... policy, it needs to establish as a matter of some urgency, a framework for evidence-based practice; (2) there is a realization that traditional logical positivist approaches to health promotion research and evaluation no longer provide the right questions or answers for many health promotion...

...David K. Jones; Christopher J. Louis Abstract How does the use of evidence by policy makers differ for issues that are highly politicized compared to those that are not? Does the answer depend on whether the venue for policy making is the legislative or the executive branch? We explore...

... that productive inefficiency is a more tractable concept than waste. We then review the literature on the efficiency of health providers. We discuss the evidence on whether supply- and demand-side policies, such as value-based payment and cost sharing, can raise efficiency, finding that many of these policies...

... risks and health status of blacks in the United States are much more complex than previously thought. Does Racism Affect Health? Evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom...

.... Silver G. E. . 1990 . Political Efficacy and Trust: A Report on the NES Pilot Study Items . Political Behavior 12 : 289 – 314 . Cutler D. Lleras-Muney A. . 2006 . Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence . NBER Working Paper No. 12352 . Cambridge, MA : National...

...Rick Mathis Howick Jeremy . The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine . Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell , 2011 . 248 pp. $61.95 paper. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Reference Straus Sharon E. . 2005 . Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM...

...Dylan H. Roby; Ken Jacobs; Alex E. Kertzner; Gerald F. Kominski Abstract This article explores the creation, design, and execution of a university-based collaboration to provide responsive research and evidence to a group of diverse health care, labor, and consumer stakeholders through convening...

...Rudolf Klein; Theodore Marmor Copyright © 1978 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1978 Position Paper Evidence to the Royal Commission on the National Health Service Rudolf Klein, University of Bath, with an Introduction by Theodore Marmor...

... . “ Did Reform of the Non-group Health Insurance Market Affect the Decision to Be Self-Employed? Evidence from State Reforms in the 1990s .” Health Economics 23 , no. 7 : 841 – 60 . Heim Bradley T. , and Lurie Ithai Z. 2014b . “ Does Health Reform Affect Self-Employment? Evidence...

...Karen J. Maschke; Michael K. Gusmano Abstract The controversy over patients’ access to stem cell interventions is familiar to scholars of the drug regulatory system and the politics of evidence-based medicine. What counts as evidence of a biomedical intervention's safety and effectiveness? Who...

...Stefanie Ettelt Abstract This article examines the role of scientific evidence in informing health policy decisions in Germany, using minimum volumes policy as a case study. It argues that scientific evidence was used strategically at various stages of the policy process both by individual...

...Clark C. Havighurst; Peter Barton Hutt; Barbara J. McNeil; Wilhelmine Miller © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 JHPPL 26.2-02 Havighurst v2 3/22/01 11:59 AM Page 195 Evidence: Its Meanings in Health Care and in Law...

...Cynthia D. Mulrow; Kathleen N. Lohr When judging the benefits and harms of health care and predicting patient prognosis, clinicians, researchers, and others must consider many types of evidence. Medical research evidence is part of the required knowledge base,and practitioners of evidence-based...

...Arnold J. Rosoff This article examines how courts are likely to apply evidence-based medicine, and particularly clinical practice guidelines (CPGs), in healthcare litigation involving quality-of-care and entitlement-to-benefits (coverage)claims. Exploring the “politics” of the current situation...

...John M. Eisenberg JHPPL 26.2-08 Eisenberg 3/22/01 12:16 PM Page 369 What Does Evidence Mean? Can the Law and Medicine Be Reconciled? John M. Eisenberg Agency...

...David M. Eddy JHPPL 26.2-10 Eddy 3/22/01 12:17 PM Page 387 Commentary The Use of Evidence and Cost Effectiveness by the Courts: How Can It Help Improve Health Care...

...E. Haavi Morreim JHPPL 26.2-11 Morreim 3/22/01 12:18 PM Page 409 Commentary From the Clinics to the Courts: The Role Evidence Should Play in Litigating...

...Marc A. Rodwin JHPPL 26.2-13 Rodwin 3/22/01 12:19 PM Page 439 Commentary The Politics of Evidence-Based Medicine...

...Jennifer M. Mellor; Jeffrey Milyo Several recent studies have made the provocative claim that income inequality is an important determinant of population health. The primary evidence for this hypothesis is the repeated finding—across countries and across U.S. states— that there is an association...

...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...