Validation Is Necessary but Insufficient

Necessary but Insufficient

Policy Capacity for Health Reform: Necessary but Insufficient; Comment on “Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity”

Forest and colleagues have persuasively made the case that policy capacity is a fundamental prerequisite to health reform. They offer a comprehensive life-cycle definition of policy capacity and stress that it involves much more than problem identification and option development. I would like to offer a Canadian perspective. If we define health reform as re-orienting the health system from acut...

Cell proliferation is insufficient, but loss of tuberin is necessary, for chemically induced nephrocarcinogenicity.

Although 2,3,5-tris-(glutathion-S-yl)hydroquinone (TGHQ; 2.5 micromol/kg ip) markedly increased cell proliferation within the outer stripe of the outer medulla (OSOM) of the kidney in both wild-type (Tsc2(+/+)) and mutant Eker rats (Tsc2(EK/+)), only TGHQ-treated Tsc2(EK/+) rats developed renal tumors, indicating that cell proliferation per se was not sufficient for tumor development. Tuberin e...

Policy Capacity Is Necessary but Not Sufficient; Comment on “Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity”

Policy capacity focuses on the managerial and organizational abilities to inform policy decisions with sound research and analysis, and facilitate policy implementation with operational efficiency. It stems from a view of the policy process that is rational and positivistic, in which optimal policy choices can be identified, selected, and implemented with objectivity. By itself, however, policy...

policy capacity for health reform: necessary but insufficient; comment on “health reform requires policy capacity”

forest and colleagues have persuasively made the case that policy capacity is a fundamental prerequisite to health reform. they offer a comprehensive life-cycle definition of policy capacity and stress that it involves much more than problem identification and option development. i would like to offer a canadian perspective. if we define health reform as re-orienting the health system from acut...