Public relations is a managerial process aimed at attracting and maintaining positive behaviours in favour of social groups and independent organizations to achieve the mission and goals of the organization. The main responsibility of public relations is to build and maintain a "pleasant environment" for the organization and the client, and the condition for the survival and survival of the soc...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Changes in the Dutch GP remuneration system provided the opportunity to study the effects of changes in financial incentives on the quality of care. Separate remuneration systems for publicly insured patients (capitation) and privately insured patients (fee-for-service) were replaced by a combined system of capitation and fee-for-service for all in 2006. The effects of ...

BACKGROUND Lack of insurance has been shown to lead to delays in seeking care as well as fewer preventive medicine visits and poorer overall health status. PURPOSE To investigate the effects of insurance status on the timing and treatment of patients with bucket-handle meniscus tears. STUDY DESIGN Cohort study; Level of evidence, 3. METHODS Charts from 2004 to 2013 were retrospectively re...

the article by cheri wilson, “patient safety and healthcare quality: the case for language access”, highlights 
the challenges of providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services (clas) to patients with 
limited english proficiency (lep). as the us pursues high-value, high-performance healthcare, our ability 
to meet the needs of our most vulnerable will determine whether we succeed...

In enhanced annuities, the annuity payment depends on one’s state of health at some contracted date while in ”standard annuities”, it does not. The focus of this paper is on an annuity market where ”standard” and enhanced annuities are offered simultaneously. When all insured know equally well on their future health status either enhanced annuities drive standard annuities out of the market or ...

Emergency department (ED) use, by both insured and uninsured, leads to significant health care costs in the United States. While frequent ED use is often attributed to the uninsured, there is some evidence that insured populations also report utilizing the ED when otherwise preventable or nonurgent. We conducted in-person surveys of patients visiting the ED at a large research hospital and exam...

We use a Principal-Agent framework to evaluate the economic impacts of imposing a tax on insurance payment in presence of moral hazard using a Gamma conditional distribution of losses. Our results show that any tax paid by the insured would the lower his effort to prevent loss, hence increasing insurance payments and decreasing pro ts. This result is reinforced as the insured becomes more risk ...

Background Little research has focused on the economic hardship among the insured with severe illnesses and high treatment costs, in particular, the consequence of poorer insurance coverage for high-cost illnesses. Therefore, we presented the case for identifying the experiences of insured patients with severe chronic and acute illnesses. This study identified a qualitative understanding of the...

Background By eliminating economic hurdles, the Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act of 1998 represented a paradigm shift in the availability of breast reconstruction. Yet, studies report disparities among Medicare-insured women. These studies do not account for the inherent differences in age and comorbidities between a younger privately insured and an older Medicare population. We examined im...