Many critics partially attribute the severity of the 2008 financial crisis to a lack of regulatory oversight over credit derivatives. This paper will examine the governmental and private regulatory systems that aided the ...

In the first half of this century, most regulations affecting hospitals were designed to promote quality assurance through accreditation and licensure of facilities and personnel. Then health planning, initially on a ...

Both federal and state governments have responded to the rapid rise in expenditures on hospital care by implementing a variety of regulatory approaches. These programs fall into three categories. Rate and revenue regulation ...

How is gender ideology reinforced and transformed through the interaction between the family and extra-familial social institutions in Durham, North Carolina and by extension in the contemporary United States? This study ...

<p> Retirement is the quintessential transition from mid-life to late-life for many working Americans. However, questions about the positive and negative effects of retirement have sparked widely divergent empirical ...

<p>Previous research has largely highlighted the maladaptive consequences of holding an entity theory of intelligence and the adaptive consequences of holding an incremental theory (for reviews, see Dweck, 1999; Dweck & ...

<p>Within a self-regulatory framework, three studies examined the causal effect of discrimination on health-related behaviors. In study 1, reflection upon a past personal experience of discrimination led to more unhealthy ...