... in-person and telemedicine encounters. This research uses a national public opinion survey to examine the degree to which health care consumers communicate through conventional, face-to-face consultation, telemedicine, or digital technology, and the relationship between these means of communication...

... the national suicide prevention lifeline as 988 – a 3-digit number akin to 911 for individuals to call in the case of a mental health emergency. Surprisingly little is known about American attitudes towards this new lifeline. Methods: We rely on a demographically representative sample of 5,482 US adults...

..., the emergence of digital medicine that can monitor patients in their natural lives outside of health care settings, and the improved quality of hospital care stemming from the ACA's penalties for excessive readmissions and hospital-acquired infections. Emanuel predicts (“conservatively”) that the growing...

... theory, and intergovernmental relations, the substantive emphasis is primarily in aging and long-term care and telemedicine and e-health. He recently joined the editorial boards of Gerontologist, Journal of Aging and Social Policy, and Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. A book, Digital...

... of aggregate injury rates, layoff rates, and other information on four-digit standard industrial classification (SIC) manufacturing ind~striesand the 1977 Quality of Em- ployment S~rveyThe three data sources are complementary and allow an ex- amination of the relationship between working conditions...

... at the take-up by consumers of new health information technologies. Rather than con- sidering whether an administrative agency is properly implementing a legislative command, the issue here is whether individual consum- ers are taking advantage of new digital technologies. The not surpris- ing answer...

...Colleen M. Grogan Reference Dunleavy Patrick , Margetts Helen , Bastow Simon , and Tinkler Jane . 2006 . “ New Public Management Is Dead — Long Live Digital-Era Governance .” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 16 , no. 3 : 467 – 94...

... of new technologies that the only role they saw for government in the digital revolution was to promote it. In several critical areas of policy, they either refrained from taking action or relieved internet intermediaries of any liability. The three main kinds of policy that might have limited...

...). HMOs are retreating from rural areas dominated by provider systems, from individual and small group market segments constrained by detailed regulation of price and product, from Medicaid programs that pay below-market rates, and from Medicare markets where double-digit drug cost inflation outruns...

... 2009 Erratum Four articles were printed with incorrect DOIs (digital object identifiers) in the February 2009 issue of Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. The DOIs have been corrected online as follows: Grogan, C. M., and M. K. Gusmano. 2009. Political Strategies of Safety...

... Physicians Are Paid . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Lewis Michael . 2011 . Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World . New York : W. W. Norton and Company . Munger Kevin , Guess Andrew M. , and Hargittai Eszter . 2021 . “ Quantitative Description of Digital...

..., alternative methods of diagnosis employing radioisotopes (positron emission tomogra- phy), ultrasound, digital radiology (DSR), and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) were being developed.’ From the above discussion, it becomes apparent that CON considerations may require a great deal...

... Chinese Medicine through Transnational Frames. Mei Zhan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. 240 pp. $79.95 cloth; $22.95 paper. Health Care Delivery Digital Medicine: Health Care in the Internet Era. Darrell M. West and Edward Alan Miller. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2009...

... of injuries, quits, discharges for cause, and strikes for the manufacturing sector at the four-digit Standard Industrial Clas- sification (SIC) level. Rates of quits were obtained from turnover data in Em- ployment and Earnings. Comparable rates of discharges for cause were obtained in unpublished...

... costs for the insured began an accelerating climb. In 2003 people in employer-sponsored plans experienced an average increase in their annual out-of-pocket health care costs of $800 each, which translated to a 48 percent increase. And this substantial increase followed double-digit percentage...

... they were able to increase the insurance premiums they charged employers for this contract almost at will. During the late 1980s, for example, the annual increases in premiums for group health insurance policies reached the high double digits—often in excess of 20 percent—and yet employers paid them...

... criteria) than were respondents. We gathered data for families who were eligible for the BHP but did not enroll from a random-digit-dialing survey in the three study counties. This survey, which was conducted under contract to a professional survey research firm (Westat of Rockville, Maryland...

... 2004 Books Received AIDS A History of AIDS Social Work in Hospitals: A Daring Response to an Epidemic. Bar- bara I. Willinger and Alan Rice. Binghamton, NY: Haworth, 2003. 360 pp. $89.95 cloth; $49.95 paper. Health Care Delivery Digital Medicine: Implications for Healthcare...

... has ever had a mandate in place. We restrict our analysis to countries that have achieved universal vaccine access. Social Media Usage and Restrictions We draw on a new source of data describing the intersection between politics and social media in countries around the world, the Digital Society...

... as the coauthored book Digital Medicine: Health Care in the Internet Era, published by Brookings Institution Press. Dahlia Remler is an associate professor at the School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York and the Department of Economics, Graduate Center, City University of New...