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Economic Perspectives on the Organization and Governance of Mental Health Care

2019
This chapter examines the allocation of responsibilities for meeting the needs of people experiencing a mental disorder. These responsibilities have shifted among the private and public sectors; federal, state, and local governments; and between the mainstream of health policy and specialized policymaking.
Sherry A. Glied, Richard G. Frank
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The changing nature of the measurement of the economic impact of nursing care on health care organizations

Nursing Outlook, 2005
This paper adapts the perspective of organizational contingency theory to consider the changing nature of how the economic impact of nursing care upon health care organizations is measured. It is argued that useful measures of the economic impact of nursing care are a function of environmental, organizational, and technological circumstances.
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End-stage renal disease and economic incentives: the International Study of Health Care Organization and Financing (ISHCOF)

International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 2007
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is a debilitating, costly, and increasingly common condition. Little is known about how different financing approaches affect ESRD outcomes and delivery of care. This paper presents results from a comparative review of 12 countries with alternative models of incentives and benefits, collected under the International Study
Avi, Dor, Mark V, Pauly, Margaret A, Eichleay, Philip J, Held   +3 more
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and Health Care Reform in the United States

International Journal of Health Services, 2009
Among OECD nations, the United States is an outlier in having the highest per capita health care costs in a system that unnecessarily exposes many individuals to financial hardship, physical suffering, and even death. President Obama and Congress are currently involved in a process to reform the flawed health care system.
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The US Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Health Care Spending Chasm

The Health Care Manager, 2012
Comparisons of health care spending between the United States and the rest of the world are frequently made. This article examines macrolevel secondary data comparing health care spending in the United States and other OECD countries, but this comparison does not necessarily present a complete picture. This article puts the US OECD health care spending
David P, Paul, David R, Babitsky, Ashish, Chandra   +2 more
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Implementation of the World Health Organization Trauma Care Checklist Program in 11 Centers Across Multiple Economic Strata: Effect on Care Process Measures

World Journal of Surgery, 2016
AbstractBackgroundTrauma contributes more than ten percent of the global burden of disease. Initial assessment and resuscitation of trauma patients often requires rapid diagnosis and management of multiple concurrent complex conditions, and errors are common.
Angela, Lashoher, Eric B, Schneider, Catherine, Juillard, Kent, Stevens, Elizabeth, Colantuoni, William R, Berry, Christina, Bloem, Witaya, Chadbunchachai, Satish, Dharap, Sydney M, Dy, Gerald, Dziekan, Russell L, Gruen, Jaymie A, Henry, Christina, Huwer, Manjul, Joshipura, Edward, Kelley, Etienne, Krug, Vineet, Kumar, Patrick, Kyamanywa, Alain Chichom, Mefire, Marcos, Musafir, Avery B, Nathens, Edouard, Ngendahayo, Thai Son, Nguyen, Nobhojit, Roy, Peter J, Pronovost, Irum Qumar, Khan, Junaid Abdul, Razzak, Andrés M, Rubiano, James A, Turner, Mathew, Varghese, Rimma, Zakirova, Charles, Mock   +32 more
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Experience of Achieving Universal Coverage: A Review of Health Care Financing in Four Organization for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD) Countries (Canada, the Republic of Korea, Mexico and the United Kingdom)

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
Background: The World Health Assembly Resolution in 2005 urges Member States to introduce and/or strengthen universal coverage policies to facilitate financial risk protection (FRP) to households in order to avoid catastrophic health expenditures and impoverishment from seeking care. The other goal of universal coverage is to ensure equitable access to
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[Health maintenance organizations: starting point of a market economical reform of health care].

Sozial- und Praventivmedizin, 1982
The present work was based on the observations that, as regards health care costs, the major problem in most present systems is that those who are responsible for the treatment decision (physician and patient) do not bear a direct financial responsibility for it, and that the overall system is very fragmented, which leads to numerous externalities.
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Management incentive systems and economic performance in health care organizations

Health Care Management Review, 1982
W O, Cleverley, R P, Mullen
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An examination of the relationship between the economic orientations and strategies of organizations within the health care industry

2014
This dissertation reports an empirical investigation of the relationship between an organization's economic orientation (i.e., whether it is a profit or not-for—pr0fit organization) and its strategy as operationalized in its goals, goal structure, power structure, and goal setting process.
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