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Council of State Governments, Lexington, KY. – 1986
This document presents the texts of speeches from a conference on health care cost containment. Topics presented include Medicare solvency, capitated programs, diagnostic related groups (DRGs), Medicaid restructuring, long term care financing, private sector cost containment strategies, British health cost containment, health maintenance…
Descriptors: Cost Containment, Financial Support, Health Services, Medical Services
Kentucky Univ., Lexington. Appalachian Center. – 1989
Problems of access to health care facing Appalachia mountain communities are confounded by unemployment, poverty, low education, and local religious beliefs that barrier people from receiving medical care. This proceedings addresses the issues related to health access and health needs. It contains 20 papers and 12 synopses of presentation. The…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Health Behavior, Health Needs, Health Programs
Hornback, May, Ed. – 1972
The proceedings published in the document are the outcomes from a conference to consider the role of professional nursing in relation to health maintenance organizations (HMOs) as one possible way to improve health care delivery. Emphasis is placed on strategies underlying the HMO concept and reviewing and extending understanding of factors which…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Community Organizations, Community Services, Conference Reports
Download full textNational Institutes of Health (DHEW), Bethesda, MD. High Blood Pressure Information Center. – 1979
As part of the National High Blood Pressure Education Program effort, the conference explored the implications and impact of the prevalence of hypertension in Spanish-speaking populations in California. Approximately 150 experts in health fields, representing all levels of government, public and private health care providers, consumers, and health…
Descriptors: Cardiovascular System, Community Health Services, Data Collection, Disease Control
Minckley, Barbara B., Ed.; Young, Lu Ann, Ed. – 1985
Underscoring the importance of active planning for constructive change in the nursing profession, the papers in these proceedings highlight the need for nursing to remain pro-active in the management of nursing education and patient care environments. The proceedings contain: (1) "Pro-Active Planning for Nursing at the Federal Level," by Jo…
Descriptors: Administration, Education Work Relationship, Health Services, Leadership
Altman, Stuart H., Ed.; Blendon, Robert, Ed. – 1977
This publication reports on the proceedings of a symposium convened for the purpose of examining the relationship between medical technology and health care costs. The proceedings of this symposium are comprised by a series of papers that were presented at the conference covering a variety of topics, including statistical evidence of the…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Health Services, Hospitals, Laboratory Technology
Berg, Pam – 1988
Participants from five states (Colorado, Minnesota, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin) met to establish a national network to promote state and community-based models of comprehensive coordinated planning and service delivery to adults who survived pediatric disorders in their childhood. Results of state caucuses, which discussed and listed…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Cooperative Planning, Delivery Systems
New York State Legislative Commission on Rural Resources, Albany. – 1988
The objective of this Legislative Symposium was to assess the rural health care system of the State of New York, and in light of the current influences on that system, to design a framework for rural health care over the next two decades. The tasks of the participants were to reconfigure the rural health care system and make proposals on system…
Descriptors: Clinics, Health Care Costs, Health Education, Health Facilities
Cleland, Virginia; And Others – 1980
The future of nursing is discussed in these five papers delivered at a symposium in honor of Jessie M. Scott, Director of the Division of Nursing, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1964-1979. In the first article, "Old Dreams--New Visions," Virginia Cleland reviews the economics of medicine and calls for a new Surgeon General's Report…
Descriptors: Careers, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Economics
Southern Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing, Atlanta, GA. – 1987
Changes in the delivery of health care services and their implications for nursing practice and nursing education are discussed in nine papers from the 1986 annual meeting of the Southern Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing. Titles and authors are as follows: "Changes in Health Care and Challenges for Nursing Education" (Jacquelyn S.…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, Change Strategies, Curriculum Development
Schiller, M. Rosita, Ed.; And Others – 1986
The following papers are included: "Collaborative Research: Lessons from the Tower of Babel" (Baldwin); "Establishing a Data Base for Intrainstitutional Research in the Allied Health Professions" (Von Son, Beiley); "Determining Research Needs in a School of Allied Health Professions" (Bottjen et al.); "Surveying Research Interests and Needs of…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Cooperative Planning, Educational Needs, Educational Research
Schiller, M. Rosita, Ed.; And Others – 1985
The following papers are included: "Consortia and Collaborative Research: Getting Started" (Hansen); "Coordination of the Health Care System in the State of Michigan" (Burian, Boyden, Herbert); "Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Allied Health" (Doiron, Douglas); "Interprofessional Collaboration in the Analysis of Public Policy" (Dunn);…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Cooperative Planning, Educational Needs, Educational Research
Institute of Medicine (NAS), Washington, DC. – 1974
The document is a collection of six papers on key problems in health manpower which were presented at a symposium during the 1974 spring meeting of the Institute of Medicine. A seventh paper provides a summary of the major themes at the conclusion of the program. All of the symposium papers deal with the principal manpower issues of supply,…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Conferences, Data, Data Analysis
Shreeve, L. Sid, Ed.; Fairbanks, Merwin G., Ed. – 1975
Experts and concerned citizens from New York to California met in an effort to understand and confront the challenges facing Spanish-speaking people in their struggle for education and for finding their proper place in American society. The problems and character of the Spanish-speaking Americans, as reported in this symposium, do not fit common…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Curriculum
White, Patience, Ed. – 1989
This report of a consensus conference on pediatric rheumatology deals with the complex nature of rheumatological conditions of children, which require diagnostic, therapeutic, and follow-up services for comprehensive care and demand the cooperation of medical, health, education, mental health, and social service professionals. Conference…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Health, Chronic Illness, Data Collection
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