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Power, Culture, and Action: Considerations in the Expression and Enactment of Power in East Asian and Western SocietiesWe present a model of how culture affects both the conceptualizations and behavioral consequences of power, focusing in particular on how culture moderates the previously demonstrated positive relationship between power and assertive action. Western …
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Efforts to Improve Public Policy and Programs Through Improved "Data Practice": Experiences in Fifteen Distressed American Cities"Philanthropies and government agencies interested in children's issues are encouraging localities to improve the process of collecting, linking, and sharing microdata and aggregated summary statistics. An implicit assumption of these efforts is that …
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Inconsistencies in Place Definition: How Different Operational Place Definitions Affect Estimates of Adolescent Smoking and Drinking RiskWe find that estimates of the prevalence of teenage smoking and drinking in "urban," "suburban," and "rural" areas vary with different definitions of these types of geographic units. Given the salience of youth risk behavior to the public debate, we urge …
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Case Findings for Patients at Risk of Re-Hospitalisation Development of an Algorithm to Identify High Risk PatientsOBJECTIVE: To develop a method of identifying patients at high risk of readmission to hospital in the next 12 months for practical use by primary care trusts and general practices in the NHS in England. DATA SOURCES: Data from hospital episode statistics …
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Race, Segregation, and Physicians' Participation in MedicaidMany studies have explored the extent to which physicians’ characteristics and Medicaid program factors influence physicians’ decisions to accept Medicaid patients. In this article, we turn to patient race/ethnicity and residential segregation as …
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Best Schools, Worst Schools and School EfficiencyContains papers by state education dept. policymakers, analysts, & data providers on emerging issues in school finance. Includes: estimates of disparities & analysis of the causes of expenditures in public school districts; race, poverty & the student …
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Do Good High Schools Produce Good College Students? Early Evidence From New York CityWe examine variation in high school and college outcomes across New York City public high schools. Using data on 80,000 students who entered high school in 1998 and following them into the City University of New York, we investigate whether schools that …
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Is there a Nativity Gap? New Evidence on the Academic Performance of Immigrant StudentsPublic schools across the United States are educating an increasing number and diversity of immigrant students. Unfortunately, little is known about their performance relative to native-born students and the extent to which the "nativity gap" might be …
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So Many Children Left Behind: Segregation and the Impact of Subgroup Reporting in <em>No Child Left Behind</em> on the Racial Test Score GapAlthough the No Child Left Behind Act was intended to help "all students meet high academic standards," it is focused on subgroups of low-achieving students. The authors analyze the possible impact of the legislation's requirement for performance …
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Immigrant and Native-born Differences in School Stability and Special Education: Evidence from New York CityUsing the literature on achievement differences as a framework and motivation, along with data on New York City students, we examine nativity differences in students' rates of attendance, school mobility, school system exit, and special education …
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Researcher-Community Collaboration for STD Prevention. The Gonorrhea Community Action Project in HarlemCommunity interventions are rare in the field of sexually transmitted disease (STD) control and prevention. The goals of the Gonorrhea Community Action Project are to design and implement interventions for the reduction of gonorrhea in high-prevalence …
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Effectiveness of STD/HIV behavior change intervention on women's use of the female condomThis study assessed the effectiveness of a sexually transmitted disease (STD)/HIV behavior change intervention in increasing women's use of the female condom. Methods. A total of 604 women at high risk for STDs and HIV in New York City, Baltimore, Md, and …
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Staying Alive to Learning: Integrating Enactments with Case Teaching to Develop LeadersDiscusses the importance of case discussion teaching method in training professionals on public policy. Analysis and action cycle; Experience with issues of risk and uncertainty; Work with enactments to generate learning from parallel processes; Hazards …
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Cost ContainmentHow do we understand and also assess the health care of America? Where is health care provided? What are the characteristics of those institutions which provide it? Over the short term, how are changes in health care provisions affecting the health of the …
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Essentials of Cost Accounting for Health Care OrganizationsEssentials of Cost Accounting for Health Care Organizations, Third Edition is a comprehensive text that applies the tool and techniques of cost accounting to the health services field. It is an essential tools for all professionals who need to deal with …
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Fiscal Decentralization Policy in Developing Countries: Bridging Theory and RealityIn a critical examination of some of the most topical and challenging issues confronting the public sector in developing counties in an era of globalization, the contributors to this book examine the potential and limits of managerial, fiscal and …
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Financing Pro-poor Governance in AfricaDefines key lessons on financing pro-poor governance based on cases from Latin America, Asia and Africa (Colombia, Indonesia, Kenya and Uganda). The starting point for pro-poor fiscal decentralisation is that its major goals should be improved governance …
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Enabling low-income families to buy their own homes while holding the land in trust for the communityThe Burlington Community Land Trust has a radical vision: to secure housing as a basic right, not as a commodity to be bought and sold. The Trust enables low-income families to buy homes on land it owns, controls and keeps perpetually affordable. Founded …
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Efficiency and Tax Incentives: The Case for Refundable Tax CreditsEach year the federal individual income tax code provides over $500 billion worth of incentives intended to encourage socially beneficial activities, such as charitable contributions, homeownership, and education. This is an enormous investment, exceeding …
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The contribution of primary care systems to health outcomes in OECD countries, 1970-1998.Objective To assess the contribution of primary care systems to a variety of health outcomes in 18 wealthy Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries over three decades. Data Sources/Study Setting Data were primarily derived …
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Avaliação das características organizacionais dos serviços de atenção básica em Petrópolis: teste de uma metodologia [Evaluation of the primary care services organization in Petrópolis: a methodological test ]O objetivo da pesquisa foi adaptar e aplicar um instrumento para medir dimensões organizacionais do sistema de atenção básica no município de Petrópolis (RJ), comparando as dimensões organizacionais selecionadas em dois tipos de unidades: as do Programa …
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Primary care, social inequalities, and birth outcomes in U.S. statesStudy objective: The study tests the extent to which primary care physician supply (office based primary care physicians per 10 000 population) moderates the association between social inequalities and infant mortality and low birth weight throughout the …
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An Evaluation of the Impact of the Family Health Program on Infant Mortality in Brazil, 1990-2002Objective: To use publicly available secondary data to assess the impact of Brazil's Family Health Program on state level infant mortality rates (IMR) during the 1990s. Design: Longitudinal ecological analysis using panel data from secondary sources. …
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Fact Sheet on the Continued Crisis in Charitable OrganizationsThree years after the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., confidence in charitable organizations continues to languish well below its pre-September 11 levels. Despite hopes that the confidence would rebound with the mere passage of …