The Funding of Social Knowledge Production and Application A Survey of Federal Agencies (1978) / Chapter Skim
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'DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE: INTRODUCTION'
'DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE: INTRODUCTION'
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The department supports a diverse set of activities -- social experiments, longitudinal data studies, econometric modeling, large-scale demonstration projects, etc. Third, the department is characterized by the predominance of "third parties" as the major audience for its social knowledge produc132
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tion and application activities. Table 8-1 shows that more than 60 percent of the department's total knowledge production and application is produced for third parties, such as state and local decision makers and professional practitioners (teachers, social workers, hospital administrators, etc.)
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The third-largest category is policy implementation demonstrations, which are largely funded by the Office of Education and are aimed at disseminating successful procedures to local schools. It is interesting to note that the department's ratio of knowledge production to knowledge application is nearly two to one, almost the same as that of the government as a whole.
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The Health Care Financing Administration assumes some of the knowledge production and application activities previously conducted by the Social Security Administration and the Social and Rehabilitation Service. The Social and Rehabilitation Service was abolished in 1977, and its responsibilities were split between the Office of Human Development Services, the Social Security Administration, and the Health Care Financing Administration.
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