Seminar Series Archives

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Scholars in Health Policy Research Program

American Health Care System Seminar
Fall 2007

Reading List

Volume II

Session Seven: Long-Term Care and Mental Health

Thursday, September 20, 2007 , 2:00pm-4:00pm
Factuly: Ralph Catalano

Required Reading :

  1. Streaming Video: http://mentalhealthpolicy.berkeley.edu/abstracts.html
Recommended Reading :
  1. Shi, L., & Singh, D. (2004). Chapter 9: Managed Care and Integrated Organizations. In Delivering Health Care in America : A Systems Approach, Third Edition (pp. 323-65). Massachusetts : Jones and Bartlett Publishers. (book distributed)
  2. Cunningham, P.J. (1999). Pressures on Safety Net Access: The Level of Managed Care Penetration on Un-insurance Rates in a Community. Health Services Research, 34(1), 255-70.
  3. Baker, L.C. (1999). Association of Managed Care Market Share and Health Expenditures for Fee-for-Service Medicare Patients. Journal of the American Medical Association, 281(5), 432-7.
  4. Baker, L.C., & Brown, M.L. (1999). Managed Care, Consolidation among Health Care Providers, and Health Care: Evidence from Mammography. RAND Journal of Economics, 30(2), 351-74.
  5. Robinson, J.C. (2001). The End of Managed Care. Journal of the American Medical Association, 285(20), 2622-8.
  6. Dudley, R.A., & Luft, H.S. (2001). Managed Care in Transition. New England Journal of Medicine, 344 (14), 1087-92.

Session Eight: Ethical Considerations in Health Care

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 , 1:30pm-3:00pm
Faculty: Jodi Halpern

Required Reading :

  1. Daniels, N. (1994). Four Unsolved Rationing Problems: A Challenge. The Hastings Center Report, 24 (4), 27-9.
  2. Hadorn , D.C. (1991). Setting Health Care Priorities in Oregon . Journal of the American Medical Association, 265(17), 2218-25.
  3. Eddy, D. (1991). The Individual v. Society: Resolving the Conflict. Journal of the American Medical Association, 265(18), 2399-406.
  4. Rawls, J. (1971). Chapter 1: Justice as Fairness. In A Theory of Justice (pp. 1-33). Cambridge , MA : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Session Nine: Getting to Where You Want to Be, But Doing It the Hard Way: Employment-Based Financing vs. Employment-Based Coverage

Thursday, September 27, 2007 , 2:00pm-4:00pm
Factuly: Harold Luft

Required Reading :

  1. Luft, H.S. (2007). Universal Health Care Coverage: A Potential Hybrid Solution. Journal of the American Medical Association, 297(10), 1115-8.
Recommended Reading :
  1. Catlin, A., et al. (2007). National Health Spending in 2005: The Slowdown Continues. Health Affairs 26(1), 142-53.

Session Ten: Long Term Care Research and Policy Issues

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 , 2:00pm-4:00pm
Factuly: Charlene Harrington

Required Reading :

  1. Harrington, C., Mullan, J., & Carrillo, H. (2004). State Nursing Home Enforcement Systems. Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, 29(1), 43-73.
  2. Harrington, C., & Swan, J.H. (2003). Nurse Home Staffing, Turnover, and Casemix. Medical Care Research and Review, 60(2), 366-92.
  3. Harrington, C., Swan J.H., & Carrillo, H. (2007). Nurse Staffing Levels and Medicaid Reimbursement Rates in Nursing Facilities. HSR: Health Services Research, 42(3, Part 1), 1105-29.
  4. O’Neill, C., Harrington, C., Kitchener , M., & Saliba, D. (2003). Quality of Care in Nursing Homes: An Analysis of the Relationships among Profit, Quality, and Ownership. Medical Care, 41(12), 1318-30.

 

Session Eleven: Issues in Health Technology, Comparative Effectiveness, and Coverage with Evidence Development

Thursday, October 4, 2007 , 2:00pm-4:00pm
Faculty: Wade Aubry

Required Reading :

  1. Garber, A.M. (2001). Evidence-Based Coverage Policy. Health Affairs, 20(5), 62-82.
  2. Hlatky, M.S., Sanders, G.D., & Owens, D.K. (2005). Evidence-Based Medicine and Policy: The Case of the Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator. Health Affairs, 24(1), 42-51.
  3. Wilensky, G.R. (2006). Developing a Center for Comparative Effectiveness Information. Health Affairs, 25(6), w572-w585.
  4. Rettig, R.A., Jacobson, P.D., Farquhar, C.M., & Aubry, W.M. (2007). Chapter 10: Values in Conflict. In False Hope: Bone Marrow Transplantation for Breast Cancer. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. (chapter distributed seperately)

 

Session Twelve: Summary, Feedback, and Wrap-up

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 , 2:00pm-4:00pm
Faculties: Joan Bloom and Richard Scheffler

Recommended Reading :

  1. Shi, L., & Singh, D. (2004). Chapter 14: The Future of Health Services Delivery. In Delivering Health Care in America : A Systems Approach, Third Edition (pp. 563-92). Massachusetts : Jones and Bartlett Publishers. (book distributed)

 

Session Thirteen: From Theory to Practice in American Health Policy Research: The Role and Perceived Need for Transdisciplinary Approaches

Thursday, October 11, 2007 , 2:00pm-5:00pm
Faculty: Daniel Dohan

Required Reading :

  1. Wendler, D., Kington, R., Madans, J., Van Wye, G., Christ-Schmidt, H., Pratt, L., et al. (2006). Are Racial and Ethnic Minorities Less Willing to Participate in Health Research? PLoS Medicine, 3(2), 0201-0210.
  2. Rosenfield, P. (1992). The Potential of Transdisciplinary Research for Sustaining and Extending Linkages between the Health and Social Sciences. Social Science and Medicine, 35(11), 1343-1357.
  3. NIH Roadmap for Medical Research: Research Teams of the Future, http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/researchteams/.
  4. NIH Roadmap for Medical Research: Fact Sheet, August 2006, http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/pdf/NIHRoadmap-FactSheet-Aug06.pdf.
  5. UCSF Clinical and Transalational Science Award Proposal, March 2006: Section A of Overview and Integrated Approach and Governance, and 10. Health Policy Program.

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