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This paper reports the findings of a formative study that examined knowledge, readiness, and perceptions of healthcare providers in safety-net clinics about electronic medical records (EMR) and e-prescribing. It was conducted in six safety net clinics in southeast Georgia that serve a...
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The USA and France are often perceived as having different, if not antipodal, legal and political systems. At first … sight the treatment of the Muslim veil at school confirms this impression, for this piece of clothing is seen in the USA as … angle. By adopting a comparative perspective, it looks at the treatment of the Muslim veil in France and the USA before 2004 …
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This investigation examines the admissions of African-Americans to state psychiatric hospitals in Virginia. It compares admissions of African-Americans primarily with European-Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities. Data spanning the 20-year period from 1970 to 1990 from nine state...
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One of the challenging issues in the USA is health coverage system. The issue generally constitutes the major … purposes of the study is to focus on policy alternatives regarding the health coverage system of the USA. The paper will study …
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Within a public environment in which accountability is at the forefront, an important evaluation question is how to document the economic value of innovation-related outputs and outcomes from intramural research relative to the cost of funding an intramural research programme. In this paper, we...
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Interest has grown in the significance of the country-of-origin impact on the Employment Relations (ER) approaches in the international subsidiaries of Multinational Companies (MNCs). In this article, a comparative cross-sectional analysis of German subsidiaries with indigenous UK firms will be...
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Post-EMTALA, proactive communities throughout the USA have strengthened their safety net systems to meet the healthcare …
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This study explores the reason rural Medicaid beneficiaries bypass their local rural hospitals even though their local rural hospitals provide the healthcare services that patients are seeking. Conditional logit regression was used to identify the factors that influence rural patients to bypass...
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Improving the performance of service organisations and enhancing the well-being of communities are critical challenges in the field of public health. In this paper, we will discuss issues relating to the issues of cancer disability in the context of information transfer and delivery to public...
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This paper draws attention to the US clusters and frames them in the context of regionalisation. It does this in three steps. First, it highlights key moments in US history in which regionalisation emerged as a central albeit unsuccessful policy strategy. Second, it considers how the strategic...
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