decision Making, edited by Brian Zikmund-Fisher, Louise Russell, and Michael Pignone, is devoted to articles about the National Survey of Medical Decision Making. [ More...]

Diana Sanchez wins the Michele Alexander Early Career Award for Scholarship and Service
Diana T. Sanchez, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers, New Brunswick, received the Michele Alexander Early Career Award for Scholarship and Service. [ More...]

Lenna Nepomnyaschy and Irwin Garfinked to Receive Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize
A paper co-authored by Lenna Nepomnyaschy and Irwin Garfinkel has been selected to receive the 2011 Frank R. [ More...]

Recent Publications:

	How Much Time Do Adults Spend on Health-related Self-care? ... Daniel E. Jonas, Yoko Ibuka, and Louise B. Russell
The authors report that time spent on health-related self-care is disproportionately distributed across the population, with a larger amount of time reported [ More...]

	Stigma, Reflected Appraisals, and Recovery Outcomes ... Fred E. Markowitz, Beth Angell, and Jan S. Greenberg
Drawing on modified labeling theory and the reflected appraisals process and using longitudinal data from 129 mothers and their adult children with schizophrenia, [ More...]

	Creating an Age of Depression: The Social Construction ... Allan Horwitz
One type of study in the sociology of mental health examines how social and cultural factors influence the creation and consequences of psychiatric diagnoses. [ More...]

	Parental eligibility and take-up of SCHIP: The roles ... Jane E. Miller, Dorothy Gaboda, Colleen Nugent, Theresa Simpson, and Joel C. Cantor
In 2000, New Jersey’s State Children’s Health Insurance Program (NJ FamilyCare) expanded coverage to parents of eligible children from families with income [ More...]

	'Quicker and Sicker' under Medicare’s Prospective ... Xufeng Qian, Louise B. Russell, Elmira Valiyeva, and Jane E. Miller
Medicare’s prospective payment system for hospitals (PPS), introduced in the U.S. in 1983, replaced cost reimbursement with a system of fixed rates which [ More...]

	The Myth of Meritocracy and African American ... Naa Oyo Kwate and Ilan H. Meyer
Recent theoretical and empirical studies of the social determinants of health inequities have shown that economic deprivation, multiple levels of racism, [ More...]

	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...]

	The Race and Class Privilege of Motherhood: New York ... Kristen W. Springer
Prior research has examined race and class bias embedded in media presentations of pregnant drug users; however, this past research is limited in identifying [ More...]

	Do Wives' Work Hours Hurt Husbands' Health? Reassessing ... Kristen W. Springer
Prior research suggests that wives’ full-time employment harms husbands’ health because employed wives have less time to promote their husbands’ salubrious [ 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...]

	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...]

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