...Matthew W. Chapman; Jane Cassels Record The future of physician's assistants and nurse practitioners will be shaped at least in part by whether, and on what terms, they are defensible at law. This paper explores the way in which the principles of tort law might define primary and secondary...

...Sandra Tanenbaum U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Hearing Impairment and Elderly People: A Background Paper , OTA-BP-BA-30 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1986), 87 pp., $4.75. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 192 Journal of Health Politics...

...Daniel M. Fox Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Introduction to the Baby Jane Doe Papers Daniel M. Fox, State University of New York (Stony Brook) Officials of the State University of New York at Stony Brook commissioned the Baby Jane Doe papers...

... E. Barnes. The Cigarette Papers . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 539 pp. $19.95 paper; $38.00 cloth; on-line at www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/cigpapers/book/contents.html . 1400 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter...

...William J. Scanlon Nursing homes represent the fastest growing component of health care expenditures, over half of which come from public funds. This paper reviews research on nursing home utilization with regard to several policy issues concerning the subsidization of long-term care by Medicaid...

...Walter McClure This paper seeks to clarify so-called competition strategies for medical care, and to present a more flexible approach for public policy to encourage competition. In so doing, it appears useful to divide a competition strategy into two parts: (1) a structurally sound market model...

...Daniel M. Fox; Daniel C. Schaffer This paper is a history of the health policy results of the Employee Retirement and Income Security Act of 1974, particularly section 514, which preempts state laws “which relate to any employee benefit plan” but permits states to continue to regulate the business...

... that have been established in other countries from the perspective of operations and effectiveness, little attention has been given to the applicability of the experience of other nations in securing these programs. This paper examines the development of national programs in the U.K. and Canada...

...Joseph L. Scarpaci Since 1973 the Chilean junta has privatized sectors of the national economy. This paper analyzes the country's policy process of promoting private medical programs through HMO-like plans (ISAPREs, or Institutes of Provisional Health). These plans have captured less than half...

...William Brandon The paper begins with a brief introduction explaining neighborhood health centers (NHCs), their ideology of “comprehensive health services,” and the origin of government sponsorship of this organizational form for the delivery of health care. In the generic account...

... on private practice and pay beds. This paper examines the course of the conflict and analyzes the factors underlying the eruption of this issue. It draws attention to the role of the trade-unions in activating the Labour Party's latent ideological commitment on private practice. Although the issue appears...

...Jack Hadley This paper examines current Medicaid policies on the reimbursement of hospitals' medical education expenses. These policies are of interest because of the pressure on Medicaid programs to reduce expenditures. Data for the paper come mainly from two sources: a survey of Medicaid programs...

...Jeannette M. Valentine; Alonzo L. Plough This paper first reviews the scientific problems involved in assessing the effects on reproductive health of toxic substances in the work environment. It then describes the current status of regulatory policies designed to control workers' exposures...

...John Mendeloff Can analysts provide better guidance to policymakers about the valuation of health effects? This paper argues that valuation questions usually cannot be easily sidestepped by the use of cost-effectiveness analysis. Valuations are implicit in the measures of program outcome that we...

...W. P. Welch This paper investigates the influence of market forces and state regulations on enrollment in prepaid group practices (PGPs)—the dominant form of HMO. Using data at the metropolitan-area level, the paper estimates a lagged-adjustment model in two stages. The first stage estimates...

...Sally Guttmacher Immigrant workers are a large segment of the lower echelon of the U.S. labor force, and as many as 3.6 to 6 million of these workers and their families are living in the U.S. illegally. This paper examines who the recent immigrants are; explains why their current situation...

...James C. Robinson This paper studies the link between occupational health hazards and job security. Consistent with the underlying hypothesis that firms utilizing hazardous technologies tend to employ low-skilled workers who can be discharged easily in case of a downturn in business, the analysis...

...Richard G. Frank; Judith R. Lave Psychiatric hospitals and clinics are exempted from the Medicare prospective payment system. In this paper we examine the appropriateness of the DRG classification system for psychiatric patients and argue that, using this system as the basis of payment, two types...

... on the synthesis and assessment of experimental and epidemiologic research on health effects, this paper explores the diversity of institutional interpretations to shed some light on the social and political responses to the issue and how these might shape its future in public policy. The paper concentrates...

... absolute part of hospital resources devoted to labor costs, conservatively estimated to be about 55 percent of total budget. This paper examines the impact of state efforts in prospectively setting rates on collective bargaining outcomes in the hospital sector. Specifically, bargaining in New York...