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June 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice report Improving Health Care: A Dose of Competition (2004) recommends a number of market-based reforms to improve the quality of care and reduce the trend in health benefit spending. The authors ...
April 20, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
This approach was especially successful among African-Americans, who make up a large, and increasing, percentage of those in need of donated organs, but a relatively small portion of registered donors. Seventy-six percent of African-Americans who wa ...
February 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This legal analysis evaluates whether consumerism and mandated disclosure of information can provide a viable mechanism to improve health care quality and lower costs.
August 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This research brief reports on a study that presented participants with simplified versions of Medicare prescription drug plans. The study tested the effects of increasing the number of available plans on the ability of beneficiaries to make cost-effective decisions.
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 ...
November 19, 2009 | Journal Article
This supplement presents the work of 14 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar studies that were conducted as Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR).
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article examines the ethical responsibility of physicians to their patients when patients' health care decisions are influenced by financial considerations. As consumer-directed health care increases the amount of money patients pay out of pocket for medical services, new responsibilities emerge for physicians.
November 8, 2007 | Journal Article
Trust, self-efficacy, and involvement in medical decision-making were posited to be mediating variables in the relationship between literacy and diabetes outcomes.
January 2, 2008 | Story
Health & Society Scholar Dominick L. Frosch, PhD, a clinical psychologist, collaborated with colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania to determine that DTC commercials have limited educational value.