Publications
Publications by Category
Each forum is preceded by an Issue Brief that discusses the background and context of the policy under discussion. Download the latest brief or explore our archives for past publications on a variety of key health policy topics.
Healthy Aging
- Healthy Aging in the Commonwealth: Charting a Path Forward
- Healthy Aging in Massachusetts: Where Do We Go From Here?
- Massachusetts as a Model for Healthy Aging
- Healthy Aging in the Commonwealth: Pathways to Lifelong Wellness
- Keeping Elders Home: New Lessons Learned About Supporting Frail Elders in Our Communities
Overweight and Obesity
- Overweight and Obesity in Massachusetts: A Focus on Physical Activity
- Mass In Motion: Addressing Obesity and Overweight in the Commonwealth
- Childhood Obesity in Massachusetts: Costs, Consequences and Opportunities for Change
- Overweight and Obesity in Massachusetts: Epidemic, Hype or Policy Opportunity?
Mental Health and Substance Misuse
- Telehealth in a Post Pandemic World
- A Policy Analysis of Access to Post-Acute Rehabilitation Services for People with Acquired Brain Injury in Massachusetts and Beyond
- Addressing the Opioid Crisis in Small and Rural Communities in Western Massachusetts
- Opioids in the Workforce
- Reducing Risky Alcohol Use: What Health Care Systems Can Do
- Severe Brain Injury in Massachusetts: Assessing the Continuum of Care
- Improving Access to Substance Abuse Treatment and Reducing Incarceration and Recidivism
- The Time Is Now: Tackling Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health and Behavioral Health Services in Massachusetts
- Substance Exposed Newborns: Addressing Social Costs Across the Lifespan
- Substance Abuse Treatment in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Gaps, Consequences and Solutions
- Children's Mental Health in the Commonwealth
- Mental Health Care in Massachusetts
- Will Alcohol Be the Next Tobacco?
Medicaid/Insurance Reform
- Accountable Health Care Delivery: Models and Policy Actions for Massachusetts
- Medicaid Prescription Drug Quality and Cost Management: Options, Opportunities and Progress
- Health Information Technology in Massachusetts: A Private/Public Partnership? What Should the State’s Role Be in Facilitating Health IT Adoption?
- Universal Coverage and Individual Mandate in Switzerland: Lessons for Massachusetts
- Medicare Part D
- Bridging the Chasm: Efforts to Improve Health Care Quality in Massachusetts
- The New Medicare Prescription Drug Law: Implications for Massachusetts State Health Programs?
- Dirigo Health - A Universal Health Care Coverage Plan in Maine: Implications for Massachusetts
- The Uncompensated Care Pool: Saving the Safety Net
- MassHealth: Dispelling Myths and Preserving Progress
- Emergency Department Overcrowding in Massachusetts: Making Room in Our Hospitals
- Medical Errors and Patient Safety in Massachusetts: What Is the Role of the Commonwealth?
- Senior Prescription Drug Coverage: The State of the Medigap Markets in Massachusetts and New Hampshire
- The Cost and Availability of Prescription Drugs - What Can We Do in Massachusetts?
- Medicare in Massachusetts: The Impact of the 1997 Balanced Budget Agreement
- The State of the Medigap Market in Massachusetts
Elections
Public Health
- Telehealth in a Post Pandemic World
- Integrating Oral Health Into ACOs
- Severe Brain Injury in Massachusetts: Assessing the Continuum of Care
- Massachusetts Health Care Reform: Impact on Women’s Health
- Putting the Mouth Back in the Body: Improving Oral Health Across the Commonwealth
- Medicare Part D
- The Pandemic Threat: Is Massachusetts Prepared?
- Nurse-to-Patient Ratios: Research and Reality
- HIV/AIDS in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Historical Trends and Policies for the Future
- Funding Cuts to Public Health in Massachusetts: Losses Over Gains
- Medical Error Reporting: Professional Tensions Between Confidentiality and Liability
- Emergency Department Overcrowding in Massachusetts: Making Room in Our Hospitals
- Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Opportunities and Challenges for the Commonwealth
- Medical Errors and Patient Safety in Massachusetts: What Is the Role of the Commonwealth?
- Health Care Workforce Issues in Massachusetts
- An Analysis of Initiative Petition 99-4, “An Act to Protect the Rights of Patients and to Promote Access to Quality Health Care for All Residents of the Commonwealth”
- Senior Prescription Drug Coverage: The State of the Medigap Markets in Massachusetts and New Hampshire
- Cultural Competence and Health Care in Massachusetts: Where Are We? Where Should We Be?
- The Cost and Availability of Prescription Drugs - What Can We Do in Massachusetts?