Volume 2, Issue 2 A financially stable hospital is crucial to a community’s health as well as its economy, especially in rural settings. Local hospitals not only provide residents with essential health care services, they are also a major employer and help fuel the local economy. Today, however, many of this country’s 1,600 small rural hospitals struggle to maintain financial stability and resp...

The aim of this study was to ascertain which competencies health information managers (HIMs) working in public hospital positions perceived were important for effective performance. A health information management competency model was developed based on the Boyatzis (1982) managerial competency model and modified to take into account previous health information management competency documents a...

OBJECTIVES To investigate factors associated with the return of home sampling kits for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). SETTING Online STI testing service offered to the residents of Birmingham and Solihull. PARTICIPANTS All patients requesting STI home sampling kits via the Umbrella sexual health service website between 15 July 2016 and 14 December 2016. INTERVENTIONS Associations...

This work aims at investigating the supply and demand of the medium-complexity services from the Federal District and surrounding municipalities from the state of Goiás. Our hypothesis is that the services organization offer of primary care (PC) from the Federal District (DF) and its surroundings overloads the medium-complexity services (MC), contributing to less equity in terms of communities ...

We develop an economic model of association based on voluntary contributions. Different equilibria corresponding to the different modes of formation of associations are analyzed and the results are compared with existing empirical literature. The main contribution consists in formalizing the voluntary association as a means of providing collectiveconsumption goods or services. We introduce the ...

Policy makers have recently begun to reconsider involuntary outpatient commitment as a means of enhancing public safety and providing mental health services to people deemed to be noncompliant with treatment. The authors review the therapeutic claims for outpatient commitment and take the position that there is insufficient evidence that it is effective. They offer arguments that outpatient com...

Current federal policy is directed toward encouraging reliance on the voluntary sector for the provision of personal care services to the frail elderly. "Of particular interest is the development of volunteer and peer group support. . . which will reduce dependence on social services" {Federal Register, 1982, p. 55114). One impetus behind this policy is the fear that the expansion of formal com...

This study explores the correlates of probationers' participation in 12-step programs, voluntary treatment, and mandated treatment, with respect to the geographic location of where the services are being provided as the primary covariate of interest. Data were derived from face-to-face interviews with rural and urban probationers (N = 1,464). Results of the three logistic regression models sugg...

BACKGROUND The legitimacy of conscientious objection to abortion continues to fuel heated debate in Italy. In two recent decisions, the European Committee for Social Rights underlined that conscientious objection places safe, legal, and accessible care and services out of reach for most Italian women and that the measures that Italy has adopted to guarantee free access to abortion services are ...