The Significance of the Milbank Memorial Fund for Policy: An Assessment at Its Centennial

Fox, Daniel M.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0009.2006.00411.x

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“…Readers can learn more about the Fund from an essay by the publisher about the Fund's significance for health policy, which will appear in the next issue of the Quarterly, and from the Fund's centennial report (Fox 2006;Milbank Memorial Fund 2005). Both publications can also be found on the Fund's website.…”

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Milbank Quarterly

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In This Issue T he Milbank Memorial Fund is celebrating its one-hundredth anniversary this year. A centennial is a time for reflection. We look back at what the Fund has accomplished over the last century through its work with individuals and organizations, work that has addressed a wide range of issues in health and social policy. The Milbank Quarterly has been an essential part of this work since its inception in 1923. For this special issue of the Quarterly, we have selected articles from past issues that provide insight into the role of both the Fund and its journal in addressing major policy questions for health services and population health for more than eighty years.Selecting the articles for this issue from the Quarterly's eighty-three volumes was difficult. We agreed that the selected articles should be interesting to read in 2005. Moreover, they should discuss major issues in health policy as well as aspects of the Fund's work during the past eight decades. We looked for articles that dealt with issues that were important in the past and are still significant today, such as health care coverage for the uninsured, the cost and organization of health care, and the growing prevalence of chronic illness. The articles we chose also provide examples of how scholarship in the disciplines that study health services and population health has changed over time.

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“…The Milbank Memorial Fund, a public health–oriented philanthropy based in New York City, began to invest in population research in 1928. Although the Fund had already begun to improve public health and reduce mortality in the rural New York communities in which it worked (Fox ), board member Thomas Cochran had grown frustrated with the continual outlay of resources to improve the health of an expanding poor population in the United States. He suggested that the Fund's money could be better spent distributing birth control, reducing the incidence of poverty by reducing the fertility of the poor (Kiser n.d.).…”

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A Digital History of Anglophone Demography and Global Population Control, 1915–1984

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Population & Development Rev

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“…His career has included positions in US state government and federal agencies, academic posts and since 1990 he has been President of the Milbank Memorial Fund, one of America’s foremost health policy research funding bodies. His research output includes both historical monographs and contemporary policy texts 3 – 5. Fox’s confident integration of historical context into contemporary analyses results from the application of a rigorous historical methodology.…”

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History in health and health services: exploring the possibilities

Sheard

2008

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

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Historical skills--especially the methodologies involved in interpreting a wide range of sources--can provide a useful analysis of the structure and function of health services, and be used as a means of improving public understanding of the expectations and experiences of health and health care. This paper discusses some key examples of different strategies used by historians to show how they can collaborate effectively with health professionals.

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The Significance of the Milbank Memorial Fund for Policy: An Assessment at Its Centennial

Cited by 13 publications

References 17 publications

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A Digital History of Anglophone Demography and Global Population Control, 1915–1984

History in health and health services: exploring the possibilities

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