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International Medical Graduate Health System Acculturation… American peers in acculturating to the US health care system, the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA) … to address the needs of IMGs arriving in a medical system that is foreign to them. In preparation for a 2006 … Medical Graduates familiarity with the US health system. …
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The Promise of Evidence-Based Management… more often than not clinical errors occur as a result of a system failure-management-type decisions made without the …
Publication
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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CYC: Getting Started… NGO, or aspire to really change the criminal justice system as we know it, or create a financing system that makes it possible to equalize health outcomes. …
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Transport, the Environment and Security: Making the Connection… with other infrastructure sectors. The US rail transit system, ecological corridors, cyber security, planning …
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Technology Requirements… that can occur when you use your computer's built-in sound system. … System Requirements An internet connection – broadband wired …
News
City and State Names a Pair of NYU Wagner Community Members to 2024 Transportation Power 100… of accessibility improvements within the mass transit system. In addition to her role at NYU, Kaufman also serves … the MTA, Arroyo has also been working to make the transit system more accessible for people with disabilities, also …
Alumni In Action
Charles Cohen… utilization of the accessibility features within this system as well as our progress toward achieving system wide accessibility goals, not just for New York City, … on the overall accessibility of the city's subway and bus system. Not just thinking about those with disabilities, but …
Capstone Projects
An Analysis of Pest Control Services Response and Complaint Tracking Protocols… and staff utilization. The cross linked information system, which has been under development within the City system, needs to be fully implemented to include Pest Control …
Capstone Projects
Assessing the Adequacy of the Federal Employee Compensation Act: A Study of Federal Civilian Employees Deployed to Iraq and AfghanistanIncreasing numbers of federal civilian employees (FCEs) are being deployed to help aid reconstruction and intelligence operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Working side by side with troops, FCEs engage in work that can put them at similar risk for injury …
Capstone Projects
Building a Foundation for Organizational and Programmatic Evaluation… Transgender Community Center (the Center) to implement a system to measure organizational and programmatic … developed the framework of a logic-model based evaluation system for the Center. This framework includes …
Capstone Projects
Building a Foundation for Organizational and Programmatic Evaluation… Transgender Community Center (the Center) to implement a system to measure organizational and programmatic … developed the framework of a logic-model based evaluation system for the Center. This framework includes …
Capstone Projects
Developing a Volunteer Management System… team to develop a formalized volunteer management system. The team researched common volunteer experiences, … hire, place, monitor and evaluate volunteers. The new system also includes a method to incorporate volunteer … Developing a Volunteer Management System …
News
Editorial by Prof. Victor Rodwin Looks at BRIC Health Systems and Big PharmaAn editorial written by Professor Victor Rodwin for the International Journal of Health Policy and Management explores the increasing reliance by the healthcare systems in Brazil, Russia, India, and China on prescriptions drugs. "The response of the BRIC …
Capstone Projects
Impact of Subsidies on Bus Transit System Cost Efficiency… Impact of Subsidies on Bus Transit System Cost Efficiency …
Publication
Health and Health Care in BRIC Cities: Ideas for Collaborative ResearchAvailable on SSRN database here . The largest cities in the wealthy nations all face an unprecedented challenge: how to meet the needs of a population that lives longer, has a declining birth rate, is generally healthier, but also increasingly beset by …
Faculty Profile
Susan MisraSusan Misra founded AuroraCommons to nurture a society that embodies a “Whole Planet - Whole People - Whole Power” approach. We believe that liberation, justice, and equity will come when our social norms, policies, worldviews, structural incentives, …
Stories
Alumni Spotlight: Hunter Johansson (MPA 2018)Solar Responders (SR), a New York-based nonprofit organization, installs solar power and battery storage in fire stations in Puerto Rico. The organization’s mission was developed in response to the devastation Hurricane Maria caused to the island’s power …
Stories
Tuberculosis: History and Its Discontents… anymore. There’s only profit in it.” In the current system, as Krishnan points out, “no one can be saved unless … while expressing that, “When we look at a public health system we have to say we want to get rid of it [TB], not we … from “how the economic structure around our health system functions.” To further illuminate the much-needed …
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Publications - ICIS… Proceedings of the Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences , IEEE Computer Society. R. Zimmerman (2005) … and Economic Cost of a Terrorist Attack on the Electric System,” Chapter 14 in The Economic Costs and Consequences of …
Capstone Projects
EXPANSION OF SHARED GOVERNANCE AND PRACTICE STANDARDSNewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) is one of the nation's most comprehensive, integrated academic healthcare delivery systems dedicated to providing the highest quality and most compassionate care and service to patients. NYP recently acquired five …
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EXPANDING CIVIC ENGAGEMENTCitizens Committee for Children of New York (CCCNY) is a New York City-based nonprofit that advocates for policies that enhance the lives of young people. CCCNY enlisted a team to develop strategies to enhance its civic engagement techniques, widen the …
Capstone Projects
Electronic Medical Records Implementation… efforts to launch an electronic medical records system linking each of their facilities and labs. The … that have implemented an Electronic Medical Record System. Through this research, the Capstone team was able to … most effectively implement an Electronic Medical Records System. The Capstone teams initial recommendations were …
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Neighborhood EffectsSocial scientists have long been concerned with the role of space in systems of stratification. While scholars in the field of ‘neighborhood effects’ have typically focused on how a community affects the life chances of its residents, we argue for a …