How the Health Services Research Workforce Supply in the United States is Evolving

Author(s):  
Bianca K. Frogner
2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Fluegge

The incorporation of genetics into health services research has largely floundered, despite the rapidly accelerating availability of, and access to, such data. This is expected given the ethical questions involved. However, using these new resources robustly to examine population choices when it comes to health insurer selection, coverage therein and especially the subsequent use of health services is a necessary step forward, especially given the increasing prevalence of multimorbidity. Such a novel advancement in health services research may eventually propel public and private insurers to redesign their infrastructure to more accurately reflect the behavioural inclinations of their beneficiary populations. Using this resource will likely provide equally important insight for countries with extensive mixed insurer systems (like the United States) or nations with a greater emphasis on single-payer systems (such as various European models).


1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicente Navarro

This article reviews the hegemonic understanding of health services research in the United States and in the Anglo-Saxon world, taking as a point of reference the recently published PAHO anthology, Health Services Research: An Anthology (which contains the classics in health services research). The author outlines the main characteristics of health services research in the United States, and criticizes the focus on medical care of most health services research literature and the narrow spectrum of positions presented in that literature. He concludes that there is an urgent need for analyses of the socioeconomic and political forces that determine the level of health and the type of health services that exist in any society, analyses that are usually avoided in health services research.


Medical Care ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Ebert-Flattau ◽  
Gerald T. Perkoff

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