Below is an invitation to this year's APHA study group on access.

Please RSVP if you plan on attending.



AGENDA
ACCESS STUDY GROUP
ANNUAL MEETING OF APHA - Washington, DC

The Drug-Uninsured: Measurement and Access Issues

DATE:   Sunday, November 7, 2004
TIME:   2:pm-3:30pm or 4:00pm
PLACE:  Washington Convention Center in Room 302

STUDY GROUP CONVENERS:

Arlene Bierman, MD, MS,                         Joel S. Weissman, PhD.
St. Michael's Hospital & University of Toronto  Institute for
Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital


We invite you to attend this year's session of the Study Group on
Access at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association
in Washington DC, sponsored by the Committee on Health Services Research
of the Medical Care Section. The theme for this year's session is
access prescription drugs. Access to pharmaceuticals is an essential
component of health care access. Pharmaceutical access is problematic
not only for the uninsured and Medicare beneficiaries, but for many
individuals with private health insurance coverage due to high costs and
variable benefits. Presenters will focus on measurement and methodologic
issues in studying this problem using examples from current research for
illustration.

Details and program are below. Please R.S.V.P. to either of the
co-conveners by November 1 so that we may send you advance materials.
In your RSVP, include name, title, organization, address, telephone,
fax, and email.
******   Please share this with colleagues who might attend *****

Agenda:

Introduction
Joel Weissman: Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General
Hospital

The Commonwealth Fund Study of the Drug Uninsured
Michele Doty: The Commonwealth Fund

Cost and non-cost related medication skipping in a national survey of
Medicare beneficiaries
Ira Wilson: Tufts University School of Medicine

Future Directions:  What should be asked in a study of the drug un- and
under-insured?
Joel Weissman: Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General
Hospital
Arlene Bierman, MD, MS, St. Michael's Hospital & University of
Toronto


*The Access study group will be #3 under the Medical  Care Section's
Business meetings in the program.

Arlene S. Bierman, MD, MS
Ontario Women's Health Council Chair, Women's Health, University of
Toronto
Inner City Health Research Unit,
St. Michael's Hospital
30 Bond Street (70 Richmond Street East, 4th Floor)
Toronto, ON  M5B 1W8, Canada
PH: (416) 864-6060 ext. 2894 FAX (416) 864-5485
Email: [log in to unmask]

        Joel S. Weissman, PHD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Health Policy)
Harvard Medical School
Institute for Health Policy
Massachusetts General Hospital
50 Staniford Street, 9th floor
Boston, MA 02114
PH:617-724-4731 FAX:617-724-4738
Email: [log in to unmask]

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