Medical malpractice reform and insurer claims defense: unintended effects? [0.03%]
医疗改革与保险商的辩护：未曾预料的影响？
Jan M Ambrose,Anne Carroll
Jan M Ambrose
In response to recent and past medical malpractice insurance crises, most states have implemented reforms meant to stabilize premiums and coverage availability. The importance of understanding whether these reforms implicitly affect the beh...
The impact of the adoption of gag laws on trust in the patient-physician relationship [0.03%]
止缄默令对医患关系信任度的影响
Mitesh S Patel,Michael E Chernew
Mitesh S Patel
Physician organizations, policy makers, and patient advocates have expressed concern that health plans have contractually limited the freedom of physicians to communicate with their patients. In response, many states have adopted gag laws t...
Peter D Jacobson,Richard A Rettig,Wade M Aubry
Peter D Jacobson
Beginning in the late 1980s, many health insurers refused to cover high-dose chemotherapy with autologous bone marrow transplant (HDC/ABMT) for high-risk and metastatic breast cancer patients. Insurers denied coverage because there was no p...
John A Nyman
John A Nyman
Much American health policy over the past thirty-five years has focused on reducing the additional health care that is consumed when a person becomes insured, that is, reducing moral hazard. According to conventional theory, all of moral ha...
State Medicaid managed care enrollment: understanding the political calculus that drives Medicaid managed care reforms [0.03%]
美国医保管理式医疗项目参保情况：了解推动医保管理式医疗改革的政治考量
Etienne E Pracht
Etienne E Pracht
The objective of this article is to understand the political motivations underlying Medicaid managed care reforms by examining the determinants of enrollment of beneficiaries in managed care plans in the fifty states. To highlight the role ...
Notes from the laboratories of democracy: state government enactments of market- and state-based health insurance reforms in the 1990s [0.03%]
来自民主实验室的札记：20世纪90年代州一级政府实施基于市场和国家的健康保险改革法案
Charles Barrilleaux,Paul Brace
Charles Barrilleaux
We identify two policy strategies that state governments pursue to reduce uninsurance, and we classify policies as being either state based or market based. The two policy strategies are distinguished by whether states rely on the instituti...
Response to "is breast really best? Risk and total motherhood in the National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign" [0.03%]
对《母乳喂养国家宣传运动中的风险和完美母亲身份》一文的评论
Judy M Hopkinson
Judy M Hopkinson
Is breast really best? Risk and total motherhood in the National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign [0.03%]
母乳喂养真的最佳吗？国家母乳喂养意识提升运动中的风险与完美母亲形象
Joan B Wolf
Joan B Wolf
From June 2004 to April 2006, cosponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Ad Council, the National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign (NBAC) warned women that not breast-feeding put babies at risk for a variety of ...
Back to the future? Diabetes, HIV, and the boundaries of public health [0.03%]
展望未来？糖尿病、艾滋病与公共卫生的边界问题
Amy L Fairchild,Ava Alkon
Amy L Fairchild
The control of infectious diseases has traditionally fallen to public health and the clinical care of chronic diseases to private medicine. In New York City, however, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) has recently sought t...
Different countries, different needs: the role of private health insurance in developing countries [0.03%]
各国国情不同 寻求适宜模式：发展中国家的私营健康保险
Denis Drechsler,Johannes Jütting
Denis Drechsler
This article discusses the role of private health insurance (PHI) in developing countries. Three broad regional clusters are identified that share similar characteristics and policy challenges for the effective integration of private insura...