...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...

...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 Reviews 339 excerpts from Allende’ s book La Realidad...

... 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 1991...

...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...

...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...

...Mark A. Goldberg Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Reference Hirschman , Albert O. 1970 . Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Two Backlashes: Targeted Reforms and Supply Chain...

... 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...

...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 Association of American Medical Colleges...

...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...

.... 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...

...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...

...Joseph White This essay considers on what health policy issues the federal government is best able to lead. Positive leadership requires knowledge, power, and will. The federal government has different supplies of each for different aspects of quality of, cost of, and access to health care. Here I...

... assumptions about percentage of drugs likely to attract imports; potential supply from foreign countries; and share of savings passed on to payers. Our base case estimate is that $1.7 billion per year, or 0.6 percent of total drug spending, would be saved by payers; sensitivity analyses range from 0.2 to 2.5...

...Richard Schwindt; Aidan R. Vining Improvements in surgical procedures and immunosuppressive practices have greatly increased the range and success rate of organ transplants. Unfortunately, supply does not meet demand, and demand is increasing. This paper documents the current level of unsatisfied...

...Jerry Cromwell As pressures to control health care costs increase, competition among physicians, advanced practice nurses, and other allied health providers has also intensified. Anesthesia care is one of the most highly contested terrains, where the growth in anesthesiologist supply has far...

... their medical manpower. The present study provides estimates of the effects of reduced numbers of in-state medical school graduates upon the future supply of physicians in Texas, and examines the medical school origin, medical specialty, and practice location of selected groups of Texas physicians. The...

...Kathryn M. Langwell Women comprised only 8.8 percent of active physicians in the United States in 1977. However, recent trends in the sex composition of medical school classes indicate that women will make up at least one-fourth of total physician supply in the future. Consequently, the effect of...