This book offers an original perspective on AIDS as a development issue in South Asia, a region with a heterogeneous epidemic and estimated national HIV prevalence rates of up to 0.5 percent. The ...analysis challenges the common perception of HIV and AIDS which has been shaped to a large extent by analysis of HIV and AIDS in other regions with much higher prevalence rates. Three risks to development are associated with HIV and AIDS in South Asia: the risk of escalation of concentrated epidemics, the economic welfare costs, and the fiscal costs of scaling up treatment.
After having successfully expanded health insurance coverage, China now faces the challenge of building an effective and efficient delivery system to serve its large and aging population. RAND ...researchers recommend that rather than emulate the models of Western countries, which have well-known limitations, China should create an innovative model based on population health management principles and sophisticated health information technology.
Strategic purchasing of health services involves a continuous search for the best ways to maximize health system performance by deciding which interventions should be purchased, from whom these ...should be purchased, and how to pay for them. In such an arrangement, the passive cashier is replaced by an intelligent purchaser that can focus scarce resources on existing and emerging priorities rather than continuing entrenched historical spending patterns.Having experimented with different ways of paying providers of health care services, countries increasingly want to know not only what to do when paying providers, but also how to do it, particularly how to design, manage, and implement the transition from current to reformed systems. Designing and Implementing Health Care Provider Payment Systems: How-To Manuals addresses this need.The book has chapters on three of the most effective provider payment systems: primary care per capita (capitation) payment, case-based hospital payment, and hospital global budgets. It also includes a primer on a second policy lever used by purchasers, namely, contracting. This primer can be especially useful with one provider payment method: hospital global budgets. The volumes fi nal chapter provides an outline for designing, launching, and running a health management information system, as well as the necessary infrastructure for strategic purchasing.
Health Insurance Handbook Hong Wang, Kimberly Switlick, Christine Ortiz, Beatriz Zurita, Catherine Connor
2012, 2011, 12-20-2011
eBook
Many countries that subscribe to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have committed to ensuring access to basic health services for their citizens. Health insurance has been considered and ...promoted as the major financing mechanism to improve access to health services, as well as to provide financial risk protection. In Africa, several countries have already spent scarce time, money, and effort on health insurance initiatives. Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Tanzania are just a few of them. However, many of these schemes, both public and private, cover only a small proportion of the population, with the poor less likely to be covered. In fact, unless carefully designed to be pro-poor, health insurance can widen inequity as higher income groups are more likely to be insured and use health care services, taking advantage of their insurance coverage. The purpose of this handbook is to provide policy makers and health insurance designers with practical, action-oriented support that will deepen their understanding of health insurance concepts, help them identify design and implementation challenges, and define realistic steps for the development and scaling up of equitable, efficient, and sustainable health insurance schemes. The handbook takes policy makers and health insurance designers through a step-by-step series of considerations and tasks that need to be achieved. The handbook's philosophy is to not be dogmatic, ideological, or prescriptive. This handbook was prepared to be used in a six-day regional workshop. Clearly, health insurance design is an intensive political and technical process that takes much longer than six days. The expectation for the workshop is that by the end of the week, each team has a clear idea of next steps that they could take back home to engage other stakeholders and move toward scaling up and improving the performance of health insurance in their country.
Contrary to popular belief, the roots of American country music do not lie solely on southern farms or in mountain hollows. Rather, much of this music recorded before World War II emerged from the ...bustling cities and towns of the Piedmont South. No group contributed more to the commercialization of early country music than southern factory workers. InLinthead Stomp, Patrick Huber explores the origins and development of this music in the Piedmont's mill villages.Huber offers vivid portraits of a colorful cast of Piedmont millhand musicians, including Fiddlin' John Carson, Charlie Poole, Dave McCarn, and the Dixon Brothers, and considers the impact that urban living, industrial work, and mass culture had on their lives and music. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including rare 78-rpm recordings and unpublished interviews, Huber reveals how the country music recorded between 1922 and 1942 was just as modern as the jazz music of the same era.Linthead Stompcelebrates the Piedmont millhand fiddlers, guitarists, and banjo pickers who combined the collective memories of the rural countryside with the upheavals of urban-industrial life to create a distinctive American music that spoke to the changing realities of the twentieth-century South.
This book analyses the potential of the Long-term Residence Directive to become a subsidiary form of EU citizenship which escapes direct control by Member States, by looking at its implementation and ...at its possible interpretation by the Court of Justice.
Featuring reports from low- and middle-income countries as diverse as Zimbabwe, Bolivia, Kyrgyzstan, and Papua New Guinea, this book situates disability rights within the broader context of global ...health and the need for greater inter-sector collaboration.
Advancing the country image construct Roth, Katharina P.; Diamantopoulos, Adamantios
Journal of business research,
07/2009, Letnik:
62, Številka:
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Journal Article
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In today's globalized markets a favorable country-of-origin image (CoI) has a considerable impact on consumers' evaluation of products originating from different countries and therefore influences ...their subsequent buying decisions. The current paper seeks to extend our conceptual understanding of the nature and functioning of the CoI construct. The aim is threefold, namely to provide a succinct state-of-the-art picture of country image research in international marketing, to contribute to a better measurement of the country image construct, and, finally, to develop an agenda for future research.
Despite considerable interest in the topic of country equity, attempts at its measurement have been scarce. This research contributes to the literature by providing a consumer-based measure for ...country equity, and it improves country equity measurement by addressing some of the limitations associated with previous approaches. This research also contributes to our understanding of this area by providing empirical evidence of the multidimensionality of the country equity construct. We define country equity from a consumer perspective, as the value endowed by a source country onto products originating from that country. We conceptualize country equity based on consumers’ memory based associations, using the associative network memory model, as a five-dimensional construct, comprising country awareness,
macro country image,
micro country image, perceived quality, and country loyalty. The paper reports the results of an empirical study of a sample of shopping mall consumers (
N
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719) from Australia. The proposed model is tested in two product categories (cars and televisions). Results confirm the hypothesized five-dimensional structure. Our findings extend Aaker's Aaker, D. A. (1991).
Managing brand equity. New York: The Free Press and Keller's Keller, K. L. (1993).Conceptualizing, measuring and managing customer based brand equity.
Journal of Marketing, 57(1), 1–22 conceptualization of brand equity to country brands, as well as Yoo and Donthu's Yoo, B. & Donthu, N. (2001). Developing and validating a multidimensional consumer-based brand equity scale.
Journal of Business Research, 52(1), 1–14 consumer-based brand equity measurement to the measurement of country equity. The results have implications for government agencies, industry groups and firms interested in branding a country in target international markets.
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