Aging And Health In South Dakota: Who Will Provide Care?

Can we select health professionals who provide safer care.

In order to improve patient safety, health services are looking to other industries' experiences and as a result are adopting a systems approach to learning from error, rather than simply focusing the blame on the individual. However, in health care the individual will remain an important contributor to safety and this paper looks at other literatures besides health to consider a number of indi...

Health care for native Americans: who will pay?

Livestock Development In South Dakota

development in this state. Q & A agrees with Mistry that two major “push” factors that are making producers in his part of Europe look elsewhere are tough environmental laws and limited agricultural land that is costly and increasingly hard to find. “There’s no doubt that the environmental laws in northern Europe are a lot tighter than they are here,” says Van der Sluis. “It’s almost impossible...

Livestock Development in South Dakota

Livestock producers and processors who deal in beef cattle, hogs, sheep, and poultry are also finding South Dakota to be an excellent location for processing plants and large-scale livestock operations. All this, makes for some general public concerns as residents in communities around the state try to chart a course that will allow for farm development while protecting the environment and deal...

Women's health and health reform: who will deliver primary care to women?

Recognizing that health reform is not addressing the specific issues involved in women's health, the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues introduced the Women's Health Equity Act. Representative Pat Schroeder said, ". . . whether we are talking about excluding women from medical research or giving short-shrift to research on breast cancer or contraception and infertility, women have been tre...