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Bad Translation or Double Standards? Productivity and Accountability Across the Private, Public and Voluntary Sectors

Stein, Janice - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter by Janice Stein warns about the dangers of adopting a narrow conception of productivity and efficiency. Building on her analysis in The Cult of Efficiency, she argues that the language of efficiency, understood narrowly as cost-effectiveness, confronts distinctive problems when...

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Are There Economic Barriers to Visiting the Doctor?

Mayer, Susan E. - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago - 1992

Despite concerns about inequalities in the provision of health care in the US and despite a considerable amount of previous research, we know little about the distribution of medical services across income or more broadly defined socioeconomic groups. This paper uses a unique data file from the...

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Modeling patient service centers with simulation and system dynamics

Rohleder, Thomas; Bischak, Diane; Baskin, Leland - In: Health Care Management Science 10 (2007) 1, pp. 1-12

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Introduction to Code Red: An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System without Destroying It

Dranove, David - Princeton University Press

The U.S. healthcare system is in critical condition--but this should come as a surprise to no one. Yet until now the … succeeding. In <i>Code Red</i>, David Dranove, one of the nation's leading experts on the economics of healthcare, proposes a set … uninsured, and proposes a new direction that promises to make premier healthcare for all Americans a national reality. Setting …

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Limitations on Universality: The â€œRight to Healthâ€ and the Necessity of Legal Nationality

Kingston, Lindsey N.; Cohen, Elizabeth F.; Morley, … - eSocialSciences - 2010

healthcare. This is important both as a theoretical issue, in light of the recognition by many of healthcare as a universal right …

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Customized Development Interventions for the Ultra Poor: Preliminary Change Assessments of Health and Health-seeking Behaviour (CFPR/TUP 2002 to 2004)

Ahmed, Syed Masud; Rana, AKM Masud - eSocialSciences - 2010

provider of healthcare to the poor. Potential â€˜health empowermentâ€™ effect of CFPR/TUP interventions was noted (e ….g., increase in knowledge about locally available healthcare, increase in treatment-seeking from formal providers, etc.). [Working …

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Knowledge Management of Healthcare by Clinical-Pathways

Yamazaki, Tomoyoshi; Umemoto, Katsuhiro - In: Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM) 09 (2010) 02, pp. 119-125

Healthcare is a knowledge-intensive service provided by professionals, such as medical doctors, nurses, and pharmacists …. Clinical-pathways are used by many healthcare organisations (HCOs) as a tool for performing the healthcare process, sharing and …-pathways actively in the healthcare process. Theoretical model construction, sharing, utilisation, and creation of the knowledge by …

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Commonwealth Games 2010: Displacement of Persons

Puri, Eshaan; Bhatia, Tripti - eSocialSciences - 2010

This research paper analyses Government policy with regard to Jhuggi-Jhopri clusters- a particular type of housing present in Delhi. These colonies are perceived to be illegal by the Government. With living conditions akin to slums, the inhabitants of such clusters are part of the economically...

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TennCare Truths Need to Be Told

Garr, Tony - In: Tennessee's Business 19 (2009) 1, pp. 5-6

Neither TennCare nor private insurance is perfect. TennCare needs to be expanded to cover 300,000 poor working people and private insurance needs to stop denying coverage and benefits to a similar number of people.

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Do No Harm

Corker, Bob - In: Tennessee's Business 19 (2009) 1, pp. 3-4

The mission of Congress and the Obama administration should be the same as a doctor treating a patient: do no harm.

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