1-20 of 868 Search Results for

heart

Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account

Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1985) 10 (1): 7–32.
Published: 01 February 1985
.... This article examines patient selection for heart transplantation, in light of the Rehabilitation Act and its previous application in similar (but non-medical) contexts. With the growing need to allocate scarce medical resources comes a need to examine carefully the legal bounds for patient-selection...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2013) 38 (2): 457–465.
Published: 01 April 2013
.... . 2011 . “Introduction: Patients as Policy Actors.” In Patients as Policy Actors , edited by Hoffman B. ., 1 – 16 . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press . Behind the Jargon The Heart of Patient-­Centered Care...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2010) 35 (2): 289–293.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Adam Sheingate David Blumenthal and James A. Morone. The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. 484 pp. $26.95 cloth. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Books...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2004) 29 (2): 330–334.
Published: 01 April 2004
...Conevery Bolton Valencius Emily K. Abel. Hearts of Wisdom: American Women Caring for Kin,1850–1940 . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. 336 pp.$53.00 cloth; $ 20.50 paper. © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Books...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1984) 9 (3): 369–387.
Published: 01 June 1984
... and the military—for use in cardiac rehabilitation. Subsequently, a few physicians generalized their experience with cardiac patients to the general population, concluding that aerobic exercise could prevent heart attacks. This idea of exercise as a prophylaxis was seized upon by the public, who were receptive...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1982) 6 (4): 637–652.
Published: 01 August 1982
... organizations, based on the premise that control is at the heart of effective managerial practice. Physician control over the production process in health care is likely to be increasingly challenged, partially as a consequence of the ascendency of managerial ideology. Opportunities for managerial innovation...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2014) 39 (1): 35–56.
Published: 01 February 2014
..., a sellout to the right wing, as liberal single-payer advocates proclaimed? The ACA's key provisions, the employer mandate and the individual mandate, were Republican policy ideas, and its fundamental principles were nearly identical to the Health Equity and Access Reform Today Act of 1993 (HEART), a bill...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (4): 501–515.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Allison K. Hoffman Abstract The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is in many ways a success. Millions more Americans now have access to health care, and the ACA catalyzed advances in health care delivery reform. Simultaneously, it has reinforced and bolstered a problem at the heart of American health...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2001) 26 (4): 709–726.
Published: 01 August 2001
... systems operating in the developed West. Although MSAs contribute to the framework of a cultural rhetoric of personal responsibility for health care, this article argues that the heart of the Singapore system of health funding, with its financial discipline, is government control of inputs and outputs...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1993) 18 (1): 189–202.
Published: 01 February 1993
...Stephen J. Spurr During the last decade there have been enormous advances in the transplantation of vital human organs-in particular, the kidney, lung, heart, liver, pancreas, and small intestine. Unfortunately, efforts to provide the benefits of these operations to patients have been severely...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1997) 22 (2): 667–669.
Published: 01 April 1997
... untimely death from a sudden heart attack. Robin Osborn, who worked closely with Sol as the deputy director of the Investigator Awards program, describes below the personal and intellectual qualities of this truly effervescent leading figure in the field. Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (6): 1115–1155.
Published: 01 December 2015
... those with heart disease diagnoses are less likely to vote. These associations differ by race and educational status; notably, African Americans and those with lower education with cancer are even more likely to turn out to vote than whites and those with more education with cancer. We discuss...
FIGURES
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1989) 14 (1): 191–227.
Published: 01 February 1989
...Richard A. Rettig This paper reviews the historical development of federal government policy for kidney, heart, and liver transplantation. It examines several political dimensions of whole organ transplantation: the role of the print and broadcast media; the management of organ procurement...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1989) 14 (1): 169–190.
Published: 01 February 1989
.... Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers. 1984 . National Heart Transplantation Study. Seattle, WA: Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers. Blumstein , J. 1981 . Rationing Medical Resources: A Constitutional, Legal, and Policy Analysis. Texas Law Review 59 : 1345 . Blumstein , J. 1986...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1989) 14 (1): 115–167.
Published: 01 February 1989
... to show that their construction projects were needed and that they fit within their state’s regional plan (see, e.g., Yordy 1976: 203). The Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke Amendments of 1965 authorized grants for the establishment of regional medical programs (RMPs) , which were intended...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1986) 11 (3): 483–500.
Published: 01 June 1986
... gland, and earbone transplants have become com- mon operations in North America and Europe. As surgical procedures and im- munosuppressive practices have improved, the range of feasible transplant organs has continued to increase to include hearts, kidneys, and lungs. Progress in these areas...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1986) 11 (3): 501–523.
Published: 01 June 1986
... implanted pacemakers l4 and intrauterine devices (IUDs). l5 Pressure for public protection from these risks grew. The result was passage of the Medical Device Amendments of 1976. l6 Because there are thousands of devices, varying in complexity from tongue depressors to heart pacemakers...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1999) 24 (1): 181–196.
Published: 01 February 1999
... syndromes” (chap. 1); the classification of ulcerative colitis as a psychosomatic dis- ease (chap. 2); the creation of a “new” disease, Lyme disease (chap. 3); the reclassification of heart disease from a patient’s “angina pectoris,” his or her experience of chest pain, to “coronary heart disease...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (4): 761–796.
Published: 01 August 2015
... using physician pay-for-performance (P4P) payments in the fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare program. ■ Increased care coordination ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) to prevent hospitalizations. There were thirty-two quality measures over three ACSCs: diabetes mellitus, congestive heart failure...
FIGURES
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1989) 14 (1): 41–56.
Published: 01 February 1989
... of change. First, there have been changes in scale; as little as five years ago, the industry was less than half its present size. Second, the number of transplantation “product lines” has increased. Five years ago, only kidneys were transplanted; now, transplants of hearts and livers are virtually...