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Ethical Issues: Saying I'm Sorry
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-06)
Patients respond more favorably and are more trusting of physicians who provide full disclosure about medical errors than physicians who are less forthright or purposely hold things back when things go wrong. But there is ...
Ethical Issues: Narrowing the Disparity Gap
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-11)
In 2003 the Institute of Medicine, in Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, reported a consistent body of research demonstrating significant racial variation in the access to and utilization of medical...
Ethical Issues: Organ Donation and Procurement
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-01)
The list of people waiting for organ transplants continues to grow. According to the Missouri Hospital Association more than 80,000 men, women and children nationwide are waiting for new organs, including more than 1,800 ...
Arkeology, 2005 Winter/Spring
(University of Missouri--Columbia. College of Veterinary Medicine, 2005)
Ethical Issues: Access in Missouri
(Center for Health Ethics, 2007-06)
2001 and 2005 (from $4.2 billion to $6.3 billion), predominantly due to increases in enrollment, as well as changes in case mix. In an attempt to curb this growing financial burden 90,000 enrollees were cut from the Medicaid roles in 2005 resulting in a...
Public Health
(Center for Health Policy, University of Missouri - School of Medicine, 2006-12)
Each year the United Health Foundation,
a private, non-profit foundation dedicated
to improving health outcomes and
promoting healthier communities, releases
“America's Health Rankings.” Each state is
evaluated on ...
Colonial Churches as Astronomical Instruments in San Cristóbal de las Casas: Informe Preliminár—Archivos de la Catedrál
(2008)
There are many documented examples of meridian lines in Italian churches in the 14th and 15th centuries. Hilbron (1999) discusses how these lines and others were used to measure the date of the equinox, the sun's altitude ...
The role of effective principals in reducing teacher turnover in disadvantaged schools
(Institute of Public Policy, 2009)
Rates of turnover among public school teachers in the U.S. are substantial. Among all teachers, national estimates indicate that 16.5% of teachers left their schools between the 2003-04 and 2004-05 academic years, the most ...
Health Disparities
(Center for Health Policy, University of Missouri - School of Medicine, 2007)
In the Healthy People 2010 report, issued
by the Department of Health and Human
Services, health disparities are defined
as “all differences among populations in
measures of health and healthcare.” Racial
and ethnic ...
Market-Based Reform of Teacher Compensation
(Institute for Public School Initiatives, 2009)
Compensation accounts for over ninety percent of instructional costs in public schools, yet the process for setting the level and structure of educator compensation is rarely rational or strategic. Ideally, total compensation ...
Vulnerabilities and Economic Wellbeing of Hispanic in non-Metro Missouri
(Cambio Center, 2007)
Non-metro Missouri has observed a net in-migration in the last decennial period and great part of these immigrants are Latinos (Lazos and Jeanetta). The literature contends that Latinos are being pulled into the rural areas ...
Findings from Year Two of the External Evaluation of the Healthy & Active Communities Initiative
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2008)
The Missouri Foundation for Health has funded 33 projects under its Healthy & Active Communities (H&AC) Initiative in two-year funding cycles. A set of 15 projects was funded beginning in 2005 while a set of 18 was funded starting in 2006...
Dairy Policy Briefs
(Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006-06)
This document is a set of one-page briefs that describe current dairy policy issues including issues like the MILC program, WTO issues and federal milk orders.
Additional Information and Data Regarding FAPRI's Analysis of the House & Senate Farm Bills
(Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002-03)
On March 4, 2002, the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) released a
comparative study of the impacts of the alternative farm bills proposed by the U.S. House and Senate. During briefings to staff of ...
Project ASSIST: School Culture Typology
(2006)
The Culture Typology Activity was developed for use by teachers and principals as a method to help schools and school leaders (a) identify the general type of culture present in a school, (b) reflect upon the impact of ...
Current State of the Dairy Industry
(2003-05)
Testimony given before the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry Tuesday, May 20, 2003 at the request of committee chair, Representative Gutknecht.
The impact of networks and the concept of reception on asset accumulation strategies of Latino newcomers in new settlement communities in the Midwest
(Cambio Center, 2008)
The heartland of America is experiencing unprecedented demographic changes as more Latino newcomers move to rural communities. Our goal is to understand the factors that contribute to the integration and economic contributions ...
K-12 Mathematics: What Should Students Learn and When Should They Learn it?
(2007-02)
In the fall of 2006 several influential national groups (Achieve, American Statistical Association, College Board, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) developed and released documents that recommended ...
Missouri Energy Summit 2009 Program
(University of Missouri (System), 2009-04)
The program for the Missouri Energy Summit 2009, held at the University of Missouri-Columbia, April 22-23, 2009.
Arkeology, 2006 Fall/Winter
(University of Missouri--Columbia. College of Veterinary Medicine, 2006)