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Health Services Administration, 2003.
An overview of the planning and organization of health care services and a discussion of the health services programs available to the different populations.
2,404 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 49.95
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This paper discusses how the organization of health care systems has progressed over time as advances in medicine and technology have occurred. It looks a how the advent of multi-hospital systems, HMO?s, and the like, have developed in response to the changing demographics of the population and in response to the changing health care needs of the population as technological advances have wiped out previously debilitating sickness.
Outline
Introduction
Overall Health Care System: Analysis of Development
Social Factors Influencing Health Care
The Future of Health Care
Conclusion
From the Paper
"One important idea to consider when discussing the administration of health care services is the perceived need by the public for such services. The concept that the availability of health care services creates a demand for health care and need is important to consider. New technological advances have perhaps implanted in the minds of physicians and patients the need to treat disease that may have otherwise been ignored. One important factor to consider in planning health program administration is evaluating the utilization of health care services. The function of health planners is to identify areas of greatest need or highest potential demand in communities for health care delivery organizations."
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HIV/AIDS Services Administration, 2002.
Examines the work, policies and history of this organization which helps AIDS patients in New York City.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, £ 29.95
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This paper takes a look at the HIV/AIDS Services Administration, a social service organization serving the residents of New York City. The mission, target population, historical origin and services which this organization provides are examined, as well as the challenges it contends with today and how it adapts to changes in the population affected by HIV.
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The Health Services Industry in India, 2006.
This paper analyzes the business prospective of the health services industry in India.
6,490 words (approx. 26.0 pages), 12 sources, APA, £ 100.95
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This paper explains that the GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services) defines four modes for trading in the health care industry: (1) Cross-Border Trade in which trading takes place from one country to another, (2) Consumption Abroad in which the medical services are used abroad by the consumers, also called 'medical tourism', (3) Commercial Presence in which a service supplier crosses the borders to establish and provide heath services, such as hospitals, clinics and nursing homes, in other countries and (4) Movement of Natural Persons in which health personnel such as doctors, technicians and administers cross country borders. The author points out that, in the past, the bulk of healthcare infrastructure in India has been provided by the public sector, but the large-scale entrance of Third Party Administrators (TPAs), corporate hospitals and information technology are creating an organized delivery system of healthcare facilities. The paper stresses that India is ready for large-scale global trade in medical services to augment the domestic tele-medicine network in all areas and to integrate the domestic facilities with the global tele-medicine network. Many graphs and tables.
Table of Contents
Overview of Global Healthcare Trade
Cross-border Trade (Mode 1)
Consumption Abroad (Mode 2
Commercial Presence (Mode 3)
Movement of Natural Persons (Mode 4)
Implications of Trade in Healthcare
The Current Indian Health Scenario
Future Trends, Scope of Foreign Collaboration and Policy Environment
Mode 4 Trade in Medical Care
Institutionalizing Effective Alternatives to Fee-for-Service Primary Care
Reinstating or Creating Cross-Subsidy
Increasing Private Purchasing of Health Services by Government Facilities
Evolution of a Mixed Healthcare Model in India
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"In India, approximately 60% of the total health expenditure comes from self-paid category as against Government's contribution of 25-30%, while contributions from insurance companies are negligible. However, opening up of the insurance sector to private players will make healthcare affordable to a large number of people. Currently, in India only 0.2% of the total population is covered under Mediclaim, whereas in developed nations like USA, about 75% of the total population is covered under such insurance schemes. One reason could be the lack of awareness and marketing. Moreover, agencies like GIC take 6 months to process claims and to reimburse customers after they have paid out of their own pockets."
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Health Care Administration, 2002.
A paper which examines how health care systems are administered and how administrative programs are planned.
1,997 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 2 sources, APA, £ 42.95
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This paper shows that administrative programs are planned and developed for the health care services industry based on a number of deciding factors. It discusses how, when looking at health care services and planning administrative programs, the following are taken into consideration: Composition and social organization of society at large; Utilization by the population of health care services including acute care treatment facilities and chronic illness vs. long term care; Government involvement in public health and funding; Politics. The paper shows that all of these factors play a key role in determining how our health care services are structured. The paper examines how the America health care system presently serves a large and diverse population through an assorted number of programs including private/group care facilities, ambulatory services, hospitals and long term care facilities. Each of these programs in turn is administered in different ways. The paper also looks at overall trends in health care services in the United States today.
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"One important idea to consider when discussing the administration of health care services is the perceived need by the public for such services. The concept that the availability of health care services creates a demand for health care and need is important to consider. New technological advances have perhaps implanted in the minds of physicians and patients the need to treat disease that may have otherwise been ignored. One important factor to consider in planning health program administration is evaluation of utilization of health care services. The function of health planners is to identify areas of greatest need or highest potential demand in communities for health care delivery organizations. Patient care plans can only be decided upon once social, psychological and physiological factors are accounted for. Many models exist that explain the public?s access to health care services and resulting trends in usage of such facilities and programs."
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Fiscal Management in Mental Health Administration, 2007.
An evaluation of the issues and solutions related to fiscal management in mental health administration.
3,095 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 10 sources, APA, £ 61.95
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This paper discusses the fiscal management issues of mental health administration. It particularly focuses on issues related to agency development and planning, budgeting and funding, assessment and evaluation and problems and restrictions. After assessing the related issues, the paper provides some solutions to the problems that may be encountered in the fiscal management of mental health administration.
Table of Contents:
Development and Planning
Budgeting and Funding
Assessment and Evaluation
Problems and Restrictions
Answers and Solutions
Conclusion
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"This paper failed to include fiscal management issues surrounding advertising and marketing. As in business, a delighted patron is the finest advertisement an agency can have; on the other hand, a discontented patron can quickly damage an agency's character. Mental health administrators must always carefully select their merchandise and their shoppers because place, price, and production mean everything when marketing services."
"Mental health administrations must always be future oriented in order to survive. They must engage in fund raising campaigns, compete for grants, and pressure politicians to create new mental health programs and policies. Such measures require self-assured advocacy. After all, an agency will only be as successful as the atmosphere within."
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The Veterans Health Administration, 2007.
An overview of the organization and leadership of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).
1,487 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 13 sources, APA, £ 33.95
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The Veterans Health Administration (VHA), of the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), manages the largest integrated healthcare system in the United States (U.S.). In 2006, 5.5 million qualified veterans received care from at least one of the 1,400 VHA operated sites within the United States (Department Of Veteran Affairs, 2007). This paper describes the organizational structure, design, function and processes of the VHA. The paper also reviews the VHA's culture, communication style and barriers, decision making processes, including the values and ethics, and leadership styles. Additionally, a current environmental change affecting the VHA is presented with corresponding leadership behaviors.
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Organizational Design
Organizational Structure and Process
Organizational Culture
Leadership Styles
Organizational Communication
Communication Barrier
Organizational Decision Making
Environmental Changes
Problems with Environmental Changes
Conclusion
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"The VHA contains 23 separate Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISN), which are comprised of over 1,400 healthcare facilities. Each VISN is composed of many different facilities ranging from Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC) to full service medical centers (Department Of Veteran Affairs, 2007). The VHA's organizational process is a vertical hierarchy that is departmentalized in structure. Organizational directives descend through the vertical hierarchy from the VA to the department level within each VHA facility. Relevant information and results are sent backup through the hierarchy to help guild upper management on future directives."
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Canadian Health Care Administration, 2002.
Discusses the effects of the cutting costs in the Canadian health system.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 9 sources, £ 47.95
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An 8 page discussion of the results of cost cutting and Canada's health cares systems. Emphasis is placed on the implications for health care administration. Reference is also made to strategies for sustaining the effects of cutbacks.
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EMSDS (Emergency Medical Services Daycare Service), 2004.
This paper is a business plan for EMSDS, Emergency Medical Daycare Services, a part-time daycare program that meets the challenging scheduling needs of firefighters and EMS professionals with similar scheduling limitations.
3,695 words (approx. 14.8 pages), 10 sources, APA, £ 69.95
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This paper explains that the firefighter daycare center will provide a staff of qualified professionals, all of whom are certified with Early Childhood Education (ECE) diplomas, and, above all else, flexible and affordable. The author points out that the daycare will aspire to attract clientele, gain corporate and community sponsorship in an effort to reduce costs, and provide adequate services and seek out volunteers to help manage operating costs. The paper concludes that, in the event that EMSDS does not find adequate resources with which to conduct business in its first year, it will postpone arrangements to open approximately one year later. Charts.
Table of Contents
Introduction/Executive Summary
Vision
Situational Analysis
Market Demographics
Market Summary
Market Needs
Market Trends
Market Forecast/Growth
SWOT
Competition
Mission
Market Objectives
Marketing Mix
Pricing
Competition
Selling Methods
Financial Data
Breakeven
Implementation
Contingency
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"The daycare industry is growing. The childcare services industry is one of the most rapidly growing markets, expanding in part due to accommodate the increasingly high demand for quality services. In 1999 the market for childcare services topped out at more than $3.5 billion. The market is expected to surpass $60 billion in revenues in the upcoming years, in part due to the fact that both parents typically are now working in the labor force. ?Child care expenses by households rose 15.7% between 1986 and 1999 alone?. ?Formal daycare service providers in 1999 earned revenues of approximately $1.8 billion, with expenses toping out at approximately $1.7 billion, leaving more than $96 million in profits for daycare providers?. The profit margin is approximately 5.3%."
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Public Administration: Four Major Administrative Traditions, 2004.
This paper reviews four fundamentally different intellectual traditions and offers input as to where the ?public administration? of the U.S. is in 2003.
1,425 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 31.95
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This paper introduces the issue of public administration and then discusses four major theories of public administration: the Hamiltonian Tradition, the Jeffersonian Tradition, the Madisonian Tradition, and Wilsonian Tradition. The paper then compares these traditions and provides an analysis of the traditions and today?s U.S. executive administration.
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"Alexander Hamilton?s insistence on a strong executive branch was not based solely on his desire to push his own philosophy of public administration on the young nation. He had seen the failure of the Articles of Confederation in its attempt to solidify the country; states quarreled about everything before ratifying the Articles, and some even went out on a limb and had their own foreign policy. States couldn?t agree on paying for a national army, nor on taxation and spending. Hamilton?s balancing act was, how does the country create an executive ?powerful enough to make the government strong? (Kettl, page 30) and yet how does the country prevent a concentration of too much authority and power in the White House? Hamilton had plenty of experience in executive decision-making, as he was the very first treasury secretary in the nation; and it was his authorship of documents on public credit, national banking, and manufacturing that later formed the basis of the executive branch of national government."
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Public Administration, 2007.
A look at the problem of government services operating as a service industry or business with all the applications of business terminology and concepts, rather than a form of public administration.
1,328 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 29.95
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In this article, the writer notes that public administration is not a profit-seeking business and the people it serves are not customers but rather invested citizens seeking access to programs and services which by their very nature should be considered innate, or in a sense a part of their birthright and their birth responsibility. The writer points out that just as it is the citizen's responsibility to vote in a democratic society it is also the citizen's responsibility to serve and access services in an environment where civil service is paramount to citizenship. The writer maintains that there is no one right answer to all the issues of public administration but there are many theoretical concepts that can work together to form a basis for the purpose of the development of the common goals of public administration.
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"Seeking to understand this relationship between two citizens in service to one another and the common goal the individuals must utilize the concepts of civic social responsibility, so all parties understand that they are not different, that the service provider is not a representative of control and the citizen seeking assistance is not an "other," not crucial to the achievement of service and not privileged to understand the systems in place. Seeking to create a system where civic responsibility is the common goal, service will likely be improved, those who seek to be in positions of service is likely to increase, in number and the system is more likely to be conducive of group goals as those who seek services and those who seek provide a conduit for the provision of these services may have a greater empathetic relationship."
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Canadian Public Service, 2006.
This paper examines public service administration and governance models.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 6 sources, £ 35.95
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This paper discusses public service administration in Canada. The two models that are examined are new public management and the emerging governance model. It is argued at the end of the paper that new public management works better for Canada. The paper explains that this is because it needs a strong centralized government.
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"Public service administration systems have been changing on a fundamental level. While public service administration and governance in most countries was seen in a relatively straight forward way, new models of governance and public service administration have been developing. These models tend to look at public service administration and governance in more complex and inclusive ways. For example, in "Public Service Ethics in a Changing World" Alan Lawton states; The domains of the private corporation and of public service are merging in western democracies. Increasingly the so-called public sector is becoming more business-like, with the introduction of competition, output measures and corporate management styles.""
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Information Technology and E-Government in Public Administration, 2008.
A literature review to study information technology (IT) and e-government in public administration.
4,045 words (approx. 16.2 pages), 7 sources, APA, £ 73.95
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This paper explains that the implementation and deployment of information technology (IT) solutions in public administration have tended to strengthen the hierarchical bureaucracies already in place instead of transforming these processes. The author then identifies propositions and barriers to effective e-governance. The paper concludes that e-governance has a long way to go in actually delivering public service administration via the Internet. A better understanding of the potential of public administration via the Internet is critical for public administration employees and officials if the benefits of e-governance are to be realized in a manner that truly benefits the public. Several tables and figures are included with the paper.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Theoretical Ideal of Information Technology Examined
Key Issues in E-Government and Public Administration
E-Government Initiatives and Local Government
Summary and Conclusion
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"The second reform proposition claiming that IT has the power to change the structure of an organization and was therefore a tool for reform is "grounded in the belief that information technology can directly impact the data structure of public administration enforcing or relaxing traditional hierarchical forms." The main-frame computer was viewed from the perspective of being a consolidator of data and expertise which resulted in a reinforcing of hierarchical organizational structures and this is upheld in research findings."
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The Financial Services Industry and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), 2008.
A thesis analyzing the impact of voice over Internet (VoIP) protocol in the financial services industry.
19,660 words (approx. 78.6 pages), 21 sources, APA, £ 168.95
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This paper examines the adoption of voice over Internet (VoIP) protocol in each segment of the financial services industry, specifically focusing on the adoption practices in small, mid-size and large financial services firms. The author points out how companies at each strata of the financial services market change their processes to take advantage of the customer-centric, financial operations and services aspects of having VoIP-based systems in their organizations. The paper researches questions about the adoption of VoIP and its relationship to customer loyalty, the modification of quoting, ordering and payment systems using VoIP, the return on investment (ROI) and how well the customers of financial services firms are adopting VoIP-based applications. Includes several color graphs, figures and illustrations.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Executive Summary
Context of the Problem
Problem Statement
Specific Research Questions
Study Significance and Contribution to This Field
Research Design and Methodology
Phase I: Exploratory Research with Industry Experts using Experience Interviews Phase II: Early Adopter Research
Primary and Secondary Sources of Information
Organization of the Study
Literature Review
Summary
Factors Driving Financial Services' Technology Adoption
Financial Services Technology Needs Assessment
Defining the Financial Value Chain (FVC) and the role of VoIP
VoIP Market Dynamics in Financial Services
Applications Are the Agents of Change in VoIP Financial Services
Introducing the VoIP-Enabled Enterprise
Consensus of Industry Analysts on VoIP in Financial Services
VoIP within Financial Services: A Study of Transitions
Grant Thornton Case Study
Selection Criteria and Evaluation for VoIP System
Deployment at Grant Thornton
Results of the VoIP Implementation
Defining Voice over Internet Protocol
How does VoIP Work?
Step 1: Voice to Digital Data Transformation
Setp 2: Digital Data to IP Transformation
Step 3: Transmission
Step 4: IP Packet to Digital Data Transformation
Step 4: IP packet to Digital Data Transformation
Step 5: Digital Voice to Analog Voice Transformation
The Critical Role of VoIP Standards
A Critical Success Factor in Financial Services in Security over VoIP
Threats to VoIP
Confidentiality
ARP floods
VoIP Influence on Customer Loyalty
Executive Summary
Touch-Tone Interactive Voice Recognition
Automated Speech Recognition
Web Self-Service Sites
Analysts'\ Recommendations for Creating Value-Added Services Based on VoIP
Analysts' Recommendations for Launching Self-Service Channels Based on VoIP
Summary
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"Applications are the integration point between technology and business processes, and the growth of VoIP-based applications specifically in the areas of financial services and the growth of online banking, online investing and the many services financial institutions are working to deliver over the Internet.
"In a world of circuit switched networks (the foundation of PSTN Service), telephony has always been about access and security. The role of security in circuit switched networks is one that is highly matured, trusted, and relied on by even the most resistant-to-change financial institutions."
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