State Government
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Financing American Indian health care: impacts and options for improving access and quality.

29 Sep 2009 (1) Indian Health Service (HIS) per patient funding is less than half of national per capita health spending, and declined further between 2003 and 2006. (2) Under-funding of the IHS system has led to explicit rationing of services to American ... Read more...

Supporting culture change: working toward smarter state nursing home regulation.

29 Sep 2009 The traditional nursing home regulatory approach, which uses survey and enforcement to achieve performance improvement, has created tensions between providers and surveyors. It has had limited success in improving quality overall and not necessarily ... Read more...

Results from a national study of social workers sanctioned by state licensing boards.

29 Sep 2009 This article presents the results of a descriptive study, synthesizing the reports of 27 state regulatory boards about their actions against certified and licensed social workers (N = 874) during the period of 1999 to 2004. The purpose of this study ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'State Government'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Public trust doctrine: too limited. 30 Sep 2009
• Kids and the flu. 29 Sep 2009
• Financing American Indian health care: impacts and options for improving access and quality. 29 Sep 2009
• Supporting culture change: working toward smarter state nursing home regulation. 29 Sep 2009
• Poison control centers suffer state budget cuts. 29 Sep 2009
• Results from a national study of social workers sanctioned by state licensing boards. 29 Sep 2009
• Treating female perpetrators: state standards for batterer intervention services. 29 Sep 2009
• Curbing teen tobacco use. 29 Sep 2009
• How pot became legal. 26 Sep 2009
• Good law from tragic facts--Congress, the FDA, and preemption. 15 Sep 2009
• Pill disposal: a growing concern. 30 Aug 2009
• Government-scripted consent: when medical ethics and law collide. 30 Aug 2009
• Legal liability of medical toxicologists serving as poison control center consultants: a review of relevant legal statutes and survey of the experience of medical toxicologists. 30 Aug 2009
• Medical home 2009: what it is, where we were, and where we are today. 30 Aug 2009
• Budget cuts and U.S. Poison Centers - regional challenges create a nationwide problem. 30 Aug 2009
• Provincial experiments aim to lower public drug plan costs. 30 Aug 2009
• Improving the odds: dozens of states aim to help minorities and low-income residents receive better medical care and live healthier lives. 30 Aug 2009
• Teen driver tune-up: a move is underway to impose national standards on teen drivers. 30 Aug 2009
• States press on. Wash. holdup doesn't stop some from health agenda. 29 Aug 2009
• Does government provision of healthcare explain the relationship between income inequality and low birthweight? 19 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'State Government'

Definition: The level of governmental organization and function below that of the national or country-wide government.

Descriptor UI: D013219

Alternative terms: State Government; Provincial Government; Government, Provincial; Government, State; Governments, State; State Governments;

Tree Number: I01.409.775; N03.540.348.875;

History Note: 90(84); was see under GOVERNMENT 1984-89

Technical Notes: not restricted to the U.S.; no qualif; specify state or province