Five
States That Could Not Wait: Lessons for Health Reform
from Florida, Hawaii, Minnesota, Oregon, and Vermont
Edited by Daniel M. Fox and John K. Iglehart, Milbank Memorial
Fund
This book provides first-hand reports of events in the first five reforming states. Each of the authors did on-site research and writing in collaboration with leaders of reform in the executive and legislative branches of the state governments. The authors and editors themselves are well-known journalists, political scientists, and policy analysts.
American
Nursing: From Hospitals to Health Systems
By Joan E. Lynaugh and Barbara L. Brush
During recent decades, worries about safe and effective care of the sick in hospitals stimulated an almost constant barrage of studies and criticism. This book, based on 50 years of government and professional studies of the hospital nursing problem, explores these criticisms, highlights persisting themes, and shows how today's concerns relate to those of the recent past.
Home-Based Care
for a New Century
Edited by Daniel M. Fox and Carol Raphael
With expansion, the home-care market is becoming more diverse and competitive. For-profit agencies are multiplying. Many hospitals are moving beyond their instiutional walls to provide an array of home- and community-based services as well as for-profit agencies. This book reveals how individuals, families and other third-party payers are aggressively shopping among home-care providers, seeking better value for the money. The articles comprising this book were commissioned by the Milbank Fund and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York.
Treating Drug Abusers
Effectively
Edited by Daniel M. Fox, Joel A. Egertson and Alan I. Leshner
This book of 11 original articles assesses research done on effective treatment in order to provide guidance to policy makers. The articles result from collaboration between researchers and policy makers organized by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Milbank Memorial Fund.
