Contraception as Health? The Framing of Issue Categories in Contemporary Policy Making

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (8) ◽  
pp. 930-953 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Cabrera Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Health Care Reform ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
State Level ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Policy Issues

This study examines the changing classification of contraception vis-à-vis health insurance within legislative, legal, and administrative venues at the state and national levels. It brings together research on categorization and framing in public policy discourse to show (a) how categorization processes shape not only groups of people but also policy issues and (b) how framing can operate not only within issue categories but also to construct issue categories themselves. Through attention to the larger policy-making trajectory and an in-depth state-level case study, the author develops a typology of categorization frames and explores the likely outcomes of categorization in recent health care reform.

The regulation of health care in Scandinavia: professionals, the public interest and trust

2018 ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Karsten Vrangbæk
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Health System ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
State Level ◽  
Professional Regulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Voluntary Health Insurance

Scandinavian health systems have traditionally been portrayed as relatively similar examples of decentralised, public integrated health systems. However, recent decades have seen significant public policy developments in the region that should lead us to modify our understanding. Several dimensions are important for understanding such developments. First, several of the countries have undergone structural reforms creating larger governance units and strengthening the state level capacity to regulate professionals and steer developments at the regional and municipal levels. Secondly, the three Nordic countries studied experienced an increase in the purchase of voluntary health insurance and the use of private providers. This introduces several issues for the equality of users and the efficiency of the system. This paper will investigate such trends and address the question: Is the Nordic health system model changing, and what are the consequences for trust, professional regulation and the public interest?

Estimating the State-Level Supply of Cancer Care Providers: Preparing to Meet Workforce Needs in the Wake of Health Care Reform

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aastha N. Chandak ◽  
Fausto R. Loberiza ◽  
Marlene Deras ◽  
James O. Armitage ◽  
Julie M. Vose ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Reform ◽  
Affordable Care Act ◽  
Cancer Incidence ◽  
Cancer Care ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
State Level ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Workforce Needs

Increasing cancer incidence and improved access to cancer care through the Affordable Care Act could increase demand for cancer care workers. Lawmakers should consider these factors in policy making.

Diabetes, Health Insurance, and Health-Care Reform

Diabetes Care ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 611-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. H. Herman ◽  
E. J. Dasbach
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Health Care Reform

scholarly journals The Politics of Health Care Reforms in Kenya and their Failure

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Künzler
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Theoretical Explanation ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Health Care Reforms ◽  
Health Reforms ◽  
Free Health Care

The current literature on the politics of social policy has two major shortcomings: health care reforms are undertheoretized and research on Anglophone Africa tends to neglect health reforms. To tackle this, a case study on Kenya presents (failed) re-forms such as universal or categorical free health care or the introduction of health insurance and the expansion of its coverage. The case study clearly shows that there is no single theoretical explanation of social policy reforms or their failure. Rather, there are different combination of factors at work in Kenya.

The development of Hemodialysis Units in the Army Hospital

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 421-431
Author(s):  
Rudy Dwi Laksono ◽  
Titih Huriah ◽  
Arlina Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Army Hospital ◽  
Hemodialysis Unit ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive ◽  
Improving Health Care ◽  
Improve Health

Patients with renal disease require special care.This study aims to develop a hemodialysis unit in the Army Hospital that require the act of washing the blood as a form to improve health services for patients with kidney failure. In this study, the majority of patients covered by the National Health insurance. Research methods namely method a case study with quantitative descriptive analysis.The results of this study show that the development of the hemodialysis unit will give a positive impact for the patient and for the hospital. The review will be the addition of hemodialysis machines, the addition of a new building, the addition of shift nurse can be seen that all these options will be profitable in the foreseeable future. This of course can make the best judgment for the Hospital in determining a decision for the sake of improving health care for the patient.

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