...Deborah E. Barnes; Lisa A. Bero The Center for Indoor Air Research (CIAR) was created by three United States tobacco companies in 1988. Its stated mission is to fund high-quality, objective research related to indoor air, including studies of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Because CIAR is...

.... Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Research Note Current Resources for Health Law Research Abstract. This article reports on a conference held at Duke University in October 1985. It presents an introductory discussion of the growth and complexity of health law...

...Dylan H. Roby; Ken Jacobs; Alex E. Kertzner; Gerald F. Kominski Abstract This article explores the creation, design, and execution of a university-based collaboration to provide responsive research and evidence to a group of diverse health care, labor, and consumer stakeholders through convening a...

...Carol Levine Johannes P. Van Vugt, ed. AIDS Prevention and Services: Community-Based Research . Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1994. 285 pp. $19.95 paper. $59.95 hardcover. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 References Lightman , Alan . 1993 . Einstein's Dreams. New York...

... care systems. The last section sketches a research agenda for studying policy change in health care. Duke University Press 2010 Ağartan, T. I. 2007. Turkish Health Policy in a Globalizing World. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Research Committee 19 of the International Sociological...

...Barbara Starfield This essay provided the introduction to a workshop in Bellagio, Italy, on the subject of translating research into policy for equity in health. The essay first defines equity in a way that facilitates its assessment and monitoring and then summarizes evidence from existing...

...Patricia M. Pittman In an attempt to better understand the complex and sometimes tenuous relationship between health equity research and health policy, we undertook a collaborative comparison of six case studies with researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, China...

...Richard Freeman At the center of the politics of health equity, in many countries and circumstances, stands a signal report of research. This article is concerned with what might be described as the architecture of such documents, including how they are produced and organized and the relationships...

...Yuanli Liu; Keqin Rao The focus of this case study is utilizing research to influence policy in a large developing country. Our experiences involve the lack of health insurance for China's rural populations and how our research helped shape China's recent policy attention and efforts on this issue...

...Vanessa Northington Gamble; Deborah Stone What is the relationship between scientific research and government action in addressing health inequalities in the United States? What factors increase the impact of scientific research on public policy? To answer these questions, we focus on racial and...

... May 4, 2004). National Institute for Dental and Cranofacial Research (NIDCR). 1999 . Trans-NIH Work Group on Health Disparities . www.nidcr.nih.gov/Research/HealthDisparities/TransWorkGroup.htm . Nunez, C. A., P. Murgueytio, and J. Stover. 1999 . The AIDS Policy Environment Score: Measuring...

...Ann C. Keller; Robin Flagg; Justin Keller; Suhasini Ravi Abstract Congress created the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to fund comparative effectiveness research without encroaching on health care decision making in the private sector. This study asked if the organization's...

... equally critical, do not). The issue of federal support for research on aging, which led to a specific demand for a separate institute, was initiated by a small group of biomedical scientists. But it reached agenda status only after an effective coalition of lay and professional groups gave support to the...

...Charles E. Yesalis, III; Gary S. Levitz This paper discusses the effects of powerful confounding events on the evaluation of an innovative health care payment program—an experiment with capitation payment for pharmacy services for Medicaid recipients. The research, conducted at the University of...

...Andrew M. Fearnley Steven Epstein. Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 413 pp. $29.00 cloth. Duke University Press 2008 Epstein, S. 1996 . Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge . Berkeley: University of...

...Sherman R. Williams; Jere A. Wysong This article examines the history of the National Center for Health Services Research (NCHSR) from 1970 to 1976 in terms of the research projects funded, the structural relationships of NCHSR to policy formulation, and the make-up of advisory committees. The...

...Ira Moscovice; Patricia Armstrong; Stephen Shortell; Roger Bennett In an effort to make health manpower training programs and health services research and policy analysis activities more responsive to health care needs in Washington State, a Delphi process was used to obtain perceptions of critical...

...Sarah E. Gollust; Paula M. Lantz; Peter A. Ubel Despite the salience of health disparities in media and policy discourse, little previous research has investigated if imagery associating an illness with a certain racial group influences public perceptions. This study evaluated the influence of the...

...Rick Mayes Fox Daniel M. . The Convergence of Science and Governance: Research, Health Policy, and American States. Berkeley : University of California Press , 2010 . 168 pp. $29.95 cloth. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Reference Meaning of Life . 1983 . Celandine Films and...

...Barnett R. Parker Copyright © 1978 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1978 Special Bibliography From the Health and Health-Related Management Science/ Operations Research Literature Compiled by Barnett R. Parker, University of North...