...Ezekiel J. Emanuel; Karen Titlow © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Commentary Evaluating Community-Based Health Initiatives: Identifying the Characteristics of Successful Initiatives and Evaluations...

...Barnett R. Parker The goal of any social/health intervention program is to improve the lot of the people it is designed to serve. Of critical importance in the development and implementation of programs able to achieve such a goal is evaluation research (ER)—a process representing an interface...

... next of kin. Legally binding consent is controversial because of concerns that it may anger family members, lead to negative publicity, and discourage potential donors. We use interviews and a pooled time-series data set of cadaveric donation rates in U.S. states to evaluate the effectiveness of this...

.... Sanctions and Recidivism: An Evaluation of Physician Discipline by State Medical Boards Darren Grant Sam Houston State University...

.... Despite their popularity, traditional evaluations of these efforts have produced negative or mixed results. This is often attributed to weak interventions or an insufficient period of time to observe an impact. This study examines two additional possibilities—the need for a well-articulated shared vision...

...Bruce Spitz; Grant Ritter © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Leutz, Walter. 1999 . Five Laws for Integrating Medical and Social Services: Lessons from the United States and the United Kingdom. Milbank Quarterly 77 (1): 77 -110. Commentary Evaluating Community Partnerships...

... The Political Economy of National Health Insurance Policy Analysis and Political Evaluation M. Kenneth Bowler, Committee on Ways and Means, US. House of Representatives, Robert T. Kudrle, University of Minnesota, Theodore R. Marmor...

... solutions to challenging political problems that beset the allocation of health care resources, the evaluation of health care technologies, and the trade-offs between spending on health care and on other things that society values. According to James Morone ( 1993 : 723), this perennial apolitical...

...Michael Drummond Abstract The objective of this article is to examine the impact of economic evaluation on the reimbursement process for pharmaceuticals. The changes in the structure of reimbursement policies necessary to incorporate economic evaluation have been accomplished without major...

...Lilliard Richardson; David M. Konisky Abstract The 2010 health care reform law has been as controversial as any piece of American legislation in recent memory. Although numerous polls have been conducted on the public's views of the reform, we do not know much about how citizens evaluated the...

.... Vandersmissen , W. 1992 . Availability of Quality Vaccines. The Industrial Point of View. Vaccine 10 : 955 -1057. Zoon , K. C. , and M. G. Beatrice. 1993 . New Directions for FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER). Washington, DC: Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association...

...Rudolf Klein Ray Robinson and Julian Le Grand, eds. Evaluating the NHS Reforms . London: King's Fund Institute, 1994. 288 pp. $39.00 cloth, $15.55 paper. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 802 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law dates is appropriate, as is data gathering...

...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...

...Daniel I. Zwick Copyright © 1982 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1982 Program Note Evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship Program: A Synopsis Daniel I. Zwick A recent evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Health...

.... We argue that without careful analysis and cautious interpretation, grand experiments such as PL 93–641 are likely to yield little useful evidence to guide policy adaptation. Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 Evaluating the National Health...

...William P. Brandon; Emma K. Lee The regulation of HMOs by health planning agencies serves as a “tracer” to aid in evaluating HSAs, and as a source of empirical evidence for the heretofore largely theoretical health policy debate between market reformers and regulators. Two complementary studies...

.... Friedman , M. 1969 . Interest Rates and the Demand for Money. In Optimum Quantity of Money, ed. M. Friedman. Chicago: Aldine. Goodman , R. , F. Wheelers, and P. Lee. 1995 . Evaluation of the Heart-to-Heart Project: Lessons from a Community-Based Chronic Disease Prevention Project. American...