...Richard B. Saltman The World Health Organization considers Finland's health planning system to be among the most successful in the developed world. Despite tight resource constraintssymbolized by total health expenditures held consistently to less than 7 percent of gross domestic productthe Finns...

... on Health Care. New York: Marcel Dekker. Sondra Z. Koff, Health Systems Agencies: A Comprehensive Examination of Plan- ning and Process (New York: Human Sciences Press, 1988), 233 pp. The health planning system established by the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act, P...

... of the underbrush and so will permit construction of a road in the first place. Brandeis University James J. Callahan, Jr. Carole Joffe, The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family Planning Workers (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986), 196 pp., $24.95 cloth...

...Jonathan P. West; Michael D. Stevens With the implementation of the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act, comprehensive health planning is moving into a new phase. In search of lessons to guide future planning efforts on the part of the Health Systems Agencies (HSAs) established...

...Arthur A. Atkisson; Richard M. Grimes This paper examines major features of the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-641), a piece of legislation that would radically restructure the health planning system of the United States. The Act combines several, previously...

...Drew Altman This paper examines the political and bureaucratic dynamics of health regulation under the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act and, to a lesser extent, the Carter Cost Proposal now before Congress. A number of underlying issues that affect the day-to-day exercise...

... people to remain in foster care until age twenty-one affects their health insurance coverage, use of family planning services, and information about birth control. We find that young women are more likely to have health insurance if they remain in foster care until their twenty-first birthday...

...Harold S. Luft; Gary A. Frisvold Health Systems Agencies (HSAs), the new regional health planning agencies established by the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974 , have as their major goals quality, accessibility, continuity and cost containment. One of the tools for cost...

...Peter T. Ittig Copyright © 1980 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 706 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law and practitioners of health administration, policy and planning. It provides a prototype for rigorous health services research which keeps us...

...Christa Altenstetter This article on hospital planning programs in France and North-Rhine Westfalia (a state in the Federal Republic of Germany), assembles information on the formal building blocks of inter-organizational relations in the formulation and implementation process. Because...

...Theodore R. Marmor; Amy Bridges This paper reviews case studies of eighteen countries to identify similarities and differences in health planning problems and institutional arrangements for resolving them. On the basis of this review, it is argued that in order for cost-containment to be effective...

...John K. Iglehart Copyright © 1980 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 Washington Report The Uncertain Future of Health Planning John K. lglehart At any given time in American society, overriding trends play an influential role in government...

...Harry P. Cain, II The health planning program developed under P.L. 93-641 is attempting to establish “community trusteeships” for health care in communities across the nation. It is based on a series of assumptions concerning public participation and involvement that are likely to remain viable...

...James M. Brasfield Efficacious but expensive new technology has contributed to the rapid escalation of health care costs. The CT Scanner has become a symbol of the technological imperative. The health planning process at its best has experienced only limited success with this problem. This article...

...Joseph L. Falkson; Henry A. Leavitt Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 Response to Checkoway The Real Lessons of National Health Planning Joseph L. Falkson and Henry A. Leavitt, Health Sector Management, Inc...

...A. E. Benjamin, Jr.; George W. Downs The future of health planning and regulation is tied to past performance in both a political and intellectual sense. Evidence of success or failure to accomplish program goals will structure partisan debate about the future of PL 93–641; and the experience...

...Barry Checkoway Federal legislation provided an opportunity for health planning to “catch up” with the expanding citizen participation movements of recent years. Although the literature on health planning is mounting, there as yet has been no comprehensive, systematic effort to inventory the status...

...James A. Morone Drew Altman, Richard Greene, and Harvey Sapolsky, Health Planning and Regulation: The Decision Making Process (Ann Arbor: Health Administration Press, 1981), 246 pp., $22.50 paperback Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982...

... planning system mandated by the act, and some general criticism is offered of the claims of success made by public health officials. Copyright © 1983 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1983 Local Complexity and Central Bureaucracy in Finnish Health...