... long-term beds may be the least desirable policy alternative. Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 The Geriatric .Long-Stay Hospital Patient: A Canadian Case Study Evelyn Shapiro and Noralou P. ROOS,University of Manitoba Abstract...

... and the attitudes of their members were studied. The results showed that the urban, high case-load, professionally-oriented board informally modified statutory procedures significantly to reduce face-to-face client contact, limit the scope of its decisions, and displace responsibility for the most ambiguous...

...John T. Cirn Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 Commentary The New York Cost-of-Regulation Study: A Severe Case of Myopia John T. Cirn, The Pennsylvania State University A case can be made against...

.... Foresightful decision making on these issues could both contribute immediately to the health of the people of Lesotho, and also increase the longer-term possibilities for a better life for all the people of southern Africa. Economic Dependency, Health Services, and Health: The Case...

... or loser and as defender of the public interest. While in both cases fiscal problems in the health systems are usually brought up in order to justify reform, the trigger for change in Israel has been the power contest between the two main parties—the Labor Party and the Likud Party—with the Likud...

... such ventures are implemented-to examine how such cooperative program development can be successfully accomplished in today's competitive and complex health care arena. School-Based Mental Health Program Development: A Case Study of Interorganizational Collaboration...

...Betty A. Lockett This article describes the creation of the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health, as a case study in “agenda-building” (a theoretical concept used to explain why some issues receive official attention from the public and its leaders, while others, often...

...David A. Rochefort Howard A. Palley and Julianne S. Oktay, The Chronically Limited Elderly: The Case for a National Policy for In-Home and Supportive Community-Based Services (New York: The Haworth Press, 1983), 142 pp., $19.95 Copyright © 1984 by the Department of Health Administration...

... at the national level, events in the research environment during this period may well have distorted the conclusions of the research. Thus this case study highlights the problems of conducting evaluation research. particularly social experiments, on innovative programs perceived as threatening to the status quo...

... to the outcome as published in the final report in 1980. Consumer interests gained few of their objectives, while physicians gained almost all of theirs. For others, results were mixed. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Power and Change: The Case of the Swedish...

... University Press 1986 Per Case Prospective Payment for Psychiatric Inpatients: An Assessment and Alternatives Richard G. Frank, Johns Hopkins University, and Judith R. Lave, University of Pittsburgh Abstract. Psychiatric hospitals and clinics are exempted from the Medicare...

... half the nation's nursing home care. The research reviewed in this article suggests a strong association between case mix and cost, and a weaker but still positive association between quality and cost. The research also implies that traditional nursing home reimbursement methodologies may impede access...

... to fetal abuse being defined as an issue that arises from the negligence of women, when an equally good case can be made for male fetal abuse. We then show how this definition of the problem followed from the patriarchal belief systems of those who framed the issue. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University...

... case studies where government has acted as such a broker. Two are from health (Medicaid's system of competitive bidding in Arizona, and a Medicare demonstration project on selective contracting for medical equipment and supplies), and one from the pension field (so-called 457 plans). The case studies...

...Mark V. Pauly © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Cost-­Containment Choices: The Case for Incentive-Based­ Approaches Mark V. Pauly...

... Bureaucratic Techniques: The Case of Health Agencies in France) . Sociologie du travail 47 : 301 – 322 . Bergeron H. 2010 . Les politiques de santé publique (The Politics of Public Health) . In Politiques publiques , ed. Borraz O. Guiraudon V. , 79 – 111 . Paris : Presse de...

...Robert Murray Point- Counterpoint The Case for a Coordinated System of Provider Payments in the United States Robert Murray...

...Monika Steffen This article analyzes the path that led the European Union from a somewhat accidental involvement in fighting AIDS to a new and sustainable policy of communicable disease control. It responds to three main questions: Why did an unexpected case lead to the organization of a new...

... pandemic disease policy. Short case studies epitomize important concerns around harmonization in Europe. The article considers opportunities and impediments to further harmonization. Particular attention is paid to the essential role of law as a tool to underpin and implement preparedness policies...

... such proposals have always faded rapidly from policy discourses accompanied by little action. As described by Katherine Boothe ( 2012 ), public drug coverage in Canada is an illustrative case of how a policy-in-stages approach can form adaptive expectations that contribute to barriers that make later incremental...