Power (Psychology)

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Strategic management and public policy.

Making strategic decisions that ensure a productive fit between the internal situation and external environment of a healthcare entity--sometimes, even decisions that ensure its survival--is a great challenge. The author suggests that hospitals must ...
Beaufort B Longest (Hosp Q, 2003SPRING)
strategic-management-public-policy.asp

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Share the knowledge.

Consumers are demanding trust, integrity and honesty from health care leaders and providers. CEOs and physicians need new ways to work with their colleagues and ...
Patrice L Spath (Health Forum J, 2003SPRING)
share-knowledge.asp

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Inner strength in Salvadoran women: a secondary analysis.

The purpose of this study was to utilize secondary analysis to identify the impact of challenging life events on the inner strength of women in El Salvador. The women interviewed lived in a rural area repatriated following the civil war that ended in ...
Mary S Rutherford, Karen Parker (J Cult Divers, 2003SPRING)
inner-strength-salvadoran-women-secondary-analysis.asp

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The harder they fall.

The past decade may well be remembered as the era of the high-flying, aggressive leader. Corner-office titans like Kenneth Lay, Dennis Kozlowski, and Bernard Ebbers graced the covers of business magazines. They captured the publics fascination with their ...
Roderick M Kramer (Harv Bus Rev, 200310)
harder-fall.asp

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Patients and doctors: reformulating the UK health policy community?

The rise of the active health care consumer in the United Kingdom requires a reformulation not only of the traditional relationship between patients and doctors, but also of the macro-politics of health which reflect and service that relationship. Market ...
Brian Salter (Soc Sci Med, 200309)
patients-doctors-reformulating-uk-health-policy-community.asp

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Taking public health out of the ghetto: the policy and practice of multi-disciplinary public health in the United Kingdom.

Until recently, a medical qualification was required for senior public health posts in the UK National Health Service. Since 1997, the new Labour government has expressed its intention to take public health out of the ghetto and to develop ...
David Evans (Soc Sci Med, 200309)
taking-public-health-out-ghetto-policy-practice-multi-disciplinary.asp

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Womens empowerment and fertility decline among the Pare of Kilimanjaro region, Northern Tanzania.

This research was designed to explore the connection between the empowerment of women and fertility outcomes, through an ethnographic study, a community-based survey and in-depth interviews. The purpose of the work is to test the relationship between a ...
Ulla Larsen, Marida Hollos (Soc Sci Med, 200309)
women-s-empowerment-fertility-decline-pare-kilimanjaro-region.asp

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Indicators of empowerment and disempowerment in the subjective evaluation of the psychiatric treatment process by persons with severe and persistent mental illness: a qualitative and quantitative analysis.

Empowerment and disempowerment is studied in terms of the way persons with long and persistent schizophrenia evaluate their psychiatric outpatient treatment. One hundred persons with the diagnosis of schizophrenia (ICD-10 F 20.0) were interviewed about ...
Reinhold Kilian, Iro Lindenbach, Uta Löbig, Matthias Uhle, Andreas Petscheleit, Matthias C Angermeyer (Soc Sci Med, 200309)
indicators-empowerment-disempowerment-subjective-evaluation.asp

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Health care relationships in context: an analysis of three ethnographies.

A qualitative meta-analysis of three ethnographic studies conducted by the original investigators of those studies yielded new understandings of the dynamics of health care relationships in context. Through this analysis, the authors show that moral ...
Colleen Varcoe, Patricia Rodney, Janice McCormick (Qual Health Res, 200309)
health-care-relationships-context-analysis-three-ethnographies.asp

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Complementary health care: a welcome addition to an employee benefits program.

One up-and-coming approach to controlling health care costs is complementary health care, which does not rely on advances in high-tech, invasive technology or expensive new pharmaceuticals, but rather focuses much more on the high-touch, direct ...
George DeVries (Empl Benefits J, 200309)
complementary-health-care-welcome-addition-employee-benefits-program.asp