Healthcare Policy Vol. 9 Special Issue | Sociology Insights on Inequities in Health and HealthcareSteven LewisHealthcarepapers
The purpose of this article is to examine the implications of the 1994 elections for the future direction of health care policy. Using the results of three Election Day surveys of voters, we will look at two key questions: What role did the health care issue play in voters' choice of cand...
All MPH students take five core public health courses in Environmental Health, Epidemiology, Public Health Management and Policy, Biostatistics and Social and Behavioral Sciences concentrations. The core Biostatistics course varies across concentration areas. Students in the Biostatistics, Environmental Health,...
growthCoons SJ.doi:10.1016/S0149-2918(04)80317-5Stephen Joel CoonsEM Inc USAClinical TherapeuticsCoon SJ (2004). Health and health care in the United States: An insufficiently important policy issue? Clinical Therapeutics. 26:1686-1687.
Care and Cost: Current Issues in Health Policy The cost-containment issue of the health services in this country is stimulating overview books for the literate layperson and technical experts in the intricacies of this complicated enterprise. A recent one is the book being reviewed. ... Anderson...
This systemprovidesproviders an incentive to pad their bills by performing as many services as possible, while providing no incentive for patients to decline unnecessary procedures. The rising cost of health care is the number one cause of increased deficits. (See CBS Policy entry on the budget....
ACCF 2012 health policy statement on patient-centered care in cardiovascular medicine: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Clinical Qualit
Where appropriate, relevant research, practice and policy implications are discussed. To develop effective policies, it is essential to: recognize heterogeneity among informal caregivers; conceptualize informal care as part of the formal system; and use a proactive, multi-faceted and multi-level ...
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Promote CMS programs as models for other parts of the health care system;; and Promote the highest quality outcomes and safest care for all. CMS also “calls on private sector partners to engage with this health equity strategy.” It will begin convening stakeholder meetings on these topics thi...