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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"health reform"”.
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Proselytising public health reform in Punch 1841-1858
… this thesis, by analysing the context of public health reform in the nineteenth century, to reconsider the methods, both verbal and visual, by which Punch proselytised reform. Drawing on a range of primary data, this thesis uses a thematic case study to undertake a systematic re-examination of …
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Super-Utilization: The New Perfect Storm of Health Reform
… or the disproportionately high healthcare utilization and costs attributed to a small sub-set of the inpatient population. For purposes of this research, super-utilization was operationalized as high repeat utilization (HRU) and referred to inpatient utilization and inpatient …
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A Comparative Analysis Of Mental Health Reform: Canada, The United Kingdom, And Australia
… dissertation explores the trajectories of mental health reform in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, examining how each state’s political and institutional contexts within universal healthcare systems have influenced these trajectories. Despite being parliamentary democracies, these states …
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South Africa's national health reform : how leading R&D pharmaceutical companies are responding
… anticipated White paper on the planned National Health Insurance (NHI) (Department of Health, 2015) raising more questions ("NHI White Paper", 2016) amongst stakeholders. Frost and Sullivan (2011) have suggested that the planned cost containment of the NHI will benefit generic companies whilst …
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Central and local influences on public health reform in mid-Victorian Liverpool (1830-1875)
… in Liverpool, the administration of its public health and the local/central relationship in the nineteenth century, The growth of the port led to the casualisation of the workforce which encouraged a huge army of unskilled immigrants into the town. Poverty was often widespread at times of …
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Modern mothers in the heartland: Maternal and child health reform in Illinois, 1900-1930
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T15:06:44Z Item is restricted indefinitely.
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Free Clinics and the Uninsured: The Need for Remote Area Medical in Central Appalachia After Health Reform.
… the election of President Barack Obama brought health care to the forefront of national discussions and led to the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The legislation changed the rules of health care delivery in the United States, but the ACA did not do one …
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Accounting in action in the New Zealand health reform process: an analysis informed by a specific case study of a major health provider
… systems at a large regional hospital, Health Waikato (HW), in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand. The field research consisted of primarily unstructured and semi-structured interviews and documentary analysis. I present the research in the later part of the thesis from a …
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Public health and society in Cape Town, 1880-1910
… It attempts to examine the impact of public health reform on Cape Town society between 1880 and 1910. Accepting the argument that the control of disease is one of the means by which a dominant establishment may assert its authority and impose its ideology in a society, it contends that ideas …
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Validation Of A Toolkit On Innovative Business Models For Nurse Practitioner Practice
… for Nursing: NPs are at the forefront of health reform and can identify gaps in the system where innovative solutions are vital. Access to such resources can provide a necessary infusion of NPs who are passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship to drive health reform.</p>
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Taking Care of Heroes: A Cultural Study of Health Policy Formation
This dissertation examines the formation of health policy as a cultural process in a large federal bureaucracy in the United States, namely the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The everyday experience of bureaucrats working in the VA is used to answer the question: why does the VA fail to meet …
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The Incentive Effects of Health Insurance on Labor Market Outcomes and SSDI/SSI Utilization
… there has been no previous study on how the health insurance premium subsidy affects this behavior. To fill the gap in previous studies, this paper analyzes the impact of the substantial federal health insurance premium subsidy on unemployment duration, using data from the Survey of Income …
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A study of the care and treament of the mentally subnormal
The history of mental health reform is largely the history of changing public attitudes. This is not to imply that reform came only in response to mass pressures, but rather that governments have always shown themselves particularly sensitive to public opinion in this connection and been careful to …
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VILIFYING OBAMACARE: CONSERVATIVE TROPES OF VICTIMAGE IN THE 2009 HEALTH CARE DEBATES
… the debate over President Obama's proposed reforms to the American health care system during of the summer of 2009. In particular, I investigate on the rhetorical strategies deployed by various conservative political actors who contributed to the derailment of the health care reform …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
… Visits: An Analysis of the 2006 Massachusetts Health Reform,'' analyzes the impact of a major health reform in Massachusetts on emergency room (ER) visits. I exploit the variation in pre-reform uninsurance rates across counties to identify the causal effect of the reform on ER visits. My …
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A Design Science Research Framework for building Resilience in South Africa’s National Digital Health Information System: an Ultra-Large-Scale Systems perspective
South Africa’s National Digital Health Information System (NDHIS) is intended to serve as the backbone for the National Health Insurance (NHI) by enabling patient registration, provider contracting, financing, and performance monitoring. However, persistent fragmentation, legacy systems, provincial …
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Building a state or saving lives? : the processes, motives and politics behind the reconstruction of Afghanistan's health system
Startlingly poor health statistics in Afghanistan clearly indicate that, in order to enhance the socio-economic status and overall stability of the state, a complete overhaul of its health care system is imperative. However, providing health is not simply a technical endeavor involving the …
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Acts of Livelihood: Bodies and Nature in International Garden City Movement Planning, 1898-1937
Urban planning and reform scholars and policymakers continue to cite the “garden city” community model as a potential blueprint for planning environmentally sustainable, economically equitable, humane built environments. Articulated by the British social reformer Sir Ebenezer Howard and his 1898 …
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Educating Nurses on the Use of Bedside Mobility Assessment Tool (BMAT) through E-learning/Online Education Module
… order to educate staff on BMAT in healthcare setting, online educational module tailed to the learners based on their characteristics, background and proficiency will have the most influential on overall learning outcomes; therefore, it is appropriate to implement online educational …
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