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...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...

...Sara E. Fischer; Lucia Vitale; Akinyi Lisa Agutu; Matthew M. Kavanagh Abstract Context: To facilitate the manufacturing of COVID-19 medical products, in October 2020 India and South Africa proposed a waiver of certain intellectual property (IP) provisions of a World Trade Organization (WTO...

... on but also is changing the nature of political debate as its benefits are facilitating increased support for it, creating new constituents who rely on its benefits and share intense attachments to them, and lifting the confidence of Americans in both their individual competence to participate effectively...

...Simon F. Haeder; David L. Weimer; Dana B. Mukamel Abstract Context: The practical accessibility to medical care facilitated by health insurance plans depends not just on the number of providers within their networks but also on distances consumers must travel to reach the providers. Long travel...

... 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 formulation...

..., 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 compliance. All...

... governance instruments of the EU and free-movement rules facilitating outflows of health care professionals. Although there has been a general improvement in access to health care since accession to the EU, the instruments the EU has used to handle the economic crisis have somewhat offset this improvement...

... 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 was intended to protect children from the consequences of welfare reform. The negative impacts of a number of these policy reforms substantially reduce enrollment,potentially offsetting the more favorable impacts of other policy choices. We estimate that if all states adopted the policy options that facilitate...

...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...

... measures can be developed to facilitate analyses of other federal/state programs. Copyright © 1978 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1978 Variations in State Medicaid Programs Stephen M. Davidson, The University of Chicago Abstract. Many...

... that facilitate patient-centered care may lead to broader improvements. There is good reason to be optimistic that our health care system will increasingly be “patient centered.” Initial CAHPS surveys focused on ambulatory care (Hargraves, Hays, and Cleary 2003 ; Homer, Fowler, et al. 1999 ; Landon et al...

... tax cuts. Analogous connections may facilitate the diffusion of ACA provisions that presently receive hostile receptions in Republican-leaning states. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Freely available online through the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law open access option...

... 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...

... 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...

.... Specifically, we examine factors influencing the extent to which HPV was perceived as a problem meriting policy action; political forces that facilitated and impeded policy adoption, including interest-group opposition and structural and ideological features of the states' political environments; and factors...

... that could facilitate incentive program development, evaluation, and oversight. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 One increasingly prevalent feature of employer-sponsored wellness programs in the United States is the use of financial incentives to promote healthy behaviors. Many...

... providers and managers by abandoning the illusion of context-free theories and, instead, seeking to facilitate the processes by which organizations can learn to improve their own performance. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 The field of health policy and management (HPAM) faces a gap...

... 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, George Mason...

... of 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...