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Current Projects
Rich MargerumPrincipal Investigator: Michael Hibbard
Kake, a Tlingit community in Southeast Alaska, is experiencing severe socio-economic displacement because of declines in their natural resource base -- primarily logging and fishing -- and threats to their traditional subsistence lifestyle. The aim of this project is an economic development plan that provides specific, concrete recommendations for actions Kake can take over the next two to three years to revitalize the local economy consistent with preserving the community's values and lifestyle. The plan will be based on close inspection of the successes and failures of communities around the world that have faced challenges similar to those Kake is currently dealing with. The plan will recommend actions in the areas of public policy, business, and civil society (voluntary organizations, non-governmental organizations, and the like).
Funder: Organized Village of Kake (Kake tribal government)
Evaluating Environmental, Social, and Economic Impacts of Watershed Enhancement Activities Principle Investigator: Michael Hibbard This five year demonstration project tests the feasibility of using community indicators to measure the local civic engagement and economic outcomes of the restoration, education, and other activities of watershed stewardship organizations, using Oregon's watershed councils as a case in point. Funder: Gift from UO alumna Natalie Pool and her husband Gary Hackney, with matching funds from Nalalie's employer, Wells-Fargo Bank Principal Investigator: Judith Hibbard
"If consumers are given financial incentives, choices, and information to support those choices, they will take charge of their health and health care and make prudent choices." We propose to empirically examine this key assumption underlying the consumer driven plan approach. As the approach is new, we assume that consumers will require time to gain skills and knowledge to function effectively in this new environment. Thus, we propose using a longitudinal cohort design which will allow us to observe the degree to which new enrollees gain in knowledge and skills and whether they increase their use of comparative information in choice over time. That is, we will examine what happens to CDP enrollees over time and compare their experiences, their knowledge, their use of information and decision support, health care utilization rates, costs, and activation levels with enrollees in conventional plans over the same time period. We will also examine the ways in which financial incentives and information influence the health-care decisions of CDP enrollees and the extent to which these elements are related to more prudent health care choices. Following two cohorts of enrollees in CDHPs and PPOs, we will examine the degree to which CDHP enrollees change how they use health information tools, their choices and utilization patterns, and ultimately their costs. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, May 2004 to January 2008
Principal Investigator: Judith Hibbard
Work with the Eisenberg Center at OHSU as part of their innovative efforts at improving communication of research findings to a variety of audiences, including consumers, clinicians, payers, and health care policy makers. The center translates findings from evidence reviews and the effectiveness of different treatment approaches and translates those findings in ways appropriate for the needs of the different audiences. Professor Hibbard is working on the development and testing of these translated information products.
Funder: Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. Sep. 2005 to Aug. 2010.
Project with the National Business Coalition on Health to help them translate and communicate comparative health care performance information for consumers. Taking place in 2007.
Supported by: The National Business Coalition on Health. Shaping 4J's Future In the fall of 2006 Eugene’s school district, 4J, contracted with IPRI to facilitate aspects of Shaping 4J’s Future, a process designed to address the following strategic question: "What services and facilities will be needed to support the district's future instructional programs in order to increase achievement for all students and close the achievement gap?" The Shaping 4J's Future process focuses on critical long-range facility and service options that arise from enrollment and student population trends and from related issues that have not been fully resolved previously. The process is underpinned by the School Board's three instructional goals: (1) increasing achievement for all students; (2) closing the achievement gap; and (3) providing equal opportunities for all students to succeed. The process has three distinct phases that build upon ongoing instructional planning and previous District plans including: a series of focus groups focused on 8 specific issues; a community Think Tank, and a public involvement process. The District contracted with the Institute for Policy Research and Innovation to conduct the two latter phases of this project. The charge for the Think Tank was broad: (1) to explore the information from the District, research on best practices and options generated by the focus groups; (2) to develop a set of integrated options for the School Board to use in a public deliberation process; and (3) offer a preliminary assessment of implications and likelihood of public acceptance of different options. The Think Tank will begin its deliberations in the winter of 2007 and make recommendations to the School Board on August 1st, 2007. IPRI will design the public engagement phase of Shaping 4J's Future to raise public knowledge of issues, present policy options being considered by the board, and identify public preferences. IPRI will seek to include the public in deliberations through multiple formats that may include a broadly distributed newsletter describing the policy issues facing the district, a questionnaire asking respondents to indicate preferences for various policy options, and informational meetings. The public engagement process will take place during the fall of 2007. OTREC – Understanding School Travel Assistant Professor Yizhao Yang and Associate Professor Marc Schlossberg have recently received a research grant ($75,000) from Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium to study children’s school travel behavior. This research project will study the characteristics of elementary students’ school travel, and it will survey parents/guardians about how families have taken school transportation into account when deciding where to live and how active school travel has been constrained by residential location choice and various environmental factors. Knowledge and insights gained through the proposed research will shed light on the issues around coordination between urban development, school siting, and transportation planning. They are valuable for creating healthy and vibrant communities. This page last updated November 13, 2007 |
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