Policy Directions for Effective Evaluation and Management
For fifty years, Medicare and Medicaid have stood at the center of a contentious debate surrounding American government, citizenship, and health care entitlement. In Medicare and Medicaid at 50, leading scholars in politics, government, economics,...
The existence of health inequities across racial, ethnic, gender, and class lines in the United States has been well documented. Less well understood have been the attempts of major institutions, health programs, and other public policy domains to...
Alan B. Cohen is Professor of Health Policy and Management and Executive Director of the Boston University Health Policy Institute. He also directs the national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Scholars in Health Policy Research program. His research has focused on medical technology adoption, cost containment and health policy, comparative health care systems, and the evaluation of health care programs. Ruth S. Hanft is currently Adjunct Associate in the Center for Bioethics at the University of Virginia and at Dartmouth Medical School and a member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. She specializes in health services administration and public finance. Dr. Hanft is a former Department of Health and Human Services Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Research, and, more recently, Professor in the George Washington University Department of Health Services Management and Policy.