...William E. Corley Copyright © 1977 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1977 Position Paper Hospitals as a Public Utility: or “Work with Us Now or Work for Us Later’’ William E. Corley, The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center The issue...

... and reports, which are its principal vehicle. This is not to claim that there is no world beyond the text or that the world somehow is a text, but that to fully understand that world we must understand the text and the work it does. © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 Allen, G. 2000...

...Marc Blecher Gail E. Henderson and Myron S. Cohen, The Chinese Hospital: A Socialist Work Unit (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984), 183 pp., $22.50 Copyright © 1984 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1984 Book Reviews 539 recover a good deal of information...

...Ariadna García-Prado; Paula González This article presents a thorough analysis of dual practice among physicians who work in both the public and private sectors. A conceptual framework is presented to help the reader understand dual practice and the contexts where it takes place. The article...

...: North-Western Russia and Finland.” Institut Pasteur Working Paper . Saint Petersburg, Russia : Institut Pasteur . Pimenov A. Lavochkin V. . 1998 . “The AIDS Situation in the Republic of Belarus.” Paper presented at the European AIDS and Social Science Conference , Paris , January...

...Patricia McGovern; Bryan Dowd; Dwenda Gjerdingen; Ira Moscovice; Laura Kochevar; Sarah Murphy Relatively little is known about the role that leave policies—family,parental, or maternity-leave policies—play in facilitating time off work after childbirth. Yet time off is a critical element of leave...

...Barbara Ellen Smith David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, eds., Dying for Work: Workers' Safety and Health in Twentieth-Century America (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987), 234 pp., $35.00. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Book Reviews 435 may mean...

... approaches will provide important lessons about consumers' ability to make choices among complex financial products such as health insurance, and the types of informational and other supports necessary for such a market to work effectively. Consumers play an important role under the ACA: one key goal of the...

... the competition side, larger physician practices drive ACO entry (Auerbach et al. 2013 ). Using a transaction costs framework, earlier work shows that higher health maintenance organization (HMO) enrollment increases ACO entry (Frech et al. 2014 ). The market power effects of existing health care...

... question whether anything works to prevent or reduce obesity. In this essay I review the evidence on the effectiveness of antiobesity programs. Although some programs have had negligible effects, others have had small beneficial effects on diet, physical activity, and weight. Nutrition labels on packaged...

...Mina Silberberg John DiIulio Jr. and Richard P. Nathan, eds. Making Health Reform Work: The View from the States . Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1994. 179 pages. $29.95 cloth, $11.95 paper. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 References Benson: “The Devil Is in the...

...David M. Frankford Paul Atkinson. Medical Talk and Medical Work: The Liturgy of the Clinic. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995. 164 pp. $21.95. Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 References Anspach , R. R. 1987 . Notes on the Sociology of Medical Discourse: The Language of Case...

.... Weissman , J. S. , D. Saglam, E. G. Campbell, N. Causino, and D. Blumenthal. 1999 . Market Forces and Unsponsored Research in Academic Health Centers. Journal of the American Medical Association 281 ( 12 ): 1093 -1098. Can the Market Ensure Quality Work without Government...

...Jacob S. Hacker Richard Kronick and Joy de Beyer. Medicare HMOs: Making Them Work for the Chronically Ill . Chicago: Health Administration Press, 1999. 249 pp. $40.00 paper. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 References Congressional Budget Office (CBO). 1998 . The Economic and...

...Charles Lockhart Paul Light, Artful Work: The Politics of Social Security Reform (New York: Random House, 1985), 255 pp. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 780 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law dementia) because they cannot give “informed consent. ” The...

... Perspectives on State Rate Setting. Health Affairs 3 : 22 -33. Thorpe , K. 1987 . The Impact of Free Care Pools on Uninsured Care. Working Paper, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 1981 . Medicare and...

.... Health Care Financing Review 7 : 75 -85. Davis , K. , G. F. Anderson, and S. C. Renn et al. 1985 . Is Cost Containment Working? Health Affairs 4 ( Fall ): 81 -94. Eby , C. L. , and D. R. Cohodes. 1985 . What Do We Know About Rate-Setting? Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law...

... Intracoronary Fibinolytic Therapy in Acute Myocardial Infarction: Overview of Results on Mortality, Rein-farction and Side-Effects from 33 Randomized Controlled Trials. European Heart Journal 6 : 556 -85. Do Consensus Conferences Work? A Process Evaluation of the NIH Consensus...

...Lois O'Brien Friss If the decline in full-time labor force participation by registered nurses in hospitals is to be reversed, the issue of equal pay for comparable work must be addressed. Under pressure for cost containment, policies tend to focus on labor force economics rather than on limitations...

...Debbie Ward Suzanne Gordon. Prisoners of Men's Dreams. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1991. 324 pp. $19.95 cloth. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Review Essay 823 Review Essay Who’s Going to Do the Dirty Work? Penny Hollander Feldman with Alice M. Sapienza and Nancy...