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Studies & Research

SLHI periodically issues studies and research to assess selected health issues in Arizona. This work is a combination of grants to research organizations, contracts with individual researchers and consultants, and SLHI staff. In addition to Web access, most of these publications are available in hard copy from SLHI.

Truth and Consequences: Gambling, Shifting and Hoping in Arizona Health Care (June 2009)

The Arizona Health Care Market Report (December 2008)

Health Insurance for Arizona Adults: Findings from the Arizona Health Survey (November 2008)

Health Bullets 2007 (Health Policy Conference, December 2007)

Arizona Physicians: Attitudes Toward Health Systems Reform

Children's Health Insurance Outreach: What Works?

Health Bullets 2006 (Health Care Forecast conference, December 2006)

The Arizona ChoiceDialogues

• Outside the Box: Surprising Health Care Reform Possibilities, Built on Common Ground
• Health Coverage for All Arizonans -- A Report on Citizen and Stakeholder Dialogues
  

The Effect of AHCCCS Disenrollment on Health Care Utilization in Maricopa County

Health Bullets 2005 (Health Care Forecast conference, Dec 2005)

• Access and Cost
• Financing Mechanisms
• Health Information Technology and Quality

Health Bullets 2004 (Health Care Forecast conference, Dec. 2004)

• The Cost of Care
• Health Care Coverage
• Health Workforce

The Arizona Physician Workforce Study: The Numbers of Practicing Physicians 1992-2004

Fact and Fiction: Emergency Department Use and the Health Safety Net in Maricopa County

Open Wide: Dental Care Use and Cost for Low-Income Adults

Open Wide: Integrating Oral Health and Primary Care

Open Wide: The Future of Oral Health Care in Arizona: The Oral Health Service Delivery System

The Coming of Age: The Future of Aging, Health and the Capacity to Care. (Click here for the complete report or below for specific chapters.)

• Scenarios: Four Possible Futures for Arizona


• Table of Contents, Age Will Remake Society


• The Fundamental Facts


• Mixed Messages


• Aging Issues


• It's Time to Talk and to Choose

The Coming of Age: Technical papers.

• The Coming of Age Reference Guide
  Mary Anne Miller
  School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University



• Geo-demographics of Aging in Arizona: State of Knowledge
  Patricia Gober, Ph.D.
  Department of Geography, Arizona State University



• Meeting Community-based Care Needs in Arizona
  Carol O. Long, Ph.D., R.N.
  College of Nursing, Arizona State University



• Do We Care about Caring for Our Aging Population?
  Mary Anne Miller
  School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University



• The View from Middle Age
  Christopher J. Herbert
  The Insight Group



• Arizona Health Economics & Aging
  Patrick A. Rivers, Ph.D., M.B.A.
  School of Health Administration & Policy and
  College of Business, Arizona State University



• The Future Outlook for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
  Ronald J. Vogel, Ph.D.
  College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona



• The Reasons Behind Increasing Pharmaceutical Expenditures
  Ronald J. Vogel, Ph.D.
  College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona

Magnet Force: Immigrants, Health and Social Policy in Arizona

Step By Step: An analysis of Arizona's Proposition 204: What it is, how it works, and what it means for the future of health care in Arizona. 35 pages.

Stigma and Social Marketing: A 2001 study of business attitudes toward government health programs, and the relevance of social marketing.

Into The Light: Volume I
Summary information from a strengths-based assessment of the public behavioral health system in Arizona.

Into The Light: Volume II
Summary information from a strengths-based assessment of the public behavioral health system in Arizona.

Balancing Act: Confidentiality Issues in Mental Health (Spring 2001)

More Promises to Keep: Sustaining Arizona's Capacity for Welfare and Health Reform (jointly funded with the Flinn Foundation, 2000)

When the Smoke Clears: Arizona's Tobacco Tax Experience (2000)