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Enforcing food quality and safety standards in Brazil: The case of COBRACANAGlobalization of production has been complemented by increasingly stricter product quality and safety regulations. This trend is particularly acute in the food and beverage sectors, which puts enormous strain on producers from developing nations. This …
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Do Small Schools Improve Performance in Large, Urban Districts? Causal Evidence from New York CityWe evaluate the effectiveness of small high school reform in the country's largest school district, New York City. Using a rich administrative datasest for multiple cohorts of students and distance between student residence and school to instrument for …
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Disparities in Service Quality Among Insured Adult Patients Seen in Physicians’ OfficesObjective To examine racial disparities in health care service quality. Design Secondary data analyses of visits by primary care service users in the Community Tracking Study household sample. Setting Sixty communities across the United States. …
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Review: The Net Benefits of Depression Management in Primary CareDepression is often diagnosed and treated in primary care settings. Organizational and systems interventions that restructure primary care practices and train staff have been shown to be cost-effective strategies for treating depression. Funders are …
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Advancing Research Data Infrastructure for Patient-Centered Outcomes ResearchPatient-centered outcomes research, which aims to assist clinicians and patients in making informed decisions regarding prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, is essential for improving the delivery of quality health care. Much of patient-centered outcomes …
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We All Want It, but We Don't Know What It Is: Toward a Standard of Affordability for Health Insurance PremiumsThe 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148), or ACA, requires that U.S. citizens either purchase health insurance or pay a fine. To offset the financial burden for lower-income households, it also provides subsidies to ensure that …
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Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities: The Action Plan from the Department of Health and Human ServicesThe Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently unveiled the most comprehensive federal commitment yet to reducing racial and ethnic health disparities. The 2011 HHS Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities not only responds …
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The Evolving Private Psychiatric Inpatient MarketThe private psychiatric hospital market has exhibited great volatility over time. From 1976 to 1992, the number of hospitals more than doubled, while in the decade following, the number of facilities dropped by half. Recently, however, the industry has …
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Aligning Ideologies and Institutions: Reorganization in the HIV/AIDS Services Administration of New York CityHow effective was organizational reform implemented inside one critical New York City health agency? Specifically, we examine the extent to which the reorganization of the HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA) into the Medical Insurance Services …
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Using Electronically Available Inpatient Hospital Data for ResearchDespite a push to create electronic health records and a plethora of healthcare data from disparate sources, there are no data from a single electronic source that provide a full picture of a patient’s hospital course. This paper describes a process to …
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Higher Fees Paid to US Physicians Drive Higher Spending for Physician Services Compared to Other CountriesHigher health care prices in the United States are a key reason that the nation’s health spending is so much higher than that of other countries. Our study compared physicians’ fees paid by public and private payers for primary care office visits and hip …
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From Research to Health Policy ImpactThe opportunities for researchers to improve health and health care by contributing to the formulation and implementation of policy are almost unlimited. Indeed, the availability of these opportunities is a tribute to a generation of health services …
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Chronic Condition: Why Health Reform FailsChronic Condition provides a compelling analysis of the causes of the current health care crisis and of the shortcomings of reform proposals. It also offers an ingenious new framework for reform that, while minimizing government interference, would …
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Better but Not Well: Mental Health Policy in the United States Since 1950The past half-century has been marked by major changes in the treatment of mental illness: important advances in understanding mental illnesses, increases in spending on mental health care and support of people with mental illnesses, and the availability …
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The Oxford Handbook of Health EconomicsThe Oxford Handbook of Health Economics provides an accessible and authoritative guide to health economics, intended for scholars and students in the field, as well as those in adjacent disciplines including health policy and clinical medicine. The …
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Will Mandatory Inclusionary Housing Create Mixed-Income Communities? Evidence From London, UKMandatory inclusionary housing, which requires market-rate housing developments to include a proportion of affordable housing units, has the potential to deliver affordable housing in more affluent neighborhoods and create mixed-income communities. This …
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The Racialized Costs of “Traditional” Banking in Segregated America: Evidence from Entry-Level Checking AccountsA growing body of evidence shows that America’s racial geography shapes access to basic financial services (e.g. banking), highlighting a mechanism connecting segregation to economic vulnerability: spatially organized institutional marginalization.s While …
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Contemporary Echoes of Segregationist Policy: Spatial Marking and the Persistence of InequalityThe Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), established in the US during the Great Depression to provide relief to a failing housing market, had a lasting effect through institutionalising the segregationist practice of denying mortgages to communities of …
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We Built This: Consequences of New Deal Era Intervention in America’s Racial GeographyThe contemporary practice of homeownership in the United States was born out of government programs adopted during the New Deal. The Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)—and later the Federal Housing Administration and GI Bill—expanded home buying …
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Strategies for Increasing Affordable Housing Amid the COVID-19 Economic CrisisThe Brookings Institution. …
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Using a Down Market to Launch Affordable Housing Acquisition StrategiesIngrid Ellen, Erin Graves, Katherine O’Regan, and Jenny Schuetz …
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Breaking Barriers, Boosting Supply: How the Federal Government Can Help Eliminate Exclusionary ZoningIngrid Gould Ellen and Solomon Greene …
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Breaking Barriers, Boosting Supply: How the Federal Government Can Help Eliminate Exclusionary ZoningIngrid Gould Ellen and Solomon Greene …
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Through the Roof: The Rising Cost of Rental Housing in the United States and What Localities Can Do About itIngrid Gould Ellen, Jeffrey Lubell, and Mark Willis …