...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... tax cuts. Analogous connections may facilitate the diffusion of ACA provisions that presently receive hostile receptions in Republican-leaning states. Of course, there are several significant differences between the ACA and online sales taxation that prevent these cases from being equivalent. The...

.... 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...

... changes 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.” Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 patient experience patient satisfaction CAHPS 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...

... 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...

...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...

... the doubt to organizations whose clinical integration appears to be reasonably consonant with the statements, and should clarify several ambiguities in the statements. Health plans should facilitate IPA and PHO efforts to improve care by rewarding quality and efficiency and by providing clinically...

... transplant centers used the rule making as a vehicle for challenging the local priority for organ allocation inherent in the OPTN rules. The process leading to the final rule provides a window on the politics of organ allocation. It also facilitates an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of private...

... ICT in health care: First, why is there so little adoption? Second, what policies will facilitate and accelerate adoption? Third, what is the best pace for adoption? We first describe the unusual economics of ICT, particularly network externalities, and then determine how those economics interact with...