...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...

..., 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 care. American Association of Retired...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... in economic efficiency. Copyright © 1982 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1982 Research Note Contracting State Mental Hospital Systems Richard G. Frank and W. P. Welch, University of Pittsburgh Abstract. The predominant approach to contracting...

...Stephen M. Shortell; Marian A. Solomon Interest in health care policy research has grown significantly over the past decade. This paper makes a number of suggestions for improving the quality of health care policy research and its influence on policymaking. These include suggestions for: 1...

... and implications for future trends in specialty distribution of physicians, as well as implications for current and future federal policy affecting physicians' specialty decisions, are discussed. Copyright © 1982 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1982 Research Note Differences...

... 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...