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Population aging in the People's Republic of China
(Elsevier, 1986)
This paper provides a factual assessment of China's population aging and its social and economic consequences. It is projected that China will have a substantially older population in the middle of the 21st century. Major ...
The effect of the social organization of work on the voluntary turnover rate of hospital nurses in the United States
(Elsevier, 1992-06)
In light of current concerns over nursing shortages and productivity, voluntary turnover among hospital nurses in the United States has assumed renewed importance as a managerial issue. This study examines the thesis that ...
The economic implications of preventive health care
(Elsevier, 1979-12)
Today's cost-conscious political environment subjects the economic implications of proposed health care expenditures to careful scrutiny. This paper examines both the logic of and the evidence on preventive health care ...
Career preferences and perceptions of the medical labor market among Mexican interns
(Elsevier, 1983)
This paper examines the relationship between choice of career and perception of the medical labor market, as well as the effects of social origin, type of medical school, and place of internship. The data are derived from ...
Stress and exercise among the Japanese elderly
(Elsevier, 1993-06)
This study seeks to replicate and extend research on the stress process by examining the relationships among stress, social support, physical exercise, and depressive symptoms with data provided by a recent nationwide ...
Quality improvement and hospital financial performance
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2006-11)
The objective of this study was to examine the association between the scope and intensity of Quality improvement (QI) implementation in hospitals and organizational performance. A sample of 1,784 community hospitals was ...
Accessibility to medical care among urban American Indians in a large metropolitan area
(Elsevier, 1982)
Federal health and medical care programs recently mandated for American Indians living in cities are predicted upon information pertaining to their unmet health needs and assessments of their accessibility to medical care. ...