1. This issue of the Journal of Urban Health

   EditorialNotes Pages: 615 - 616

2. The 1998 Margaret E. Mahoney Symposium

   • Jeremiah A. Barondess

   Special Feature The Fourth Annual Margaret E. Mahoney Symposium on the State of the Nation's Health Pages: 617 - 620

3. Introduction

   • Joel Alpert

   Special Feature The Fourth Annual Margaret E. Mahoney Symposium on the State of the Nation's Health Pages: 621 - 622

4. Keynote address

   • Marian Wright Edelman

   Special Feature The Fourth Annual Margaret E. Mahoney Symposium on the State of the Nation's Health Pages: 623 - 633

5. Presentation of the 1998 Margaret E. Mahoney award

   • Jeremiah A. Barondess

   Special Feature The Fourth Annual Margaret E. Mahoney Symposium on the State of the Nation's Health Pages: 634 - 635

6. Commonwealth Fund studies pertaining to universal access for children

   • Karen Davis

   Special Feature The Fourth Annual Margaret E. Mahoney Symposium on the State of the Nation's Health Pages: 636 - 638

7. Financing children's health care needs in the next century

   • Cathy Schoen
   • Catherine Desroches

   Special Feature The Fourth Annual Margaret E. Mahoney Symposium on the State of the Nation's Health Pages: 639 - 659

8. Opportunities to improve health care for low-income adolescents

   • Karen Scott Collins
   • Melinda Abrams

   Special Feature The Fourth Annual Margaret E. Mahoney Symposium on the State of the Nation's Health Pages: 660 - 676

9. Medicaid's impact on access to and utilization of health care services among racial and ethnic minority children

   • Allyson G. Hall

   Special Feature The Fourth Annual Margaret E. Mahoney Symposium on the State of the Nation's Health Pages: 677 - 692

10. Health care coverage and access for children in an urban state: The New York perspective

    • James R. Tallon Jr.
    • David Sandman

    Special Feature The Fourth Annual Margaret E. Mahoney Symposium on the State of the Nation's Health Pages: 693 - 701

11. Models of excellence in pediatric care: Introduction

    • Alan R. Fleischman

    Special Feature The Fourth Annual Margaret E. Mahoney Symposium on the State of the Nation's Health Pages: 702 - 703

12. Child development and pediatrics for the 21st century: The healthy steps approach

    • Kathryn Taaffe McLearn
    • Barry S. Zuckerman
    • Margot Kaplan-Sanoff

    Special Feature The Fourth Annual Margaret E. Mahoney Symposium on the State of the Nation's Health Pages: 704 - 723

13. Access denied: Taking action for medically underserved children

    • Irwin Redlener

    Special Feature The Fourth Annual Margaret E. Mahoney Symposium on the State of the Nation's Health Pages: 724 - 731

14. Children with chronic conditions in the 21st century

    • Ruth E. K. Stein

    Special Feature The Fourth Annual Margaret E. Mahoney Symposium on the State of the Nation's Health Pages: 732 - 738

15. Have professional recommendations and consumer demand altered pediatric practice regarding child development?

    • Cynthia Minkovitz
    • M. Bijoy Mathew
    • Donna Strobino

    Special Feature The Fourth Annual Margaret E. Mahoney Symposium on the State of the Nation's Health Pages: 739 - 750

16. Creating systems of developmental health care for children

    • Miles Hochstein
    • Neal Halfon
    • Moira Inkelas

    Special Feature The Fourth Annual Margaret E. Mahoney Symposium on the State of the Nation's Health Pages: 751 - 771

17. Summary and next steps in achieving universal access

    • Robert J. Haggerty

    Special Feature The Fourth Annual Margaret E. Mahoney Symposium on the State of the Nation's Health Pages: 772 - 776

18. Challenges to accessing useful information in health policy and public health: An introduction to a national forum held at the New York Academy of Medicine, March 23, 1998

    • Roz D. Lasker

    Special Feature Accessing Useful Information: Challenges in Health Policy and Public Health Pages: 777 - 784

19. Information needs in public health and health policy: Results of recent studies

    • Patrick W. O'Carroll
    • Marjorie A. Cahn
    • Catherine R. Selden

    Special Feature Accessing Useful Information: Challenges in Health Policy and Public Health Pages: 785 - 793

20. The retrieval problem for health policy and public health: Knowledge bases and search engines

    • Clifford Lynch

    Special Feature Accessing Useful Information: Challenges in Health Policy and Public Health Pages: 794 - 806

21. Information resources for public health practice

    • Neil Rambo

    Special Feature Accessing Useful Information: Challenges in Health Policy and Public Health Pages: 807 - 825

22. Web-based resources for retrieving health policy information: NLM and beyond

    • Marjorie A. Cahn
    • Catherine R. Selden
    • Ione Auston

    Special Feature Accessing Useful Information: Challenges in Health Policy and Public Health Pages: 826 - 841

23. Sources used in health policy research and implications for information retrieval systems

    • Bradford H. Gray

    Special Feature Accessing Useful Information: Challenges in Health Policy and Public Health Pages: 842 - 852

24. Quality of public health information: Lessons from the field

    • Ronald Bialek

    Special Feature Accessing Useful Information: Challenges in Health Policy and Public Health Pages: 853 - 863

25. Applied information quality: A framework for thinking about the quality of specific information

    • Jana Bradley

    Special Feature Accessing Useful Information: Challenges in Health Policy and Public Health Pages: 864 - 877

26. Meeting information needs in health policy and public health: Priorities for the national library of medicine and the national network of libraries of medicine

    • Betsy L. Humphreys

    Special Feature Accessing Useful Information: Challenges in Health Policy and Public Health Pages: 878 - 883

27. Meeting information needs in health policy and public health: Roles for the centers for disease control and prevention

    • David Ross

    Special Feature Accessing Useful Information: Challenges in Health Policy and Public Health Pages: 884 - 887

28. Strategies for addressing priority information problems in health policy and public health

    • Roz D. Lasker

    Special Feature Accessing Useful Information: Challenges in Health Policy and Public Health Pages: 888 - 895

29. The pharmacoeconomic impact of antimicrobial therapy for peptic ulcer disease in a large urban jail

    • Jonathan Shuter
    • David D. Fletcher
    • Eran Y. Bellin

    Original Articles Pages: 896 - 902

30. Supracervical and total abdominal hysterectomy trends in New York State: 1990–1996

    • E. Scott Sills
    • Jyot Saini
    • Herbert F. Gretz III

    Original Articles Pages: 903 - 910

31. The use of the artificial kidney in the treatment of uremia

    • John P. Merrill

    Classic Paper Pages: 911 - 918

32. Commentary on “The use of the artificial kidney in the treatment of uremia”

    • George J. Schwartz

    Classic Paper Pages: 919 - 921

33. Cell therapy: Stem cell transplantation, gene therapy, and cellular immunotherapy

    • Nicki Panoskaltsis
    • Joseph D. Rosenblatt

    Book Review Pages: 922 - 926