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Dear Colleagues Attached below information on selected papers from the latest issue of Health Services Research which may be of interest to some of you. 1. Managed Care, Access to Specialists, and Outcomes among Primary Care Patients with Pain 2. Impact of Cardiac Service Availability on Case-Selection for Angiography and Survival Associated with Angiography 3. Process of Care and Outcome after Acute Myocardial Infarction for Patients with Mental Illness in the VA Health Care System: Are There Disparities? 4. Is Exposure to Income Inequality a Public Health Concern? Lagged Effects of Income Inequality on Individual and Population Health + Commentary 5. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Purchase of Nongroup Health Insurance: The Roles of Community and Family-Level Factors Best wishes David McDaid LSE Health and Social Care ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Health Services Research: Volume 38, Issue 1p1, Feb 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Quality and Outcomes of Care ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managed Care, Access to Specialists, and Outcomes among Primary Care Patients with Pain David E. Grembowski, Diane Martin, Paula Diehr, Donald L. Patrick, Barbara Williams, Louise Novak, Richard Deyo, Wayne Katon, Deborah Dickstein, Ruth Engelberg, Harold Goldberg Health Services Research; Volume 38, Issue 1p1, Page 1 http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/1475-6773.00102 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Impact of Cardiac Service Availability on Case-Selection for Angiography and Survival Associated with Angiography Nandini Dendukuri, Sharon-Lise T. Normand, Barbara J. McNeil Health Services Research; Volume 38, Issue 1p1, Page 21 http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/1475-6773.00103 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Process of Care and Outcome after Acute Myocardial Infarction for Patients with Mental Illness in the VA Health Care System: Are There Disparities? Laura A. Petersen, Sharon-Lise T. Normand, Benjamin G. Druss, Robert A. Rosenheck Health Services Research; Volume 38, Issue 1p1, Page 41 http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/1475-6773.00104 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Other Articles ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Is Exposure to Income Inequality a Public Health Concern? Lagged Effects of Income Inequality on Individual and Population Health Jennifer M. Mellor, Jeffrey Milyo Health Services Research; Volume 38, Issue 1p1, Page 137 http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/1475-6773.00109 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Income Inequality as a Public Health Concern: Where Do We Stand? Commentary on "Is Exposure to Income Inequality a Public Health Concern?" S. V. Subramanian, Tony Blakely, Ichiro Kawachi Health Services Research; Volume 38, Issue 1p1, Page 153 http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/1475-6773.00110 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Purchase of Nongroup Health Insurance: The Roles of Community and Family-Level Factors Barry G. Saver, Mark P. Doescher, J. Morel Symons, George E. Wright, C. Holly Andrilla Health Services Research; Volume 38, Issue 1p1, Page 211 http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/1475-6773.00113