...Joseph A. DiMasi; Ronald W. Hansen; Henry G. Grabowski The review essay by Donald Light about a Congressional Budget Office report on pharmaceutical research and development (R&D) ( Light 2007 ) contains factual errors, leaves the reader uninformed about rebuttal responses to criticisms made...

...-Setting and Hospital Cost Containment: All-Payer versus Partial-Payer Approaches. Health Services Research 22 : 307 -326. The Long Shadow of the Past: Risk Pooling and the Political Development of Health Care...

...Steven J. Balla This article examines the impact of population demographics, health market characteristics, and government purchasing and regulation on the development of the HMO industry in the 1990s. I focus on two facets of development—HMO market share and the number of HMOs in operation...

... on immoral deeds and words, the temperance crusade, Prohibition, the New Deal, the Cold War, the tumultuous sixties, and the neo-Puritan revival of the last three decades — Morone develops three powerful insights. First, he sketches in sharp detail the dual parentage of U.S. politics, endowed...

... understanding of laws or sets of laws on public health” (Beletsky, Parmet, and Burris 2012 : 1). An example of such research is the article by Burris et al. in this issue. Although the articles in this special issue focus primarily on developing public health legal doctrine, insights from fields...

...Donald W. Light Congressional Budget Office. Research and Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry—A CBO Study . Washington, DC: U.S. Congress, 2006. www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=7615&sequence=0. Duke University Press 2007 Congressional Budget Office. Research...

...John A. Bartlett Christine Grady. The Search for an AIDS Vaccine: Ethical Issues in the Development and Testing of a Preventive AIDS Vaccine. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. 193 pp. $26.50 cloth. Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997...

...Amy A. Eyler; Ross C. Brownson; Kelly R. Evenson; David Levinger; Jay E. Maddock; Delores Pluto; Philip J. Troped; Thomas L. Schmid; Cheryl Carnoske; Katherine L. Richards; Lesley E. Steinman This study explores processes and policies that facilitate the development of community trails...

... that have been established in other countries from the perspective of operations and effectiveness, little attention has been given to the applicability of the experience of other nations in securing these programs. This paper examines the development of national programs in the U.K. and Canada...

... that contribute to their development and implementation. This in turn requires a greater understanding of the policy formulation and policy implementation processes. This paper uses a case study of Michigan's State/Local Cost Sharing Program to explore how policy formulation links to and influences implementation...

...Michael P. Traynor; Stanton A. Glantz In this case study, we describe and analyze the development and passage of California’s tobacco tax initiative, Proposition 99, the Tobacco Tax and Health Promotion Act of 1988. We gathered information from published reports, public documents, personal...

... such ventures are implemented-to examine how such cooperative program development can be successfully accomplished in today's competitive and complex health care arena. 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Aldrich, H. 1979 . Organizations and Environments . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall...

...Michelle M. Casey; Anthony Wellever; Ira Moscovice Rural health networks are a potential way for rural health care systems to improve access to care, reduce costs, and enhance quality of care. Networks provide a means for rural providers to contract with managed care organizations, develop...

...Joseph L. Falkson Copyright © 1979 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1979 Washington Report The National HMO Development Strategy Joseph L. Falkson I recently participated in an interesting policy analysis project which I'd like to share...

...Paul M. Wortman; Amiram Vinokur; Lee Sechrest The purpose of this evaluation study is to identify problems and suggest modifications in the NIH Consensus Development Program. The current program consists of three-day conferences in which experts assess medical technologies for issues of efficacy...

...G. R. Weller This paper analyzes the development of the study of the politics of health. In doing so it explores the connection between the changing conceptions of the politics of health and actual changes in the health systems of the western world. Three stages are identified in the development...

...Milton I. Roemer In comparison to other Latin American countries at a similar or more advanced stage of economic development, Cuba has a relatively high ranking on major health status indicators. This paper examines the reasons for this contrast and concludes that they are largely political...

... and development of the Japanese health insurance system. It thereby demonstrates that the policy of “health insurance for the whole nation” was adopted in response to immediate social and political pressures, many of them not specifically related to matters of health; that the form this policy took was a product...

... of the past seven years will provide policy analysts with the raw material from which to build more effective technologies of planning and regulation. This paper discusses a number of analytic factors which jeopardize the integrity of both impact assessment and knowledge development. These include the nature...

...Ellen Stewart Falleti , Tulia G. , and Santiago L. Cunial Participation in Social Policy: Public Health in Comparative Perspective (Elements in the Politics of Development) . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . 88 pp. $18.00 paper. Copyright © 2021 by Duke...