Health Policy

September 17, 2012 | Feature/Topic

Browse research, insight and analysis on key issues affecting health and health care in the United States.

Breaking Gridlock

April 1, 2011 | Journal Article

A broad look at decades of health policy successes and failures in Congress.

Data and Methods to Facilitate Delivery System Reform

October 1, 2010 | Journal Article

Combining Explicit and Implicit Measures of Racial Discrimination in Health Research

November 17, 2009 | Journal Article

To improve measurement of discrimination for health research, this article sought to address the concern that explicit self-reports of racial discrimination may not capture unconscious cognition.

Immigrants and Health Care Access, Quality and Cost

August 1, 2009 | Journal Article

This literature review gathered data from numerous studies examining direct experiences of immigrants within the U.S. health care system. The authors researched the effects of non-citizenship, limited English proficiency (LEP) and other components of immigrant status on health care outcomes.

Nature Versus Nurture Study of Deceased-Donor Pairs in Kidney Transplantation

June 1, 2009 | Journal Article

This study reports important donor effects on the risks of delayed graft function (DGF) and allograft failure in kidney transplant patients. It suggests opportunities to improve transplant outcomes and decrease the significant health and economic costs associated with transplant failure.

Policy Tragedy and the Emergence of Regulation

February 24, 2009 | Journal Article

Traditional thinking on regulatory law is that regulations arise in large part from crises. The authors propose a more nuanced view, that crises require reframing to the public and control of the narrative to act as spurs for policy.

Disease Politics and Medical Research Funding

October 1, 2012 | Journal Article

This article examines 53 diseases over 19 years to better understand how disease advocacy has impacted funding distributions, changed the perceived beneficiaries of policies, promoted metrics for commensuration, and made culture categories of worth more relevant to policy-making.

Special Issue of Health Services Research Links Health Care Research and Health Policy

February 1, 2012 | Journal Article

The articles in this special issue of Health Policy Research illustrate the role RWJF Clinical Scholars play in creating opportunities for linking research and health policy, and provides examples of scholars' work where research and health policy come together to improve health and health care.

State-Level Variations in Racial Disparities in Life Expectancy

February 1, 2012 | Journal Article

Disparities in life expectancy between Blacks and Whites vary significantly among states and for different reasons, suggesting policy-makers must consider disparity data and its implications carefully, according to this study of state-based information.

Physician Practices and Readiness for Medical Home Reforms

October 18, 2011 | Journal Article

Nearly half of all physician practices are not prepared to adopt the medical home model of care.