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Predictors of functional recovery for hip fractured elders during 12 months following hospital discharge: a prospective study on a Taiwanese sample
(Springer-Verlag; International Osteoporosis Foundation and National Osteoporosis Foundation, 2004-06)
To examine the longitudinal changes in overall and individual physical activities of daily living (PADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after hospital discharge in elderly ...
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 ...
The United States' health care system: Problems and solutions
(Elsevier, 1993)
The problems facing the U.S. health care system are not new; they have been discussed for the last 60 years. The problems have not been solved because, due to fears of government involvement, we have been reluctant to ...
Motivations for smoking cessation: A comparison of successful quitters and failures
(Elsevier, 1993)
To foster successful smoking cessation, public health professionals need to understand better the reasons why smokers quit smoking. Although researchers have studied smokers' characteristics that may predict smoking ...
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 ...