In this Issue

Table of Contents

A Note from the Editor

Virginia M. Brennan
pp. vii-xi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0104
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Improving Patient Safety—Improving Lives: A Patient’s Story

Jennifer Dingham, Zandra M. Glenn, Sandra Leal
pp. 1-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0109
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Commentary

Universal Health Insurance for Children

Dana Hughes, Mary Kreger, Simran Sabherwal, Darci Powell, Katherine Sargent
pp. 4-17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0114
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Reports from the Field

Academic Partnerships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Public Health Professions Project

Saundra H. Glover, Sudha Xirasagar, Yunho Jeon, Harris Pastides
pp. 18-28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0119
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Pasa la Voz: Using Peer Driven Interventions to Increase Latinas’ Access to and Utilization of HIV Prevention and Testing Services

Rebecca L. Ramos, Nancy Lorenza Green, Lawrence C. Shulman
pp. 29-35
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0124
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Medical Respite Care for Homeless People: A Growing National Phenomenon

Suzanne Zerger, Bruce Doblin, Lisa Thompson
pp. 36-41
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0098
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Brief Communications

The Feasibility of Mothers Accepting Health Advice from their Adolescent Daughters

M. Mosavel
pp. 42-49
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0102
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Racial Distribution of Patient Population and Family Physician Endorsed Importance of Screening Patients for Inherited Predisposition to Cancer

Robert Gramling, Jennifer Clarke, Emma Simmons
pp. 50-54
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0107
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Rapid Implementation of a Smokers’ Quitline Fax Referral Service in an Urban Area

Steven L. Bernstein, Saba Jearld, Deepa Prasad, Patricia Bax, Ursula Bauer
pp. 55-63
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0112
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Cancer Screening Practices among Physicians Serving Chinese Immigrants

Abraham Aragones, Chau Trinh-Shevrin, Francesca Gany
pp. 64-73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0117
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Healthy Colon, Healthy Life (Ruột Lành, Sống Khỏe): Patient and Physician Factors Associated with Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Vietnamese Americans in a County Medical Care System

Judith Walsh, Tung Nguyen, Lamkieu Nguyen, Rena Pasick, Stephen J. McPhee
pp. 74-89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0122
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The Importance of Social Context in Understanding and Promoting Low-Income Immigrant Women’s Health

Maria De Jesus
pp. 90-97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0126
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Community Responses to Diabetes and Mental Health Care for the Uninsured Population in Michigan

Vanessa K. Dalton, Peter D. Jacobson, Madeleine Konig, Peter P. Holman Jr.
pp. 98-106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0100
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Original Papers

Toward a Smoke-free Harlem: Engaging Families, Agencies, and Community-based Programs

Mary E. Northridge, Gwendolyn Scott, Rachel Swaner, Jennifer L. Northridge, Betina Jean-Louis, Sandra Klihr-Beall, Rubiahna L. Vaughn, Yvonne J. Pradier, Roger D. Vaughan, Roger Hayes, Ralph S. Caraballo
pp. 107-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0105
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Household Instability, Area Poverty, and Obesity in Urban Mothers and Their Children

Earle C. Chambers, Cristiane S. Duarte, Frances M. Yang
pp. 122-133
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0110
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“It’s a toss up between my hearing, my heart, and my hip”: Prioritizing and Accommodating Multiple Morbidities by Vulnerable Older Adults

Nancy E. Schoenberg, Corinne Leach, William Edwards
pp. 134-151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0115
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Low-Income Fathers’ Access to Health Insurance

Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan, Anne Carroll, Nancy E. Reichman
pp. 152-164
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0120
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Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health Treatment in Six Medicaid Programs

Mihail Samnaliev, Mark P. McGovern, Robin E. Clark
pp. 165-176
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0125
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Explaining Racial Differences in Prenatal Care Initiation and Syphilis Screening Among Medicaid-covered Pregnant Women

E. Kathleen Adams, Norma I. Gavin, Cheryl Raskind-Hood, Guoyu Tao
pp. 177-193
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0099
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A Syphilis Control Intervention Targeting Black and Hispanic Men Who Have Sex with Men

John Paul Sánchez, Carla Lowe, Millicent Freeman, William Burton, Nelson Felix Sánchez, Robert Beil
pp. 194-209
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0103
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Medical Mistrust and Less Satisfaction With Health Care Among Native Americans Presenting for Cancer Treatment

B. Ashleigh Guadagnolo, Kristin Cina, Petra Helbig, Kevin Molloy, Mary Reiner, E. Francis Cook, Daniel G. Petereit
pp. 210-226
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0108
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Demographic and Socioeconomic Predictors of Melanoma Prognosis in the United States

Melody J. Eide, Martin A. Weinstock, Melissa A. Clark
pp. 227-245
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0113
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Overweight among Refugee Children after Arrival in the United States

Katrina Hervey, Delfino Vargas, Lisa Klesges, Philip R. Fischer, Sally Trippel, Young J. Juhn
pp. 246-256
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0118
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Cultural Constructs, Stage of Change, and Adherence to Mammography among Low-Income African American Women

Susan K. Steele-Moses, Kathleen M. Russell, Matthew Kreuter, Patrick Monahan, Sara Bourff, Victoria L. Champion
pp. 257-273
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0123
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Oral Cancer in Appalachia

Bruce C. Casto, Smita Sharma, James L. Fisher, Thomas J. Knobloch, Amit Agrawal, Christopher M. Weghorst
pp. 274-285
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0097
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Reviews

Diabetes among the Pima: Stories of Survival (review)

Fatina Abdrabboh
pp. 286-287
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0101
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The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers (review)

Virginia Brennan
pp. 288-289
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0106
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The Other Invisible Hand: Delivering Public Services through Choice and Competition (review)

Jessica M. Robbins
pp. 289-290
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0111
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Code Red: An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System without Destroying It (review)

Andrew Ryan
pp. 291-293
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0116
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Books Recently Received

Books Recently Received

pp. 294-295
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.0.0121
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