Seeking Environmental and Policy Solutions to Address Latino Childhood Obesity
March 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Latino researchers, communities, and policy-makers are helping reshape the nation’s health system and improve community health.
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The First National Snapshot of Health Care Quality in the United States
March 12, 2012 | Program Result Report
From 1997 to 2002, researchers with the RAND Corporation assessed the quality of care delivered to a large sample of patients living in 12 U.S. communities. This work provided the first national snapshot of health care quality in the United States.
Breaking Through the Denial about Health Care Quality in the United States
March 12, 2012 | Program Result Report
That Americans get only half of recommended care is not an easy message to deliver - or for people to receive. RAND researchers undertook an intensive communications campaign in hopes that their "bad news" would spur changes in health care policy.
What's the best treatment for the health care system?
October 21, 2011 | Story
A Profile of R. Adams Dudley, MD, MBA, 2001-2011.
The Disclosure Dilemma--Large-Scale Adverse Events
September 2, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines the ethical responsibilities of health care facilities following large-scale adverse events in the medical setting. These events range in severity and scope and pose difficult ethical questions about whether and how to disclose the adverse event to patients.
Computers, Conversation, Utilization and Commoditization
May 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Today's radiologists face professional problems, including commoditization of radiology services and an unsustainable growth rate of advanced imaging use, which are linked by a decline in radiologist-clinician communication. The result is the isolation of radiologists and a change in their professional role.
Toward a 21st-Century Health Care System
April 7, 2009 | Journal Article
This article presents eight recommendations to improve quality and lower costs of the U.S. health care system. The recommendations were created by the FRESH-thinking project--a series of workshops attended by physicians, health insurance executives, business leaders, economists, health policy experts, and hospital administrators.
The Patient as a Policy Factor
May 1, 2006 | Journal Article
One of the most striking changes in health care policy-making over the past 40 years has been the growing attentiveness to the voices of patients. This article traces the history of the consumer/survivor movement and analyzes its impact on the polic ...
Cultural Authority and the Sovereignty of American Medicine
August 1, 2004 | Journal Article
In the current article, Pescosolido and Martin build on the history of medicine presented in Starr's 1982 book, The Social Transformation of Medicine. Specifically, they investigated how scientific medicine achieved professional dominance and sovere ...
The Corporatization of American Hospitals
August 1, 2004 | Journal Article
The author reviewed Paul Starr's 1982 book The Social Transformation of American Medicine (TSTAM). Starr's focus in TSTAM was the corporatization of medical care which he posited would involve: change from nonprofit and public hospitals to private a ...