...Barry Checkoway; Michael Doyle This article analyzes the efforts of health care consumers to organize independently of, but with reference to, the Health Systems Agency in east central Illinois. Beginning with a tactical investigation which disclosed a lack of effective public participation...

...Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau In this article, post-modern theory is described and applied to health politics with examples from community health organizing, social movements, and health promotion. Post-modernism questions conventional assumptions about concepts such as representation, participation...

...Adam D. Koon Abstract Little is known about how the health professions organize in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This is particularly troubling as health worker strikes in LMICs appear to be growing more frequent and severe. While some research has been conducted on the impact...

...Jason L. Powell Meredith Minkler, ed. Community Organizing and Community Building for Health . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997. 418 pp. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Books 1009...

...Nurit Guttman; Tamar Ashkenazi; Anat Gesser-Edelsburg; Vered Seidmann A new policy recently enacted in Israel promises preferred status in receiving organs for transplantation to individuals who register to be organ donors and to their close family members. Proponents believe it will increase...

...Thomas D'Aunno; Peter D. Friedmann; Qixuan Chen; Donna M. Wilson Abstract To meet their aims of managing population health to improve the quality and cost of health care in the United States, accountable care organizations (ACOs) will need to focus on coordinating care for individuals...

...Lawrence P. Casalino; Natalie Erb; Maulik S. Joshi; Stephen M. Shortell Abstract Accountable care organizations (ACOs) and hospitals are investing in improving “population health,” by which they nearly always mean the health of the “population” of patients “attributed” by Medicare, Medicaid...

...Jeffrey M. Prottas The American organ procurement system has improved and matured in the last five years. At the same time, the basic challenges facing it have remained substantially the same because the moral and legal framework of the system has not changed. Success at organ procurement continues...

...Arthur J. Matas; John Arras; James Muyskens; Vivian Tellis; Frank J. Veith In order to alleviate the shortage of vital organs for transplant, we propose a system of routine removal of cadaver organs with an option of informed refusal by family. Unless an individual registered an objection during...

... in Denmark, while in Sweden the granting of additional voice helped persuade the medical association to withdraw its exit threat and to remain within the peak association. The two cases are interpreted as presaging a divergence in the paths being taken by the various Scandinavian welfare states. Organized...

...J. Rogers Hollingsworth; Ellen Jane Hollingsworth This study confronts the following questions: what are the conditions under which a society decides to do things in the public and voluntary nonprofit sectors, and in what ways do organizations behave differently, depending on whether...

.... Instead, the reported reductions are in each case attributable to other factors–including biases in data, long-term trends predating HMOs, indirect effects of other policy changes, and other forms of competition. The Competitive Effects of Health Maintenance Organizations...

...Allan N. Johnson; David Aquilina The Healthcare Educational and Research Foundation (HERF) in Minneapolis undertook a two-year research project to study the effects of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and competition on the hospital industry in Minneapolis/St. Paul. This article summarizes...

... discounts had an adverse effect on hospital profits. During the three years studied, hospital profits in the Twin Cities showed an upward trend. The Competitive Impact of Health Maintenance Organizations on Hospital Finances: An Exploratory Study Roger Feldman...

...David W. Young Because equity capital is becoming an important financing source for health care organizations, the conversion of many such organizations from nonprofit to for-profit status is a significant public policy issue. Since many states require converting nonprofits to repay the “community...

...David Wilsford The French and American medical professions share similar historical bases for strong political and economic market positions. As professions, the attributes of common education, ethics, and mission tend to keep physicians together in their political organization. But the medical...

...Peter Conrad Alonzo L. Plough, Borrowed Time: Artificial Organs and the Politics of Extending Lives (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986), 214 pp., $24.95 Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 820 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law or paper over...

...Howard A. Palley William Halsey Barker, Adding Life to Years: Organized Geriatric Services in Great Britain and Implications for the United States (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987), 237 pp., $35.00. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988...

.... The DOJ's primary weapon in prosecuting health care fraud is the federal False Claims Act (FCA) of 1863 (31 U.S.C. secs. 3729–3733). Almost unique among federal antifraud provisions, the FCA may also be used by “private prosecutors” to file lawsuits on behalf of the federal government charging organizations...

... at igm.nlm.nih.gov), allows searches by subject, funding agency, performing organiza- tion, or principal investigator. The AHSR provides a pocket directory with simple directions for searching the database (www.ahsr.org/hsrproj/hsrpguide.htm). Organizations...