January 1, 1997
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Book
This chapter of the Anthology describes one experience with an ambitious effort to communicate research findings to a wider audience. The Local Media Education Project transmits to journalists the latest research on the changing health care system in their communities.
January 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
Norman J. Ornstein, Ph.D. of the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, and Thomas E. Mann, Ph.D. of the Brookings Institution, Washington, wrote a book, Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy (AEI/Brookings, 1995), about how Congress could improve its work in health policy.
April 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
Mathematica Policy Research carried out and analyzed the first national household survey of public attitudes toward various government policy measures designed to limit youth access to tobacco products and make those products less attractive to young people.
October 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
The Radio and Television News Directors Foundation, New York carried out a national survey of reporters, news directors, and the public about health care issues between August 1995 and October 1995.
December 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
United Seniors Health Cooperative established the Cooperative Care Network (CCN), a computerized service credit bank in the greater Washington area, to increase the availability of services for the elderly and the disabled living in their homes.
May 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
From 1992 to 1996, the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic established a model volunteer clinic on South Carolina's Hilton Head Island, providing care to medically underserved residents and low-income people employed on the island.
May 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
The University of Colorado, Denver, evaluated Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco (STAT), a nationwide volunteer effort to reduce underage smoking.
May 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
American Health Line, a daily electronic newsletter in Falls Church, Va., which focuses on health policy, hosted and moderated a one-day media seminar on February 2, 1994.
November 1, 1996
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Program Result Report
The Boston University School of Management identified the issues that need to be examined in order to determine what organizational characteristics and policies are necessary for the provision of cost-efficient care by physicians.
November 1, 1996
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Program Result Report
Researchers at George Washington University, Washington, conducted a nationwide questionnaire survey to gather information on health policy and public health concerns of officials from governors' offices and legislative staff in almost every state.