... to recruit to the staff social activists taken to be representative of the community (although they might not be), promising opportunities for upward mobility. They also tended to adopt conciliatory administrative styles in keeping with their experimental non-elitist orientations. These tendencies...

... that such pressure has been both intermittent and significantly limited has reinforced SSA's preferred course of action. As a result. Medicare policy has continued to support inadequate and unsafe hospitals and to exacerbate hospital cost inflation. The tendency for administrators to become committed to established...

... does not fit the OECD definition because the OECD considers only family and general practitioners as generalists. OECD numbers reinforce a tendency to define primary care as family and general practitioners, without recognizing the diversity of generalist physicians providing care. In addition, while...

...Bernard J. Reilly; Jerome S. Legge, Jr. As the costs of the American health care system escalate, there is a tendency to identify the biggest cost item and attempt to reduce it to a manageable size. However, since that biggest cost item, the hospital, is a creation of uncontrolled forces within...

... and the tendency of new health care providers to settle in communities without substantial health needs. The states are the key actors in reforming health professions education, serving as a primary funding source for health professions schools, chief licensors and regulators of health professions, regulators...

... the cultural dimensions of the problems at hand. Rather than inculcate an ethic and practice in which medicine focuses on the meaning of illness for a life, a cultural phenomenon, this form of positivism strengthens the tendency to reject meaning in favor of the causes and course of disease and the abstracted...

...Olga Löblová Abstract Member states have consistently limited the European Union's competences in the area of health care reimbursement. Despite these efforts, there has been a slow but steady tendency toward harmonization of a key tool in reimbursement decision-making: health technology assessment...

... to reinforce labor's tendency to stick to a policy path on health care issues that was predicated on an employer-mandate solution and that had been charted primarily by business and leading Democrats. As a result, organized labor did not emerge from the 1993–1994 struggle with its political base fortified nor...

... countries prior to 1980 have revealed the existence of the following trends: 1. A tendency toward centralization (to state and especially national levels) of the major financing mechanisms 2. A tendency toward centralization (generally to the national level) of norm...

... to it. It is an oversimplification to speak of the gene “for” diseases, and there certainly is no gene “for” psychological abnormalities, but there is much uncertainty about how DNA sequences interact and the role recessive mutations play in human health. The au- thors lament the tendency to elevate genes in popular...

.... In each chapter he integrates these variables into a chronological account of the development of the different specific policies. The final chapter pulls together the similarities and differences of each specific policy area. One of the general tendencies he notes is the difference between most...

... ), healthy eating (Mollen et al. 2013 ), and obesity (Sieverding, Decker, and Zimmermann 2010 ). For people who overestimate the prevalence of unhealthy behavior, interventions that communicate its actual prevalence serve to correct inaccurate perceptions and thus leverage conformist tendencies so...

..., Melnick’s book explains the development of a highly inap- propriate dualism in air pollution policy-the divorce between goal-setting and enforcement. The courts played a major role in this development, though Congress had its own tendencies in this direction. Court action encouraged both legislators...

... to feel complacent. The thing that spoils this chapter is its tendency to sound like the introduction to Health Economics 101, especially in the JHPPL 25.1-14.books.JO 1/27/00 3:15 PM Page 258 258 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law somewhat labored...

... provisions for access to health care and occupational safety arose from the pressure the monarchy felt in the latter of part of the nineteenth century to ward off the influence of radical left-wing tendencies toward workers' liberation. While the period from 1933 to the end of World War II was horrific...

... volumes about the Court’s willingness to embroil itself in hotly contested political matters and its tendency to split sharply along ideological lines. What about NFIB v. Sebelius? What does it stand for, in the realm either of constitutional doctrine or of health care public policy...

... narrowness of his or her understanding, and feels accused of naiveté. Even those who agree with the main thrust of Reinhardt’s argument are not allowed to feel complacent. The thing that spoils this chapter is its tendency to sound like the introduction to Health...

...). Students of health policy making report a similar tendency of agency capture. In the 1970s, 205 agencies were established around the country to implement certifi- cate-of-need legislation and to control the spread of medical technology. These small agencies were overwhelmed by organizationally coherent...

... and are easily subject to manipulation and pressure (p- 127). Chapter 5 then reviews major sources of pressure to expddisability rosters: individuals, physicians, the legal system, and economic conditions. The concluding chapter further elucidates the expansionist tendencies built into the concept...

... system level (e.g., in local communities or in major subnational administrative units) becomes more intense, there is pressure both for augmented central resources and for central agencies to become involved in distributional choices. At base, these “reverse” tendencies toward financial...