...Betty A. Lockett This article describes the creation of the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health, as a case study in “agenda-building” (a theoretical concept used to explain why some issues receive official attention from the public and its leaders, while others, often...

... (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...

...Lise Rochaix; David Wilsford In this article, we assess the recent performance of the French state at containing costs in health care using political science concepts such as path dependency and incentives, which are central to an economic approach. The article focuses on institutional capacities...

... democratization, fostered policy innovation and institutional change. Consolidation of an NHS system was compatible with some regional diversity and apparently prevented the rise of signifi cant territorial inequalities. The Spanish case also suggests that policy change depends more on the distribution of social...

... Rescue Effort. August 3 . The Medicare Approach: Political Choice and American Institutions Lawrence R. Jacobs University of Minnesota...

...Julianna Pacheco; Scott LaCombe Abstract Context: This project investigates the role of state-level institutions in explaining variation in population health in the American states. Although cross-national research has established the positive effects of democracy on population health, little...

...Nancy R. Aries; Elliott D. Sclar This study estimates the economic significance of biomedical research for a geographic region. Through a survey of nonprofit biomedical research institutions in the metropolitan New York region and an analysis of research budget data obtained from the area’s six...

... for the Evaluative Sciences. In The Challenges of Medical Practice Variations, ed. T. F. Andersen and G. Mooney. London: Macmillan. Books Review Essay Institutions of Reflective Practice Cheryl Mattingly...

.... Books Review Essay Institutions of Reflective Practice Cheryl Mattingly and Maureen Hayes Fleming. Clinical Reasoning: Forms of Inquiry in a Therapeutic Practice. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, 1994. 378 pp. $31.00. Paul Atkinson. Medical...

... framework would be structured to maximize the health benefits and minimize the risks of vaccines. This, however, is not the case. This commentary applies Parmet's normative framework to an examination of core issues driving what I term “institutional vaccine skepticism”—a view which accepts...

...Steven Rathgeb Smith J. David Seay and Bruce C. Vladeck, In Sickness and in Health: The Mission of Voluntary Health Care Institutions (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988), 232 pp. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Book Reviews 229...

...William D. White David M. Cutler, ed. The Changing Hospital Industry: Comparing Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Institutions . National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,2000. 384 pp. $53.00. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002...

...Trude Bennett Carol S. Weisman. Women's Health Care: Activist Traditions and Institutional Change . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press,1998. 300 pp. $45.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Bremner, R. H., ed. 1971 . Children and Youth in America...

... over Health Care Policy in Advanced, Industrial Democracies. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 20 (3): 571 -613. Commentary Ideas, Institutions, and Resources David Wilsford...

...Sven Steinmo; Jon Watts We argue that the United States does not have comprehensive national health insurance (NHI) because American political institutions are biased against this type of reform. The original design of a fragmented and federated national political system serving an increasingly...

... University Press. Oberlander , Jonathan . 1994 . The Evolution of Medicare Policy: An Institutional Perspective. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York, New York, 1–4 September. Rose , Richard . 1981 . Governments against Sub-governments...

... prepaid) contracts for LTC. CCRCs are a potentially promising model for LTC delivery because they offer a full continuum of services and can substitute less expensive supportive care for institutional care. Using data on CCRCs, we tested one central hypothesis: Provision of supportive services...

... in their communities. The article highlights the institutional challenges that confront health-promotion strategies for disadvantaged populations. Unless they take proper account of organizational, political, environmental, and cultural forces, funders' interventions have limited chances for success and sustainability...

... -727. Unrealistic Expectations Born of Defective Institutions Alain C. Enthoven and Sara J. Singer Stanford University We, Americans, planted the seeds of the managed care backlash...

..., adversarial), institutional power (fragmented versus centralized), and resources . An institutional framework further characterizes these approaches as based on models of managerial discretion and adjudication (United States), consultation (Canada), and bargaining (Britain, France) to clarify the patterns...