...The Health Care Study Group This commentary is the joint product of a group of concerned scholars, many of them long associated with this journal. It assesses the debate over health care reform with the goal of minimizing the many myths and misunderstandings that exist. We address eight issues most...

...Howard A. Palley AARP. AARP International Forum in Long-Term Care: 2003 Proceedings . Washington, DC: AARP, 2004. 40 pp. cloth. Tim Blackman, Sally Brodhurst, and Janet Convery, eds. Social Care and Social Exclusion: A Comparative Study of Older People's Care in Europe . New York: Palgrave...

...Sy Adler; Noelle Dobson; Karen Perl Fox; Lynn Weigand This case study is about the politics of incorporating active-living elements into a concept plan for a new community of about 68,000 people on the edge of the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area. Development on the rural-urban fringe is ongoing...

...Emily Lees; David Salvesen; Elizabeth Shay To contribute to the understanding of the links between urban planning and school siting and, ultimately, the impact of both on physical activity, we conducted a case study of Lee County, Florida. Our study examined the extent of state-mandated...

...Mark Schlesinger © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Editor’s Note The Challenge of Tracking Whales: Lessons from the Study of Changing...

... at the national level, events in the research environment during this period may well have distorted the conclusions of the research. Thus this case study highlights the problems of conducting evaluation research. particularly social experiments, on innovative programs perceived as threatening to the...

... research has focused on testing the ethical concerns about such policies. This article presents the findings of a pilot study conducted to determine whether people think that families should end life support of a family member in order to harvest organs if various incentive policies are in place. While the...

... shows how strategic actions set negotiating authority processes into motion, producing new and sometimes surprising institutional arrangements that can have profound effects on the distribution and allocation of authority in the medical training regime. It stresses the need to study the interactions...

.../citizenscouncil/reports.jsp (accessed February 13, 2011) . Parkinson J. 2003 . “Legitimacy Problems in Deliberative Democracy.” Political Studies 51 , no. 1 : 180 – 96 . doi:10.1111/1467-9248.00419 . Pathak-Sen E. 2009 . “Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wisdom.” In Patients...

... Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1978 Regulating Hospital Labor Costs: A Case Study in the Politics of State Rate Commissions Carl J. Schramm, The Johns Hopkins University Abstract. With the advent of various attempts to...

...Kevin M. Cahill Copyright © 1979 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1979 Position Paper The Health Care Industry: A Case Study and Future Policy Issues Kevin M. Cahill, Assistant to the Governor of New York for Health Affairs The “health...

... absence of such a tradition in the United States makes acceptance more difficult. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Saving Lives and Protecting Liberty: A Comparative Study of the Seat-Belt Debate Howard Leichter, Linfield College...

.... 1977 . The Implementation Game . Cambridge: MIT Press. ———. 1996 . Turf Barriers to Interagency Collaboration. In The State of Public Management , ed. D. Kettl and H. B. Milward. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Berman, P. 1978 . The Study of Macro- and Micro-Implementation...

... . Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis . Boston: Little,Brown. Altenstetter, Christa, and James Warner Björkman, eds. 1997 . Health Policy Reform, National Variation, and Globalization . New York: St. Martin's. Eckstein, Harry. 1975 . Case Study and Theory in Political Science...

...Candace H. Feldman; Gary L. Darmstadt; Vishwajeet Kumar; Jennifer Prah Ruger Abstract Understanding the relationship between women's political participation and health has eluded researchers and cannot be adequately studied using traditional epidemiological or social scientific methodologies. We...

.... 2009 ). Controversies aside, many health officials consider school dismissals to be an important community mitigation strategy for influenza pandemics (Kelso, Milne, and Kelly 2009 ; Johnson et al. 2008 ). Several modeling and historical studies have found that school closures may contribute to the...

... international pressures, generating a variation in the use of TRIPS flexibilities. However, cases such as Brazil and India were partially analyzed as part of Deere's ( 2008 ) study and often mentioned as exceptions to her proposed model. Other scholars, such as Shadlen ( 2009 ) and Chaves and Oliveira ( 2004...

... U.S. Senate’s response to AIDS between 1987 and 1992. Our study found that Schneider and Ingram’s model provides important insights into how political processes affect AIDS policy design. While our data did not strictly conform to all of the model’s theoretical expectations, the data provided evidence...