Policy Making

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A SWOT analysis of the physiotherapy profession in Kuwait. 
  • A Story About People and Porpoises: Consensus-Based Decision Making in the Shadow of Political Action. 
  • AJT's response to the National Institutes of Health public access regulations. 
  • American College of Preventive Medicine Practice Policy Statement. Screening for elevated blood lead levels in children. 
  • An official American Thoracic Society workshop report: Climate change and human health. 
  • Attribution of climate forcing to economic sectors. 
  • Benefit assessment of therapeutic products: the Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics. 
  • Best practices: comparing medication treatments in mental health: drug class reviews and policy challenges. 
  • Bringing molecular tools into environmental resource management: untangling the molecules to policy pathway. 
  • Consensus statement on transcultural issues in depression and anxiety from the International Consensus Group on Depression and Anxiety. 
  • Considerations for an obesity policy research agenda. 
  • Considerations of net present value in policy making regarding diagnostic and therapeutic technologies. 
  • Context matters in child and family policy. 
  • Cost utility of sequential adjuvant trastuzumab for HER2/Neu-positive breast cancer. 
  • Cost-effective models for flutamide for prostate carcinoma patients: are they helpful to policy makers? 
  • Current state of psychiatry in Saudi Arabia. 
  • Defining the spectrum of genome policy. 
  • Desegregation of hospitals and medical societies in North Carolina. 
  • Diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer disease and related disorders. Consensus statement of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, the Alzheimer's Association, and the American Geriatrics Society. 
  • Differential pricing of pharmaceuticals in the internet age. 
  • Disparities in breast carcinoma treatment in Asian/Pacific Islander women. A challenge to the provider. 
  • Ecological forecasts: an emerging imperative. 
  • Economic benefits of less restrictive regulation of advanced practice nurses in North Carolina. 
  • Economic implications of potential changes to regulatory and reimbursement policies for medical devices. 
  • Engaging Survivors of Critical Illness in Health Care Assessment and Policy Development. Ethical and Practical Complexities. 
  • Enhancing pediatric workforce diversity and providing culturally effective pediatric care: implications for practice, education, and policy making. 
  • Evidence-Based Policy Making: Assessment of the American Heart Association's Strategic Policy Portfolio: A Policy Statement From the American Heart Association. 
  • Evidence-based policymaking in global health - the payoffs and pitfalls. 
  • Evolving brand-name and generic drug competition may warrant a revision of the Hatch-Waxman Act. 
  • Factors influencing malaria control policy-making in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. 
  • Financing graduate medical education to meet the needs of children and the future pediatrician workforce. 
  • Geriatric rehabilitation: state of the art. 
  • Hospital infection control, seat belts and the national debt. 
  • Identifying barriers in the malaria control policymaking process in East Africa: insights from stakeholders and a structured literature review. 
  • Impact of the model for end-stage liver disease allocation policy on the use of high-risk organs for liver transplantation. 
  • Influence of food companies' brand mascots and entertainment companies' cartoon media characters on children's diet and health: a systematic review and research needs. 
  • Influencing health policy: strategies for nursing education to partner with nursing practice. 
  • Insurance expansions: do they hurt those they are designed to help? 
  • Integrating bioassessment and ecological risk assessment: an approach to developing numerical water-quality criteria. 
  • Making informed policy decisions about newborn hearing screening. 
  • Making the case for laws that improve health: a framework for public health law research. 
  • Meeting the challenges facing clinical research: solutions proposed by leaders of medical specialty and clinical research societies. 
  • Mental illness and reduction of gun violence and suicide: bringing epidemiologic research to policy. 
  • Older Adults in Clinical Research and Drug Development: Closing the Geriatric Gap. 
  • On interdisciplinarity and why it matters ... A lesson from primary care. 
  • Oncology payment reform to achieve real health care reform. 
  • One Size Does Not Fit All--Regional Variation in the Impact of the Share 35 Liver Allocation Policy. 
  • Organ Transplantation in Greece. 
  • Overcoming barriers to adopting and implementing computerized physician order entry systems in U.S. hospitals. 
  • Patchy progress on obesity prevention: emerging examples, entrenched barriers, and new thinking. 
  • Preterm birth: the role of knowledge transfer and exchange. 
  • Preventing tomorrow's sudden cardiac death today: part II: Translating sudden cardiac death risk assessment strategies into practice and policy. 
  • Preventive oral health intervention for pediatricians. 
  • Prioritizing Surgical Care on National Health Agendas: A Qualitative Case Study of Papua New Guinea, Uganda, and Sierra Leone. 
  • Private and public choices in end-of-life care. 
  • Privatization and just healthcare. 
  • Projecting the effects of long-term care policy on the labor market participation of primary informal family caregivers of elderly with disability: insights from a dynamic simulation model. 
  • Public preferences for interventions to prevent emerging infectious disease threats: a discrete choice experiment. 
  • Quality of care for sudden cardiac arrest: Proposed steps to improve the translation of evidence into practice. 
  • Recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce in nursing: from evidence to best practices to policy. 
  • Reducing the global burden of Preterm Birth through knowledge transfer and exchange: a research agenda for engaging effectively with policymakers. 
  • Rehabilitation services after total joint replacement in Ontario, Canada: can 'prehabilitation' programs mediate an increasing demand? 
  • Social media use and cybercivility guidelines in U.S. nursing schools: A review of websites. 
  • Southeastern Center for Emerging Biologic Threats tabletop exercise: foodborne toxoplasmosis outbreak on college campuses. 
  • State school nutrition and physical activity policy environments and youth obesity. 
  • Strategic science with policy impact. 
  • Strategic thinking about gun markets and violence. 
  • Sustainability indicators as a communicative tool: building bridges in Pennsylvania. 
  • The Complex Relationship Between Diet And Health. 
  • The assistant medical officer in Sri Lanka: mid-level health worker in decline. 
  • The general agreement on trade in services: implications for health policymakers. 
  • Use of antimicrobial drugs in adults before and after removal of a restriction policy. 
  • Using Decision Analysis to Improve Malaria Control Policy Making 
  • Using research evidence to reframe the policy debate around mental illness and guns: process and recommendations. 
  • What can decision analysis do for invasive species management? 
  • Where the most private becomes public: policy making for sexual health. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Balleisen, Edward J., Professor of History, Institutes and Provost's Academic Units
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., Pritzker Professor of Early Learning Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Landry, Michel Daniel, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedics, Physical Therapy
  • Newell, Richard G., Adjunct Professor, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Owen, Jennifer Weinreb, Lecturer, Senior in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy
  • Pizer, Billy, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke Science & Society
  • Reed, Shelby Derene, Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Shindell, Drew Todd, Nicholas Professor of Earth Science, Earth and Ocean Sciences
  • Sreenivasan, Gopal, Crown University Professor in Ethics, Duke Science & Society
  • Strand de Oliveira, Justine, Professor Emeritus in Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine