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From: Dale J Jaffe <jaffe@csd.uwm.edu>
To: MedSoc@csf.colorado.edu
Subject: Policy Relevant Literature
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MedSoc Colleagues,

I have a doctoral student who would like to do a comprehensive exam in 
the broad area of policy relevant research on urban health care issues.  
This isn't very focused, in part because he is a local "mover and 
shaker" who has to confront all sorts of issues on a daily basis -- the 
delivery of health services to the poor, the organizational convulsions 
produced by the managed care environment, declining support for academic 
medical centers, etc.  My goal is to help him move toward a more social 
scientific perspective on these issues and to expose him to good quality 
monographs and readings that will serve as models for thinking about an 
empirically-based, policy-relevant, social science dissertation.  I 
would appreciate any suggestions you have for readings that might serve 
these purposes.  

You may reply privately, if you wish, and if I receive numerous 
suggestions, I'll post the list to the listserve for everyone's benefit.

Many thanks,

Dale Jaffe
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Jaffe@csd.uwm.edu