...Richard C. McKibbin This paper seeks to determine the extent to which the Nursing Student Loan program (NSL) has accomplished its primary objectives of increasing the supply and effecting a more equitable geographic distribution of nurses. The history and provisions of the program are discussed...

...Diana J. Burgess; Rachel R. Hardeman; Sara E. Burke; Brooke A. Cunningham; John F. Dovidio; David B. Nelson; Sylvia P. Perry; Sean M. Phelan; Mark W. Yeazel; Jeph Herrin; Michelle van Ryn Abstract This article characterizes the political ideology of first-year medical students and describes...

...Anthony R. Mawson; Peter M. Lapsley; Allan M. Hoffman; John C. Guignard Violence-related behavior in schools has declined in recent years, but the perception of risk remains high. Disturbingly high percentages of students and teachers report staying home out of fear, and many students bring weapons...

...Frank J. Thompson; Richard W. Campbell As government has attempted to deal with complex social problems, the inevitability of error has become increasingly apparent to students of public policy and implementation. This essay focuses on errors of service, initially drawing on the experience...

...Eleanor G. Feldbaum; Merle B. Feldbaum “Reluctant” best describes health professionals' attitudes toward caring for the elderly. This article examines work plans of student nurses and work practices of registered nurses to ascertain who actually cares for the aged. Investigation of geriatric nurses...

...Carl J. Schramm; Mary S. Hencke Presuming that law schools have been faced with increased student interest in legal approaches to issues related to health care, the authors conducted a survey of all law schools in the United States. This article briefly presents the findings. Research Note...

... the importance of local contexts; (3) the separation of HPAM from the rank and file of health care, particularly physicians; and (4) the failure to expose medical students to issues of HPAM. We conclude with suggestions for rethinking how the field of HPAM might generate more-promising policies for health care...

...Miriam J. Laugesen Abstract Membership in the American Medical Association (AMA) has suffered a precipitous decline since the 1970s and, with it, a loss in revenue. The expansion of subsidized student memberships has bolstered its official membership number; only 12.6% of physicians who have...

...Carol S. Weissert; Susan L. Silberman In the past few years, eleven states have directed medical schools in their states to produce more primary care practitioners or to change the training of physicians to make careers in primary care more attractive to medical students. This article outlines...

...Lawrence D. Brown For more than a decade students of health policy have predicted a revolution waged by corporate purchasers of health care who would rise in demand of public policy cures for increasing and burdensome health care costs. This forecast has been largely disappointed, however...

... and is difficult to obtain, pursuit of reimbursement continues to be a goal of some SBHC sponsors, helping to promote a clinic model that in some communities is very likely not to be the best way to address student needs or to build on clinic strengths. Discussion around SBHCs should focus on diagnosing specific...

...Michael S. Sparer Nearly every state has enacted its own effort to change both the composition and the practice patterns of America’s medical workforce. At the same time, the health care marketplace is altering the nation’s medical workforce, encouraging more medical students to enter primary care...

...Gary S. Belkin Enormous changes have recently swept through the organization and delivery of medical care. Scholars and students of the health care system and its politics try to make sense of the shift in power to identify and allocate needed resources away from physicians and toward corporate...

... that the state is paying medical schools to train middle- and upper-class students who could pay their own way, and to produce doctors who practice in oversupplied specialties and in oversupplied geo- graphic areas; by so doing, New York may be needlessly contributing to inflation in health care costs...

... to medical schools while outlining existing problems of minority and disadvantaged student recruitment and physician service in underserved areas, is not only extremely 824 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law simplistic in its problem-solving approach but also fails to recognize...

... Hawk, a popular student planning to attend college that fall, was waiting in the school parking lot to board his bus at the end of the day. Another 18-year-old student, John Ride- out, who had quarreled with Eric on other occasions, challenged him to a fight, and, while Eric was removing his...

..., or, in percentages, 39.5 percent more. If one uses the more appropriate net cost figures, the change would cost an additional $275,244,790 or 88.8 percent more! Proponents may argue that these figures are unfair because they assume the same mix of students among the three programs in 1985 as in 1973...

... will continue. This book appears clearly intended to serve as a text for the type of course that I teach-most of the students have a technical background in health, but little or no previous formal education in health policy issues. But while it gen- erally avoids jargon, and reads easily...

... of a Scale for Use in the Medical Environment. Academic Medicine 73 : 1119 -1121. Arnold, L. 2002 . Assessing Professional Behavior:Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Academic Medicine 77 : 502 -515. Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). 1998 . Learning Objectives for Medical Student...

..., they provide a useful survey of the broad range of issues embodied in health law, and tend to verify the existence of a distinctive field of law. One hopes that, by reading books such as these, lawyers and health professionals (or students becoming such) will develop a keener sense of the broad relevance...