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...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...

.... 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...

...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...

...Daniel M. Fox During the past decade research has been more important to the health policy-making process in the United States than at any time in the past. This article describes and assesses three competing normative models for research on health affairs: economizing, social conflict...

...Rudolf Klein The National Health Service is a system designed to bring about a rational use and distribution of resources yet which largely ignores the contribution of the research community. With a relatively closed health policy arena, there are few customers for policy-oriented research...

...Jonathan Lomas The impact of research information depends on its ability to change beliefs or policy assumptions within the relevant audiences. As a hybrid of American and British systems, Canada's chosen decision-making structure for policy-making and its legislative framework for health insurance...

...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...

... inequalities in life chances for housing, education, jobs, and the opportunity to live a healthy life has been underrecognized in the extant literature. One reason is that most research proceeds by examining the stigma associated with only one circumstance (e.g., AIDS, mental illness, obesity, or sexual...

... and geographic components of the health care delivery system. Copyright © 1980 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 Research Note Locational Aspects of Medical Care-Seeking in a Rural Population, with Some Implications for Public Policy Research Virginia C...

... the extent of HMO impact on a community: employer attitudes, hospital capacity, physician supply, planning and regulatory decisions, and comprehensiveness of health benefit coverage. Since research on this general topic is in its infancy, several important questions deserving future research effort also...

... 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...

...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 health law research resources was presented by Richard Danner, Director of the Library, and Claire Germain, Assistant Librarian of Duke University’s School of Law. It is apparent that numerous tools now exist for performing research on topics associated with the health law field...

... (December 1984). An Overview of Health Law Research and an Annotated Bibliography Richard A. Danner and Claire M. Germain, Duke University The Literature of Hdtb Law This analysis and the following bibliography are designed to meet the needs of researchers attempting to locate...

...Sandra J. Tanenbaum Recent health care policymaking favors outcomes research as a response to the putative ineffectiveness, as well as the undeniable expense, of American medicine. This small-scale ethnographic study conducted in a department of internal medicine evaluates claims that probabilistic...

... to get funding. But imposing this methodology encourages agencies to use research staffs more to defend against the budget office than to help create effective programs, creates differences between the expectations of government and the public, and fosters the overrepresentation of particular interests...

...Jon F. Merz Baruch A. Brody. The Ethics of Biomedical Research: An International Perspective . New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 386 pp. $49.95 cloth; Jeffrey P. Kahn, Anna C. Mastroianni, and Jeremy Sugarman, eds. Beyond Consent: Seeking Justice in Research . New York: Oxford...

...Anne M. Dellinger Michael A. Grodin and Leonard H. Glantz, eds. Children as Research Subjects: Science, Ethics, and Law . New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. 258 pp. $39.95 cloth. Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 References Banhoff , K. 1995 . Oral personal...

...Thomas Fanning; Martin de Alteriis Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Response Health Policy Research and Secondary Data Sets Thomas Fanning and Martin de...

... that of the United States: cost con- tainment, competition, and reasonable access to care for the indigent often seem irreconcilable goals. Moreover, despite the careful analyses by respected health policy researchers, there is little consensus on the best solution to the specific problem of uncompensated...