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A Pyramid Model of Health Manpower in the 1980s
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1982) 6 (4): 739–751.
Published: 01 August 1982
... categories. Some suggestions for possible actions to prevent unlimited “might makes right” solutions to oversupply problems, and assessments of the results which might be expected, are presented. Copyright © 1982 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1982 A Pyramid Model...
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Long-Term Care for the Elderly
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2013) 38 (1): 195–196.
Published: 01 February 2013
... by a pyramid with the
best forms of evidence at the top and those of lesser value at the bottom.
Randomized controlled clinical trials (RCTs) have the top honor because
they can measure outcomes within a rigorously controlled experimen-
tal environment. A well-designed RCT creates a treatment group...
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The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2013) 38 (1): 196–200.
Published: 01 February 2013
... this definition, and Howick’s task is to unpack this while analyzing
limitations and paradoxes along the way.
Much of the book focuses on what constitutes the best evidence. EBM is
built on hierarchies of evidence, usually represented by a pyramid with the
best forms of evidence at the top and those...
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Books Review
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2013) 38 (1): 200–207.
Published: 01 February 2013
... of evidence, usually represented by a pyramid with the
best forms of evidence at the top and those of lesser value at the bottom.
Randomized controlled clinical trials (RCTs) have the top honor because
they can measure outcomes within a rigorously controlled experimen-
tal environment. A well-designed...
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The New Health Care for Profit: Doctors and Hospitals in a Competitive Environment
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1984) 9 (1): 177–179.
Published: 01 February 1984
... of their undeniable energy has been spent arranging acquisitions
and pyramiding mergers, thanks to which several of the firms have now surpassed
the coveted billion doll& mark in annual revenues. Although they have so far
been concentrated in the South and West, their geographic horizons are begin-
ning...
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Books Received
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2008) 33 (4): 849–853.
Published: 01 August 2008
... pp. $35.00 cloth.
Regulating Aged Care: Ritualism and the New Pyramid. John Braithwaite, Tony
Makkai, and Valerie Braithwaite. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007.
400 pp. $155.00 cloth.
Economics and Finance
Applied Cost-Benefit Analysis, 2nd ed. Robert J. Brent. Northampton, MA...
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From Piety to Platitudes to Pork: The Changing Politics of Health Workforce Policy
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1996) 21 (4): 823–842.
Published: 01 August 1996
... and philanthropic policy had jointly created an institu-
tional and professional hierarchy in health affairs in every urban region.
From the early 1920s, experts and textbooks depicted this hierarchy as
a pyramid. At the top of each regional pyramid stood tertiary services,
the research laboratories...
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Fads in Medical Care Management and Policy
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2006) 31 (3): 707–710.
Published: 01 June 2006
...’ population pyramid. Policy
experts recognize the imperative of addressing the political, social, and
economic impact of this enormous cohort as it moves toward retirement
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and declining health, and baby boomers are themselves quite...
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How Healthy Are We? A National Study of Well-Being at Midlife
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2006) 31 (3): 710–713.
Published: 01 June 2006
...’ population pyramid. Policy
experts recognize the imperative of addressing the political, social, and
economic impact of this enormous cohort as it moves toward retirement
Books 711
and declining health, and baby boomers are themselves quite...
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Prevention and Government: Health Policy Making in the United Kingdom and Germany
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1995) 20 (3): 745–765.
Published: 01 June 1995
... Together. Leeds: National Health Service Management Executive. Nestle , M. 1993 . Food Lobbies, the Food Pyramid, and U.S. Nutrition Policy. International Journal of Health Services 23 ( 3 ): 483 -96. Renaud , M. 1975 . On the Structural Constraints to State Intervention in Health...
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Health Development and Political Policy: The Lesson of Cuba
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1980) 4 (4): 570–580.
Published: 01 August 1980
... pesos, but not to the
“historic salary’’ levels of pre-Revolutionary doctors who were rewarded
for remaining in Cuba with salaries of 600 pesos per month or sometimes
more.
Municipal elections were introduced in 1976 and with them a pyramidal
structure of municipal, provincial...
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Fighting for America's Paradise: The Struggle against Structural Racism
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2021) 46 (4): 563–575.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of Western history, past the beginning of organized knowledge, past pyramids and poison bows, on back to when rain was new, before plants forgot they could sing and birds thought they were fish, back when God said Good! Good!—there, right there where you know your own people were born and lived and died...
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The Struggle for the Soul of Public Health
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2016) 41 (6): 1083–1096.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Impact Pyramid .” American Journal of Public Health 100 : 590 . LeBlanc Erin , O'Connor Elizabeth , Whitlock Evelyn P. , Patnode Carrie , and Kapka Tanya . 2011 . “ Screening for and Management of Obesity and Overweight in Adults .” Agency for Healthcare Research...
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The Legality of Nursing Associations Serving as Collective Bargaining Agents: The Arundel Case
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1980) 5 (1): 25–54.
Published: 01 February 1980
... Politics, Policy and Law
side the military. Relief for those at the bottom of the pyramid was in-
dicated, and unionization continued to grow. This was no surprise, but
many observers of the health care scene were taken aback by the rush to
collective bargaining by the industry’s...
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The High Cost of Health Care for the Elderly: Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Some Suggestions for Therapy
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1978) 3 (2): 163–180.
Published: 01 April 1978
.... (Chart 5). Note the gradual
change away from the traditional pyramid, reflecting high birth and death
rates (e.g., Mexico) toward the structure of a mature society, with good
public health and medical care and lower birth and mortality rates at all
I- Mexico Sweden...
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Public Capabilities and Health Care Effectiveness: Implications from a Comparative Perspective
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1979) 4 (3): 491–506.
Published: 01 June 1979
... for a
pyramid-no extensive network of primary physicians . . . set apart from
hospital staffs . . . comparable to Britain’s long-established and respected
general practitioner service.”6 However, most of the “late-NHI”
countries seem now to be trying to reincarnate GPs in an expensive way...
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Organized Medicine and Scandinavian Professional Unionism: Hospital Policies and Exit Options in Denmark and Sweden
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1985) 10 (2): 347–370.
Published: 01 April 1985
... pyramids through which the Scandinavian professions
structure their relations with their employers and with each other. Key actors in
the conflict were the hospital doctors (and especially the associations of younger
doctors), the medical associations, and the professional “peak” associations...
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Managed Care and Private Health Insurance in a Global Context
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2008) 33 (6): 1107–1131.
Published: 01 December 2008
... not save resources). These
techniques include disease management (DM) initiatives targeted at per-
sons with chronic disease and complex case management (CM) programs
that focus on the “tip of the pyramid” individuals who are very sick and
in need of special care coordination. These DM and CM...
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Equity Investment in Physician Practices: What's All This Brouhaha?
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2024) 49 (4): 631–664.
Published: 01 August 2024
... reimbursements, low operating margins, volatile earnings, and a pyramid-like (Ponzi) scheme of investment fueled by irrational exuberance over PPMC growth prospects (Burns and Wholey 2000 ; Reinhardt 2000 ). The capitation bandwagon also did not roll in: insurers switched away from HMOs to PPOs to deal...
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Is There a Rationale for Regionalizing Organ Transplantation Services?
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1989) 14 (1): 115–167.
Published: 01 February 1989
...
The Dawson Report (and others, e.g., Committee on the Costs of Medical Care
1932 and Mountin et al. 1945) specified a vertically integrated delivery system in
which preventive and curative medical services for a well-defined population were
structured pyramidally, extending from a base of primary...
