... variations in use among seemingly similar communities. One method of investigation is “small area analysis.” Numerous areas in North America have been studied extensively using this technique. This research has attempted to document the amount of variation found in health care use rates among areas...

... in the United States, planning agencies need to have control over resource allocation. Copyright © 1980 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 American Health Planning and the Lessons of Comparative Policy Analysis Theodore R. Marmor, Yale University and Amy Bridges, Harvard...

... Physicians’ Location: A Regional Analysis Wayne R. Wendling, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Jack L. Werner and Norbert W. Budde, American M (9 dica 1 A ss o cia tion Abstract. The purpose of this study is to examine the relative effectiveness of three health...

... build trust and increase the flow of research-based ideas into policy. The fact that numerous academics served in the Obama administration may explain why, in contrast to some prior experiences, the general consensus of the authors of the articles in this special issue is that policy analysis...

...Joseph White Abstract Cost control choices for the Affordable Care Act are a logical topic for this special issue because of both the policy and political importance of the choices and what they illustrate about the use of policy analysis in policy making. This article argues that the common trope...

... 2018 Knowledge translation culture policy making health policy Much research has examined the role of academic policy analysis in the development of policy. The articles in this issue generally suggest that such analyses played roles—larger or smaller, for better or for worse...

...Edward Yelin David A. Rochefort. From Poorhouses to Homelessness: Policy Analysis and Mental Health Care . Westport, CT: Auburn House, 1993. 320 pp. $59.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Reviews 917...

... to a singular event or striking feature of political life, the most notable being Graham T. Alli- son’s 1971 study of the Cuban missile crisis, Essence of Decision. Above all, however, Marmor’s trenchant analysis was initially a victim of the general indifference...

...? And how about particular emerging nations, such as Brazil? Were Brazil's politicians motivated by the same international and domestic conditions when pursuing policy reform? Adopting a nested analytic approach, a methodology that combines the benefits of statistical and case study analysis (Lieberman...

... investigates potential reasons for this discrepancy through a comparative analysis of the evolution of programs and policies on national cord blood banking in Canada and the United States. My analysis suggests that cross-national discrepancies in policy on public cord blood banking were determined primarily...

...: Can the Government Control Drug Costs? A Retrospective Political Analysis of Events and Issues Michuel Ira Smith, Long Island University and Albert I. Wertheimer, University of Minnesota Abstrrrct, In 1973 the federal government moved to limit drug reimbursement...

...Burton A. Weisbrod The study reported on here is the first benefit-cost analysis of a controlled (random assignment) experiment in the mental health field. It compares, in terms of an unusually wide variety of tangible and intangible forms of benefits and costs, a traditional, hospital-based...

...Kenneth T. Bogen Increasingly, calls are being made for government regulatory agencies to rely on quantitative risk-benefit analysis, in a framework of cost-benefit balancing, to determine acceptable levels of public health risk arising from regulated activities. In condoning the trade-off...

... Health Care Reform: An Analysis of a National Need A vi Yacar Ellencweig, Israel National Center for Public Health Abstract. This paper describes the current situation of health care services in Israel. Major problems are discussed and analyzed in terms...

...Ariadna García-Prado; Paula González This article presents a thorough analysis of dual practice among physicians who work in both the public and private sectors. A conceptual framework is presented to help the reader understand dual practice and the contexts where it takes place. The article...

... benefit that best serves the needs of Medicare beneficiaries. Reducing the Number of Drug Plans for Seniors: A Proposal and Analysis of Three Case Studies Thomas Rice...

... funded health care for undocumented migrants. These restrictions to health care access are controversial, and evidence suggests they do not always have the intended effect. This study provides a comparative analysis of institutional, actor-related, and contextual factors that have influenced health care...

... Administration, Duke University Press 1978 Review Essay Quantitative Decision Techniques for the HealtWPublic Sector Policy-Maker : An Analysis and Classification of Resources Barnett R. Parker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...

... challenged these findings, since the survival model did not include several clinical parameters associated with pediatric outcomes and recommended a more thorough analysis prior to definitively excluding CF patients from transplant (Sweet and Faro 2006 ). Currently, CF patients make up the majority of wait...