Provision for grievance arbitration has been found in the majority of union contracts in the health care industry. While experience with arbitration is limited in health care compared to the private sector, interest in the process has been growing (perhaps along with the parallel growth of unionization). Arbitration is the terminal step in the grievance procedure, as arbitration awards are enfo...

background: according to the important role of health care apprentice program on medical students’ performance, especially in relation with social accountability of medical education, it is attempted to assess efficacy of health care apprentice program on the level of medical students’ knowledge and skills in the context of primary health care at babol university of medial sciences    methods: ...

BACKGROUND Inappropriate prescribing in the elderly is common, but rates across different health care systems and the impact of formulary restrictions are not well described. OBJECTIVE To determine if rates of inappropriate medication use in the elderly differ between the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system and the private sector Medicare health maintenance organization (HMO) patients. ...

Introduction Health and health care development has not been a priority of the Indian state. This is reflected in two significant facts. One, the low level of investment and allocation of resources to the health sector over the years – about one percent of GDP with clear declining trends over the last decade. And second the uncontrolled and very rapid development of an unregulated private healt...

BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE The global burden of disease falls disproportionately upon the world's low-income countries, which are often struggling with weak health systems. Both the public and private sector deliver health care in these countries, but the appropriate role for each of these sectors in health system strengthening remains controversial. This debate examines whether the private secto...

Environmental purchasing represents an innovative approach to mercury control for the health care sector in the United States. The U.S. health care sector creates significant environmental impacts, including the release of toxic substances such as mercury. Our goal in this study was to provide the health care industry with a method of identifying the environmental impacts associated with the pr...

a Save the Children UK, 1 St John’s Lane, London, EC1M 4AR, England. Correspondence to Giorgio Cometto (e-mail: [email protected]). In June 2009, a new Health in Africa Fund was launched by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the branch of The World Bank group mandated with supporting and expanding the private for-profit sector. This Fund will be managed by Aureos Capital, a p...

The range of options A government seeking to encourage private participation in health care provision can choose among six basic policy and regulatory options that vary widely in the risks and responsibilities borne by the private (for-profit or nonprofit) entity. At one end of the spectrum the private sector takes on limited responsibilities while the public sector remains the primary provider...

The purpose of this article is to examine the concept of case management acuity in the private sector and health insurance industry. In the era of the Affordable Care Act, case management practices across many sectors in the health care system are in a state of flux. In order to understand the context of current practices, a brief review of the various dimensions and definitions related to case...