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...Henk Wagenaar P. Wright and A. Treacher, The Problem of Medical Knowledge: Examining the Social Construction of Medicine (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1982), 220 pp., $22.50 Copyright © 1985 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1985 204 Journal of Health...

...Mark Carl Rom Steven Epstein. Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 480 pp.$40.00 cloth; $17.95 paper. Stephanie Kane. AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs,and Crime in the Americas . Philadelphia: Temple University Press,1998...

... of this paper. Research Note Consumer Attitudes Toward Health Policy and Knowledge About Health Legislation Elainne Riska, Michigan State University and James A. Taylor, Temple Univ ers ity Abstract. Consumer attitudes toward key issues affecting health policy...

.... Lawrence, and Evan Fales, eds. Genes and Human Self-Knowledge: Historical and Philosophical Reflections on Modern Genetics . Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994. 248 pp. $29.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 References Annas , George J. 1993...

.... More corporatist democracies (such as Sweden, Norway, Austria, and Germany) evidence a tighter relation between knowledge and power in which a wider range of issues is connected, longer-range effects are sometimes considered, and research is more often actually used for planning and implementation...

... of these social processes are now widely recognized as drivers of health and health inequities (IOM 2003 ; Smedley, Stith, and Nelson 2003 ), they have proven resistant to change (Lurie 2005 ; Zimmerman and Anderson 2019 ). Despite advances in knowledge about racial health inequities (Kneipp et al. 2018...

...Robert G. Evans “Learning” is broader and more complex than simply the orderly acquisition of new knowledge. At least as important is the evolution of the background of assumptions and beliefs held by the community, or its principal decision makers, and implicit in its institutions and policies...

.... While knowledge about health news varies, individuals who follow health news stories closely are significantly more likely to give the correct answer to knowledge questions about those stories. © 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Cohen, B. C. 1963 . The Press and Foreign Policy . Princeton...

... knowledge will improve clinical practice. It finds that physicians are primarily determinists and that although they reason probabilistically in some instances, they rely on personal experience over research data at these times; that doctors view outcomes research as useful but not definitive and in no way...

...Joseph White This essay considers on what health policy issues the federal government is best able to lead. Positive leadership requires knowledge, power, and will. The federal government has different supplies of each for different aspects of quality of, cost of, and access to health care. Here I...

..., and Blacks less supportive of the 988 lifeline and in some cases less likely to use it. Conclusions: The results point to the need for additional interventions that increase public awareness of 988 and reduce disparities in program knowledge, support, and intention to use. [email protected] callaghan...

...: These findings suggest that devastating outcomes of the coronavirus pandemic were linked to a long history of racial marginalization and entrenched discrimination produced by structural inequalities embedded in our geographies. This knowledge should be used to inform public health planning. jtrounstine...

...Figure 1 Predicted probability of giving different answers as a function of knowledge by abortion acceptability. Figure 1a—Abortion is acceptable. Figure 1b—Abortion is never acceptable. Figure 1c—Abortion acceptability depends on the circumstances. ...

... predicts that choice among health plans will produce tangible benefits that it does not actually produce. Most people do not like choosing among health plan options, and many people—even if well educated and knowledgeable—do not make good choices. Second, creating the regulatory structures to support...

... of attentiveness to the news, political knowledge, and negative perceptions of government. Conclusions: The psychological impacts and behavioral consequences that emerge from possessing a disability and the broader role of disability in the American political context are multifaceted. This area of research would...

... and can thus act as translators of academic research for policy-making purposes. This essay describes how the cultures of the academy and of government policy research differ and suggests ways to use those cultural differences to improve knowledge translation. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press...

... explanations in explaining higher prices across all sectors of the health care system. We also discuss why administrative costs are gaining recognition as an important factor; however, the understanding of their contribution and the knowledge of solutions is evolving, rather than fully developed. Policy...