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May 2, 2013 | Program Result Report
Scholars in Health Policy Research builds a field of creative thinkers in the field of health policy. Recent graduates of PhD programs in economics, political science, and sociology study health policy at one of three universities for two years.
December 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Adolescents benefit from having a friend whose parents are authoritative, even if their own are not.
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.
April 11, 2012 | Journal Article
A new initiative of the Affordable Care Act known as accountable care organizations, received final rules from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
February 6, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
HCB: You conducted interviews with hundreds of people across the country who live alone. Tell us about the trends you identified in the book. Klinenberg: When I looked more closely at the issue I learned that living alone had become incredibly commo ...
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
People are highly influenced by what the people in their social network eat.
August 9, 2011 | Program Result Report
A team at Harvard led by Nicholas Christakis, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H, built several health-related social network data sets and used them to analyze the role social networks play in health and health care. Some findings achieved national media coverage.
April 11, 2011 | Journal Article
This study examined the role of bias in treatment decisions close to 1,000 physicians chose hypothetical treatments for colon cancer and avian flu the physicians either chose a treatment they would want for themselves or made a recommendation for a patient.
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A broad look at decades of health policy successes and failures in Congress.
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A drinking age of 18 is associated with slightly higher rates of low birth weight and premature babies, with babies born to black women affected more. Stricter drinking policies also may have unintended positive consequences a range of effects of lowering the drinking age should be considered before any policy changes are made.