...Jennifer Klein Cathie Jo Martin. Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 264 pp. $52.50 cloth; $19.95 paper; $14.95 e-book. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Gordon, Colin. 1994 . New Deals...

... help promote and control the stability, adequacy, and quality of capital investment in long-term care, an increasing number of states are using a fair-rental approach for calculating capital reimbursement. In this article we compare the fair-rental approach with traditional cost-based capital...

...Janet Currie Lynn Karoly, Peter Greenwood, Susan Everingham, Jill Hoube, Rebecca Kilburn, Peter Rydall, Matthew Sanders, and James Chiesa. Investing in Our Children: What We Know and Don't Know about the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1998. 159 pp...

...Scott L. Greer; Robert D. Fannion Abstract It has become increasingly common to hear a business case for wellness that emphasizes the benefits of having a healthy workforce. This is essentially the same as the case for employers to train their workers; training a worker and investing in the health...

...Benjamin Hawkins; Chris Holden Abstract The importance of trade and investment agreements for health is now widely acknowledged in the literature, with much attention now focused on the impact of investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms. However, much of the analysis of such agreements...

...Lawrence P. Casalino; Natalie Erb; Maulik S. Joshi; Stephen M. Shortell Abstract Accountable care organizations (ACOs) and hospitals are investing in improving “population health,” by which they nearly always mean the health of the “population” of patients “attributed” by Medicare, Medicaid, or...

...Deborah H. Harrison; John R. Kimberly Public policy controversies about the cost-containing potential of HMOs and the failures of many plans should not overshadow the fact that HMOs will be forces in the health care sector in the 1980s, largely as the result of increasing private investment. There...

... government takeover nor private privilege but is consistent with an established pattern of building up the U.S. health care state through investments in private provision and infrastructure, then hiding such investments from view. Finally, as a seasoned health policy analyst and herself a political player...

... Iowa from 1975 to 1982, used a sophisticated experimental design; it was funded by the National Center for Health Services Research, the Health Care Financing Administration, and the State of Iowa, representing an investment of over two million dollars. Despite this investment, and the interest of many...

... responded by issuing directives to providers to calculate the prevalence rates and document the care that has been mandated for the patients at risk. However, in order to monitor compliance and to evaluate whether the patient is being billed for the appropriate case-mix group, the government must invest in...

...Kumanan Wilson; David P. Fidler; Christopher W. McDougall; Harvey Lazar The public health consequences of the conflict in Iraq will likely continue after the violence has subsided. Reestablishing public health security will require large investments in infrastructure and the creation of effective...

...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 of...

... health insurance markets has implications for human capital investment. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Affordable Care Act health insurance dependent coverage human capital education Prior to enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in March 2010, young adults between...

... uptake, and the ability of the ACA to create a constituency of beneficiaries invested in its support. Methods: The authors combined county- and individual-level data on health insurance gains, political partisanship, and variation in the ACA's implementation to test whether Democratic areas and...

... and violence, shown to elevate stigma, is the optimal strategy for increasing public support for investing in mental health services or whether nonstigmatizing messages can be equally effective. We conducted a randomized experiment to examine this question. Participants in a nationally representative...

... perspective and the individualistic orientation; political and cultural barriers that stand in the way of innovative law and policy interventions; and normative tensions between the communitarian population perspective and self-interested rationales for investment in prevention. Copyright © 2016 by Duke...

... of the health care reform legislation and are still present today. Given recent investments in CER and the debates surrounding its development, the time is ripe to reflect on past efforts to introduce CER in the United States. This article examines previous initiatives, highlighting their prescribed...

...Alan S. Gerber; Eric M. Patashnik; David Doherty; Conor M. Dowling Abstract The Obama administration has made a major investment in comparative effectiveness research (CER) to learn what treatments work best for which patients. CER has the potential to reduce wasteful medical spending and improve...

... overspending by investment in ACOs is wishful thinking. I describe the theory and practice of shared savings payment systems and summarize recent TCOC contracting initiatives in the private sector. Medicare's shared savings approach is likely to be less effective than private contracts. Cutting providers' fees...

... despite the opaque and exclusive authoritarian structure in China, international institutions play a significant role in the country's domestic health governance. By investing their resources and capabilities selectively and strategically, international institutions can change the preferences of...