...Ariadna García-Prado; Paula González This article presents a thorough analysis of dual practice among physicians who work in both the public and private sectors. A conceptual framework is presented to help the reader understand dual practice and the contexts where it takes place. The article...

... press and television could have done a better job without devoting more space or time to the story. This could have been done by assigning reporters with greater expertise and by paying more attention to the needs of a hypothetical “reasonable reader.” Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986...

...Theodore R. Marmor This article is a form of thinking about the future properly regarded as conditional forecasting. It begins by reminding readers of the enormous changes in American medicine since World War II. The second part revisits critically an earlier effort at conditional forecasting...

...David G. Warren This feature of the journal is intended to promote communication among readers by providing a selected listing of personal milestones and organizational changes, announcements of selected grants offered and awards made, a calendar of national and international meetings, titles...

...Joseph A. DiMasi; Ronald W. Hansen; Henry G. Grabowski The review essay by Donald Light about a Congressional Budget Office report on pharmaceutical research and development (R&D) ( Light 2007 ) contains factual errors, leaves the reader uninformed about rebuttal responses to criticisms made...

... of paid advertising campaigns, and conclude that readers were exposed to different perspectives and arguments about managed care regulation if the newspapers they read were published in states targeted by political advertisements. Specifically, newspaper coverage was 17 percent less likely...

.... This is not surprising, because health behaviors are related to morbidity, mortality, and financial expenditure. As the influence of behavioral economics, and especially nudging, has grown, it has also attracted an increasing choir of foes. Indeed, a quick Google search will provide readers with a litany...

... questions about the book. Does it help the reader understand the political dynamics of the current health reform debate? Does it help the reader understand the fundamental health policy 1002 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law issues? A secondary question is about the identity of the reader...

... Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 Books Newly Received 761 such will be useful primarily as a reader for courses in health politics and policy. It is a comprehensive collection of the “classics...

... are clear-cut, we write the author including the readers’ comments and our decision-accept with or without revisions, reject, or reject and suggest some major rewriting. If the first two reviewers’ opinions diverge sharply, the manuscript is sent to a third reader. When an author revises...

... social science disciplines. Their aim is to expand readers' understanding of health and health care politics by explaining the political dimension of various specific health and health care topics under investigation, not to generate theories that can be deployed to predict the outcome of health issues...

... . “ Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk .” Econometrica 47 , no. 2 : 263 – 92 . Sen Amartya . 2014 . “ Development as Freedom (1999) .” In The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change , edited by Roberts J. Timmons , Hite Amy...

... or receiving deficient care. Bennett also provides readers with sections that she titles “The State's Perspective.” Yet there is not a unified outlook; rather, she presents various vantage points depending on factors such as the official's political party and government position. For example, at one point...

... of the book, readers have learned in very human terms much about the interconnectedness of the various elements of the system and the struggles that both patients and providers have had to confront. Readers were introduced to men and women who valued insurance but could not afford it and to providers forced...

... an important question in broad perspective poses a substantial challenge to keep the reader interested in the unfamiliar and satisfied with the familiar. Howard Steven Friedman meets the challenge well in Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life . His chapters explore how public and private institutions...

... he ranges far and wide in relating anec- dotes apparently intended to provide readers with insight into what is wrong with the contemporary system. For example, he uses “Priscilla’s Story” (chap. 3) to call attention to a number of issues that doctors and health care professionals face in caring...

... of Health Politics, Policy and Law examining the struggles involved in achieving high-­quality health care. He elaborates on the cost of care and its impact on quality of health, par- ticularly for the uninsured. In his discussion of health care delivery chal- lenges, Davidson provides the reader...

... to their case studies. Frank Thompson's work on Medicaid and federalism will be familiar to readers of this journal. No less distinguished is Kenneth Wong's scholarship in education policy and Barry Rabe's study of environmental policy. They defend the decision to evaluate Trump's first three years rather...

... to the gradualist approach in Mexico. Here they detail how the gradualist approach forestalled privatization in Mexico. Placing these two articles in tandem allows readers to consider how well the theoretical approach in one article works to explain reforms in the other. This issue also features three special...

... volume is a book-length CBO study. In keeping with the CBO tradition, a centerpiece of the book is the Brookings- IFC Long-Term Care Financing Model. In the text and technical appendix the authors provide the reader with helpful information about the assumptions and database of the model...