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Rappaport Institute Policy Notes Database
Health Care/Public Health
For more information on each entry, please click the title of each dataset.
| "Fire Safer" Cigarettes: The Effect of the New York State Cigarette Fire Safety Standard on Ignition Propensity, Smoke Toxicity and the Consumer Market |
| "Subject to Appropriations" Funding for Tobacco Control in Massachusetts, 1993 - 2003 |
| A Change of Heart: How the People of Framingham, Massachusetts Helped Unravel the Mysteries of Cardiovascular Disease |
| A Programmatic Audit of the Massachusetts Vitamin Litigation Project |
| A Public Health Approach to Reducing Morbidity and Mortality Among Homeless People in Boston |
| A Statewide Public Health Approach to Improving Organ Donation: The Massachusetts Organ Donation Initiative |
| Addressing Medical Debt: A Review of Massachusetts Non-Profit Acute Care Hospital Billing and Collection Practices |
| AIDS Housing in New England |
| An Environmental Health Survey of Residents in Boston Chinatown |
| Catholics and the ConCon: The Church's Response to the Massachusetts Gay Marriage Decision |
| Community Health Centers' Impact on the Political and Economic Environment |
| Comparing the Clinical Quality and Cost of Secondary Care in Academic Health Centers and in Community Hospitals |
| Dorchester Lead-Safe Yard Project: A Pilot Program to Demonstrate Low-Cost, On-Site Techniques to Reduce Exposure to Lead-Contaminated Soil |
| Early Intervention in Low Birth Weight Premature Infants: Results at 18 Years of Age for the Infant Health Development Program |
| Escaping from Crime of Inner Cities: Church Attendance and Religious Salience Among Disadvantaged Youth |
| Evaluation of the Massachusetts Smoke-free Workplace Law: A Preliminary Report |
| Evidence for Action: Strengthening After-School Programs for All Children and Youth |
| Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects on Youth |
| Extended Care Career Ladder Initiative (ECCLI) Round 2: Evaluation Report |
| Hard Numbers, Hard Times: Homeless Individuals in Massachusetts Emergency Shelters, 1999-2003 |
| Health Care at the Crossroads: A Guide for the Perplexed |
| Help-Seeking Behaviors of Blacks and Whites Dying from Coronary Heart Disease |
| HIV/AIDS Housing Trends in Greater Boston |
| How Good a Deal Was the Tobacco Settlement? Accessing Payments to Massachusetts |
| Industry Clusters in Metropolitan Boston |
| Mapping and Measuring Social Disparities in Premature Mortality: The Impact of Census Tract Poverty Within and Across Boston Neighborhoods, 1999-2001 |
| Massachusetts Medical Devices: Leveraging the Region's Capabilities |
| MassHealth: It’s Good for Business – Ten Facts the Employer Community Should Know About the Massachusetts Medicaid Program |
| Modeling Infrastructure Vulnerabilities and Adaptation to Climate Change in Urban Systems: Methodology and Application to Metropolitan Boston |
| Moving to Opportunity and Tranquility: Neighborhood Effects on Adult Self Sufficiency and Health from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment |
| Painting a Truer Picture of US Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Health Inequalities: The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project |
| Prison, Hospital or Community: Community Re-Entry and Mentally Ill Offenders |
| Refusing HIV Testing in an Urgent Care Setting: Results from the "Think HIV" Program |
| Report of the 2004 Boston Youth Survey |
| School Based Programs: Lessons Learned from CATCH, Planet Health, and Not-On-Tobacco |
| Sewers in the City: A Case Study of Individual-Level Mortality and Public Health Initiatives in Northampton, Massachusetts at the Turn of the Century |
| Socioeconomic Status and Mental Illness: Tests of the Social Causation and Selection Hypothesis |
| Street Culture in Cambridge, Massachusetts?: The Perceptions of "Poor", "At-Risk" Teens Near Harvard |
| Support for Condom Availability and Needle Exchange Programs Among Massachusetts Adults, 1997 |
| Terrorism: A Community Response |
| The Benefits of HMO Community Benefits Programs |
| The First Community Health Centers |
| The Massachusetts Health Care Revolution: A Local Start for Universal Access |
| The Zone of Vulnerability: Poor and Working Class Families in Boston |
| Timeliness of Childhood Immunizations: A State-Specific Analysis |
| Unequal Exposure to Ecological Hazards 2005: Environmental Injustices in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
| What Progress Has Been Made in Meeting the Needs of Seriously Maltreated Children? The Course of 200 Cases Through the Boston Juvenile Court |
| Who Supports Tobacco Excise Taxes? Factors Associated With Towns’ and Individuals’ Support in Massachusetts |
| Why Are the Nurses Crying? Restructuring, Power, and Control in an American Hospital |
| Youth Voices as Change Agents: Moving Beyond the Medical Model in School-Based Health Center Practice |
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