IN THIS ISSUE: What Sources Have Inspired Our Research?

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What have we learnt from our mistakes?

The authors discuss the general steps involved in good decision making and use those steps to organize results from behavioral decision research, illustrating some of the challenges in making important choices. Framing effects, self serving biases, and context effects are a few of the errors and biases presented. The authors also discuss a variety of techniques for reducing biases and errors. T...

In this issue: access to care, spirituality, and relevant research.

The study by Rittenhouse and colleagues examines the association between attending a medical school funded by the US government’s Title VII primary care training grant program and 2 markers of practicing in a setting dedicated to caring for patients and populations that would otherwise be underserved.1 The fi nding that Title VII supports the training of physicians who are more likely to staff ...

Tracking our investments in public health: what have we learned?

A voluntary public health expenditures reporting system existed in the United States for over 25 years, tracking and reporting trends in health department expenditures, revenue streams, functions, and programs. Today, no such system exists and no data are available to help us understand how and where public health dollars are being spent and the trends during good and bad economic times. This a...