Who Has an Unsuccessful Observation Care Stay?

Who has the best health care system? A second look.

A 1994 opinion survey again shows Americans less satisfied with their health care system than Canadians and (West) Germans are with theirs. Americans also report more problems in paying for care and receiving needed services. However, overall satisfaction in Canada and Germany has fallen. Important cultural differences between the countries were identified. Americans have higher expectations fo...

Health care logistics: who has the ball during disaster?

In contemporary organizations, a wide gamut of options is available for sustaining and supporting health care operations. When disaster strikes, despite having tenable plans for routine replenishment and operations, many organizations find themselves ill-prepared, ill-equipped, and without effective mechanisms in place to sustain operations during the immediate aftermath of a crisis. Health car...

Primary health care in New Zealand: who has access?

OBJECTIVE We examined the demographic, socioeconomic, health behaviour and health determinants of financial barriers to access to general practitioner services, prescription drugs and dental care in New Zealand (NZ). METHODS Data from SoFIE-health, which is an add-on to the Statistics New Zealand-led Survey of Family, Income and Employment (SoFIE), were analyzed using logistic regression. R...

Who Has Anticipatory Feelings?

I consider a general model of decisionmaking where anticipatory feelings enter the agent's utility function in addition to physical outcomes, and allow for interactions between these two payo components. I use an equilibrium concept, personal equilibrium, that combines best response to other selves' strategies with rational expectations in the formation of feelings. A decisionmaker with feeling...

Transit-Induced Gentrification: Who Will Stay, and Who Will Go?