Shareholders, Stakeholders, and US Health Care

Shareholders vs Stakeholders Capitalism

Community health workers "101" for primary care providers and other stakeholders in health care systems.

Today's ambulatory care providers face numerous challenges as they try to practice efficient, patient-centered medicine. This article explains how community health workers (CHWs) can be engaged to address many patient- and system-related barriers currently experienced in ambulatory care practices. Community health workers are frontline public health workers who serve as a trusted bridge between...

Market justice and US health care.

IN THE UNITED STATES, HEALTH CARE COMPETES FOR CONsumers with other items in the marketplace. Individual resources and choices determine the distribution of health care, with little sense of collective obligation or a role for government. Known as market justice, this approach derives from principles of individualism, selfinterest, personal effort, and voluntary behavior. The contrasting approa...

Attitudes among stakeholders towards compulsory mental health care in Norway.

OBJECTIVES The Norwegian Mental Health Care Act allows use of coercion under certain conditions. Even though the current practice has been criticized, little empirical data exist about the attitudes towards compulsory mental health care. METHOD This study used Q-methodology to identify prototypical attitudes and to test possible differences of attitudes between groups of stakeholders towards ...

The creation of new entities: stakeholders and shareholders in 19th century Italian co-operatives

The numerous studies made of the persistence of the co-operative movement during the course of the 20th century, have often distinguished between economic efficiency and the ethical values (or ideologies) in questioni, as if the two were separate phenomena moving in parallel directions. However, over the past fifteen years at least two approaches have led to an interweaving of the cultural aspe...