...School of Policy, Planning and Development University of Southern California PPD 515: Strategic Management of Healthcare Organizations Intensive Semester |Session I: June 5 through 8, 2008 |Time: 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM | |Session II: June 23 and 24, 2008 | | |Session III: July 14 and 15, 2008 | | Professor: Robert C. Myrtle, D.P.A. Office Phone: (213) 740-0378 FAX: (562) 439-2250 Home Phone: (562) 438-4359 E-Mail: myrtle@usc.edu Office Hours: By Appointment Only Office Location: Lewis Hall 301e Course Description Application of principles of health administration in several practice settings. Decision making, strategic management, organizational performance, communication, and provider comparisons. Introduction This course is designed to be the capstone course for the Master of Health Services Administration degree. It assumes that the student is in the final semester of graduate work and has successfully completed course work in health issues and policy, health economics, financial management, organizational behavior, quantitative analysis, and health law. The title of the course and its description has been instrumental in shaping the focus of this course and the material...
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...The “Hosanna-Tabor” Case in the US Supreme Court Introduction “Evangelical Lutheran Church and School Hosanna-Tabor v. Commission for Equal Employment Opportunities-CIOE” is a famous case decided in January 2012 by the United States Supreme Court. It addressed the right to religious freedom and the establishment clause, the "ministerial exception" and the limits of state intervention in the internal affairs of a church. Arguably, "Hosanna-Tabor" is the most important case on religious freedom to reach the Supreme Court in the last 20 years. A case in which the Supreme Court established a milestone in the understanding of cases involving labor relations and religions institutions. More specifically on the scope of the term "ministerial exception" as well as the "establishment clause and free exercise", brought by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Analysis of the Decision The Supreme Court reviews, in this case, an argument between the interpretation of the constitutional provision in the Americans with Disabilities Act, which protects people with disabilities in hiring and against dismissal without cause. The issues raised are as follows: Can a disabled person to be fired from his or hers job, even if the employer is a religious organization? What is the limit and the scope of the "ministerial exception" and the "free exercise clause", especially when there is a conflict with other values? More specifically, what was discussed was whether...
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...with multiple competing, possibly irreconcilable, solutions. Articulating alternative solutions is the problem of due process. This problem and its consequences are illustrated by a case study of a rate-setting group in a large health insurance firm. There is no formal solution to the problem of due process. But it must be solved in practice if distributed intelligent 01% are to be developed. We propose an alternative approach based on the work of social scientists concerned with analyzing analogous problems in human organization. Solution of the due process problem hinges on developing local closures to the problem faced by an organization. This means analyzing (a) local, tacit knowledge and its transfer ability; (b) articulation work, that is, reconciling incommensurate assumptions and procedures. Categories and Subject Descriptors: H.l.l [Models and Principles]: Systems and Information Theory; 1.2.0 [Artificial Intelligence]: General; 1.2.4 [Artificial Intelligence]: Knowledge Rep- resentation Formalisms and Methods; K.6.1 [Management of Computing and Information Systems]: Project and People Management-systems analysis and design; systems deuelopment; K.6.4 [Management of Computing and Information Systems]: System Management-centralization/ decentralization General Terms: Design, Human Factors 1. INTRODUCTION No representation of the world is either complete or permanent [ 111....
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...PERSONAL ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE OF Course Name: Principles of Insurance Course Code: F-210 Submitted to: Samia Sultana Tani Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, Faculty of Business Studies, University of Dhaka. Submitted by: Group No: Section :B B.B.A 17th Batch Department of Finance University of Dhaka. Date of Submission: 27 November, 2012. A Combined Effort of Sl No. | Name | ID-No. | Remarks | 01 | Rakibul Islam | 17-052 | | 02 | Ivy Akhter | 17-046 | | 03 | Mousumi Saha | 17-154 | | 04 | Morium Sultana Moni | 17-104 | | 05 | Nipul Hosen | 17-058 | | 06 | ShantaDev | 17-086 | | 07 | ShamsunNaher | 17-112 | | 08 | Emaj Sultana | 17-062 | | 09 | FatemaTujJuhura | 17-156 | | 10 | SadiaSharminUrmi | 17-192 | | Letter of Transmittal 27 November, 2012 Samia Sultana Tani Assistant Professor Department of Finance Faculty of Business Studies University of Dhaka Subject: Submission of the Report. Dear Madam, It gives us immense pleasure to submit the report on “personal accident and health insurance of pragati insurance limited” This report is submitted as the requirement to fulfill the course “Principles of insurance”. The experience that we gathered through this research was very interesting, joyful and valuable one. This is an ideal ground for...
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...Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ˈtʃɑrlz ˈdɪkɪnz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.[1] During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.[2][3] Born in Portsmouth, England, Dickens was forced to leave school to work in a factory when his father was thrown into debtors' prison. Although he had little formal education, his early impoverishment drove him to succeed. Over his career he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas and hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms. Dickens sprang to fame with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. Within a few years he had become an international literary celebrity, famous for his humour, satire, and keen observation of character and society. His novels, most published in monthly or weekly instalments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction, which became the dominant Victorian mode for novel publication.[4][5] The instalment format allowed Dickens to evaluate his audience's reaction...
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...outside the workplace. Girls need to be encouraged to take more male-dominated subjects at school and later at university, and to aspire to do well in their careers. Girls and boys also need to be taught equality from an early age. This education can take place in schools and career programmes and in the home. To those who argue that quotas are a good way to initiate this change, I would like to point out that artificially imposing rules has not always had the desired effect. When governments required males and females to receive the same pay for the same jobs, employers simply changed job titles to ensure that women were still paid less than men. It is my belief that employers will simply try to find loopholes to get around any such law. In summary, I do not believe that forcing companies to allocate jobs to women is the best way to...
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... 2004-1-6 12.38p Page iv Copyright © 2004 David A. Logan Wayne A. Logan All Rights Reserved ISBN 0-89089-847-2 LCCN 2003115021 Carolina Academic Press 700 Kent Street Durham, North Carolina 27701 Telephone (919) 489-7486 Fax (919) 493-5668 www.cap-press.com Printed in the United States of America logan 2e 00 fmt 2004-1-6 12.38p Page v To our students, who keep us learning. logan 2e 00 fmt 2004-1-6 12.38p Page vi logan 2e 00 fmt 2004-1-6 12.38p Page vii Contents Preface Acknowledgments Part I The Basic Negligence Cause of Action xix xxi 1 3 5 8 15 15 19 22 25 27 27 33 Chapter 1 Duty 1.10 Duty 1.20 Misfeasance and Nonfeasance [1] Special Applications of the Misfeasance Rule [a] Negligent Entrustment of Chattel [b] “Negligent Entrustment” and Alcohol [c] Spoliation of Evidence Chapter 2 Duty Despite Nonfeasance: The Special Relationship Exceptions 2.10 Duty Despite Nonfeasance 2.20 Duty Because of a Special Relationship between the Plaintiff and the Defendant 2.30 Duty to Control Another for the Benefit of the Plaintiff Chapter 3 No Duty Despite Misfeasance: Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress and Negligent Infliction of Pure Economic Harm 3.10 No Duty Despite Misfeasance 3.20 Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress [1] The Early Cases [2] Johnson v. Ruark Obstetrics and Its Progeny [3] Pre-Impact Fear of Dying [4] Fear of Contracting Medical Condition 3.30 Negligent Infliction of Pure...
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...Order Code RL33199 Data Security Breaches: Context and Incident Summaries Updated May 7, 2007 Rita Tehan Information Research Specialist Knowledge Services Group Data Security Breaches: Context and Incident Summaries Summary Personal data security breaches are being reported with increasing regularity. Within the past few years, numerous examples of data such as Social Security, bank account, credit card, and driver’s license numbers, as well as medical and student records have been compromised. A major reason for the increased awareness of these security breaches is a California law that requires notice of security breaches to the affected individuals. This law, implemented in July 2003, was the first of its kind in the nation. State data security breach notification laws require companies and other entities that have lost data to notify affected consumers. As of January 2007, 35 states have enacted legislation requiring companies or state agencies to disclose security breaches involving personal information. Congress is considering legislation to address personal data security breaches, following a series of high-profile data security breaches at major financial services firms, data brokers (including ChoicePoint and LexisNexis), and universities. In the past three years, multiple measures have been introduced, but to date, none have been enacted. This report will be updated regularly. Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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...Six Sigma is a set of tools and techniques/strategies for process improvement originally developed by Motorola in 1981.[1][2] Six Sigma became well known after Jack Welch made it a central focus of his business strategy at General Electric in 1995,[3] and today it is used in different sectors of industry.[4] Six Sigma seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects (errors) and minimizing variability in manufacturing and business processes.[5] It uses a set of quality management methods, including statistical methods, and creates a special infrastructure of people within the organization ("Champions", "Black Belts", "Green Belts", "Yellow Belts", etc.) who are experts in the methods.[5] Each Six Sigma project carried out within an organization follows a defined sequence of steps and has quantified value targets, for example; process cycle time reduction, customer satisfaction, reduction in pollution, cost reduction and/or profit increase.[5] The term Six Sigma originated from terminology associated with manufacturing, specifically terms associated with statistical modeling of manufacturing processes. The maturity of a manufacturing process can be described by a sigma rating indicating its yield or the percentage of defect-free products it creates. A six sigma process is one in which 99.99966% of the products manufactured are statistically expected to be free of defects (3.4 defects per million), although, as discussed below...
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...CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.0 Introduction This chapter serves the general outlook of the research. It will provide the health insurance planning overview, general information regarding the organization, the existing group health insurance plan which provided by the employer (LHDNM), background of study, the problem statement, research objective, research question, hypothesis, and scope of study, limitation of study, significance of study and definition of terms. Firstly, the title of the research is “The Study on the Factors Influencing The Purchasing Behavior of Personal Health Insurance among The Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia‟s (LHDNM) Staff”. There are general overviews of the personal health insurance planning and the background of the organization. After that the researcher will discuss about the background of study, problem statement, research objective and research questions. Besides, the researcher will state hypothesis of the relationship between three independent variables. Then the researcher will attach the scope of study and limitation of study. The next part is the significant of the study and definition of term. 1 1.1 About health insurance planning Health insurance, like other forms of insurance, is a form of collectivism by means of which people collectively pool their risk, in this case the risk of incurring medical expenses. The collective is usually publicly owned or else is organized on a non-profit...
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...Retail Location Analysis: A Case Study of Burger King & McDonald’s in Portage & Summit Counties, Ohio A thesis submitted to the College of Arts of Kent State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts by Niti Duggal December, 2007 Thesis written by Niti Duggal B.A. (Hons), University of Delhi, India 1996 M.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 1998 MPhil, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 2001 M.A., Kent State University, 2007 Approved by ____________________________________, Advisor Dr. Jay Lee ____________________________________, Chair, Department of Geography Dr. Jay Lee ____________________________________, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Dr. Jerry Feezel ii Table of Contents Table of Contents ……………………………………………………………….. iii List of Maps and Figures …………………………………………….………….. v List of Tables …………………………………………………………………… viii Acknowledgments ……………………………………………………………… ix Chapter 1: Introduction …………………………………………………………..…… 1 1.1 Research Objectives ............................................................................ 2 1.2 Summary …………………………………………………..…..……. 4 2: Problem Statements ………………………………………………...……. 6 2.1 Size and Shape of the Retail Trade Area………….……………....…. 6 2.2 Summary………………………………………..………………...….. 9 3: Literature Review ………………………………………………………… 11 3.1 GIS for Business and service Sector Planning ……………………….11 3.2 GIS as a Tool for Retail Location Decisions………………………...
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...short term but also may enhance the patient’s compliance with primary and supportive treatments and may improve quality of life.[5] When a patient has a refractory, widely disseminated malignancy for which specific therapy is no longer being pursued, the patient may want to consider withholding therapy for hypercalcemia. For patients or families who have expressed their wishes regarding end-of-life issues, this may represent a preferred timing and/or mode of death (as compared with a more prolonged death from advancing metastatic disease). This option is best considered long before the onset of severe hypercalcemia or other metabolic abnormalities that impair cognition, so that the patient may be involved in the decision making. In this summary, unless otherwise stated, evidence and practice issues as they relate to adults are discussed. The evidence and application to practice related to children may differ significantly from information related to adults. When specific information about the care of...
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...Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick Marketing Plan Terry Babbage 2008 1 CONTENTS Part One: Summary of main recommendations………………………………3 Part Two: Marketing St Mary’s: the current position………………………..5 The product………………………………………………………………………..5 Unique selling point…………………………………………………..………….6 Current marketing activity………………………………..………………………6 Charging policy…………………………………………………………..………7 SWOT analysis……………………………………………………………………8 Tourism sites in Warwick…………………………………………………………9 Tourism organisations…………………………………………………………….9 Local websites…………………………………………………………………….11 Part Three: Proposed actions……………………………………………..……12 Internal communications and report structure…………………………………….12 Gift Aid……………………………………………………………………………12 Church layout…………………………………………………………..…………13 Charging policy options…………………………………………………………...14 Advertising options………………………………………………………………..16 The Shop…………………………………………………..………………………17 Website…………………………………………………………………………….18 Visitor makeup…………………………………………………………………….19 Guiding and group visits…………………………………………………………..20 Appendix: Statistics……………………………………………………………,,,21 2 PART ONE : SUMMARY OF MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS This report has developed from the growing awareness that St Mary’s finance were not as healthy as they once were, and that action needed to be taken, fairly urgently, to maximise income. Terry Babbage has compiled this Plan, working closely with Jayne McHale and Clive Black. It is envisaged that they will continue to oversee its implementation...
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...Journal of Health Economics journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/econbase Moral hazard in insurance, value-based cost sharing, and the benefits of blissful ignorance Mark V. Pauly ∗ , Fredric E. Blavin Health Care Systems Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 3641 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6218, United States a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t The conventional theory of optimal coinsurance rates for health insurance with moral hazard indicates that coinsurance should vary with the price responsiveness or price-elasticity of demand for different medical services. An alternative theory called “value-based cost sharing” indicates that coinsurance should be lower for services with higher (marginal) benefits relative to costs. This paper reconciles the two views. It shows that, if patient demands are based on correct information, optimal coinsurance is the same under either theory. If patient demands differ from informed demands, optimal coinsurance depends both on information imperfection and price responsiveness. Value-based cost sharing can be superior to providing information (even if the cost of information is minimal) when patient demands fall short of informed demands. An extended numerical example illustrates these points. © 2008 Published by Elsevier B.V. Article history: Received 17 August 2007 Received in revised form 20 June 2008 Accepted 8 July 2008 Available online 18 July 2008 JEL classification: I11 Keywords: Health...
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...RESEARCH ON THE TRENDS IN DRUG ABUSE AND EFFECTIVE MEASURES FOR THE TREATMENT OF THE DRUG ABUSERS IN ASIAN COUNTRIES AN ANALYSIS OF INNOVATIVE MEASURES FOR THE TREATMENT OF DRUG ABUSERS PREFACE Crimes related to drug abuse and the illegal manufacturing and trafficking of drugs are serious problems for virtually every country. The abuse of drugs has an adverse impact, not only on the individual abuser, but also on the economy and society of a country as a whole. Drug use and the problems that accompany it have an extremely deleterious effect on the healthy development of young people, especially. Due to the rapid increase in drug related crime and drug abusers in Asian countries, the establishment of effective countermeasures for demand and supply reduction are a pressing issue. In light of the above-mentioned situation, the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI); and the Research Division of the Research and Training Institute, Ministry of Justice jointly conducted a comprehensive study on drug abuser treatment, from 2002 to 2004, entitled “Research on the Trends in Drug Abuse and Effective Measures for the Treatment of the Drug Abusers in Asian Countries - An Analysis of Innovative Measures for the Treatment of Drug Abusers”. The Asian countries included in the study are: China (Hong Kong), Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. This is the first phase of the study on drug abuser treatment; the second...
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