The Proposed Excise Tax on Employee Health Insurance: Good Idea, or Too Clever by 40%?

Sessions SY, Detsky AS. The Proposed Excise Tax on Employee Health Insurance: Good Idea, or Too Clever by 40%?  JAMA. 2009;302:2252-2253. 

Integrating Public Health and Personal Care in a Reformed US Health Care System

Chernichovsky D, Leibowitz AA.  Integrating Public Health and Personal Care in a Reformed US Health Care System.  Am J Public Health. 2010;100:205-211.

Innovation Networks: A Strategy to Transform Primary Health Care

Margolis P, Halfon N.  Innovation Networks: A Strategy to Transform Primary Health Care.  JAMA. 2009;302(13):1461-2.

Moving from Sick Care to Health in Health Care Reform

Prevention and Children’s Health – the Keys to America’s Healthy Future

Beyond Medical Care: An Integrated, Prevention-oriented Child Health System

This presentation, part of a legislative briefing co-sponsored by the Blue Sky Health Initiative and the Nemours Foundation, provides an overview of the Nemours community-based, cross-sectoral approach to a prevention-oriented child health system

Executive Summary - Closing the Prevention Gap: Towards a National Prevention Agenda for Health Care Reform

Halfon N, DuPlessis H, Ganz DA et al.  Executive Summary - Closing the Prevention Gap:  Toward a National Prevention Agenda for Health Care Reform The Blue Sky Health Initiative; UCLA:  Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, March 2009.  

Closing the Prevention Gap - Towards a National Prevention Agenda for Health Care Reform

Halfon N, DuPlessis H, Ganz DA et al.  Closing the Prevention Gap:  Toward a National Prevention Agenda for Health Care Reform The Blue Sky Health Initiative; UCLA:  Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, March 2009.

This report provides an overview of a broad-based prevention agenda for health reform.  It includes four main elements which include 1) upgrading Health People 2020, 2) creating a National Community Prevention Resource Center, 3) creating a National Prevention Innovation Network, and 4) transforming prevention potential within primary health care. 

Establishing a National Prevention Innovation Network (NPIN)

Establishing a National Prevention Innovation Network (NPIN) 

This brief provides a short overview of the National Prevention Innovation Network, a component of The National Prevention Agenda and a key building block for transforming the United States health care system.  

Blue Sky Health - A New Vision for Health Reform

The Blue Sky Health brochure provides an overview of the initiative.

The Primacy of Prevention

Halfon, Neal. The Primacy of Prevention. The American Prospect. April 2008.

A Roadmap for Universal Coverage: Finding a Path Through the Financial Mountains.

Sessions, Samuel and Lee, Phillip. A Roadmap for Universal Coverage: Finding a Path Through the Financial Mountains. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 2008 Apr;33(2):155-97

Transforming the U.S. Child Health System

Halfon N, DuPlessis H, Inkelas Moira. Transforming the U.S. Child Health System. Health Affairs. 2007; 26(2):315–330.