This publication reports on a worldwide survey of military health system beneficiaries, including children, conducted each year under a mandate from Congress to ensure regular monitoring of beneficiaries' satisfaction with their health care options. In 2003, the survey also addressed policy...

This new two-year study of low-income New York City students in grades 3 to 6 who received vouchers to attend private schools shows no significant difference in test scores between the scholarship group and the control group. It also finds that students performed about the same on standardized...

This Data Spotlight provides an overview of Medicare Advantage enrollment patterns in March 2012, including variations by plan type, state, and firm. It also analyzes trends in premiums paid by beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans including variations by plan type, and describes...

Explores why states differ in their Medicaid coverage of the at-risk population, focusing on large disparities in Medicaid spending. To help address these disparities, suggests reconfiguring the federal matching formula for Medicaid so it accounts for the need for public coverage in each state,...

This study examined developmental trajectories of alcohol use and violent behavior among urban African American youth and the longitudinal relationship between these behaviors from adolescence to emerging adulthood. The sample included 649 African American youth (49 percent male) followed for...

This issue brief finds that when episodes of care involving hospitalizations, similar to Model 2 of the ongoing Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Bundled Payment for Care Improvement demonstration, are applied to privately insured patients, inpatient prices drive the bulk of...

This systematic review provides a comprehensive, updated assessment of programs with evidence of effectiveness in reducing teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), or associated sexual risk behaviors. A total of 88 studies conducted since the late 1980s met the review criteria for...