The magic year for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 2014, is now upon us. The transition of millions of uninsured individuals into new insurance exchange markets has not been smooth, but as the challenges are addressed, our collective attention should turn to ensuring that the law meets…

PolicyLab's Alex Fiks wrote this Issue Brief for Penn's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.   The Issue Brief examines some of the barriers to HPV vaccination and summarizes a successful, multipronged clinical intervention to improve vaccination rates.

Editor's note: Reprinted with permission of AAP News, February 2014 The Academy is involved in a new study looking at factors that increase the likelihood families will use patient portals to manage their child’s asthma symptoms and communicate with their primary care office…

According to a recent study of surveillance data from the Vaccine Safety Datalink published in this journal, 48.7% of children were undervaccinated at some time prior to their second birthday and 1 in 8 were undervaccinated owing to parental choice to delay or refuse certain vaccines…

IMPORTANCE: Diversity initiatives have increased at US medical schools to address underrepresentation of minority faculty. OBJECTIVE: To assess associations between minority faculty development programs at US medical schools and underrepresented minority faculty…

Since 22 March 2013, 8 cases of confirmed Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B (MenB) meningitis have occurred among students and visitors at Princeton University. The only vaccine in production that protects against MenB is being distributed in response to the outbreak. This…

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate pediatric primary care provider (PCP) HIV screening practices, knowledge, and attitudes. STUDY DESIGN: Anonymous cross-sectional, internet-based survey of pediatric PCPs from 29 primary care practices. Survey items assessed current HIV screening…

OBJECTIVES: We examined the impact of a maternal-child home visitation program on birth spacing for first-time Latina mothers, focusing on adolescents and women who identified as Mexican or Puerto Rican. METHODS: This was a retrospective cohort study. One thousand Latina women enrolled…

Publicly financed insurance programs are tasked with maintaining coverage for eligible children, but published measures to assess coverage have not been evaluated. Therefore, we sought to identify and categorize measures of health insurance continuity for children and adolescents. We…

Publicly financed insurance programs are tasked with maintaining coverage for eligible children, but published measures to assess coverage have not been evaluated. Therefore, we sought to identify and categorize measures of health insurance continuity for children and adolescents. We…