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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"care policy"”.
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Explaining Radical Change in Ghanaian Health Care Policy
… causes of welfare state change, including health care reform, emphasizes stability, yet there is evidence of remarkable changes taking place in welfare systems in much of the developing world. This study analyzes health care reform in Ghana, a country which has experienced significant …
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The Integration of Health Care Policy in Medical Education
… include introductory courses on various health care policy topics. The 2005-2006 U.T. Southwestern Congressional Health Care Fellowship activities are examined in this thesis, including Avian Influenza, the Ryan White Care Act reauthorization, and Massachusetts Health Care Reform Plan. It is …
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Organizing for Social Policy Change: Child Care Policy Advocacy in Canada
Taking up the campaigns for a federal child care program as an example of social movement advocacy for policy change, this thesis examines how social actors have understood the need for better federal social policy related to child care in Canada. I develop a policy and advocacy history to preface …
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An exploration of primary care policy and practice for reducing inequalities in mental health
… relationships with social gradients. Primary care in Scotland in recent years has been given an emphasis on health inequalities and on prevention and is also expected to provide frontline services and ongoing support to patients with mental health problems. Addressing health inequalities and …
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A process perspective on legitimacy for public administration: refocusing the national long-term care policy debate
… that structures the various approaches to policy formulation. This research employs a case study design to which the theory of structuralism and the technique of structural analysis have been applied. The case study is that of national long-term care policy. Role occupants from 23 national …
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Community health decisions: An analysis of a grassroots venture into citizen participation in health care policy prioritization issues
Health care policymaking has been largely a closed system in which policymaking experts, special interest groups, and politicians have joined forces to decide what was best for the health care of the American people. This system has been shortsighted leading to severe long-range consequences on …
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INTEREST GROUPS IN RESPONSE TO THE OBAMACARE: THE CHANGING ORGANIZATIONAL FIELD OF HEALTH CARE POLICY IN THE UNITED STATES
This dissertation explores the health care policy organizational field in the United States (U.S.) and its changes due to the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). In particular, this study provides the interest groups’ role in the ACA’s evolution process. The ACA …
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Hearing health care in the United States: A multi-scale spatial & political economic analysis of health care policy and access to audiology services
This project addresses hearing health care workers (audiologists) in the United States and the ways that structural, top-down pressures shape their spatial behavior and practice, which cumulatively affects the availability and accessibility of their services at multiple scales. Hearing loss is the …
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Improving access to maternal health care beyond health care policy: pregnant women's experience of maternal public health care services in Cape Town, South Africa
Unequal access to maternal health care continues to be a concern in South Africa despite the efforts of government and health practitioners to make the system more inclusive and accessible to all women, especially for women who have been previously disadvantaged prior to and during Apartheid. …
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No contest: theorizing power through aspects of health and social care policy in the wake of the demise of the internal market in NHS Wales
… the theorization of power in health and social care policy in the United Kingdom has been identified in a number of recent publications (Hunter, 2008; Crinson, 2009; Ham, 2009). This critical overview analyzes relative power to connect policy at the macro level (ending the internal market in NHS …
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Policy legacies and child care politics in Australia and Canada
… different paths in national-level child care policy despite their otherwise similar welfare state structures. Australia has developed a relatively generous system of public subsidies to support the provision of care for young children, while at the same time relying increasingly on the …
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Illinois Legislative Policy-Making: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Social Construction of Health Issues Related to Women
… influence, the future direction of health care policy at the state government level.
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Essays in the efficient provision of health care: Temporal issues in childhood immunization policy
One of the main targets of health care policy reform is the underserved population. Among this group are preschool children who are not adequately immunized. In the United States, childhood immunization rates for children aged 2 are low by global comparison. In response to goals of a 90 percent …
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United Kingdom National Health Services: a case study of workforce transformation in an integrated care organisation using actor-network theory
… changes including the most recent one; bringing care as close as possible to patients home have affected the services provided as well as those who provide them. One of the local acute health care organisations has chosen to integrate with the community and primary care services in response to …
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Meeting the Aspirations of Learning Disability Policy: The Role of the Support Worker
… workers play in enacting learning disability policy in England? Social care policy has developed from a culture of paternalism and institutionalisation, to one that advocates enablement and community-based care. Government policy emphasises choice, independence and inclusion for people with a …
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The demand for health care services in Nigeria : a nested logit model
… better the factors that influence the health care demand decisions of Nigerian households. The achievement of this objective involves the estimation of the parameters of the demand for health care services in order to understand the nature of health care choices that Nigerian households make …
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Political Awareness and Public Opinion on Health Care Reform
… public opinion, especially on contentious policy issues such as health care reform. Political information from elite discourse is often partisan in nature, which shapes citizens’ attitudes toward policy issues. Citizens who are politically aware process political information differently …
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Exploring the influence of culture on diabetes self-management: perspectives of Gujarati Muslim men
… Similarly, and in contrast to current health care policy, which frequently perceives self-management as a set of interjected behaviours, self-management was perceived as the ways in which the man chooses to incorporate his diabetes into the totality of his life. The synthesis of the literature …
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The importance of being efficacious: English health and social care partnerships and service user outcomes
The need for health and social care agencies and their professionals to work in partnership is a central component of contemporary English health and social care policy. Partnership is predicated on the notion that this way of working improves services and outcomes for service users. However, as …
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