Governance and community benefit: are nonprofit hospitals good candidates for Sarbanes-Oxley type reforms? [0.03%]
治理与社区利益:非营利性医院是萨班斯-奥克斯利型改革的良好候选者吗?
Jeffrey A Alexander,Gary J Young,Bryan J Weiner et al.
Jeffrey A Alexander et al.
Recent investigations into the activities of nonprofit hospitals have pointed to weak or lax governance on the part of some of these organizations. As a result of these events, various federal and state initiatives are now either under way ...
A road map for universal coverage: finding a pass through the financial mountains [0.03%]
通向全民覆盖的道路:穿越财务障碍的地图
Samuel Y Sessions,Philip R Lee
Samuel Y Sessions
Government already pays for more than half of U.S. health care costs, and nearly all universal health insurance proposals assume continued government involvement through tax subsidies and other means. The question of what specific taxes cou...
Robin Gauld
Robin Gauld
In 2001, the New Zealand government commenced a program to reform the organization of publicly funded primary care services. While there have been several positive results of this reform, including the reduction of patient co-payments and t...
A temporal analytical approach to decentralization: lessons from Brazil's health sector [0.03%]
巴西卫生部门的分权教训:一种时间分析方法
Eduardo J Gómez
Eduardo J Gómez
This article introduces a new concept to the study of decentralization processes: policy dynamism. At its core is the notion that the sequential and temporal process of health decentralization affect the nature of intergovernmental relation...
Rick J Carlson
Rick J Carlson
To many, genomics is merely exploitable technology for the leviathan of biotechnology. This is both shallow and short sighted. Genomics is applied knowledge based on profound and evolving science about how living things develop, how healthy...
Mina Silberberg,Joel C Cantor
Mina Silberberg
School-based health centers (SBHCs) have proliferated rapidly nation-wide and remain politically popular. This article explores the disconnect between the evidence and the discourse on SBHCs, drawing upon the authors' evaluation of SBHCs in...
Family caregivers: a shadow workforce in the geriatric health care system? [0.03%]
家庭护理人员:老年医疗保健系统中的隐蔽劳动力吗?
Ann Bookman,Mona Harrington
Ann Bookman
Based on two years of fieldwork, conducted between March 2003 and March 2005 in the health care industry of the northeastern United States, this study shows that the work of family caregivers of elders goes far beyond previously recognized ...
Executive federalism and Medicaid demonstration waivers: implications for policy and democratic process [0.03%]
权宜性的联邦主义与医疗救助示范条款:对政策和民主程序的涵义
Frank J Thompson,Courtney Burke
Frank J Thompson
Executive federalism emphasizes collaboration between the executive branches at the national and state levels to transform grant programs through the implementation process. In this regard, Medicaid demonstration waivers loomed large during...
Back to the future? Health benefits, organized labor, and universal health care [0.03%]
重返未来吗?健康福利、组织型劳工和全民医保
Marie Gottschalk
Marie Gottschalk
The umbrella of employment-based health benefits is growing increasingly threadbare. As a result, health benefits are once again a major arena of labor-management strife, and once again calls for universal health care by many labor leaders ...
Sanctions and recidivism: an evaluation of physician discipline by state medical boards [0.03%]
制裁与累犯:对州立医事委员会医师惩戒的评估
Darren Grant,Kelly C Alfred
Darren Grant
This article descriptively assesses how physicians are disciplined by state medical boards throughout the United States, drawing on a nationwide database of sanctions delivered during the period 1994-2002. We identify the frequency and seve...