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March 2006, Vol 96, No. 3 | American Journal of Public Health 441-446
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.063495

OPPORTUNITIES AND DEMANDS IN PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEMS

A Societal Outcomes Map for Health Research and Policy

Michele S. Garfinkel, PhD, Daniel Sarewitz, PhD and Alan L. Porter, PhD

At the time this research was completed, Michele S. Garfinkel was with the Center (now Consortium) for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Tempe, Ariz. Daniel Sarewitz is with the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes and the School of Life Sciences and Department of Geological Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe. Alan L. Porter is with the Technology Policy and Assessment Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, and Search Technology, Inc, Norcross, Ga.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Michele S. Garfinkel, PhD, J. Craig Venter Institute, 9704 Medical Center Dr, 4th Floor, Rockville, MD 20850 (e-mail: mgarfinkel{at}venterinstitute.org).

The linkages between decisions about health research and policy and actual health outcomes may be extraordinarily difficult to specify.

We performed a pilot application of a "road mapping" and technology assessment technique to perinatal health to illustrate how this technique can clarify the relations between available options and improved health outcomes. We used a combination of data-mining techniques and qualitative analyses to set up the underlying structure of a societal health outcomes road map.

Societal health outcomes road mapping may be a useful tool for enhancing the ability of the public health community, policymakers, and other stakeholders, such as research administrators, to understand health research and policy options.






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