The Reforming States Group and the Promotion of Federalism

Andersen, Kathleen S.

doi:10.1111/1468-0009.00080

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“…Of them, four were from the West, four from the Midwest, three from the Northeast, and two from the South. Of the twenty‐eight people we interviewed, twelve had been on the Steering Group of the Reforming States Group (RSG) between 2000 and 2005 (Andersen 1998). These twelve participants were likely to have been aware of the workshop and wanted to attend.…”

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“…Founded in 1992 around five states' early efforts at health care reform, this bipartisan nonprofit group has grown into an organization of health policy leaders from executive and legislative branches in all fifty states and several provinces in Canada. They have published recommendations on a range of issues, including state oversight of integrated health systems, federalism and health system reform, and prescription drug policy, and the organization has developed a reputation as a reliable source of information in federal politics (Andersen 1998; Fox and Greenfield 2006; RSG 1998, 2003). While the impact of RSG on policymaking has not been evaluated, officials discussed its impact on various access and coverage issues and “the adopting of evidence based standards,” such as in state formularies, CHIP, and mental health coverage.…”

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“Developing Good Taste in Evidence”: Facilitators of and Hindrances to Evidence‐Informed Health Policymaking in State Government

2008

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Certain hindrances to the incorporation of research into policy, like limited budgets, are systemic and not readily altered. However, some of the barriers and facilitators of evidence-informed health policymaking are amenable to change. Policymakers could benefit from evidence-based skills training to help them identify and evaluate high-quality information. Researchers and policymakers thus could collaborate to develop networks for generating and sharing relevant evidence for policy.

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“Developing Good Taste in Evidence”: Facilitators of and Hindrances to Evidence‐Informed Health Policymaking in State Government

2008

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What is Public Health Legal Preparedness?

Moulton

Gottfried²,

Goodman³

et al. 2003

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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Legal preparedness has gained recognition as a critical component of comprehensive public health preparedness for public health emergencies triggered by infectious disease outbreaks, natural disasters, chemical and radiologic disasters, terrorism and other causes. Public health practitioners and their colleagues in other disciplines can prepare for and respond to such an event effectively only if law is used along with other tools. The same is true for more conventional health threats. At first glance, public health legal preparedness may appear to be only a matter of having the right laws on the books. On closer examination, however, it is as complex as the field of public health practice itself. Public health legal preparedness has at least four core elements: laws (statutes, ordinances, regulations, and implementing measures); the competencies of those who make, implement, and interpret the laws; information critical to those multidisciplinary practitioners; and coordination across sectors and jurisdictions. The process of improving public health legal preparedness has begun in earnest with respect to potentially massive public health emergencies. Elected officials, public health, legal, and law enforcement practitioners, and national security organizations have contributed to initial benchmarks for the core elements. A few gaps in legal preparedness have been identified in the context of exercises, actual public health emergencies, and through more general assessments of public health preparedness conducted by CDC and the Department of Justice. While a strong beginning has been made, this work is incomplete. Redoubled effort is needed to define practical, measurable benchmarks or standards of legal preparedness, to identify and correct shortcomings, and to review findings from regular exercises and actual public health emergencies. There is great value in having this work move forward on two converging tracks, one defined by states and localities acting on their own initiative and the other shaped by the federal government as informed by state and local experience. The TOPOFF and Dark Winter exercises exemplify the grounded, case-based approach that teaches practical lessons about benchmarks, gaps, and steps to improve public health's legal preparedness. It goes without saying that action on both tracks should be taken by collaboratives whose membership includes representatives of the many different communities integral to the design and application of laws that affect the health of the public and the effectiveness of the public health system itself. Consistent with the concept of a public health or population health system with which we began this paper, participants in both tracks should include representatives of non-governmental bodies--community-based organizations, non-profit organizations active in disaster preparedness and response, and others. This paper presents a conceptual and analytic framework those groups may apply, one that is sufficiently broad to serve as an integrating schema across sectors...

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SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 2: Improving how your organisation supports the use of research evidence to inform policymaking

Oxman

Vandvik

Lavis

et al. 2009

Health Res Policy Sys

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This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers.In this article, we address ways of organising efforts to support evidence-informed health policymaking. Efforts to link research to action may include a range of activities related to the production of research that is both highly relevant to – and appropriately synthesised for – policymakers. Such activities may include a mix of efforts used to link research to action, as well as the evaluation of such efforts. Little is known about how best to organise the range of activity options available and, until recently, there have been relatively few organisations responsible for supporting the use of research evidence in developing health policy. We suggest five questions that can help guide considerations of how to improve organisational arrangements to support the use of research evidence to inform health policy decision making. These are: 1. What is the capacity of your organisation to use research evidence to inform decision making? 2. What strategies should be used to ensure collaboration between policymakers, researchers and stakeholders? 3. What strategies should be used to ensure independence as well as the effective management of conflicts of interest? 4. What strategies should be used to ensure the use of systematic and transparent methods for accessing, appraising and using research evidence? 5. What strategies should be used to ensure adequate capacity to employ these methods?

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The Reforming States Group and the Promotion of Federalism

Cited by 4 publications

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“Developing Good Taste in Evidence”: Facilitators of and Hindrances to Evidence‐Informed Health Policymaking in State Government

“Developing Good Taste in Evidence”: Facilitators of and Hindrances to Evidence‐Informed Health Policymaking in State Government

What is Public Health Legal Preparedness?

SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 2: Improving how your organisation supports the use of research evidence to inform policymaking

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