The convergence of science and governance
Subtitle: research, health policy, and American states
By: Daniel M. Fox.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780520262386
Subjects: Medical policy -- United States; Pharmaceutical policy -- United States; National health services -- United States; Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services -- history -- United States; Government Programs -- history -- United States; Health Policy -- history -- United States; Health Services Research -- history -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States; History, 21st Century -- United States; Politics -- United States
Description: "Daniel M. Fox gives an incisive assessment of the critical collaboration between researchers and public officials that has recently emerged to evaluate the effectiveness and comparative effectiveness of health services. Drawing on research as well as his first-hand experience in policymaking, Fox's broad-ranging analysis describes how politics, public finance and management, and advances in research methods made this convergence of science and governance possible. The book then widens into a sweeping history of central issues in research on health services and health governance during the past century. Returning to the past decade, Fox looks closely at how policy informed by research has been made and implemented in public programs that cover pharmaceutical drugs in most American states." "This case study illuminates how politics has informed the questions, methods, and reception of research on health services, and also sheds new light on how research has informed politics and public management. Looking toward the future, Fox describes the promise, as well as the fragility, of the convergence of science and governance, making his book essential reading for those struggling to revise health care in the United States over the next several years." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why convergence, why now?; title: Research on health services and the politics of health; title: The competence of states in health policy; title: The drug effectiveness review project; title: Can convergence be sustained?