T he recent rise in income inequality in the United States has received considerable attention in policy debates.1 This article discusses individual income inequality trends. In doing so, we summarize results presented in existing work. As in previous studies, the article shows that income inequality has increased since the 1960s—see, for example, Dı́azGiménez et al. (2002), Eckstein and Nagypal...

background and objectives: evidence shows that transfer of hospital governance to board of trustees can positively influence hospital performance. iran has initiated implementing such a transformation and a number of hospitals have been involved in this reform. this study aimed to explore the effectiveness of such a reform by examining performance profile of a sample hospital across the interve...