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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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research
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.
Medical Sociology and Health Services Research
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article reviews the past half century of medical sociology in the United States, which includes research into the structure, organization, dynamics and impact of health care services.
Breaking Gridlock
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A broad look at decades of health policy successes and failures in Congress.
Medical Sociology and Technology
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This essay, from a supplement to the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, reviews changes in medical technology that occurred over the past 50 years. The authors consider developments in fetal medicine, medicalization, the history of psychotropics and theoretical movements.
Medical Sociologists Turn Their Lens on Themselves
August 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
From 1996 to 1998, University of Minnesota-Duluth School of Medicine sponsored a series of meetings of leading medical sociologists, who gathered to assess the current strengths and weaknesses of the field and to offer recommendations for changes that would leave it better able to address contemporary problems.
Building Health Policy Research Capacity in the Social Sciences
January 1, 2003 | Book
This chapter of the Anthology examines the Foundation's investments in building capacity among social scientists to do health policy analysis.
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.
Executive Summary
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Katherine J. Rosich and Janet R. Hankin outline the contents of 11 articles from this special supplement to the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. The findings are the result of 50 years of research into the social dimensions of health and health care in the U.S.
Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Health Inequalities
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article from a Journal of Health and Social Behavior supplement presents evidence supporting Phelan and Link"s fundamental causes theory. Socioeconomic status (SES) is a fundamental cause of health inequalities because it demonstrates four essential features.
Bioethics, Raw and Cooked
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
In this article, the author considers the life-cycle of bioethical principles from private ethical conflicts to public spectacle to ingrained policy within health care organizations. Essentially contested total social conflicts have given rise to the language of principlism.