This study estimated the possible surge in demand for primary care among the low-income population in Houston/Harris County under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and related it to existing supply by safety-net providers. A model of the demand for primary care visits was developed based on California Health Interview Survey data and applied to the Houston/Harris County population...

Los primeros trabajos sobre inmigración y atención sanitaria en España comienzan a publicarse entre mediados de los años 801 y principios de los 902, aunque la eclosión de estudios parece producirse en torno al año 20003-5. Sin pretender ser exhaustivos, la mayoría de ellos se han dedicado al estudio de enfermedades infecciosas6,7, atención a la mujer durante el embarazo8 y población pediátrica...

www.fews.net Traditionally, FEWS NET has focused on household access to markets and, as a consequence, regular price analysis and reporting has emphasized describing current price conditions – how affordable is food. But it is recognized that deeper market analysis can make a significant contribution to food security and early warning analysis. Placing the analysis in the broader market syste...

Many developing countries are experimenting with decentralisation of public service delivery to elected local governments instead of bureaucrats appointed by a central government. We study the resulting implications in a theoretical model in which the central government is uninformed about local need and unable to monitor service allocations. Bureaucrats charge bribes for services as monopoly p...

Suicide is the ultimate outcome of poor psychological well-being; however, there is a paucity of research examining the link between occupation and suicide, despite early academic interest and the known importance of work to our everyday lives. We propose that this body of research was abandoned prematurely, and we provide a reanalysis by integrating the Job Characteristics Model and the Conser...

Electronic health records (EHRs) are promising tools to improve quality and efficiency in health care, but data on their adoption rate are limited. We identified surveys on EHR adoption and assessed their quality. Although surveys returned widely different estimates of EHR use, when available information is limited to studies of high or medium quality, national estimates are possible: Through 2...

a r t i c l e i n f o Tacit knowledge affects the trade-off between entrepreneurship and technology transfer. I present a formal model in which an inventor and the existing firm engage in a strategic innovation game by choosing whether to compete or to cooperate through technology transfer. The model highlights how the problem of tacit knowledge affects the inventor's R&D investment and the exi...

Health care providers that have traditionally served the poor are forming their own managed care plans, often in alliance with local safety-net peers. These alliances make it easier to raise needed capital, increase the pool of likely enrollees, and enable plans to benefit from efficiencies of scale. At the same time, however, the alliances often are undermined by conflicts of interest among th...

The paper focuses on supervision approaches in which the supervisor is a Petri net (PN). Special attention is given to the monitorbased approaches. In monitor-based supervision, the set of transitions (events) of a supervisor is a subset of the set of transitions (events) of the plant. The significance of monitor-based approaches to the design of the general PN supervisors is emphasized. The ap...