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Interview with Philip Gerard
No full textInterview with Philip Gerard, author and professor of creative writing at UNCW. Here, he discusses his background and education, the founding and structure of UNCW's MFA in Creative Writing program, and the concerns of memoir and creative nonfiction
Using discrete choice experiments in health economics: moving forward
No full textContents:Willingness to Pay for Health Care (C. Donaldson and P. Shackley). Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics: Moving Forward (M. Ryan and K. Gerard). Methods for Eliciting Time Preferences Over Future Health Events (M. van der Pol and J. Cairns). Economic Evaluation for Decision-making (A. Gray and L. Vale). Incentives in Health Care (A. Scott and S. Farrar). The Nursing Labour Market (R. Elliott, et al.). The Economics of the Hospital: Issues of Asymmetry and Uncertainty as they Affect Hospital Reimbursement (A. McGuire and D. Hughes). Measuring Efficiency in Dental Care (D. Parkin and N. Devlin). Ageing, Disability and Long-term Care Expenditures (P. McNamee and S. Stearns). Economic Challenges in Primary Care (A. Maynard and A. Scott). Equity in Health Care: The Need for a New Economics Paradigm? (G. Mooney and E. Russell). Economics of Health and Health Improvement (A. Ludbrook and D. Cohen)
Assessing efficiency in the UK breast screening programme: Does size of screening unit make a difference?
No full textThe UK breast screening programme (UK BSP) is organised into a large number of individual screening units. Decision makers need to ensure these units are producing efficiently, particularly as the programme is anticipated to expand. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) was applied to investigate: the relative efficiency of screening units; the impact of screening unit size on efficiency; and how individual units could improve. Sixty-four screening units were categorised into 33 large and 31 small. Data were collected using a national survey and routinely collected data. The overall median efficiency score was 91%, 39 units were inefficient. Variation in efficiency scores was wide. Large units had a median efficiency score of 100% and 12 units were inefficient. Smaller units had a median efficiency score of 95% and 19 were inefficient. This difference was not statistically significant (Mann–Whitney, P=0.076). Forty-two percent of large units and 21% of small units were operating at constant returns to scale (mean difference 0.20, 95% CI: 0.15–0.43). Although there is no systematic difference in efficiency by size of screening unit there are inefficiencies in both large and small units and there is scope for many individual units to improve their use of current resources. It will be necessary for decision-makers to examine the practices of individual screening units before considering options for how best to improve their resource use. DEA can help to identify feasible options
Philip Gerard, 25th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textPhilip Gerard has published fiction and nonfiction in numerous magazines, including New England Review, Bread Loaf Quarterly, Creative Nonfiction, Hawaii Review, Hayden\u27s Ferry Review, and The World & I. He is the author of three novels: Hatteras Light, Cape Fear Rising, Desert Kill; two books of nonfiction, Brilliant Passage...a schooning memoir and Creative Nonfiction - Researching and Crafting Stories of Real Life, and Writing a Book that Makes a Difference. His most recent book is Secret Soldiers, about the first and last battlefield deception outfit ever authorized by the U.S. Army. Gerard has written shows for public television and radio. He teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Using discrete choice experiments in health economics
No full textContents:Introduction Population Health and Health Care Systems Part I: Population Health Part II: Health Care Finance, Expenditure and Use Part III: Equity in Health and Health Care Part IV: Organization of Health Care Markets Part V: Provider Reimbursement, Incentives and Behaviour Part VI: Assessing the Performance of Health Care Organizations Evaluation of Health Care Part VII: Measuring Benefits Part VIII: Measuring Costs and Statistical Issues Part IX:Economic Evaluation and Decision Making Index Contributors: T. Adam, M.C. Auld, P.P. Barros, A. Basu, S. Birch, D. Bishai, H. Bleichrodt, W.D. Bradford, J. Brazier, F. Breyer, A. Briggs, J.F. Burgess Jr, L. Burgess, M. Chalkley, D. Chisholm, K. Claxton, P. Contoyannis, R. Cookson, G. Currie, D. Dawson, P. Deb, P. Dolan, C. Donaldson, B. Dowd, M. Drummond, T.T.-T. Edejer, T. Ensor, S.L. Ettner, D.B. Evans, D. Feeny, R. Feldman, E. Fenwick, A. Gafni, P.-Y. Geoffard, K. Gerard, J. Glazer, D.C. Grabowski, H. Gravelle, P. Grootendorst, T. Iversen, A.M. Jones, D. Kenkel, A.N. Kleit, D. Lakdawalla, M. Lindeboom, J. Louviere, H. Lurås, A. McGuire, T.G. McGuire, W. Manning, X. Martinez-Giralt, H. Mason, D. Meltzer, A. Mills, S. Morris, J. Mullahy, E.C. Norton, J.A. Nyman, O. O’Donnell, T.A. Olmstead, N. Palmer, T.J. Philipson, J.L. Pinto, D. Polsky, C. Propper, M. Raikou, R. Rannan-Eliya, N. Rice, T. Rice, J. Roberts, C.J. Ruhm, M. Ryan, M. Schoenbaum, M.J. Sculpher, P. Shackley, J.L. Sindelar, P.C. Smith, R. Smith, A. Somanathan, A. Street, D.J. Street, M. Sutton, R. Thompson, P.K. Trivedi, A. Tsuchiya, E. van Doorslaer, D.J. Vanness, R. Viney, A. Wagstaff, M.C. Weinstein, D. Wilson, P. Zweife
The world\u27s finest northern grown roses : by Gerard K. Klyn, Inc., Mentor, Ohio, season 1961
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