January 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
From 1992 to 1995, researchers at Harvard Medical School collected a comprehensive cross-section of data on state Medicaid pharmaceutical programs and various models of cost-containment. They also investigated the impacts of five cost-containment methods.
January 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
During 1992 and 1993, staff at the Johns Hopkins Health System created a plan to develop and market a managed care product offering capitated specialist care for the employed chronically ill.
January 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
From 1993 to 1996, the National Youth Sports Coaches Association, West Palm Beach, Fla., the only national nonprofit organization that certifies volunteer youth coaches, carried out two related but separate initiatives.
January 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
Norman J. Ornstein, Ph.D. of the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, and Thomas E. Mann, Ph.D. of the Brookings Institution, Washington, wrote a book, Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy (AEI/Brookings, 1995), about how Congress could improve its work in health policy.
January 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
This initiative serves low-income, foreign-born children of elementary school age who have lived in the United States for two years or less and who have unresolved health or medical problems and/or are having difficulty in obtaining the health care services they need.
January 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
Faculty at Harvard Medical School's Center for the Study of Culture and Medicine explored the influence and effects of culture and ethnicity on the access to and quality of health care services from an anthropology perspective.
January 1, 1997
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Program Result Report
From 1993 to 1994, staff from the Advocacy Institute evaluated the potential role of international tobacco-control expertise and experience in enhancing U.S. tobacco-control efforts.
November 30, 1996
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Program Result Report
Beginning in August 1993, researchers at Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., conducted extensive interviews with 250 volunteer leaders who had started their own community initiatives.
November 1, 1996
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Program Result Report
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care documented the implicit criteria used to determine "medical necessity" related to mental health, and the influences of financial incentives and organizational arrangements on medical necessity decisions.
November 1, 1996
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Program Result Report
The Boston University School of Management identified the issues that need to be examined in order to determine what organizational characteristics and policies are necessary for the provision of cost-efficient care by physicians.