AMERICANIZATION ITALIAN STYLE

Health reform, Italian-style.

The Americanization of Tony

Tony was my first social service case; the child had failed to attend the clinic regularly, and the hospital sent me into the crowded back street where he lived to visit his home and discover what kept him from his treatments. The house at the address given me proved to be a dilapidated, tipsy looking, two story affair, with a front porch that tilted rakishly forward, and a patch of front yard ...

Americanization of the Common Law

Accountability, Italian style: how to reply to government pressure?

The current paper addresses the complex issue of accountability by focusing on Italian public hospitals and teaching hospitals; it aims to analyze Italian health care organizations' strategies for responding to the pressure generated by regulations. In particular, in the last few years, Italian hospitals and teaching hospitals have been obliged to implement or improve their accountability instr...

Traumatic events and life-style in ancient Italian populations.

Traumatic lesions are commonly found in archaeological skeletal samples and provide useful information about various behavioral and cultural aspects of the populations. Our aim was to evaluate the relationship between the distribution and types of skeletal traumatic lesions and the different life-styles of past populations. We examined three necropolises in central Italy. Pozzilli (VI-IV centur...