Studies and 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.

Food, Housing Insecurity and Health (November 2011)

Connect for What? Social Capital and Health (October 2011)

Healthy Eating and Active Living of Adults and Young Children in Arizona (October 2011)

Maryvale Nutrition Environment Measures Survey: Availability and Affordability of Healthy Food Options in Maryvale – Phoenix, Arizona (September 2011)

Health Insurance Status and Medical Debt in Arizona (August 2011)

Arizona Adults’ Access to Health Care (July 2011)

Health Insurance for Adults in Arizona (June 2011)

TAP: Learning Through Networks,The story of a remarkable collaborative process and its implications for the future of organizational and community capacity building (June 2011)

Substance Use and Mental Health Problems among Arizona Veterans (May 2011)

Young Children of South Phoenix (December 2010)

The Healthy Development of Arizona’s Youngest Children: A 21st Century Profile of Opportunity and Challenge (December 2010)

Adult Substance Use in Arizona 2010 (December 2010)

ImpAct Arizona: Healthcare Reform Hits Arizona (Full Report, October 2010)

Adult Substance Use in Arizona 2010 (December 2010)

Unlocking Resilience: The Key to Healthy Aging in Arizona (September 2010)

Volunteering: A Protective Factor for the Psychological Well-Being of Adults with Chronic Health Conditions (June 2010)

Influence of Community, the Built Environment and Individual Behavior on Weight and Obesity among Arizona Adults (May 2010)

Resilience and Mental Health Across Generations: Parents and Adolescents (April 2010)

Adults: Substance Use and Abuse Issues and Disparities in Arizona (April 2010)

Coverage and Affordability: How Healthcare Reform Will Affect Arizonans (March 2010)

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

Development of a 21st Century Healthcare Workforce Plan for Arizona: Report of the Primary Care Workgroup (April 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)