Healthcare reform has prompted hospital executives to adopt new strategies aimed at population health management. Research regarding the broad determinants of health suggests that if hospitals are to build successful population health management models, they must engage in collaborative partnerships with a variety of community stakeholders. In this report, the author describes a collaborative p...

The Clinton Administration has implied that short-run failures to control health care costs may cause a reexamination of wage and price controls as elements of comprehensive health care reform. The most recent imposition of mandatory wage and price controls was the Economic Stabilization Program (ESP) of the early 1970s. We analyze trends in hospitals' economic behavior and utilization before, ...

The rapidly advancing implementation of public hospital reform urgently requires the identification and classification of a pool of exceptional medical specialists, corresponding with incentives to attract and retain them, providing a nucleus of distinguished expertise to ensure public hospital preeminence. This paper examines the significance of academic leadership, from a strategic management...

To date, the nurse educator role in the Australian hospital setting has been poorly described. Current pressures for health care reform have prompted reviews of nursing roles. This paper discusses the literature pertaining to the nurse educator role within the context of the Australian health care environment and current health care policy. Building on this synthesis, barriers and facilitators ...

Junior house officers have traditionally been the most distressed doctors in the health service. Recently, however, there have been reports of significant psychological morbidity in senior doctors such as hospital consultants. Previous studies found that levels of distress decrease with increasing medical seniority. Much of the organisational burden of recent hospital reform has fallen on consu...

The last twelve months have seen the already constrained Australian health space become an even more complex one. Faced by increasing demand for services, reduced funding and staffing, and pressures imposed by state and federal government health reform agendas, hospital based services are under increasing pressure to become more efficient in how they offer their services. There is a growing nee...

iran is one of the most energy-rich countries subsidizing energy carriers, especially in the agricultural sector, to the extent that the resulting growth is at the expense of the environment. this study tries to investigate the potential impacts of energy price reform on the agro-environment, based on the marginal abatement costs (macs) of emissions. firstly, the energy demand function of the a...