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HSD Library - Public Policy and Politics
Literature
Understanding Social Insurance: Fairness, Affordability, and The ‘Modernization’ Of Social Security And Medicare
- Theodore Marmor is a professor of public policy and management at the Yale School of Management and a professor of political science at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut; Jerry Mashaw is the Sterling Professor of Law and Management and a professor in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University; Health Affairs 25 (2006), Available online at: http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/hlthaff.25.w114v1/DC1
The EU We Want: Views from those fighting poverty and social exclusion on the future development of the EU
- (posted 03.13.2006), European Anti poverty Network (EAPN) 2006
- PDF in English [112p].at:http://eapn.horus.be/module/module_page/images/pdf/pdf_publication/EAPN%20Publications/book/Livre3-EN.pdf
- PDF in French [ii2p.] at: http://eapn.horus.be/module/module_page/images/pdf/pdf_publication/EAPN%20Publications/book/Livre3-FR.pdf
- Brief Abstract: The book and is aimed at making a contribution to the debate and policies needed to eradicate poverty and social exclusion in the EU. Combating poverty and social exclusion. This publication has three parts: 1. An overview of the reality of poverty and social exclusion in the EU including the development of EU policies; 2. Essays on key areas which need to be addresses if we are to reach the type of EU where all people have access to all their fundamental rights including their economic, social and cultural rights; 3. Portraits of people who live in EU Member States and who face poverty and social exclusion
Waiting for Health Care in Canada: What We Know and What we Don't Know
- The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), March 7, 2006 - ISBN 1-55392-784-2
- Website: http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/dispPage.jsp?cw_page=PG_549_E&cw_topic=549&cw_rel=AR_1385_E
- Brief Abstract: ...provides a snapshot of wait times for various health conditions, including waits in the five priority areas set by First Ministers (cancer, cardiac, joint replacement, sight restoration and diagnostic imaging). Drawing on surveys, provincial wait times data, CIHI analyses and other sources, the report takes a pan-Canadian look at wait times across the spectrum of care, from access to family physicians to waits for surgery and beyond.
Extracting Knowledge from Science: A Conversation with: Elias Zerhouni , director of the US National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
- By Barbara Culliton, a deputy editor of Health Affairs.
- Health Affairs, doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.25.w94
NIH Director: Curative Model Of Medical Practice Is Unsustainable
- Website: http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/hlthaff.25.w94/DC1
- Brief Abstract: National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Elias Zerhouni is pushing hard for innovation and the risk taking required to make major leaps in medicine. Fully attuned to cutting-edge work that crosses disciplines, he cites nanotechnology, clinical databases designed to answer research questions, systems biology, and an openness to radical ideas among his top priorities. The NIH director’s job, he says, “is to have a vision.” This requires leveraging NIH funding so that money is spent more wisely and has a cumulative effect on population health. Knowledge can be extracted from science, and health system transformation is made possible.
Applying clinical epidemiological methods to health equity: the equity effectiveness loop
- Peter Tugwell, director, Ottawa Health Research Institute, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Canada
- BMJ 2006;332:358-361 (11 February), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7537.358
- http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/332/7537/358
- Brief Abstract: Focusing on the average effects of interventions on health may miss important differences within populations. Examining these effects across gradients in wealth allows the identification of the interventions most likely to reduce health inequalities. We propose the "equity effectiveness loop" framework (fig 1) to highlight equity issues inherent in assessing health needs, effectiveness, and cost effectiveness of interventions, and the development and evaluation of evidence based health policy. This framework provides a method to calculate the "equity effectiveness ratio," which assesses the impact of various factors on the gap in the effectiveness of interventions across socioeconomic gradients.
Priority setting in health – a political economy perspective
- Maria Goddard and Katharina Hauck, Centre for Health Economics, University of York; Alex Preker, World Bank, Washington DC; Peter C. Smith, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
- Health Economics, Policy and Law - Volume 1 Issue 1 January 2006 - Cambridge University Press
- http://www.journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=HEP&volumeId=1&issueId=01#
- Brief Abstract: Most countries face high demands on their health care systems and have limited resources with which to meet them. Priority setting seeks to address these problems by proposing rules to decide which groups of patients or disease areas should secure favoured access to limited health care resources. The economic approach towards priority setting, particularly in the form of cost-effectiveness analysis, is commonly advocated. However, despite many decades of refinement of the technical and methodological issues arising from the use of economic evaluation in priority setting, decision makers continue to diverge frequently from the principles of economic evaluation.
Examining the Health Disparities Research Plan of the National Institutes of Health: Unfinished Business
- Board on Health Sciences Policy (HSP), 2006, US National Academies of Sciences
- http://darwin.nap.edu/books/0309101212/html/
- Brief Abstract: The range of diseases and conditions for which there are differences spans virtually all biomedical disciplines. There are complex, interrelated social, economic, behavioral, health care and other environmental aspects – and the differences, their features, and the roles of contributing factors vary among affected populations and subpopulations.
Policy considerations and proposals
The Open Society Institute OSI Seminar on the Global Governance of Health
- December 5- 8 December, 2005, Schloss Arenberg Conference Center Salzburg, Austria, http://www.healthgov.net/, Final Report at: :http://www.temple.edu/lawschool/phrhcs/salzburg/OSI_Seminar_Final_Report.pdf.
Shaping the Future of Social Protection: Access, Financing and Solidarity
- Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) March 2006
- http://www.eclac.cl/publicaciones/SecretariaEjecutiva/3/LCG2294ses313I/lcg2294i.pdf
- Brief Abstract: The starting point for this study is the principle that a rights-based approach should be used in framing public policy. The civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights enshrined in binding national and international agreements should form the normative framework for development.
Integrated Care - A Guide for Policymakers
- James Lloyd and Suzanne Wait, Alliance for Health and the Future, London UK, 2006
- http://www.ilcuk.org.uk/downloads/Integrated%20Care%20-%20A%20Guide%20for%20Policymakers.pdf
- Brief Abstract: While health policy researchers, practitioners and policymakers are increasingly referring to the need to introduce ‘integrated care’ into health policies, the term still remains vague for all too many. What is to be integrated when it comes to care and why? What are the advantages of integrated care and what parts of the population benefit in particular? How can health systems change to accommodate integrated care approaches? What must policymakers and practitioners understand if they to try to change the acute care paradigm to one that offers a veritable integration of health and social care services?
Generic structures and behaviors (archetypes)
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Economics and Funding
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What's Been Done with SD in Health
Health_Reform_&_Politics
Useful Links
Commonwealth Fund-Health Policy Week in Review
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