Unhealthy Politics: The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (966 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691158819 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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His books include Field Experiments. He is the coauthor of Super PAC!. Conor M. Dowling is associate professor of political science at the University of Mississippi. Eric M. Alan S. and Dorathea S. His books include Reforms at Risk (Princeton). Patashnik is the Julis-Rabinowitz Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Brown University
Eric Patashnik, Alan Gerber, and Conor Dowling straddle the boundaries of political science and policy analysis to explore why this is so. The book is timely, given rising health-care costs and increasing polarization about the role the state might play in addressing them. Gusmano, coauthor of Health Care in World Cities"Unhealthy Politics brings together numerous insights from political science along with new empirical evidence to shed light on one of the most important debates in health-care policy in the United Statesthe issue of how to produce better evidence to guide decisions about medical care. It will be widely read."--Michael K. Yet in matters large and small, physicians, politicians, and the American public itself combine to oppose the use of rigorous clinical evidence to guide medical care. Following their advice might save us hundreds of billions."--Daniel Carpenter, Harvard Unive
Treatments can go into widespread use before they are rigorously evaluated, and every year patients are harmed because they receive too many proceduresand too few treatments that really work. Unhealthy Politics sheds new light on why the government’s response to this troubling situation has been so inadequate, and why efforts to improve the evidence base of U.S. How partisanship, polarization, and medical authority stand in the way of evidence-based medicineThe U.S. medicine continue to cause so much political controversy and public trepidation.This critically important book draws on public opinion surveys, physician surveys, case studies, and political science models to explain how political incentives, polarization, and the misuse of professional authority have undermined efforts to tackle the medical evidence problem and curb wasteful spending. It also proposes sensible solutions that can lead to bett