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... as advocate for the best care for each individual patient. The 1980s has brought a new awareness of limited resources and the necessity for a rationale for allocation of resources. These social and professional shifts have confronted physicians with the need for yet another shift in their ethical stance...

...Robin Gauld In 2001, the New Zealand government commenced a program to reform the organization of publicly funded primary care services. While there have been several positive results of this reform, including the reduction of patient co-payments and the extension of the range of primary care...

... Do about It . New York:McGraw-Hill. Carey, Joe. 2003 . HHS Kicks Off Campaign against Obesity. Baltimore Sun, September 29 . Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 2005 . Tobacco Use, Access, and Exposure to Tobacco in Media among Middle and High School Students—United States, 2004...

...Daniel M. Fox; David Rosner; Rosemary A. Stevens Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Introduction Between Public and Private: A Half Century of Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New York Daniel M. Fox, Milbank Memorial Fund David Rosner, City...

...Lawrence D. Brown This article explores the changing corporate culture of New York's Blue Cross and Blue Shield plan in its first fifty years. As the plan grew, corporate culture evolved over four sequential phases: the plan first had the character of an experiment, then that of a movement...

...Daniel M. Fox Hospital planning in New York has been since the 1930s an intensely political process with high stakes. The leaders of Blue Cross and their allies used the hospital planning process in the city and the state as a means to extend and protect corporate authority in what they took...

...Theodore R. Marmor The story of New York Blue Cross is one of complex interaction with state and federal regulators and also with hospitals, the medical profession, commercial insurers, and the public, who make up the regulatory environment. Negotiation, cooperation, and adaptation among parties...

... Consequences. New York: The Free Press. The Blue Sheet. 1989a . AIDS Cases in the United States, 1982–88. 22 March, p. 8 . The Blue Sheet. 1989b . CDC AIDS Surveillance Data Omits One-Third of Current Cases. 28 June, p. 3 . Centers for Disease Control. 1989 . HIV AIDS Surveillance . Atlanta: CDC...

...Michael D. Rosko The New Jersey all-payer prospective payment system compensates hospitals for charity care and bad debts. This study examines its impact on the provision of care to self-pay patients. Self-pay patients include two types of uninsured individuals: (1) patients who cannot afford...

...Harvey M. Sapolsky Charles Perrow and Mauro F. Guillén. The AIDS Disaster: The Failure of Organizations in New York and the Nation. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990. 206 pp. $25.00 cloth, $9.95 paper. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 614 Journal of Health...

...Harvey M. Sapolsky Louise B. Russell, Medicare's New Hospital Payment System: Is It Working? Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1989. 114 pp. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 932 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Louise B. Russell. Medicare’sNew...

...Michael S. Sparer Nearly every state now encourages (or requires) its Medicaid beneficiaries to enroll in managed care. There is, however, extraordinary variation in every aspect of state managed care policy. In this article, I examine the managed care initiatives of two states, New York...

... . American Federalism and Public Policy: How the System Works. New York: Random House. Anton , Thomas J. , and Patrick D. Larkey. 1975 . Understanding the Fiscal Impact of General Revenue Sharing. Ann Arbor: Institute of Public Policy Studies, University of Michigan. Clinton , William J...

... and Australia. Research Monograph no. 3. Canberra: Health Economics Research Unit, Australian National University. Canadian Medical Association. 1993 . Toward a New Consensus on Health Care Financing in Canada. Ottawa: Canadian Medical Association. Commonwealth of Australia. 1991 . Health Insurance...

... injury. Both are for the same year and region of New Zealand, a country that has maintained a no-fault system of accident compensation for a quarter of a century. Just over 2 percent of hospital admissions were associated with an adverse event that was potentially compensable under scheme criteria. While...

...Nancy Press Kaja Finkler. Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,2000. 296 pp. $65.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Books...

...Mary K. Olson This article examines the effects of the user fee reform on the speed of drug review in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The results show that even after controlling for increased agency resources, the reform reduced review times among new-drug approvals by 34 percent (95...

... : 1500 -1508. Eccleston, C. H. 1999 . The NEPA Planning Process: A Comprehensive Guide with an Emphasis on Efficiency . New York: Wiley and Sons. Epstein, P. R., and J. Selber, eds. 2002 . Oil: A Life Cycle Analysis of Its Health and Environmental Impacts . Center for Health and the Global...

...Michael K. Gusmano Jacquelyn Beth Frank. The Paradox of Aging in Place in Assisted Living . Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2002. 240 pages. $79.95 cloth. David Barton Smith. Reinventing Care: Assisted Living in New York City . Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2003. 224 pages...

... of new competences. Conclusions: Securitization has helped the EC raise its profile in health politically without additional competences, thereby laying the groundwork for potential future integration. Looking at the discursive legitimation of HERA sheds light not only on whether the EC is expanding its...