...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...

...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...

... (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...

...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, and...

...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. With...

...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...

... 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...

...Richard A. Rettig Victoria A. Harden, Inventing the NIH: Federal Biomedical Research Policy, 1887–1937 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), 274 pp. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 582 Journal of Health Politics, PoIicy and Law iation on the “dance of...

...Cynthia D. Mulrow; Kathleen N. Lohr When judging the benefits and harms of health care and predicting patient prognosis, clinicians, researchers, and others must consider many types of evidence. Medical research evidence is part of the required knowledge base,and practitioners of evidence-based...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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 are...

... Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 A Bibliography of Dental Economic Research 1. J. Abramowitz and L. E. Berg, “A Four Year Study of the Utilization of Dental Assistants with Expanded Functions,” Journal of the American Dental...

...: Theoretical Perspectives and Research Implications John R. Kimberly, Yule Uiiiversity Abstract. Stimulated by a variety of external pressures, managerial innovation is likely to become more common in health care organizations. Relatively little is known, however, about the phenomenon. This...