title: Health policy and the politics of research in the United States.
abstract: During the past decade research has been more important to the health policy-making process in the United States than at any time in the past. This article describes and assesses three competing normative models for research on health affairs: economizing, social conflict, and collective welfare. The three models provide a context for the history of research bearing on health policy in the past half century, with particular pertinence to the years since 1980. The article concludes with a discussion of some of the consequences of the new legitimacy of research.
authors: Milbank Memorial Fund.
authors: D M
authors: DM
authors: Fox
mesh_terms: D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003363:Cost Control; D006291:Health Policy; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011057:Politics; D012945:Social Values; D012946:Social Welfare; D014481:United States