{"title":"Nutrition and anthropology in action","authors":"Jelia C. Witschi","doi":"10.1016/0037-7856(77)90129-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0037-7856(77)90129-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101166,"journal":{"name":"Social Science & Medicine (1967)","volume":"11 17","pages":"Page 835"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0037-7856(77)90129-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91680019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of health insurance in the health services sector","authors":"James C. Daugherty","doi":"10.1016/0037-7856(77)90128-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0037-7856(77)90128-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101166,"journal":{"name":"Social Science & Medicine (1967)","volume":"11 17","pages":"Pages 834-835"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0037-7856(77)90128-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91680832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An administered price system for hospitals","authors":"Jesse S. Hixson , Paul N. Worthington","doi":"10.1016/0037-7856(77)90119-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0037-7856(77)90119-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In considering alternative health care cost containment strategies, the United States seems to be turning away from a market-structure approach in favor of performance-target planning. In the hospital field where third-party payment prevails, this latter approach is manifested by systems of regulations and constraints on the behavior of hospitals, physicians and patients superimposed on a system of cost-based reimbursement. The implications of such approaches are analyzed in this paper, and an alternative market-structure approach is proposed which provides positive incentives for efficient resource allocation and eliminates the necessity for restricting individual and institutional behavior.</p><p>The proposed approach over-comes the perverse incentives of cost-based rate setting which are present in all of the prospective reimbursement systems currently being promoted. To encourage efficiency, a third-party payment system must use prices as a means of communication between the participants in the system; must provide incentives for consumers to seek out efficient hospitals; and must differentiate between hospitals (for the purpose of rate-setting) only on the basis of characteristics of their external economic environments. The system which satisfies these requirements is conceptually uncomplicated and easy to administer. Exogenous price ceilings, which converge to the competitive limit, are improvised by observing the difference between the prevailing ceiling and the prices charged by hospitals per episode of each type; the forces of consumer sovereignty and competition are preserved by reimbursing consumers at the administered price ceiling for services obtained at the prices chosen by hospitals.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101166,"journal":{"name":"Social Science & Medicine (1967)","volume":"11 17","pages":"Pages 801-807"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0037-7856(77)90119-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11621210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Organization of behavior in face-to-face interaction","authors":"Bruce Fraser","doi":"10.1016/0037-7856(77)90131-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0037-7856(77)90131-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101166,"journal":{"name":"Social Science & Medicine (1967)","volume":"11 17","pages":"Pages 836-837"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0037-7856(77)90131-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91680833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Space, time and illness behavior","authors":"Gary W. Shannon","doi":"10.1016/0037-7856(77)90154-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0037-7856(77)90154-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper explores the organization of space and time, posits associations between them and illness behavior, and presents a framework for comprehensive medical geographical investigation. Components of a model of illness behavior are examined as they relate to the ecological/functional and ecological/behavioral aspects of territoriality. Identity with one's surroundings and spatial and temporal organization are discussed for pertinence to differential perception, evaluation, and treatment of illness. The implications of these are subsequently related to confounding factors in medical sampling and observed patterns of disease.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101166,"journal":{"name":"Social Science & Medicine (1967)","volume":"11 14","pages":"Pages 683-689"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0037-7856(77)90154-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11797220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes on geography and cancer","authors":"Yola Verhasselt","doi":"10.1016/0037-7856(77)90159-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0037-7856(77)90159-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Attention is focused on some problems related to research in geography and cancer: availability and reliability of data, difficulty of explaining distribution patterns due essentially to interaction of risk factors and differences in local situations. Two examples illustrate multiplicity of causes: malignant neoplasm of oesophagus and of bowel. Finally the complexity of the urban environment is stressed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101166,"journal":{"name":"Social Science & Medicine (1967)","volume":"11 14","pages":"Pages 745-748"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0037-7856(77)90159-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11797222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Espace et santé: Géographie médicale du midi de la France","authors":"A.T.A. Learmonth","doi":"10.1016/0037-7856(77)90170-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0037-7856(77)90170-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101166,"journal":{"name":"Social Science & Medicine (1967)","volume":"11 14","pages":"Pages 780-782"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0037-7856(77)90170-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92111589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Birth control clinics in the city of Birmingham—A geographical study","authors":"Brian D. Giles, Victoria A. Ford","doi":"10.1016/0037-7856(77)90162-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0037-7856(77)90162-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The development of birth control facilities in Birmingham is described. Using wards as the basic unit, the number of women “at risk” in 1971 is compared with a 10% sample of all women registering at the birth control clinics in that year. The occupations, marital status, and age of the clients are described. Finally the clients of the organisations are compared and differences between them are explained.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101166,"journal":{"name":"Social Science & Medicine (1967)","volume":"11 14","pages":"Pages 763-772"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0037-7856(77)90162-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11797225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}