Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research

Announcements:

February 11th Brown Bag CANCELLED
The February 11th Brown Bag seminar with Issam Zineh has been cancelled. [ 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...]

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...]

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:

	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...]

	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...]

	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...]

	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...]

	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 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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