... of the International Studies Association; the initial research was conducted under grant #5-R01-HS-00900 from the National Center for Health Services Research, D/HEW, to the Yale Health Policy Project, New Haven, Connecticut. Accountability in Health Care: An Essay on Mechanisms, Muddles...

...David G. Warren Copyright © 1983 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1983 Review Essay The Coming of Age of Health Law: An Examination of Recent Textbooks When Emmanuel Hayt died earlier this year, the trumpet was sounded for the passing of an age.' Every...

...Harvey M. Sapolsky Theodore R. Marmor, Political Analysis and American Medical Care: Essays (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 268 pp., $34.50 hardcover, $12.95 paperback Copyright © 1984 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1984 332 Journal...

...William P. Brandon Marmor Theodore R. and Klein Rudolf . Politics, Health, and Health Care: Selected Essays . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 2012 . xv + 573 pp. $95.00 cloth. Copyright © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 The British philosopher Michael...

...Colleen M. Grogan © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Introduction to Special Issue: Critical Essays on Health Care Reform...

...Barbara Starfield This essay provided the introduction to a workshop in Bellagio, Italy, on the subject of translating research into policy for equity in health. The essay first defines equity in a way that facilitates its assessment and monitoring and then summarizes evidence from existing...

...Robert Gatter Abstract This essay explores the viability of using the population health legal norm developed by Professor Wendy Parmet in her book Populations, Public Health, and the Law as a basis for theorizing health law. Based on the application of five criteria, the essay concludes...

...Frank J. Thompson; Richard W. Campbell As government has attempted to deal with complex social problems, the inevitability of error has become increasingly apparent to students of public policy and implementation. This essay focuses on errors of service, initially drawing on the experience...

... costs substantially any time soon. As the essays in this section attest, this lack of cost control is surprising given the vast number of cost-containment provisions included in the bill. As a result, the final essays in this section focus on specific regulatory or cost-containment provisions, exploring...

... While most essays in this issue find something to praise about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010, many also find areas of weakness. The essays in this section offer ways to continue to improve on the parts of the bill that, in their view, still need work. Peter D...

...) of 2010. The essays in this section help us make sense of the ACA's impact on future politics. By focusing on the first six months after the bill's adoption, Rogan Kersh investigates the politics surrounding the ACA's implementation, addressing three aspects: first, the balance of those working toward...

...Jonathan Oberlander The 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) represents a watershed event in Medicare politics. This essay explores the political lessons and policy legacies of the MMA, focusing on how the MMA fits with and deviates from established patterns...

...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...

...Mark A. Peterson Health care reform is once again rising toward the top of the nation's political and policy agendas. Informed by three recent works on the subject, this review essay examines the recent history and reform climate as the country runs full throttle into the renewed debate...

...Md. Mahmudur Rahman Bhuiyan Given that there are huge uncertainties about how contemporary advances in human biotechnology are going to affect human life, different scholars try to understand the situation in different ways. This essay reviews four recent books devoted to fostering a fundamental...

... and can thus act as translators of academic research for policy-making purposes. This essay describes how the cultures of the academy and of government policy research differ and suggests ways to use those cultural differences to improve knowledge translation. References Fox Daniel M. 1979...

... (the individual mandate penalty), narrowing the law's reach, complicating its implementation, and fomenting doubts about its political sustainability. This essay places the postenactment battle over the ACA in historical-institutional perspective by juxtaposing the strategic choices that conservatives have made...

.... As a result, the US global ranking in IMRs is also declining. This analytic essay explores some of the reasons why it might be undergoing this relative decline by critically dissecting secondary sources of data. We found that slow progress in reducing IMR over the past decade is partly due to lower birth...

... features of American public policy, amounting to more than 41 percent of the federal budget. Yet their fiscal centrality does not rest on anything like an understanding of what makes social insurance social—or why that is so important to American political life. This essay seeks to clarify the crucial...

... States. Yet Medicaid remains a means-tested program that has been repeatedly threatened with policy retrenchment. In this essay, we scrutinize Medicaid's current status and future possibilities from a historical-institutional perspective by tracing its complex evolution since its enactment in the Social...