Previous research based on the Community Tracking Study (CTS) showed that while coverage expansions through the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) greatly increased children's eligibility for public or private health insurance coverage, uninsurance rates remained unchanged because of low take-up by eligible children. However, more recent data show that this is changing. Children'...

BACKGROUND The objective was to measure the sensitivity of a group of physicians regarding the ethics-related situations, which they faced during patient care and treatment. METHODS All of 306 physicians who joined the Turkish Army for compulsory military service in December 2008 were included in the study. A "Moral Sensitivity Questionnaire", formed by Kim Lutzen, was applied to all of them....

Provider/consumer racial and gender issues Many who practice in an urban clinic setting or in a teaching institution are very familiar with the statistics we have heard and the problems of health care disparities rooted in the racial or ethnic differences of our patient population. For the large majority of pediatric dentists who are in private practice, I want to stress that we should remain k...

In a study of over 10,000 acquisitions between 1991 and 2002, we find evidence that past success raises future performance in private, or semi-private, bids but not in public bids. We also find that past success was not associated with the number of prior acquisitions. We attribute this past success to an unobserved acquisition competence and argue that acquisition competence must be based on s...

This chapter looks to analyse new paradigms in the relationship between public and private organisations towards tourism destinations. It proposes new approaches for increased performance both at the competitive and the organisational level. Based on the literature review, this chapter suggests new organisational forms of being and interaction directed at increased customer needs and growing co...

Today’s network infrastructures are inadequate to cover the needs of small groups or new requirements that popup daily from the ever-increasing demand for more sophisticated services. Place-Oriented VPNs are based on the agent technology and can be built on top of existing infrastructure by any user. We expect that in the future this flexible, dynamic and low cost approach that supports not onl...

Unit System Unsatisfactory. After three years' experience, the London Hospital has found that the unit system, whereby specialists are induced to abandon private practice and in return for a salary to devote themselves to teaching and research, is unsatisfactory. A teacher is found to lose touch with the wider question of a patient's welfare and to concentrate too much upon the " case." The uni...