This qualitative research using the focus group approach has gathered pertinent perceptions from the stakeholders in Chinese elderly care environment, including community-based and institutionalised elderly, medical providers, administrators and governmental officials. The study found that the...

Economists maintain that the study of public policymaking falls outside the scope of their discipline. How and why public policies are made should be studied by political science. Policy debates in economics take place within a generally agreed framework referred to in the paper as the...

The UK coalition government claims that the establishment of market 'credibility' can only be achieved through the implementation of immediate and unpalatable fiscal austerity measures. The paper examines this claim and considers some additional questions. First, is there is any justification...

This study assesses the impact of recent Medicare reimbursement changes on nurse staffing and quality of care in skilled nursing facilities. We utilise data from the Online Survey Certification and Reporting System and Area Resource Files for the years 1997â2003. The impacts of the...

This paper presents various fields of study under the public affairs rubric and highlights the importance of cooperation among varying public service organisations if complex social and health problems are to be solved. Informatics research will provide armamentaria to practitioners and...

This study assesses the impact of recent Medicare reimbursement changes on nurse staffing and quality of care in skilled nursing facilities. We utilise data from the Online Survey Certification and Reporting System and Area Resource Files for the years 1997–2003. The impacts of the...

This paper presents various fields of study under the public affairs rubric and highlights the importance of cooperation among varying public service organisations if complex social and health problems are to be solved. Informatics research will provide armamentaria to practitioners and...

The importance of coordinated efforts between local, state and federal disaster responses and their inherent effects on regional and global emergency preparation is highlighted. By addressing disaster risk reduction and human development policy together, a best practice approach is identified. A...

Although the high percentage of the uninsured is an important public policy issue, discrepancies in both state and national estimates of the numbers of uninsured are reported. There is a critical need to address the methodological problem of the estimation. This study compares four advanced...