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Chapter 11 furnishes practitioners with a comprehensive guide to the key conceptual and empirical building blocks of the GVC framework. It illustrates how the GVC framework was applied in research conducted by Duke University's esteemed Global Value Chains Center. This pioneering center is recognized for novel forms of GVC analysis for a ...
The Association for Community Affiliated Plans (ACAP) is a national trade association representing 84 nonprofit health plans. Headquartered in Washington, D.C. , ACAP advocates on behalf of its community-affiliated member health plans operating throughout the United States .
A global value chain (GVC) refers to the full range of activities that economic actors engage in to bring a product to market. [1] The global value chain does not only involve production processes, but preproduction (such as design) and postproduction processes (such as marketing and distribution).
The community health center (CHC) in the United States is the dominant model for providing integrated primary care and public health services for the low-income and uninsured, and represents one use of federal grant funding as part of the country's health care safety net. The health care safety net can be defined as a group of health centers ...
The theory is generally associated with Hirschman. He presented a complete theoretical formulation of the strategy. Underdeveloped countries display common characteristics: low levels of GNI per capita and slow GNI per capita growth, large income inequalities and widespread poverty, low levels of productivity, great dependence on agriculture, a backward industrial structure, a high proportion ...
Consequently, interest persisted in creating public health insurance for those left out of the private marketplace. The 1960 Kerr-Mills Act [40] provided matching funds to states assisting patients with their medical bills. In the early 1960s, Congress rejected a plan to subsidize private coverage for people with Social Security as unworkable ...
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care is a non-profit health services company based in Canton, Massachusetts serving the New England region of the United States. On August 14, 2019, the boards of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan announced plans for the two insurers to merge their organizations into a new company.
The 10 Essential Public Health Services (EPHS) provide a framework for public health to protect and promote the health of all people in all communities. [3] In recognition of public health's commitment to provide a fair and just opportunity for everyone to achieve optimal health and well-being, the framework now contains an equity statement, centers equity in the graphic, and incorporates ...