Health reform is the outcome of dispersed policy initiatives in different sectors, at different levels and across time. Policy work which can drive coherent health reform needs to operate across the governance structures as well as the institutions that comprise healthcare systems. Building policy capacity to support health reform calls for clarity regarding the nature of such policy work and t...

This research suggests specific actions federal policymakers should take to improve the implementation of Perkins II measures and standards. Although our case studies were limited to four states, both our informal conversations with other vocational educators and previous research on the implementation of Perkins II measures and standards suggest that these concerns are widespread enough to war...

Implications are discussed for Federal policy of "gap-filling" initiatives at the State and Federal level to deal with the problem of the uninsured. Measures currently under active consideration that involve expansions of Medicaid and employment-related insurance are considered in the light of recent studies of the uninsured and recent simulations of their cost and coverage impacts. The limited...

T history, major contributions to population health have come from the initiatives of public health and community-based activities, such as improvements in food supplies and nutrition, sanitary and general living conditions, vaccinations and smoking cessation campaigns. However, the importance of these public measures has not always been corectly verified by the medical establishment, tradition...

The Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 directed CMS to implement a system to measure and report the quality of dialysis services under Medicare by 2000. Because of this tight timeframe, a rapid-cycle measurement development process was initiated to develop dialysis facility-specific measures that could be released to the public. The result was "Dialysis Facility Compare" which has served as a te...

We provide some new sharp embeddings for p-Carleson measures and some related measures in the unit disk of the complex plane.

This paper describes ebXML. It gives an overview on its background and architecture, approved under the ISO/TS 15000. It also analyzes implementations of the standards' modules as well as initiatives concerning its development and adoption. Other frameworks' efforts on convergence with ebXML are discussed as well as expectations on its place in the future for electronic business.

Patient safety has become a major defining issue for healthcare at the beginning of the 21(st) century. Viewed from the perspective of reliability of delivery of best practice, healthcare systems demonstrate a degree of imperfection which would not be tolerated in industry. In part, this is because of uncertainty about what constitutes best practice, combined with complex interventions in compl...

Mental disorders are both common and costly. The mental health system in Singapore lacks co-ordination as well as being underdeveloped in certain areas. To address these gaps as well to face emerging challenges like an ageing population, and other socioeconomic changes, the Ministry of Health of Singapore has commissioned a Committee to formulate a 5-year Mental Health Policy and Blueprint. A t...

This research study measures Uber’s community support initiatives’ return on investment (ROI). The company examined is Uber Technologies Inc. (Uber), which donates time and resources to communities in need after natural disasters or lack social support. will take a quantitative approach by measuring the value of earned media. use case analysis investigate how companies like generate assess ROI ...