Health Policy
September 17, 2012 | Feature/Topic
Browse research, insight and analysis on key issues affecting health and health care in the United States.
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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.
Cost-Effectiveness of Adding Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Rheumatoid Arthritis Management
April 11, 2011 | Journal Article
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) affects 1.5 million Americans every year. Early, aggressive treatment of RA incurs high costs this study modeled the costs and benefits of using MRI to supplement standard risk stratification strategies.
The Politics of Disease Research
November 26, 2012 | Story
RWJF Scholar in Health Policy Research Rachel Kahn Best explores the impact of advocacy on federal funding for medical research.
The Social Construction of Illness
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This essay explores how social dynamics shape the experience of illness. The authors recount the development of the cultural meaning of illness and provide a critique of the foundations of medical knowledge.