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Guide to U.S. health and health care policy / edited by Thomas R. Oliver.

p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4522-7073-9 (hardcover : alk. paper)

I. Oliver, Thomas R., editor.
[DNLM: 1. Health PolicyhistoryUnited States. 2. Health PlanninghistoryUnited States. 3. History, 20th CenturyUnited States. 4. History, 21st CenturyUnited States. 5. United States Government AgencieshistoryUnited States. WA 11 AA1]

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Thomas R. Oliver is professor of population health sciences in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of WisconsinMadison. There, he has served as director of the Master of Public Health program and of the Wisconsin Center for Public Health Education and Training and is a faculty affiliate of the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs. Before coming to Wisconsin, he held faculty positions at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University.

Trained in health administration and political science, Professor Oliver teaches courses in domestic and international health systems and policy and in the politics of health policy to a variety of professional and graduate students. Over the course of his career, he has published a wide range of research examining major issues in health politics, policy, and system reform at all levels of government. He has focused much of his work on how ideaswhether specific concepts, evidence-based analysis, or paradigm shiftsare translated into action through leadership and institutional dynamics. Currently, he is studying the critical roles of intersectoral governance and leadership in strategies for population health improvement in the United States and other countries. Professor Oliver served as president of the Health Politics and Policy section of the American Political Science Association in 20102011 and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.

CONTRIBUTORS

Diana M. Bowman
University of Michigan

Claire D. Brindis
University of California, San Francisco

Jaclyn Bunch
Florida State University

Robert Cook-Deegan
Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University

Cari Cuffney
University of WisconsinMadison

Rob A. DeLeo
Northeastern University

Michael W. Fahey
Independent Scholar

Thomas D. Fahey
California State University, Chico

Andrew Flescher
Stony Brook University

Daniel M. Fox
President Emeritus, Milbank Memorial Fund

Lance Gable
Wayne State University

Susan Giaimo
Marquette University

Scott L. Greer
University of Michigan

Michael K. Gusmano
The Hastings Center

Andrew S. Jessmore
University of Michigan

Christopher E. Johnson
University of Washington

Darrell J. Kozlowski
Independent Scholar

B. Rick Mayes
University of Richmond

Deborah R. McFarlane
University of New Mexico

Michael McGeary
Political Director and Senior Strategist at Engine

Evan M. Melhado
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Roy T. Meyers
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Edward Alan Miller
University of Massachusetts, Boston

Pamela Nadash
University of Massachusetts, Boston

Kenrad E. Nelson
Johns Hopkins University

Ann M. Nguyen
Bastyr University

Rongal D. Nikora
University of New Mexico

Jonathan Oberlander
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Thomas R. Oliver
University of WisconsinMadison

Mary K. Olson
Tulane University

Kant Patel
Professor Emeritus, Missouri State University

Beryl A. Radin
Georgetown University

Patrick Remington
University of WisconsinMadison

Thomas C. Ricketts
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

David A. Rochefort
Northeastern University

Samira Soleimanpour
University of California, San Francisco

David Barton Smith
Drexel University

Donald H. Taylor Jr.
Duke University

Carol S. Weissert
Florida State University

Introduction

Beyond the Stable State New Challenges and Directions for U.S. Health Policy

T HE PHILOSOPHER AND SYSTEMS ANALYST Donald Schn argued that individuals, organizations, and societies bent on preserving the status quo were unlikely to prosper over the long run. In his 1971 book Beyond the Stable State, he acknowledged an innate human desire for stability and the certainty it brings. Schn concluded, however, that the pace and pervasiveness of technological change were so disruptive that efforts to maintain, or return to, a stable state were illusory and futile. Far better to proceed on the basis of these assumptions:

The loss of the stable state means that our society and all of its institutions are in continuous processes of transformation. We cannot expect new stable states that will endure even for our own lifetimes.

We must learn to understand, guide, influence and manage these transformations. We must make the capacity for undertaking them integral to ourselves and to our institutions.

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