scholarly journals The politics of health policy knowledge transfer: the evolution of the role of British health economics academic units

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor MacKillop ◽  
Sally Sheard
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Health Economics ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Health Policy Decision ◽  
Academic Units ◽  
The University

Economics is now central to health policy decision making, within government departments and the National Health Service. We examine how and why a health economics academic unit ‐ the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University of York, England ‐ was created in 1983, funded and commissioned to provide research evidence to the British government, specifically the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) and its successors. Building on the knowledge transfer literature, we document the origins of this relationship and the different strategies deployed by successive governments and researchers. This paper demonstrates the value of historical methodologies such as oral history and textual analysis that highlight the limitations of existing knowledge transfer theories, by foregrounding the role of politics via the construction of individual relationships between academics and policy-makers.

System Architecture of A European Platform for Health Policy Decision Making: MIDAS (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi Shi ◽  
Gorana Nikolic ◽  
Scott Fischaber ◽  
Michaela Black ◽  
Debbie Rankin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Health Data ◽  
Social Data ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Healthcare Data ◽  
Health Policy Decision ◽  
Policy Decision Making

BACKGROUND Healthcare data is a rich yet underutilized resource due to its disconnected, heterogeneous nature. A means of connecting healthcare data and integrating it with additional open and social data in a secure way can support the monumental challenge policy-makers face in safely accessing all relevant data to assist in managing the health and wellbeing of all. OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to develop a novel health data platform within the MIDAS (Meaningful Integration of Data Analytics and Services) project, that harnesses the potential of latent healthcare data in combination with open and social data to support evidence-based health policy decision-making in a privacy-preserving manner. METHODS The MIDAS platform was developed in an iterative and collaborative way with close involvement of academia, industry, healthcare staff and policy-makers, to solve tasks including data storage, data harmonization, data analytics and visualizations, and open and social data analytics. The platform has been piloted and tested by health departments in four European countries, each focusing on different region-specific health challenges and related data sources. RESULTS A novel health data platform solving the needs of Public Health decision-makers was successfully implemented within the four pilot regions connecting heterogeneous healthcare datasets and open datasets and turning large amounts of previously isolated data into actionable information allowing for evidence-based health policy-making and risk stratification through the application and visualization of advanced analytics. CONCLUSIONS The MIDAS platform delivers a secure, effective and integrated solution to deal with health data, providing support for health policy decision-making, planning of public health activities and the implementation of the Health in All Policies approach. The platform has proven transferable, sustainable and scalable across policies, data and regions.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial intention: An analysis of the role of Student-Led Entrepreneurial Organizations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuliano Sansone ◽  
Elisa Ughetto ◽  
Paolo Landoni
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Student Entrepreneurship ◽  
Entrepreneurial Organizations ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

AbstractAlthough a great deal of attention has been paid to entrepreneurship education, only a few studies have analysed the impact of extra-curricular entrepreneurial activities on students’ entrepreneurial intention. The aim of this study is to fill this gap by exploring the role played by Student-Led Entrepreneurial Organizations (SLEOs) in shaping the entrepreneurial intention of their members. The analysis is based on a survey that was conducted in 2016 by one of the largest SLEOs in the world: the Junior Enterprises Europe (JEE). The main result of the empirical analysis is that the more time students spent on JEE and the higher the number of events students attended, the greater their entrepreneurial intention was. It has been found that other important drivers also increase students’ entrepreneurial intention, that is, the Science and Technology field of study and the knowledge of more than two foreign languages. These results confirm that SLEOs are able to foster students’ entrepreneurial intention. The findings provide several theoretical, practical and public policy implications. SLEOs are encouraged to enhance their visibility and lobbying potential in order to be recognized more as drivers of student entrepreneurship. In addition, it is advisable for universities and policy makers to support SLEOs by fostering their interactions with other actors operating in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, who promote entrepreneurship and technology transfer activities. Lastly, this paper advises policy makers to assist SLEOs’ activities inside and outside the university context.

scholarly journals The State of Cancer Care in America: Impact of State Policy on Access to High-Quality Cancer Care

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 400-404
Author(s):  
Terrell Johnson ◽  
Lindsey A.M. Bandini ◽  
Kara Martin ◽  
Lee Jones ◽  
Jennifer Carlson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Cancer Care ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
The State ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Patients With Cancer ◽  
Quality Cancer Care ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Health Policy Decision ◽  
Policy Decision Making

Health policy in America has shifted rapidly over the last decade, and states are increasingly exercising greater authority over health policy decision-making. This localization and regionalization of healthcare policy poses significant challenges for patients with cancer, providers, advocates, and policymakers. To identify the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead of stakeholders, NCCN hosted the 2019 Policy Summit: The State of Cancer Care in America on June 27, 2019, in Washington, DC. The summit featured multidisciplinary panel discussions to explore the implications for access to quality cancer care within a shifting health policy landscape from a patient, provider, and lawmaker perspective. This article encapsulates the discussion from this NCCN Policy Summit.

Who Controls Whom?

2015 ◽  
pp. 173-186
Author(s):  
Ainurul Rosli ◽  
Peter Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Full Understanding ◽  
Boundary Spanner ◽  
Enterprise Network ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
University Industry

This chapter looks into the importance of having a clear identity of a boundary spanner in determining the role of the partners in a university-industry knowledge transfer programme. It highlights issues around the relationship between the business and the graduate as the boundary spanner, where the university's level of control differs between two programmes: Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) and Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise Network (KEEN) programme. The four case studies illustrate interesting points since the university is the employer for the KTPs associate and the business is the employer for the KEEN associate, whilst successful KTP and KEEN projects rely on a full understanding of the role of the graduate within the business.

scholarly journals Pharmaceutical expenditure forecast model to support health policy decision making

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 23740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cécile Rémuzat ◽  
Duccio Urbinati ◽  
Åsa Kornfeld ◽  
Anne-Lise Vataire ◽  
Laurent Cetinsoy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Pharmaceutical Expenditure ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Forecast Model ◽  
Health Policy Decision ◽  
Policy Decision Making

scholarly journals Deliberative democracy and cancer screening. The use of citizens' s juries in health policy decision-making

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. v505-v506
Author(s):  
A. Cutillas ◽  
P. Rosado-Varela ◽  
V. Luque-Ribelles ◽  
S. Márquez Calderón ◽  
E. Benitez-Rodríguez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Cancer Screening ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Health Policy Decision ◽  
Policy Decision Making

Anthropologists & Sudanese Refugees: Cultural Exchange in the Heartland

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Mary Willis ◽  
Robert Hitchcock
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Refugee Resettlement ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Social Service Agencies ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
University Of Nebraska Lincoln ◽  
The University ◽  
Sudanese Refugees ◽  
Resettlement Programs

For nearly two decades, Lincoln, Nebraska has served as a refugee resettlement site for programs administered by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), a division of the Administration for Children and Families, within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Recently, anthropologists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) have begun collaborations with (1) Nebraska HHS, (2) social service agencies, (3) resettlement programs, (4) health departments and service providers, (5) churches, (6) policy makers, and (7) Sudanese refugee community members to increase mutual understanding of US and African cultures and to highlight the relevant skills, ideologies and needs each brings to the domestic resettlement process. This paper describes some of the ongoing applied research among Sudanese refugees and emphasizes the need for, and appropriateness of, development anthropologists working within domestic resettlement programs and systems.

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