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Health policy and territorial politics: Disciplinary misunderstandings and directions for research
(2017-04-08)
The territorial politics of health is both underexploited by mainstream political scientists and the subject of a large and distinctive health policy literature that rarely connects with political science. This chapter ...
The mental health care context and patient characteristics: Implications for provider job satisfaction
(Springer-Verlag; Association of Behavioral Healthcare Management, NCCBH, 2002-08)
This research examines job satisfaction among 282 staff providing mental health care to 574 patients with serious mental illness. The mental health staff worked in 18 Department of Veterans Affairs inpatient and outpatient ...
Reinforcing Europe’s failed fiscal regulatory state
(2016-11-21)
Fiscal governance in the EU is an exemplary case of the regulatory state; the EU governs member states’ fiscal and public policies through rules rather than expenditure. The weaknesses of the EU fiscal regulatory state ...
Effects of a mental health carve-out on use, costs, and payers: A four-year study
(Springer-Verlag; Association of Behavioral Healthcare Management, 1999-11)
This study examines the effects of a mental health carve-out on a sample of continuously enrolled employees ( N = 1,943) over a four-year time frame (1990–1994). The article presents a health care services utilization model ...
Public policy and automobile occupant restraint: An economist's perspective
(Elsevier, 1987-02)
Cost-benefit analyses (CBAs) of policies intended to increase occupant restraint in automobiles typically find that such policies generate social benefits that exceed social costs, often by a considerable margin. The ...
Characteristics of primary care physicians and their practices associated with mammography rates for older women Barbara Threatt, M.D., was a consultant regarding mammography practice and physician's interactions with older women.
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2003-11-01)
BACKGROUND Mammography screening rates are below national recommendations for older women. Understanding the relation between the characteristics of primary care physicians (PCPs) and mammography rates for older women can ...
Measurement Error in Prenatal Care Utilization: Evidence of Attenuation Bias in the Estimation of Impact on Birth Weight
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-03)
Objective: Errors in the measurement of the timing and number of prenatal care visits may produce downward bias in estimates of the impact of prenatal care use on birth outcomes. This paper examines the extent of attenuation ...
Debacle: Trump’s Response to the COVID-19 Emergency
(2020-08-26)
Why did the United States, ranked as the world's best prepared country, fail so dramatically in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic? Part of the reason is the backdrop of a fragmented and largely market-driven health ...