This issue brief highlights a number of prescription drug issues that remain important for states after the shift of prescription drug coverage for Medicaid-Medicare dual eligibles to Medicare in 2006, including the use of antipsychotic drugs in nursing facilities and other settings. It focuses...

In this study, school children wore a validated accelerometer and completed the Previous Day Physical Activity Recall for three consecutive days. When applied to the holdout sample, an algorithm of predicted minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity showed good agreement with the actual...

This report presents first-year evaluation findings for the City University of New York project, which served youth ages 14 through 19 in Bronx County from August 2006 to May 2010. The program was well implemented and had statistically significant impacts on several important outcomes, including...

To improve beneficiary care and reduce unnecessary expenditures, a number of states have developed programs and initiatives aimed at improving the coordination and management of care for dual eligibles—beneficiaries enrolled in both Medicaid and Medicare for their health care services....

Using consumer focus groups, a technical expert panel, and careful development and testing, this study successfully enabled and administered an existing survey on primary care to assess the health care experiences reported by adults with disabilities.

This report examines enrollment and retention in Healthy San Francisco, a health care access program for uninsured adults in the city and county of San Francisco. The program has successfully enrolled a significant portion of uninsured working-age San Franciscans, especially those in the lowest...

This review provides summaries of impact, implementation, and descriptive studies that have examined responsible fatherhood and related family strengthening programs that target and serve low-income fathers.

This issue brief proposes a two-pronged approach for increasing the employment rate for people with disabilities, reducing their reliance on federal support, and increasing their household incomes, while preserving benefits for those who are unable to work. This approach includes introducing an...