OBJECTIVES The goals were to assess private health insurance plans' policies and practices regarding recommended immunizations in 2008 and to identify trends since the America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) 2005 Immunization Assessment. METHODS In May 2008, AHIP staff members e-mailed a survey containing 46 questions on immunization practices to 101 AHIP member private health insurance plans...

The recent concept of ‘‘Health Insurance Marketplace’’ introduced to facilitate the purchase of health insurance by comparing different insurance plans in terms of price, coverage benefits, and quality designates a key role to the health insurance providers. Currently, the web based tools available to search for health insurance plans are deficient in offering personalized recommendations based...

As the General Counsel for the National Committee for Quality Assurance, which accredits health plans and measures outcome performance, Ms. Donohue is in a unique position to comment on the use of such data in litigation against health plans and providers. After reviewing the growing tide of class-action lawsuits in this area, she argues that such information should be protected under the commo...

It is meaningful for colleges to evaluate teaching staff annually. This paper developed a method to make fuzzy evaluation of teaching staff based on Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Technique (FCE). The main idea is getting experts’ opinions for proposed evaluation criteria, calculating the most appropriate weights to the criteria based on combination between AHP and Entropy methods, rating stude...

Identification and management the 'critical risk areas' where hotspot lead exposures are a potential risk to human health, become a major focus of public health efforts in China. But the knowledge of health risk assessment of lead pollution at regional and national scales is still limited in China. In this paper, under the guidance of 'sources-pathways-receptors' framework, regional human healt...

The evaluation model on technical innovation ability of small and medium enterprises is set up based on analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation methods, which takes quantitative index as main parts and considers reality so that better practicability is obtained. Meanwhile, technical innovation ability of small and medium enterprises in Heilongjiang Province of China are ob...

In this article, we applied the AHP method with quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis to analyze three sorts of basic educational mode combining production with learning and research, i.e. the automated instruction, the mode combining production and learning, and the integration combining production with learning and research, and obtained that the educational mode combining production...

The fundamental objective of a patient-centered health care system is to maximize value for individuals and families so that they receive more benefit and better results for their health care dollars, both as patients and as consumers buying health insurance. Only when individuals choose and own their own health insurance will the other actors in the system-health plans and providershave the ri...

PURPOSE We describe young adults' perspectives on health insurance and HealthCare.gov, including their attitudes toward health insurance, health insurance literacy, and benefit and plan preferences. METHODS We observed young adults aged 19-30 years in Philadelphia from January to March 2014 as they shopped for health insurance on HealthCare.gov. Participants were then interviewed to elicit th...