...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...

... contestations to medical authority in public debates or from the political system. The study is based on a qualitative, descriptive analysis of 975 editorials in the medical associations' lead journals in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Denmark over a period of 60 years. The analysis explores...

... 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...

... 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...

.... 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...

... T. 1971 . Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis . Boston: Little,Brown. Altenstetter, Christa, and James Warner Björkman, eds. 1997 . Health Policy Reform, National Variation, and Globalization . New York: St. Martin's. Eckstein, Harry. 1975 . Case Study and Theory...

..., 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...

...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...

.... 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...

... at the national level, events in the research environment during this period may well have distorted the conclusions of the research. Thus this case study highlights the problems of conducting evaluation research. particularly social experiments, on innovative programs perceived as threatening to the status quo...

..., the absence of such a tradition in the United States makes acceptance more difficult. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Saving Lives and Protecting Liberty: A Comparative Study of the Seat-Belt Debate Howard Leichter, Linfield College...