Data as the Foundation for Health Policy

Guardat: A foundation for policy-protected data

We present Guardat, an architecture that enforces rich data access policies at the storage layer. Users, application developers and system administrators can provide per-file policies to Guardat. Guardat enforces these policies and provides attestations about the state of stored files. With Guardat, the data integrity, confidentiality and access accounting rules for a collection of files can be...

Behavioral rationality as a foundation for public policy studies

Cognitive processing applies to a single human being, yet most key social processes are organized in collectives, and connecting them is not a simple task. I review the basic ways in which social and behavioral scientists have tried to link the individual with the system, illustrating the progress that has been made in this endeavor. We are closer than we ever have been to producing a behaviora...

The impact of foundation-funded commissions on health policy.

Community Psychology as a Process of Citizen Participation in Health Policy; Comment on “The Rise of Post-truth Populism in Pluralist Liberal Democracies: Challenges for Health Policy”

This brief commentary discusses a recent paper by Speed and Mannion that explores “The Rise of post truth populism in liberal democracies: challenges for health policy.” It considers their assertion that through meaningful democratic engagement in health policy, some of the risks brought about by an exclusionary populist politics can be mediated. With an overview of what participation means in ...

An Introduction to Policy Delphi; A tool for discovering the opposing views on health policy issues

Objective: In this review, we investigated various aspects of Policy Delphi technique to make decision-makers more aware of this pertinent method so that they can use it in their policy decisions in their organizations. Information sources and selected methods for study: This study was conducted using a review method and by searching the related literature in databases such as PubMed, Scopus a...