Journal of Urban Health

This issue of the Journal of Urban Health

Introduction to the symposium

Michael H. Alderman

Remembering Martin Cherkasky

Jeremiah A. Barondess

Does social medicine still matter in an era of molecular medicine?

Leon Eisenberg

Decisions about access to health care and accountability for reasonableness

Norman Daniels

Crisis, leadership, consensus: The past and future federal role in health

Jo Ivey Boufford

The role of academic health systems in promoting population health

David A. Kindig

Challenges for the public in negotiating the health system in the 21st century

Shoshanna Sofaer

The future of social medicine

Philip R. Lee

Gender differences in HIV risk behaviors in an adult emergency department in New York City

Jonathan Shuter, Peter L. Alpert, Max G. DeShaw, Barbara Greenberg, Chee Jen Chang, Robert S. Klein

Strategies to increase enrollment in children's health insurance programs: A report of the New York Academy of Medicine

Dennis P. Andrulis, Tamar A. Bauer, Sarah Hopkins