Jack Dowie
Biographic Data
| ID | 255795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack Dowie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack |
| FAMILY NAME | Dowie |
| SIGNATURE | DOWIE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4572-9562 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Towards generic online multicriteria decision support in patient‐centred health care
OBJECTIVE: To introduce a new online generic decision support system based on multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA), implemented in practical and user-friendly software (Annalisa©). BACKGROUND: All parties in health care lack a simple and generic way to picture and process the decisions to be made in pursuit of improved decision making and more informed choice within an overall philosophy of person- and patient-centred care. METHODS: The MCDA-ba…
The role of patients' meta‐preferences in the design and evaluation of decision support systems
The arrival of new analysis‐based decision technologies will necessitate a profound rethinking both of the nature of the patient–doctor relationship and of the way aids and support systems designed to improve decision‐making within that relationship are designed and evaluated. One‐dimensional typologies of the traditional `paternalist/shared/informed' sort do not provide the complexity called for by the heterogeneity of patient's `meta‐preference…
Women's views of two interventions designed to assist in the prophylactic oophorectomy decision
Introduction A qualitative pilot evaluation of two different decision interventions for the prophylactic oophorectomy (PO) decision: a Decision Chart and a computerized clinical guidance programme (CGP) was undertaken. The Decision Chart, representing current practice in decision interventions, presents population‐based information. The CGP elicits individual values to allow for quality‐adjusted life years to be calculated and an explicit guidanc…
Communication for better decisions
Decisions—choices between options/strategies/policies—will better to the extent they incorporate better structural modeling of the scenarios which follow from the adoption of each option; better assessments of the chances of the events and outcomes which are contained in these scenarios; better assessment of the relevant preferences for the possible outcomes (including, very importantly in the health context, intertemporal preferences); and bette…
The ethics of parimutuel systems
Commentary
The political economy of the NHS
In Search of Equity
The Theory of Commodity Price Stabilization
Journal Article The Theory of Commodity Price Stabilization: A Study in the Economics of Risk Get access The Theory of Commodity Price Stabilization: A Study in the Economics of Risk. By David M. G. NEWBERY and JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. xv + 462. £19.95 hardback, £9.95 paperback.) Jack Dowie Jack Dowie The Open University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Jo…
Micromotives and Macrobehaviour
The Americanization of Carl Aaron Swensson
Journal Article The Americanization of Carl Aaron Swensson. By Daniel M. Pearson. (Rock Island, Ill.: Augustana Historical Society, 1977. xviii + 169 pp. Illustrations, notes, select bibliography, and index. $5.95.) Get access J. Iverne Dowie J. Iverne Dowie Augustana College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 1, June 1978, Pages 208–209, https://doi.org/10.2307/1…
Gambling and Society. Interdisciplinary Studies on the Subject of Gambling
Journal Article Gambling and Society. Interdisciplinary Studies on the Subject of Gambling. Get access Gambling and Society. Interdisciplinary Studies on the Subject of Gambling. Edited by WILLIAM R. EADINGTON. (Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1976. Pp. xix + 466. $34.75.) Jack Dowie Jack Dowie The Open University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 348, 1 December 1977, …
The Turf
On the Efficiency and Equity of Betting Markets
Confident in belief that vital resource allocation decisions depend on well functioning capital markets, economists over last two decades have spent a good deal of their time, and not a little of computer's, studying behaviour of stock market prices. Their main aim has been to discover extent to which capital markets, and in particular markets in equity shares, are Perhaps surprisingly to layman, their answer has usually been very efficient, and …
The portfolio approach to health behaviour
The English in the West Indies
On the Efficiency and Equity of Betting Markets
Confident in belief that vital resource allocation decisions depend on well functioning capital markets, economists over last two decades have spent a good deal of their time, and not a little of computer's, studying behaviour of stock market prices. Their main aim has been to discover extent to which capital markets, and in particular markets in equity shares, are Perhaps surprisingly to layman, their answer has usually been very efficient, and …
Gambling and Society. Interdisciplinary Studies on the Subject of Gambling
Journal Article Gambling and Society. Interdisciplinary Studies on the Subject of Gambling. Get access Gambling and Society. Interdisciplinary Studies on the Subject of Gambling. Edited by WILLIAM R. EADINGTON. (Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1976. Pp. xix + 466. $34.75.) Jack Dowie Jack Dowie The Open University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 348, 1 December 1977, …
The political economy of the NHS
The Theory of Commodity Price Stabilization
Journal Article The Theory of Commodity Price Stabilization: A Study in the Economics of Risk Get access The Theory of Commodity Price Stabilization: A Study in the Economics of Risk. By David M. G. NEWBERY and JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. xv + 462. £19.95 hardback, £9.95 paperback.) Jack Dowie Jack Dowie The Open University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Jo…
The portfolio approach to health behaviour
The English in the West Indies
The portfolio approach to health behaviour
On the Efficiency and Equity of Betting Markets
Confident in belief that vital resource allocation decisions depend on well functioning capital markets, economists over last two decades have spent a good deal of their time, and not a little of computer's, studying behaviour of stock market prices. Their main aim has been to discover extent to which capital markets, and in particular markets in equity shares, are Perhaps surprisingly to layman, their answer has usually been very efficient, and …
Gambling and Society. Interdisciplinary Studies on the Subject of Gambling
Journal Article Gambling and Society. Interdisciplinary Studies on the Subject of Gambling. Get access Gambling and Society. Interdisciplinary Studies on the Subject of Gambling. Edited by WILLIAM R. EADINGTON. (Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1976. Pp. xix + 466. $34.75.) Jack Dowie Jack Dowie The Open University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 348, 1 December 1977, …
The Turf
The Americanization of Carl Aaron Swensson
Journal Article The Americanization of Carl Aaron Swensson. By Daniel M. Pearson. (Rock Island, Ill.: Augustana Historical Society, 1977. xviii + 169 pp. Illustrations, notes, select bibliography, and index. $5.95.) Get access J. Iverne Dowie J. Iverne Dowie Augustana College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 1, June 1978, Pages 208–209, https://doi.org/10.2307/1…
Micromotives and Macrobehaviour
The Theory of Commodity Price Stabilization
Journal Article The Theory of Commodity Price Stabilization: A Study in the Economics of Risk Get access The Theory of Commodity Price Stabilization: A Study in the Economics of Risk. By David M. G. NEWBERY and JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. xv + 462. £19.95 hardback, £9.95 paperback.) Jack Dowie Jack Dowie The Open University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Jo…
The political economy of the NHS
In Search of Equity
Commentary
The ethics of parimutuel systems
Communication for better decisions
Decisions—choices between options/strategies/policies—will better to the extent they incorporate better structural modeling of the scenarios which follow from the adoption of each option; better assessments of the chances of the events and outcomes which are contained in these scenarios; better assessment of the relevant preferences for the possible outcomes (including, very importantly in the health context, intertemporal preferences); and bette…
The role of patients' meta‐preferences in the design and evaluation of decision support systems
The arrival of new analysis‐based decision technologies will necessitate a profound rethinking both of the nature of the patient–doctor relationship and of the way aids and support systems designed to improve decision‐making within that relationship are designed and evaluated. One‐dimensional typologies of the traditional `paternalist/shared/informed' sort do not provide the complexity called for by the heterogeneity of patient's `meta‐preference…
Women's views of two interventions designed to assist in the prophylactic oophorectomy decision
Introduction A qualitative pilot evaluation of two different decision interventions for the prophylactic oophorectomy (PO) decision: a Decision Chart and a computerized clinical guidance programme (CGP) was undertaken. The Decision Chart, representing current practice in decision interventions, presents population‐based information. The CGP elicits individual values to allow for quality‐adjusted life years to be calculated and an explicit guidanc…
Towards generic online multicriteria decision support in patient‐centred health care
OBJECTIVE: To introduce a new online generic decision support system based on multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA), implemented in practical and user-friendly software (Annalisa©). BACKGROUND: All parties in health care lack a simple and generic way to picture and process the decisions to be made in pursuit of improved decision making and more informed choice within an overall philosophy of person- and patient-centred care. METHODS: The MCDA-ba…
Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Health care (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Finance (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Gambling Behavior and Treatments (3 works) · Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare (3 works)