...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...

...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...

...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...

... Does It Work? The Seminal Role of the AIDS Case Monika Steffen CNRS/IEP, Grenoble University Abstract  This article analyzes the path that led...

.... Choice Inconsistencies among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program. NBER Working Paper No. 14759 2009 Cambridge, MA National Bureau of Economic Research www.nber.org/papers/w14759 Abraham J. M. Feldman R. Carlin C. Christianson J...

... to 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...

...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...

.... 1986 . New 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...

.... 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...

... 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 Development...

... in Technology Review in November 1985.) Paul Light, Ar@l Work: The Politics of Social Security Reform (New York: Ran- dom House, 1985), 255 pp. Paul Light’s book relates the story of the 1983 legislation that rescued Social Security, OASI in particular, from immediate and possibly long-term trust...

...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...

...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...

...Debbie Ward Review Essay 823 Review Essay Who’s Going to Do the Dirty Work? Penny Hollander Feldman with Alice M. Sapienza and Nancy M. Kane. Who Caresfor Them? Workers in the Home Care Industry. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1990. 235...

.... Commentary Caring Work in a Liberal Polity Deborah A. Stone Brandeis University At the heart of liberal political philosophy is the autonomous man. Liberal polities are built on the premise that their individual members are capable of caring, providing, and deciding for themselves...

...Paul Fronstin Mark Pauly. Health Benefits at Work: An Economic and Political Analysis of Employment-Based Health Insurance . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 187 pp. $39.50 paper. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 388 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law...

..., 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. The Work the Document Does: Research, Policy...

...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 1064 Journal of Health Politics...

...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...

...Karen Davis Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Can the Market Ensure Quality Work without Government? Karen Davis The Commonwealth Fund The debate about...