Table of contents - Special Issue: Symposium on healthcare policy, financing and economics
Guest Editors: Mustafa Younis
Effective communication provides early intervention among Medicare patients
Henry O’Lawrence, Michell Poyaoan-LinzagaThe purpose of this paper is to determine the association between patients who talked to their doctor about their risk of falling, or occurrence of balance problem. This study…
Cost effectiveness in palliative care setting
Henry O’Lawrence, Rohan ChowlkarThe purpose of this paper is to determine the cost effectiveness of palliative care on patients in a home health and hospice setting. Secondary data set was utilized to test the…
Impact of health sector reforms on hospital productivity in Turkey: Malmquist index approach
Saleh Mollahaliloglu, Sahin Kavuncubasi, Fikriye Yilmaz, Mustafa Z. Younis, Fatih Simsek, Mustafa Kostak, Selami Yildirim, Emeka NwagwuTurkish Ministry of Health (MoH) has Health Transformation Program (HTP). The purpose of this program has been to modify the structure of the current system in order to enhance…
Educational interventions to increase cultural competence for nursing students
Susan Young, Kristina LuThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the study results conducted at a four-year university in Hawaii investigating the impact of providing nursing students with an educational…
Georgia rural hospital authorities as “shadow governments”
Mary Eleanor Rawlings Wickersham, Robert YehlThe tenuous financial viability of many of Georgia’s rural hospitals has driven increased scrutiny of the hospital authorities (HAs) that own and govern them. HAs are a type of…
Accountable care organizations: a strategy for future success?
Jeffrey Harrison, Aaron Spaulding, Debra A. HarrisonThe purpose of this paper is to assess the community dynamics and organizational characteristics of US hospitals that participate in accountable care organizations (ACO).
Integrating video technology and administrative practice in policing: A phenomenological exposé
Justin T. Piccorelli, Maria Veronica EliasThe purpose of this paper is to argue that philosophic and administrative thought have enframed (Heidegger, 1977) us to unconsciously accept technology in public administration…
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- Associate Professor Davide Secchi