The patient-centered medical home is taking center stage in discussions of primary care innovation as a new delivery model that provides comprehensive, coordinated care across the lifespan. Although the medical home is widely discussed by policymakers, payers, and other stakeholders, the extent to which physician practices have the infrastructure in place to function as medical homes is not kno...

the aim of this paper is to identify and analyses the influence of shareholder ownership identity on payout ratio for a panel of iran firms from 2002 to 2008. we found that there is a significant positive correlation between institutional ownership and payout ratio. the relation between payout ratio and individual ownership is negative. the most finding of the study indicates that iranian compa...

Beneficiary information was linked to agency information for the beneficiary’s primary home health agency. Approximately 6 percent of Medicare beneficiaries were served by more than one home health agency. In this case, we used the agency that furnished the most care to the beneficiary. Beneficiary characteristics include age, race (white or non-white), sex, diagnosis category, and geographic l...

Our goal in this paper is to clearly delineate how households currently manage communication and coordination information; this will provide practitioners and designers with a more complete view of information in the home, and how technology embedded within the home can augment communication and coordination of home inhabitants. Through contextual interviews, we identify five types of communica...

This article traces the way intersection between gender, class and family values is reorganised in relation to state policies that enable propertied citizenship through home-ownership. Focusing on ethnographic data from Kolkata, India, it discusses how women realise exchange for care work rather than employment as developmentalist liberal feminist discourses suggest. Here women’s lives are envi...

privatization advocates believe that transfer to private sector increases firm’s performance and value, business environment, and therefore economic growth and welfare improves. in this research, by using the 70 accepted firms in the tehran stock exchange for the period of 2005 to 2009, we investigate the effect of firm’s ownership structure on their value by applying generalized method of mome...

OBJECTIVE To examine premature mortality in adults in relation to socioeconomic conditions in childhood and adulthood. DESIGN Nationally representative birth cohort study with prospective information on socioeconomic conditions. SETTING England, Scotland, and Wales. STUDY MEMBERS: 2132 women and 2322 men born in March 1946 and followed until age 55 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Deaths betw...