Tributes to Carleton E. Mathewson, Jr. from the City and County of San Francisco Department of Public Health.

Understanding the Reasons for Sharing Syringes or Needles to Inject Drugs: Conventional Content Analysis

Policy Capacity Is Necessary but Not Sufficient; Comment on “Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity”

Policy capacity focuses on the managerial and organizational abilities to inform policy decisions with sound research and analysis, and facilitate policy implementation with operational efficiency. It stems from a view of the policy process that is rational and positivistic, in which optimal policy choices can be identified, selected, and implemented with objectivity. By itself, however, policy...

Improving the Quality of Referrals Through Health IT

Setting and participants. The study took place at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), a public city and county hospital staffed by physicians affiliated with the University of California San Francisco. SFGH is the largest provider of specialty care for the uninsured and poor in the area. The SFGH system uses a hybrid electronic health record (EHR) and paper-based documentation system. Prior ...

Achieving a “Grand Convergence” in Global Health by 2035: Rwanda Shows the Way; Comment on “Improving the World’s Health Through the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Perspectives From Rwanda”

Global Health 2035, the report of The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, laid out a bold, highly ambitious framework for making rapid progress in improving global public health outcomes. It showed that with the right health investments, the international community could achieve a “grand convergence” in global health—a reduction in avertable infectious, maternal, and child deaths down to ...

CLINICAL RESEARCH STUDY Preconsultation Exchange for Ambulatory Hepatology Consultations

Preconsultation Exchange for Ambulatory Hepatology Consultations Justin L. Sewell, MD, MPH, Jennifer Guy, MD, MAS, Annette Kwon, MD, Alice Hm Chen, MD, MPH, Hal F. Yee Jr, MD, PhD Center for Innovation in Access and Quality, Department of Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco; Division of Hepatology, Department of Transplantation and Department of Gas...