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March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This paper examines the economic causes and consequences of obesity, the rationales for government intervention, the cost-effectiveness of various policies, and the need for more research funding.
May 2, 2013 | Program Result
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 24, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
This post is part of the "Health Care in 2013" series.
October 16, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Two men responsible for the National Resident Matching Program algorithm were recognized with the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
National Program
To help develop a new generation of creative thinkers in health policy research within the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology.
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.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result
James C. Robinson, PhD, professor of health economics at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote the book, The Corporate Practice of Medicine: Competition and Innovation in Health Care, published by the University of California Press in 1999.
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.