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...Jennifer S. Bard Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts is an important contribution to the body of scholarship and policy analysis about one of the most difficult problems facing contemporary health policy, public health, and bioethics: the fact that the demand for donor organs far...

...Michael E. Whitcomb Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Commentary Physician Supply Policy: A Victim of Politics in the Era of Pork Michael E. Whitcomb...

...Jeffrey M. Prottas Alvin Drake, Stan Finkelstein, and Harvey Sapolsky, The American Blood Supply (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1982), 161 pp., $25.00 Copyright © 1984 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1984 Book...

... have been the subjects of two court challenges by the medical profession, and the legal battles continue. The bill has also taken on a role in the evolving interpretation of Canada's new Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Meanwhile, the policy appears to be slowing the rate of growth in physician supply...

...Russell D. Roberts; Michael J. Wolkoff The inadvertent transmission of AIDS virus through contaminated whole blood has shaken the viability of the American voluntary blood supply system. For the first time since the voluntary donor system replaced the commercial blood system, there are widespread...

...Martha Katz; David C. Warner; Dale Whittington This study identifies trends that will lead to a dramatic increase in the number of active physicians in the United States during the next decade. The supply of active medical doctors (MDs) and doctors of osteopathy (DOs) as well as active post...

... nonwhites and more individuals with incomes less than $25,000 than members of the group committed to donation. Targeting public education messages to this group is likely to have the most success in reducing the gap between supply and demand for human organs. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press...

...David C. Mowery; Violaine Mitchell Since taking office, President Clinton has devoted considerable attention to childhood immunization and to the overall U.S. policy toward vaccine development, delivery, and pricing. But the reliability of U.S. vaccine supplies has received far less attention...

... and Supply Chain Management Mark A. Goldberg Yale School of Management The Current Backlash Managed care plans—fresh from extraordinary success in capturing market share—are under pressure. An admixture of disenchantment...

... supply chains within LMICs that have eroded over several decades of health-sector reform. Methods: This article reviews the literature on the political economy of supply chain strengthening in LMICs and identifies key challenges to equitable access to emergent vaccines and other medicines emanating from...

...Raymond L. Horton; Patricia J. Horton The United States currently relies on a voluntary, altruistic system for supplying organs for transplantation. It is now generally recognized that this system, as currently operated, produces a seriously inadequate supply of organs. A number of scholars have...

...Edmund J. McTernan; Alan M. Leiken In little more than a decade, the problems and issues relating to the supply of, and demand for, skilled health manpower in the United States have shifted dramatically. Where the key words in the late 1960s were “shortage,” “crisis,” and “expansion of training...

...Christopher J. Conover; Frank A. Sloan This study assesses the impact of certificate-of-need (CON) regulation for hospitals on various measures of health spending per capita, hospital supply, diffusion of technology, and hospital industry organization. Using a time series cross-sectional...

.... It also illustrates why it will be difficult to eliminate all of youth supply. Nonretail sources, such as borrowing or stealing from parents and siblings and purchasing from older peers through black markets, are an important component of youth supply and become more important as retail access is reduced...

... inmetropolitan areas. My central findings are threefold: Population size is a critical determinantof development. Health market characteristics such as hospital expenditures and physician supply affect development, but often in ways that differ from previous periods (e.g., development is greater in areas...

...Ann Boulis; Susan Goold; Peter A. Ubel In fall 1997, a shortage of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) developed in the United States because of increased demand for the product, reduced supply,and product recalls. This shortage is a useful model for understanding how our health care system responds...