Health Policy and Outcomes Research 2004

Health policy and outcomes research 2004.

Health policy research and its kin, outcomes research, are primarily aimed at informing policy decision-makers. Although we know of no clear line separating these 2 types of research, an apparent convention is to term research performed specifically for policy decisions and typically reported in nonacademic publications as “health policy research,”1 whereas outcomes research is the more academi...

Plenary session 3: Health policy 2004. Improving outcomes through research and practice.

A societal outcomes map for health research and policy.

The linkages between decisions about health research and policy and actual health outcomes may be extraordinarily difficult to specify. We performed a pilot application of a "road mapping" and technology assessment technique to perinatal health to illustrate how this technique can clarify the relations between available options and improved health outcomes. We used a combination of data-mining ...

Internationalisation of Economic Policy Research Paper 2004

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that exclusive owners of an advanced technology are always better off when producing as a monopolist than when competing against another firm. Competition against a less efficient firm weakens the power that a host country can exert on the incumbent in the form of its tariff policy. We show that this gives a motive for a monopolist to license its te...

Policy Research Working Paper July 2004

1 IAVI, “Global Investment and Expenditures on Preventive HIV Vaccines: Methods and Results for 2002,” July 2004. The science of an HIV vaccine is complicated, with only modest progress so far on overcoming the scientific barriers to producing a vaccine that will consistently induce a strong immune response in humans. The research and product development process is very expensive, requiring mor...