...Katharina Janus; Volker E. Amelung; Laurence C. Baker; Michael Gaitanides; Friedrich W. Schwartz; Thomas G. Rundall Our study assesses how work-related monetary and nonmonetary factors affect physicians' job satisfaction at three academic medical centers in Germany and the United States, two...

..., K. C. 1997 . Testimony before U.S. House , Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Subcommittee on Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations. 105th Cong., 1st sess., 31 July. Responding to the Immunoglobulin Shortage: A Case Study...

...: Lessons from the Study of Changing Health Policy One would think that whales would be easy to track, particularly when they leave footprints. For similar reasons, one might imagine that the key juncture points in the history of a nation’s health policy...

...Diane S. Lauderdale Orville Gilbert Brim, Carol D. Ryff, and Ronald C. Kessler, eds. How Healthy Are We? A National Study of Well-Being at Midlife. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 688 pp. $30.00 cloth. Duke University Press 2006...

..., no research has focused on testing the ethical concerns about such policies. This article presents the findings of a pilot study conducted to determine whether people think that families should end life support of a family member in order to harvest organs if various incentive policies are in place. While...

...Howard A. Palley AARP. AARP International Forum in Long-Term Care: 2003 Proceedings . Washington, DC: AARP, 2004. 40 pp. cloth. Tim Blackman, Sally Brodhurst, and Janet Convery, eds. Social Care and Social Exclusion: A Comparative Study of Older People's Care in Europe . New York: Palgrave...

... the U.S. Senate’s response to AIDS between 1987 and 1992. Our study found that Schneider and Ingram’s model provides important insights into how political processes affect AIDS policy design. While our data did not strictly conform to all of the model’s theoretical expectations, the data provided evidence...

...Nancy R. Aries; Elliott D. Sclar This study estimates the economic significance of biomedical research for a geographic region. Through a survey of nonprofit biomedical research institutions in the metropolitan New York region and an analysis of research budget data obtained from the area’s six...

.... The transition to PPS provided an opportunity to evaluate whether hospital ownership differences affected responses to a payment system which encouraged institutional intervention in the practice of medicine. A case study approach was used to observe the influence of the then largest for-profit hospital...

...Sy Adler; Noelle Dobson; Karen Perl Fox; Lynn Weigand This case study is about the politics of incorporating active-living elements into a concept plan for a new community of about 68,000 people on the edge of the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area. Development on the rural-urban fringe is ongoing...

...Emily Lees; David Salvesen; Elizabeth Shay To contribute to the understanding of the links between urban planning and school siting and, ultimately, the impact of both on physical activity, we conducted a case study of Lee County, Florida. Our study examined the extent of state-mandated...

... schools in their first and fourth years of study. The primary measure of political ideology was a five-point scale anchored by “very conservative” and “very liberal.” Mixed-effects linear regression was used to test the predictive power of political ideology at year 1 on year 4 outcomes. Among incoming...

... of malpractice lawsuits. While critics may point to failures of will on the part of those responsible for such policing, this case study points to more fundamental problems. The case involved an extension of the diagnosis of Chiari malformation to justify surgery to help relieve symptoms of individuals...

.... Bardach, E. 1977 . The Implementation Game . Cambridge: MIT Press. ———. 1996 . Turf Barriers to Interagency Collaboration. In The State of Public Management , ed. D. Kettl and H. B. Milward. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Berman, P. 1978 . The Study of Macro- and Micro...

... of a scholar who has also been an active pol- icy participant, and a comparativist. Our charge to the essayists was to reflect on the role of Marmor’s two editions in the study of the politics of Medicare and health politics more generally, and to address the state...

... shows how strategic actions set negotiating authority processes into motion, producing new and sometimes surprising institutional arrangements that can have profound effects on the distribution and allocation of authority in the medical training regime. It stresses the need to study the interactions...

..., 2011) . Parkinson J. 2003 . “Legitimacy Problems in Deliberative Democracy.” Political Studies 51 , no. 1 : 180 – 96 . doi:10.1111/1467-9248.00419 . Pathak-Sen E. 2009 . “Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wisdom.” In Patients, the Public, and Priorities in Healthcare...

... strategy for influenza pandemics (Kelso, Milne, and Kelly 2009 ; Johnson et al. 2008 ). Several modeling and historical studies have found that school closures may contribute to the temporary reduction of influenza transmission among susceptible school-aged children, their families, and their communities...

..., public engagement, and government coordination mitigated these international pressures, generating a variation in the use of TRIPS flexibilities. However, cases such as Brazil and India were partially analyzed as part of Deere's ( 2008 ) study and often mentioned as exceptions to her proposed model...