Health education charity closes its doors

Health Reform’s Impact on Charity Care

harity care programs (CCPs) have historically provided access to care and subsidized health coverage for uninsured and underinsured populations in the U.S. With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), these safety‐net programs are adjusting to the new health care environment. Many individuals who previously used charity care services now have health coverage options through the ACA...

Charity ratings

How do charitable donors respond to the third party ratings that signal the quality of charities? I investigate this question using a novel data set from Charity Navigator which provides quality ratings for 5400 charities. Since Charity Navigator prominently displays a charity’s star rating which is assigned based on its overall rating, one can identify the causal impact of a one star increase ...

TPP: trade-offs for health behind closed doors.

On Feb 4, 2016, after 7 years of negotiations, representatives from the USA, Japan, and ten other countries signed one of the largest trade and investment agreements in years, the Trans-Pacifi c Partnership (TPP). The negotiations were closed to the public, who only glimpsed drafts of the agreement when they were occasionally leaked. The participants were heavily lobbied by major industries. An...

From closed ranks to open doors: Elaine and John Cummings' mental health education experiment in 1950s Saskatchewan.

During late 1951 and early 1952, married couple, social biologist Elaine Cumming and psychiatrist John Cumming, led a mental health education experiment in Indian Head, Saskatchewan. The study, which was intended to inform strategies toward deinstitutionalization, sought to determine if attitudes regarding mental illness could be changed through commonly used educational practices. It was shape...

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