... password. Since HEALTHLAWYER is a private database, access is available only through the American Hospital Association’s Office of Legal Communications. The University of Alberta Health Law Project Martin P. J. Kratz The Health Law Project was established by Ellen Picard, professor of law...

...) Demonstration Project to offer local provider coalitions the opportunity to share any savings they generate. Impetus came from initiatives in Camden that aim to reduce costs through improved care coordination among hospital high users and that have received considerable media attention and substantial federal...

...-graduate MDs and DOs in the U.S. is projected to increase by approximately 50 percent in the decade ending in 1985. The number of active physicians per 100,000 population is similarly expected to increase by approximately one-third. The production of surgical specialists, in particular, appears to be...

... scientific data to support its position that ETS is not harmful to health. CIAR funds two types of projects: “Peer-reviewed” projects are awarded after peer review by a group of scientists, whereas “special-reviewed” projects are awarded directly by tobacco industry executives. CIAR’s special-reviewed...

... through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is accompanied by raised expectations for such accountability. While state agencies often contract with universities on an ad hoc basis for specific policy projects, fourteen states have established formal state-university partnerships so that their...

... maximize citizen involvement quickly by: projecting an image of maximal social impact; minimizing or ignoring questions of long-term fiscal uncertainty; projecting an image of maximal control by citizens; and projecting images of institutional solidarity and of experimentation and innovation. They tended...

... improving fitness and health. This article, based on direct observation and interviews with key informants, examines the implementation of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation–funded project that gave tribal youth councils minigrants to design and run diverse projects that encourage physical activity in their...

... contamination continues to be a concern despite federal and state efforts to ease liability fears but also that site and project features can overcome this hurdle. In particular, jurisdictions appear more likely to convert distressed properties into greenspace if recreational parks, rather than open space, are...

... profession to eschew specialization and return to their generalist roots founded on the principles of community-based prevention and health promotion. Soon the Public Health Functions Project, designed in part to identify skills and curriculum needs of an array of practicing public health workers, examined...

... based on the assumptions that the planners seek satisfactory, rather than optimal solutions and that the data available to them are extremely limited. The cases analyzed suggest that, while most projects exceed the bed need standards, institutions were almost always able to demonstrate a need through...

... well as project officers in NHCs throughout the country, the study suggests a framework for a more comprehensive analysis of the outcome of the NHC program and notes the implications of these findings for some current health legislation. Copyright © 1980 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke...

... are often the weakest link. We discuss the tasks and present data on financial planning, on putting financial plans into operation, and on monitoring progress toward financial independence for a set of ten demonstration projects sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Copyright © 1992 by Duke...

... development. Finally, community involvement is key. Communities contemplating trail development should explore the effects of policy on the trail projects reported here to proactively identify potential influence. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Openly available online through the support of the...

...Rogan Kersh; James A. Morone Health care politics are changing. They increasingly focus not on avowedly public projects (such as building the health care infrastructure) but on regulating private behavior. Examples include tobacco, obesity, abortion, drug abuse, the right to die, and even a...

...Alicia H. Munnell Although the hospital insurance (HI) trust fund acted as a source of strength for the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program during its recent financial crises, projections by HCFA and CBO reveal that the Medicare program will experience financing problems of its own...

... states with flat-rate reimbursement systems were found to have lower rates of increase than homes in other states, while there were no consistent differences between the results of prospective and retrospective systems. Second, efficiency incentives, inflation-projection methods, and the level of...

... for innovation in the present and future—is indisputable (indeed path dependence is, so to speak, too shallow to be false), the approach, at least as applied to health policy, suffers from ambiguities that undercut its claims to illuminate policy projects such as managed care, on which this article...

... visits to each of the fifteen original Healthy Start project areas, we discovered that two main community involvement strategies were used: a service consortium model and a community empowerment model. In the service consortium model, the community is involved primarily through a consortium of local...

... care systems: (1) Latin America and Eastern Europe, where there are already developed insurance industries facing important market and policy failures; (2) the Middle East/North Africa region and East Asia, where there is a projected strong growth of PHI that needs to be accompanied by efficient...