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...Michael C. Christensen; Dahlia Remler Politicians across the political spectrum support greater investment in health care information and communications technology (ICT) and expect it to significantly decrease costs and improve health outcomes. We address three policy questions about adoption...

... Architecture of Confl icting Interests The Mediterranean experience underlines heavily the contested nature of all health reform. In the abstract there may be broadly shared public objectives of equity, access, effi ciency, and so on—as might be expressed by the external ethical observer or someone...

... in socialization and aggravation of confl icts (Schattschneider 1960). According to Theodore Lowi (1964, 1972), “policy determines politics.” Public policies can be distinguished by their effect on society, whether costs and benefi ts are narrowly or broadly dispersed, and by the relation- ship among those...

... ned at the level of principal policy goals, is useful for the analysis of health care reform policies. Modern health care systems are typically characterized by the simultaneous presence of confl icting policy goals, such as equal access to necessary health care ser...

.... During the pre-Cold War years, national security issues involved military assault from an opposing state and confl icts were clearly between nations. Terrorism, however, is amorphous and transna- tional in nature, without recognition of borders, and therefore it resembles infectious diseases...

... Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law regard to these issues. During the pre-Cold War years, national security issues involved military assault from an opposing state and confl icts were clearly between nations. Terrorism, however, is amorphous and transna- tional in nature, without...

...- tutionalism was developed in the 1970s as an explanation of how, in the confl ict between rival groups for scarce resources, institutions—defi ned as formal or informal procedures, routines, norms, and conventions intrin- sic to the organizational structure of the political economy—develop to favor some...

... the political agenda, and the problems of the health care sector have consequently been disregarded. The Portuguese experience provides evidence for Elmer Schattschnei- der’s (1960) theory of agenda control, in which political organization (that is, government activity) is affected by confl icts...

... makers, that three confl icting visions of HTA dissemina- tion coexist, that active dissemination strategies have only occasionally been applied, and that little attention has been paid to the management of diverging views about the value of health technology. Our discussion explores the strengths...

... 2002; Shojania et al. 2001), but often overlooked are the interactive effects. Uncoordinated pluralistic regulation may result in overlapping or confl icting mandates. However, when regulators act in a complementary fashion, the regulatory web should move closer to the goal of rational...

..., and G. Bevan. 2000 . Primary Care Groups: Trade-Offs in Managing Budgets and Risk. Public Money and Management 20 : 53 -62. Baxter, K., H. Stoddart, and G. Bevan. 2001 . Evidence-Based Medicine: Confl ict between Rigour and Reality? Primary Health Care Research and Development 2 : 7 -24...

... now changed, at least to an extent. Stigma has not been erased, but society can now attack the disease while having com- passion for those affl icted. This turning point, at which society lowers the 964 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law moral thermostat, better attends to science...

...- cock. New York: New York University Press, 2004. 210 pp. $60.00 cloth; $20.00 paper. The Price of Smoking. Frank A. Sloan, Jan Ostermann, Gabriel Picone, Christopher Conover, and Donald H. Taylor Jr. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 320 pp. $40.00 cloth. Unfi ltered: Confl icts over Tobacco Policy...

... at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include medical sociology and the politics of public health and the state. He has conducted research on local confl icts surrounding needle exchange programs in urban neighborhoods and on popular support for welfare state policies...

... attach responsibility to the ministers. Fourth, the confl icting objectives of market reforms, which give some actors the responsibility for equity and others the responsibility for effi ciency, create distinctions that are artifi cial and diffi cult to clearly and consistently follow...

... in the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School. His main research activities lie in the areas of health care fi nancing and organization, dispari- ties and access to care, technology transfer associated with confl icts of interest, and quality of care including drug policy and patient safety...

..., health policy, and health services journals have established consistent publish- ing norms to address concerns about confl icts of interest. The Institute of Medicine regularly brings together elements of the CHSPR to translate empirical research into more effective policy advice. Yet each...

... of expertise. The fat acceptance camp invokes confl ict of interest, pointing to the fact that many antiobesity researchers receive research funds from pharmaceutical companies, run weight-loss clinics, and advise weight-loss companies, whereas the antiobesity researchers point to the physical bod- ies...

... malnutrition and hunger in America; he specifi cally accuses Senator George McGovern of such an overarching political agenda and the resulting cacophony of confl icting nutritional advice. Oakes has relied on Taubes’s article as support for this theory, too. A contrary view is asserted by New York...

... malnutrition and hunger in America; he specifi cally accuses Senator George McGovern of such an overarching political agenda and the resulting cacophony of confl icting nutritional advice. Oakes has relied on Taubes’s article as support for this theory, too. A contrary view is asserted by New York...