North Carolina Medical Journal

Current Issue:
Jan/Feb 2010

Prevention for the Health of North Carolina

Home Page

About the Journal

Past Issues

How to Submit

Advertising Information

Subscribing

Permission Requests

Staff & Editorial Board

Contact Us


For information, please contact us at the North Carolina Institute of Medicine
630 Davis Drive, Suite 100
Morrisville, NC 27560
E-mail: ncmedj(at)nciom(dot)org

Phone 919.401.6599 ext. 25
Fax 919.401.6899

North Carolina Medical Journal
March/April 2008 Volume 69, Number 2
Data and Health Policy

ARTICLES

The Economic Impacts of Medicaid in North Carolina
Christopher Dumas, PhD; William Hall, PhD; Patricia Garrett, PhD

Acuracy of Self- and Parental Perception of Overweight Among Latino Preadolescents
Valentino Intagliata, MD; Edward H. Ip, PhD; Sabina B., Gesell, PhD; Shari L. Barkina, MD, MSHS

SPECIAL ARTICLE

Newborn Screening in North Carolina: The Evolution of Policy and Practice
H. Neil Kirkman, MD

SPECIAL COMMENTARY

The Governor's Initiative to Improve Health Care: Taking Measure of Medical Care in North Carolina
Charles Willson, MD

POLICY FORUM

Data and Health Policy

Introduction
Thomas C. Ricketts III, PhD, MPH; Jennifer Hastings, MS, MPH

Issue Brief: Data and Health Policy: Do We Do Our Best?
Sandra B. Greene, DrPH

COMMENTARIES

Electronic Records in Health Crae
Xiaomeng Zeng, MD, PhD

Public Health Surveillance Data in North Carolina
Paul A. Buescher, PhD

Geographic Information Systems and Health in North Carolina
Dianne Enright

NC-CATCH: North Carolina Comprehensive Assessment for Tracking COmmunity Health
James Studnicki, ScD; John W. Fisher, PhD; Christopher N. Eichelberger, MS

The Emerging Field of Informatics
Debbie Travers, PhD RN; Lawrence K. Mandelkehr, MBA, CPHQ

The Role of Data at the Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence
Mark W. Massing, MD, PhD, MPH; Anna P. Schenck, PhD, MSPH

Shaping Health Workforce Policy Through Data-Driven Analyses: The North Carolina Health Professions Data System
Jennifer King; Mark Holmes, PhD

Community-Level Data
Christopher J. Mansfield, PhD; James L. Wilson, PhD

Using Health Data to Focus Philanthropy on Critical Needs
David E. Murday, PhD; Elizabeth A. Corley, MA

The North Carolina Trauma Registry
Michael H. Thomason, MD, FACS

Transforming Care in the Physician Workplace Through Electronic Data Exchange
Holt Anderson; Gary Bowers

Training Health Care Personnel to Work with Health Care Data
Elizabeth Layman, PhD, RHIA, CCS, FAHIMA

Do We Have All of the Public Health Information We Need in North Carolina?
William D. Kalsbeek, PhD

Into the Future: Public Health Data Needs in a Changing State
Marcus Plescia, MD, MPH; Jeffrey Engel, MD

Cancer Surveillance and Its Use to Reduce Cancer Burden in North Carolina
Karen L. Knight, MS; Paul A. Buescher, PhD; Walter L. Shepard, MA

DEPARTMENTS

Tarheel Footprints in Health Care

Philanthropy Profiles

Readers' Forum

Spotlight on the Safety Net

To download the full copy of this issue
A full copy of the March/April 2008 issue (5,410 KB)


The articles are now available in PDF format. PDF formatting maintains all the text, tables and graphics as they would appear in a printed journal. If you don't already have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your system to view and print out PDF files, you will need to download and install on your hard drive this free software.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD ADOBE ACROBAT READER



Web site design and online forms by MedClick 24-7