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Couverture Maladie et Organization des Soins aux Etats-UnisVG. Rodwin, S. Chambaretaud & D. Lequet-Slama …
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Project Report: Population Aging and Longevity in World CitiesImprovements in health care and declining birth rates have combined to create rapidly aging populations throughout the industrialized world. By 2020, for example, nearly seventeen percent of the US population is expected to be over the age of sixty-five. …
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Universal Health Insurance in France: How Sustainable? Essays on the French Health Care SystemIn France, American nostrums of unleashing market forces under the banner of "consumer-directed health care," and selective contracting by private health insurers, have gained little ground. That should not, however, lead one to conclude that the French …
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A Comparative Analysis of Health Systems in Wealthy NationsHow 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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Health Services and Research and the CityHealth services research is, by nature, multidisciplinary, for it draws on the methods,concepts and theories of social sciences, which are relevant to the study of how the organization and financing of health services can improve the delivery of health …
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A New Way To Compare Health Systems: Avoidable Hospital Conditions in Manhattan and ParisBased on a comparison of discharges for avoidable hospital conditions (AHCs), we find that Paris provides greater access to primary care than Manhattan. Ageadjusted AHC rates are more than 2.5 times as high in Manhattan as in Paris. In contrast, the …
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Growing Older in World Cities: Implications for Healthy AgingDeclining birthrates, increasing longevity and growing urbanization have created a new challenge for cities: how to respond to an aging population. The World Cities Project was designed to examine whether the four largest cities among the wealthiest …
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Vieillir Dans Quatre Mégapoles: New-York, Londres, Paris et TokyoLes villes de New York, Londres, Paris et Tokyo concentrent une part majeure de l'activité et de la richesse de leurs nations. Elles connaissent une forte densité de population, et notamment de personnes âgées. Elles disposent en outre d'un potentiel en …
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Infant Mortality and Income in 4 world Cities: New York, London, Paris and TokyoObjective: We investigated the association between average income or deprivation and infant mortality rate across neighborhoods of four world cities. Methods: Using a maximum likelihood negative binomial regression model that controls for births, we …
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Gender and the Treatment of Heart Disease in Older Persons in the United States, France and England: A Comparative, Population-Based View of a Clinical PhenomenonBackground: Gender disparities in the treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD) have been extensively documented in studies from the United States. However, they have been less well studied in other countries and, to our knowledge, have not been …
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The World Cities Project: Rationale, Organization, and Design for Comparison of Megacity Health SystemsThis article provides an overview of the World Cities Project (WCP), our rationale for it, our framework for comparative analysis, and an overview of current studies in progress. The WCP uses New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo as a laboratory in which to …
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Infant Mortality Rates in Four Cities: London, Manhattan, Paris and TokyoA comparison of citywide infant mortality rates for Manhattan, Inner London, Paris, and Inner Tokyo during 1988–97 shows the Manhattan rate nearly always higher than those of the other cities. Differences in the neighborhood rate distributions of the four …
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The Health Care System Under French National Health Insurance: Lessons for Health Reform in the United StatesThe French health system combines universal coverage with a public–private mix of hospital and ambulatory care and a higher volume of service provision than in the United States. Although the system is far from perfect, its indicators of health status and …
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Accounting Fundamentals for Health Care ManagementAccounting Fundamentals for Health Care Management is ideal for an introductory course in financial accounting in both undergraduate and graduate programs. This is the first book that focuses on basic accounting in health care management. This essential …
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Building blocks of bias: Gender composition predicts male and female group members’ evaluations of each other and the groupThe present research examined how a group's gender composition influences intragroup evaluations. Group members evaluated fellow group members and the group as a whole following a shared task. As predicted, no performance differences were found as a …
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The blind leading: Power reduces awareness of constraintsPrevious research has found that power increases awareness of goal-relevant over goal-irrelevant information. However, this work has failed to distinguish between goal-facilitating and goal-inhibiting information, both of which are goal relevant. The …
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A Financial Analysis of New York State’s Child Welfare OrganizationsMarwell, Nicole, and Thad Calabrese, Jack Krauskopf …
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Nonprofit Exemptions and Homeowner Property Tax BurdenThis paper examines the question of whether there is any correlation between the prevalence of nonprofit organizations with property, plant, and equipment exempt from property taxation and the property tax burden for homeowners. Data from the Tax …
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Employee Benefit Financing and Municipal BankruptcyFive municipalities with populations over 100,000 have declared bankruptcy since 2008, as have some smaller ones, including Central Falls, RI, in 2011. The bankruptcies have unsettled citizens, current and retired employees, and creditors of the …