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The Science Of Health Policy?
In my first health policy class as a graduate student, I remember the professor suggesting that health policy was a field of science. He concluded that the primary purpose of our discipline was to find new frameworks and systems for healthcare implementation in America and the rest of the world.
There are clearly elements of discovery in health policy. However, the more that I work and study in our field, I find that health policy is less a study grounded in science and more an effort in educating others about already proven and existing health theory. It is on this central premise that this site educates visitors on health policy and its sister disciplines of public health and health systems.
I believe that the majority of the major frameworks in health have already been discovered and already function properly in many localities around the world. Where they work in those nations and have not received implementation in America, I find people have gaps in genuine understanding of how these systems operate and the true strengths and weaknesses that they can possess.
My goal in creating this website is not necessarily to persuade anybody of anything but rather to offer facts relating to how different countries fare in creating standards of public health and health care for their citizens. If there is a scientific side to health policy, it is conforming the basic frameworks of health systems to differing populations and countries with varying priorities. The main frameworks, however, such as payment structures, primary/specialty mix of health providers and taxation rates are extensively studied and well understood in the macro and microeconomic effects they produce.
I will give you information and then I will let you decide. I hope you will conclude, as I believe, that universal health and socialized medicine are not scary, unrewarding propositions but rather potentially effective frameworks for health provision used by every industrialized country in the world outside of America. No matter what you conclude, I appreciate your attention and I hope the information on this site will at least cause you to reexamine your beliefs about health policy, public health and health systems.
Enjoy!
Amir Satvat
There are clearly elements of discovery in health policy. However, the more that I work and study in our field, I find that health policy is less a study grounded in science and more an effort in educating others about already proven and existing health theory. It is on this central premise that this site educates visitors on health policy and its sister disciplines of public health and health systems.
I believe that the majority of the major frameworks in health have already been discovered and already function properly in many localities around the world. Where they work in those nations and have not received implementation in America, I find people have gaps in genuine understanding of how these systems operate and the true strengths and weaknesses that they can possess.
My goal in creating this website is not necessarily to persuade anybody of anything but rather to offer facts relating to how different countries fare in creating standards of public health and health care for their citizens. If there is a scientific side to health policy, it is conforming the basic frameworks of health systems to differing populations and countries with varying priorities. The main frameworks, however, such as payment structures, primary/specialty mix of health providers and taxation rates are extensively studied and well understood in the macro and microeconomic effects they produce.
I will give you information and then I will let you decide. I hope you will conclude, as I believe, that universal health and socialized medicine are not scary, unrewarding propositions but rather potentially effective frameworks for health provision used by every industrialized country in the world outside of America. No matter what you conclude, I appreciate your attention and I hope the information on this site will at least cause you to reexamine your beliefs about health policy, public health and health systems.
Enjoy!
Amir Satvat