...Patricia McGovern; Bryan Dowd; Dwenda Gjerdingen; Ira Moscovice; Laura Kochevar; Sarah Murphy Relatively little is known about the role that leave policies—family,parental, or maternity-leave policies—play in facilitating time off work after childbirth. Yet time off is a critical element of leave...

... insurance coverage. We recommend that national and state efforts be better coordinated to facilitate efficient use of resources to achieve good state-level date. © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). 2002a . Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS...

...Amy A. Eyler; Ross C. Brownson; Kelly R. Evenson; David Levinger; Jay E. Maddock; Delores Pluto; Philip J. Troped; Thomas L. Schmid; Cheryl Carnoske; Katherine L. Richards; Lesley E. Steinman This study explores processes and policies that facilitate the development of community trails. With...

... challenges that emerged yielded lessons for advocates regarding ways to deal with conflicts between facilitating active living and local economic development and related tax-base concerns and between active-living elements and school-district planning autonomy as well as the need for advocates to have the...

... percent confidence interval, 11 to 51 percent, p = .01). The results suggest that increased agency resources alone cannot explain the reductions in drug-review times. Evidence suggests that other reform-specific factors facilitated the change. Such factors may include the agency's desire to obtain program...

... that facilitate program use, enrollment for children with family incomes less than 200 percent of the poverty line could be raised from the current rate of 42 percent to 58 percent. © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Berk, M. L., and C. Schur. 1998 . Access to Care: How Much Difference Does...

... in small area analysis with a set of recommendations for both analyzing and reporting results. These recommendations are designed to facilitate the development of a common research methodology, increase the comparability across studies, and enhance the use of this technique in the health policy...

... specified packages of benefits, which reduces consumer choice but facilitates comparison shopping. This legislation is important in its own right and also offers lessons for U.S. health care reform. To examine the changes brought about by this legislation and analyze their implications for health care...

... configuration of political support for the programs makes policy changes to facilitate program coordination rather unlikely. Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 Commentary Barriers to Coordinating Health Services Regulatory Programs Julianne Mahler...

... payment for existing depreciation reimbursement—could have significant impact on the structure of the health care system and on government expenditures. While such reforms are likely to engender substantial political opposition, they may be facilitated by broader changes in the reimbursement system...

... such movements: the smoking/tobacco control movement and the gun control movement. A major purpose of the article is to identify specific social movement ideologies and actions that are more or less likely to facilitate achievement of the movement's health policy objectives. The article concludes that...

... facilitated the expansion of health care coverage to over 100,000 additional Oregonians, helped decrease the percentage of the uninsured as well as reduce uncompensated care in hospitals, reduced the use of hospital emergency rooms, and reduced cost shifting. By most measures, the Oregon experiment appears to...

...Robin D. C. Gauld This article discusses events that led up to and the aftermath of New Zealand's radical health sector restructuring of 1993. It suggests that“big bang” policy change facilitated the introduction of a set of market-oriented ideas describable as a policy prescription. In general...

... Recession both facilitated and impeded efforts to rally the public in favor of reform: perceptions of past declines in the U.S. economy bolstered government intervention, but household economic insecurity both distracted attention from large medical expenses (which otherwise legitimized collective action...

... similar measures can be developed to facilitate analyses of other federal/state programs. Copyright © 1978 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1978 The author gratefully acknowledges the contributions of research assistants David Gordon, Janet Perloff, Marsha Spear, and...

... human body parts–donation (express and presumed), sales, abandonment, and expropriation–the author argues for laws and policies, including required request, to maintain and facilitate express donation of organs by individuals and their families. Such laws and policies need adequate time for a...

... of federalism and its context on HCF policy is facilitated by using a transnational comparative approach, and this article examines four mature federations: the United States, Australia, Canada, and Germany. The relatively poor performance of the U.S. HCF system seems associated with the fact that it...

... light of comparative examples in the context of workplace injuries, automobile injuries, and vaccine injuries. We conclude by examining conditions that may facilitate or impede progress toward establishing demonstration projects of health courts. Duke University Press 2008 Abraham, K. S., and P...

..., and the application of nonquantitative treatment limitations under the 2008 federal parity law. Ongoing efforts to achieve nondiscriminatory insurance coverage for MH/SUDs should attend to the major issues subject to private legal action as important areas for facilitating and monitoring insurer...

...Barbara Starfield This essay provided the introduction to a workshop in Bellagio, Italy, on the subject of translating research into policy for equity in health. The essay first defines equity in a way that facilitates its assessment and monitoring and then summarizes evidence from existing...