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Fox, Daniel Michael was born on August 20, 1938 in New York City. Son of Alexander E. and Rose (Leitner) Fox.
( During most of this century, American health policy has...)
During most of this century, American health policy has emphasized caring for acute conditions rather than preventing and managing chronic illness—even though chronic illness has caused most sickness and death since the 1920s. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Daniel Fox explains why this has been so and offers a forceful argument for fundamental change in national health care priorities. Fox discusses how ideas about illness and health care, as well as the power of special interest groups, have shaped the ways in which Americans have treated illness. Those who make health policy decisions have increased support for hospitals, physicians, and medical research, believing that people then would become healthier. This position, implemented at considerable cost, has not adequately taken into account the growing burden of chronic disabling illness. While decision makers may have defined chronic disease as a high priority in research, they have not given it such a priority in the financing of health services. The increasing burden of chronic illness is critical. Fox suggests ways to solve this problem without increasing the already high cost of health care—but he does not underestimate the difficulties in such a strategy. Advocating the redistribution of resources within hospital and medical services, he targets those that are redundant or marginally effective. There could be no more timely subject today than American health care. And Daniel Fox is uniquely able to address its problems. A historian of medicine, with knowledge of how hospitals and physicians behave and how health policy is made at government levels, he has extensively researched published and unpublished documents on health care. What he proposes could profoundly affect all Americans.
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The book contains more than 250 photographs which are representative of the thousands that were studied. Each photograph is evaluated and interpreted in terms of the intended meaning and purpose of the images. . . . This book is a pleasure to read and represents the distillation of many hundreds of hours reviewing photographic materials. . . . The basic information regarding the interpretation of photographic conventions should be of great interest to both photographers and those with an interest in the cultural histories of Britain and the US. Journal of Biological Photography With a perspective shaped by recent work in art history and the sociology of knowledge, the authors encourage the reader to analyze photographs as complicated historical documents. They argue that, while photographs may appear to be literal depictions of reality, they actually pose profound problems of historical interpretation. The authors take as their subject matter the representation of medicine in photographs taken in Britain and the United States from 1840 through the present day. They have studied thousands of photographs, more than 250 of which are reprinted in this volume, in conjunction with other primary sources and historical accounts. The text explores the representations of medicine made by photographers and their employers, and the ways that audiences through the years have interpreted their messages.
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Daniel M. Fox gives an incisive assessment of the critical collaboration between researchers and public officials that has recently emerged to evaluate the effectiveness and comparative effectiveness of health services. Drawing on research as well as his first-hand experience in policymaking, Fox's broad-ranging analysis describes how politics, public finance and management, and advances in research methods made this convergence of science and governance possible. The book then widens into a sweeping history of central issues in research on health services and health governance during the past century. Returning to the past decade, Fox looks closely at how policy informed by research has been made and implemented in public programs that cover pharmaceutical drugs in most American states. This case study illuminates how politics has informed the questions, methods, and reception of research on health services, and also sheds new light on how research has informed politics and public management. Looking toward the future, Fox describes the promise, as well as the fragility, of the convergence of science and governance, making his book essential reading for those struggling to revise health care in the United States over the next several years.
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( During most of this century, American health policy has...)
During most of this century, American health policy has emphasized caring for acute conditions rather than preventing and managing chronic illness—even though chronic illness has caused most sickness and death since the 1920s. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Daniel Fox explains why this has been so and offers a forceful argument for fundamental change in national health care priorities. Fox discusses how ideas about illness and health care, as well as the power of special interest groups, have shaped the ways in which Americans have treated illness. Those who make health policy decisions have increased support for hospitals, physicians, and medical research, believing that people then would become healthier. This position, implemented at considerable cost, has not adequately taken into account the growing burden of chronic disabling illness. While decision makers may have defined chronic disease as a high priority in research, they have not given it such a priority in the financing of health services. The increasing burden of chronic illness is critical. Fox suggests ways to solve this problem without increasing the already high cost of health care—but he does not underestimate the difficulties in such a strategy. Advocating the redistribution of resources within hospital and medical services, he targets those that are redundant or marginally effective. There could be no more timely subject today than American health care. And Daniel Fox is uniquely able to address its problems. A historian of medicine, with knowledge of how hospitals and physicians behave and how health policy is made at government levels, he has extensively researched published and unpublished documents on health care. What he proposes could profoundly affect all Americans.
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Fox, Daniel Michael was born on August 20, 1938 in New York City. Son of Alexander E. and Rose (Leitner) Fox.
AB, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1959. AM, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964.
Instructor Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964—1965, assistant professor, 1967—1972. Director field operations Applachian Volumes, Berea, Kentucky, 1965—1966. Associate director Commonwealth of Massachusetts Svc.
Corps, 1965—1967; professor, vice president State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1972—1989. Associate director National Center for Health Services Research, Rockville, Maryland, 1975-1978. President Milbank Memorial Fund, New York City, 1990-2007, president emeritus, since 2007.
Faculty University Sydney, Columbia University, since 2007. Consultant in field.
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Board director Village Care New York Inc., vice chairman, since 1996. Treasurer Employee Benefit Research Institute, 2003—2004. Board director ECRI, The Health Technology Center, 2001—2009, Health Quality Council Saskatchewan, since 2002.
Member of American Public Health Association, New York Academy Medicine, American Association for the History of Medicine, National Academy Social Insurance, American History Association (Beveridge prize 1965), Council on Foreign Relations, Institute Medicine of National Academy of Sciences, Century Association.
Married Carol Anne Kemps, September 8, 1963 (divorced 1985). Children: Aaron, Miriam, Joshua, Benjamin. Married Louise O. Vasvari, December 26, 1988 (divorced 2003).