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Health Differences Among Lumbee Indians Using Public and Private Sources of Care

THE JOURNAL OF RURAL HEALTH, Issue 3 2004
Alfred Bryant Jr. PhD
ABSTRACT: Context: Of 2.4 million American Indians, approximately 60% are eligible to receive Indian Health Service (IHS) benefits, leaving many to seek care elsewhere. It is unknown if their quality of care, health behaviors, and health status vary by source of care, as demonstrated for other populations. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine whether preventive services, health behaviors, and number of health conditions vary as a function of having non-IHS public versus private physicians as sources of usual care. Methods: 1,177 Lumbee Indians, who are ineligible to receive IHS services, completed a telephone interview that included information on receipt of preventive measures, tobacco use, physical activity, breast self-examination, and medical conditions. Frequencies, chi-squares, t tests, odds ratios, and confidence intervals were used to compare variables by source of care. Findings: 939 respondents (80%) had a private and 210 (18%) a public health clinic physician as their usual source of care; 28 (2%) reported having neither. Logistic regression analyses, restricted to the 1,149 participants who reported either a private or public source of care, revealed no differences in receipt of preventive services or health status by usual source of care. Smokeless tobacco use was less common among persons using private than public providers. Conclusions: Lumbees whose usual source of care was a public clinic physician did not differ in receipt of preventive services or in health status compared to their counterparts who received care from a private physician. More targeted research into health similarities and differences arising from access to public and private sources of care is warranted. [source]

Corporate Governance: And the Bargaining Power of Developing Countries to Attract Foreign Investment

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, Issue 2 2000
Enrique Rueda-Sabater
Following the rapid growth of foreign investment flows in the 1980s and 1990s some countries that had been dependent on official aid are now (even after the recent financial crises) obtaining most of their external financing from private sources. But low-income countries still receive little private capital flows. Arguing that corporate governance, broadly defined to include many business practices, is an important determinant of inward foreign investment this paper explores links between corporate Governance: And the ability of developing countries to attract foreign investment. It raises policy questions for developing countries and points to the need for complementary actions by government, businesses associations and institutional investors to promote corporate governance improvements. [source]

Knowledge, trust and recourse: imperfect substitutes as sources of assurance in emerging economies

ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, Issue 1 2001
Bruce L. Benson
Uncertainty prevents voluntary interactions, but institutions of trust and/or recourse can substitute for knowledge by making promises relatively credible. Trust and various sources of recourse are imperfect substitutes, however, as demonstrated by consideration of the trade-offs between trust based on repeated dealings, recourse to informal private sanctions such as reputation threats, ostracism sanctions and third-party dispute resolution through formal commercial organizations operating under customary law, and the state's coercive legal system. The problems of knowledge and interest imply that, though not perfect, private sources of trust and recourse are superior in emerging markets to state-provided recourse. [source]

Improving media campaigns promoting physical activity: the underutilized role of gender

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NONPROFIT & VOLUNTARY SECTOR MARKETING, Issue 3 2008
Dan J. Graham
As the obesity epidemic worsens in the United States and globally, resources are increasingly being allocated to address this public health threat. Media campaigns promoting physical activity are receiving funding from government and private sources, and some of these campaigns have achieved modest success. Still, more can be done to increase the effectiveness of these campaigns. Drawing on facets of consumer behavior, psychology, and public policy, this work represents a cross-disciplinary theoretical analysis suggesting that the effectiveness of media-based campaigns promoting physical activity could be enhanced by making use of gender-specific advertising. Research is reviewed suggesting that gender differences in information processing styles and values lead to gender-specific responses to media campaigns. Recommendations are made to help practitioners improve physical activity campaigns by crafting advertisements that specifically appeal to the unique preferences of each gender. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]