...Colleen M. Grogan Abstract This introductory essay to JHPPL 's special issue on accountable care organizations (ACOs) presents the broader themes addressed in the issue, including (1) a central tension between cooperation versus competition in health care markets with regard to how to bring about...

... seek to promote coordination to protect those values without imposing unacceptable costs on the health care system. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Coexistence, Conflict, and Cooperation: Public Policies Toward Medical Devices Susan Bartlett Foote, University...

.... Roberts , S. 1994 . As Police Force Adds to Ranks, Some Promises Still Unfilled. New York Times, 7 August, pp. B35–B36. Rothman , D. J. 1980 . Conscience and Convenience. Boston: Little, Brown. Schermerhorn , J. R. 1975 . Determinants of Interorganizational Cooperation. Academy...

...Joshua W. Busby Abstract The COVID-19 outbreak is the most serious test of the international system since the 2008 global financial crisis. Rather than cooperate to contain and respond to a common threat, the world's leading powers—the United States and China—have increasingly blamed each other...

... cooperatives to operate inside each state exchange. Co-ops face significant challenges in entering mature insurance markets, but they also possess unique characteristics that may help them survive and thrive. Using Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative in Wisconsin as a case study, this article traces...

...Donley T. Studlar Abstract The role of the US federal government in developing tobacco control through a cooperative, interactive program with state and local private and public organizations has been underestimated. This article investigates how the government initiated and sustained a program...

... to depend on the voluntary cooperation of medical professionals and the families of potential organ donors. The generosity of the American public is so great that the primary challenge facing organ procurement agencies is obtaining cooperation from hospitals and medical professionals. This calls...

... teamwork rhetoric and realities on the ward. Although the use of informatics systems such as electronic health records is supposed to increase cooperation, the observations presented here show that on the contrary, it inhibits communication that is becoming mainly virtual. While the nursing profession...

... and planning processes; new programs and projected increases in workload are added to the previous year's budget to yield the budget for the succeeding year. Since these activities occur on an individual institution basis, there is little effort to plan cooperatively between hospitals or to reassess...

..., Cooperative Health Statistics and the Community Mental Health Centers program) in six states (Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Oregon, South Carolina, and Texas). The authors conclude that, in general, states' political environments tailor program implementation to suit state preferences. Copyright © 1978...

... health issues. The article also shows how exclusionary patterns of cooperation and competition are emerging in health policy making at the global level. These patterns threaten effective learning by risking both polarization of the policy debate and unanticipated consequences of health policy. Avoiding...

... be only a matter of national governance but requires common agreements and regulations. In the early 1950s the structuring of the World Health Organization in regional offices further contributed to the definition of Europe as a unit for risk assessments and international health cooperation. More recently...

... immunodeficiency virus, with their emphasis on the voluntary cooperation of those infected and at high risk for infection, are not a model for effective TB control. Additional resources, while needed, will not alone enable public health agencies to bring TB and other communicable diseases under control...

... requirements, demographic attributes, family cooperativeness, whether the patient had a behavior problem that impeded the discharge planning process, and whether there was a financial problem in arranging for the patient's discharge. The inescapable conclusion is that nursing homes discriminate on the basis...

... such ventures are implemented-to examine how such cooperative program development can be successfully accomplished in today's competitive and complex health care arena. 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Aldrich, H. 1979 . Organizations and Environments . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall...

... by marshalling the support of their respective constituents. This political gamesmanship gave way in the late sixties and early seventies to greater cooperation and a significant consolidation of the hospitals. The authors hypothesize that an important factor influencing this development was the change...

..., a business, and, most recently, a corporate agglomerate. Accompanying this evolution has been an identity crisis, as the need to adapt to a turbulent environment has challenged the plan's settled understanding of its core values, namely, voluntarism, community, and cooperation. Copyright © 1991 by Duke...

...Theodore R. Marmor The story of New York Blue Cross is one of complex interaction with state and federal regulators and also with hospitals, the medical profession, commercial insurers, and the public, who make up the regulatory environment. Negotiation, cooperation, and adaptation among parties...

... incentives to intervene in medical practice by providing a generous supply of capital, and by fostering a corporate culture conducive to cooperative relationships with physicians. Better public understanding of the determinants of hospital behavior is needed to preserve or enhance important social goals...