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This is the contemporary, applied text on evaluation that your students need.
Evaluation for Health Policy and Health Care: A Contemporary Data-Driven Approach explores the best practices and applications for producing, synthesizing, visualizing, using, and disseminating health care evaluation research and reports. This graduate-level text will appeal to those interested in cutting-edge health program and health policy evaluation in this era of health care innovation. Editors Steven Sheingold and Anupa Bir's core text focuses on quantitative, qualitative, and meta-analytic approaches to analysis, providing a guide for both those executing evaluations and those using the data to make policy decisions. It is designed to provide real-world applications within health policy to make learning more accessible and relevant, and to highlight the remaining challenges for using evidence to develop policy.
About the Author
Steven H. Sheingold, Ph.D. is the Director of the Division of Health Financing Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), Department of Health and Human Services. His areas of responsibility include economic and policy analysis of Medicare's payment systems, evaluation strategies, analysis of competition in insurance and provider markets, and economic issues related to health care and pharmaceutical markets. Prior to joining ASPE, Dr. Sheingold held several managerial and senior analyst positions within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Congressional Budget Office. As an adjunct, he has taught classes in health policy, health services research, and statistics at George Mason University and George Washington University. He has published articles concerning reimbursement systems; technology assessment and cost effectiveness analyses; value based purchasing programs; the use of evidence for health policymaking; and the impact of social risk factors on quality of care in journals such as Health Affairs, New England Journal of Medicine, Medical Care, and the Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University. Anupa Bir, ScD MPH is the Senior Director of the Center for Advanced Methods Development at RTI International. A health economist by training, much of her work has focused on the well-being of vulnerable populations and aligning incentives within various systems, including the welfare, child welfare, corrections, and health systems, to improve well-being. Dr. Bir currently leads several contracts to evaluate complex health and social policy interventions. These interventions include innovative workforce interventions to improve access to quality health care, interventions that offer financial incentives for asset development, and interventions that improve communication and family strength during stressful circumstances like incarceration and reentry. Within health care and health policy, she leads evaluations of State Innovation Models, efforts funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to accelerate the transition to value-based payment models in 11 states. She also leads meta-evaluation work to understand the lessons from state Medicaid demonstrations to improve service delivery for those with substance use disorders or serious mental illness. She holds an MPH from Yale University School of Public Health and a doctoral degree in international health economics from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
Reviews
-- Brad Wright
-- Sandra Schrouder
-- Larry R. Hearld
Book Information
ISBN 9781544333717
Author Steven H. Sheingold
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
Publisher SAGE Publications Inc
Weight(grams) 670g
Evaluation for Health Policy and Health Care: A Contemporary Data-Driven Approach explores the best practices and applications for producing, synthesizing, visualizing, using, and disseminating health care evaluation research and reports. This graduate-level text will appeal to those interested in cutting-edge health program and health policy evaluation in this era of health care innovation. Editors Steven Sheingold and Anupa Bir's core text focuses on quantitative, qualitative, and meta-analytic approaches to analysis, providing a guide for both those executing evaluations and those using the data to make policy decisions. It is designed to provide real-world applications within health policy to make learning more accessible and relevant, and to highlight the remaining challenges for using evidence to develop policy.
About the Author
Steven H. Sheingold, Ph.D. is the Director of the Division of Health Financing Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), Department of Health and Human Services. His areas of responsibility include economic and policy analysis of Medicare's payment systems, evaluation strategies, analysis of competition in insurance and provider markets, and economic issues related to health care and pharmaceutical markets. Prior to joining ASPE, Dr. Sheingold held several managerial and senior analyst positions within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Congressional Budget Office. As an adjunct, he has taught classes in health policy, health services research, and statistics at George Mason University and George Washington University. He has published articles concerning reimbursement systems; technology assessment and cost effectiveness analyses; value based purchasing programs; the use of evidence for health policymaking; and the impact of social risk factors on quality of care in journals such as Health Affairs, New England Journal of Medicine, Medical Care, and the Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University. Anupa Bir, ScD MPH is the Senior Director of the Center for Advanced Methods Development at RTI International. A health economist by training, much of her work has focused on the well-being of vulnerable populations and aligning incentives within various systems, including the welfare, child welfare, corrections, and health systems, to improve well-being. Dr. Bir currently leads several contracts to evaluate complex health and social policy interventions. These interventions include innovative workforce interventions to improve access to quality health care, interventions that offer financial incentives for asset development, and interventions that improve communication and family strength during stressful circumstances like incarceration and reentry. Within health care and health policy, she leads evaluations of State Innovation Models, efforts funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to accelerate the transition to value-based payment models in 11 states. She also leads meta-evaluation work to understand the lessons from state Medicaid demonstrations to improve service delivery for those with substance use disorders or serious mental illness. She holds an MPH from Yale University School of Public Health and a doctoral degree in international health economics from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
Reviews
"This text offers a general introduction to the process and methods used to conduct rigorous and timely evaluations of health policies and programs using real-world examples. It would make an excellent text for a program evaluation course."
-- Brad Wright
"A must read for anyone interested in monitoring and evaluation! The text does a great job addressing the important ingredients for a successful evaluation."
-- Sandra Schrouder
"Evaluating health policies and programs can be a very challenging process because the evaluation itself is so often an afterthought, leading to a variety of data issues that can produce biased results and poor policy decisions. This book provides an outstanding-yet highly accessible-overview of a wide variety of methods that evaluators can use to minimize these biases and generate robust evidence for decision-makers."
-- Larry R. Hearld
Book Information
ISBN 9781544333717
Author Steven H. Sheingold
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
Publisher SAGE Publications Inc
Weight(grams) 670g
