Westfall Technik Growth Impacts CPG and Medical Markets

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
Robert Grace
Keyword(s):  
Medical Markets

Survival of altruistic gatekeepers: Kickbacks in medical markets

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erwin Amann ◽  
Stefan Felder
Keyword(s):  
General Practitioner ◽  
Crowding Out ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Medical Markets ◽  
Referral Decision

AbstractPatients often rely on the advice of their general practitioner (GP) to decide which treatment best fits their needs. Hospitals, in turn, might influence GPs’ referral decision through kickbacks. We present a model with a monopolistic hospital and competitive GPs who vary in the degree of altruism towards their heterogeneous patients and show that an equilibrium without crowding out exists that separates GPs into referrers and care providers. Naïve patients visit purely selfish (referring) GPs, while rational patients sort themselves between the two groups of GPs. Finally, we investigate the scope for regulation, including an optimal coinsurance rate.

Who Counts as Family? Gamete donation and the construction of family forms in medical markets

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 831-852
Author(s):  
Laura Halcomb
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Gamete Donation ◽  
Egg Banks ◽  
Sperm Donors ◽  
Egg Donors ◽  
Medical Markets ◽  
Third Party Reproduction ◽  
Qualitative Analyses

This paper examines how gender beliefs are embedded in the organizational practices of the reproductive market. Third party reproduction blurs boundaries between familial and non-familial members, making gamete banks and donation agencies important sites for studying the construction of family. Cultural beliefs about gender are implicated in the discourses and practices of these organizations, which shape and constrain the experiences and options for both gamete donors and recipient families. To evaluate this process, I conducted qualitative analyses on the recruitment materials of all of sperm banks, egg banks, and egg donation agencies in the United States. My analysis demonstrates that the reproductive market still relies on heteronormative assumptions of family. However, the extent to which these organizations facilitate participation in new, non-normative family forms breaks down along gendered lines, where sperm donors have more freedom, status, and potential to create relationships with recipient families than egg donors.

Inline Non-Destructive Material Property Testing; The Future of Manufacturing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Wright ◽  
Dan C. Ward
Keyword(s):  
Alloy Composition ◽  
Property Testing ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Testing Method ◽  
Future State ◽  
Medical Markets ◽  
Test Instrumentation ◽  
Proper Material ◽  
Non Destructive

Abstract Across all industries, material specifications are tightening beyond previously understood process capabilities. Slight shifts in material grade, microstructure, heat treatment, or alloy composition can significantly impact long term material integrity. This study examines the feasibility of non-contact, 100% inline magneto-inductive testing on material/components destined for the automotive, aerospace, agricultural, and medical markets to ensure proper material quality standards. To test the hypothesis that material grade, carbon content, density, and alloy composition can be accurately tested in real time during production, an experiment was conducted utilizing magneto-inductive test instrumentation and encircling coil. Throughout this experiment, and proposed future state of manufacturing, 100% of material was tested. Results yielded clear confirmation in accordance with the hypothesis. This data driven subjective approach provided the ability to accurately, efficiently, and autonomously verify proper material grade had been used for the designated product. Ensuring proper material composition and material properties without slowing production using this testing method should be considered when improved quality is desired.

Indigenous Traditions, Modernity, and Madness

2020 ◽  
pp. 185-227
Author(s):  
Shilpi Rajpal
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Medical Markets ◽  
Hindi Literature ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Circulation Of Knowledge

Emergence of the ‘mind sciences’ in vernacular Hindi literature was a variegated phenomena. Western medical ideas were sometimes amalgamated, segregated, filtered, and appropriated by the vaidyas and hakims according to the needs of the time. Certain key psychiatric concepts had long interesting afterlives while others could not survive. These hybrid practices reflect not only the wide circulation of knowledge but also the impulses of the medical markets that recast traditional medicine in a modern garb. This chapter is a preliminary investigation into the indigenous ways of dealing with and healing madness. The spread and dissemination of Western medical knowledge led to the reshaping of some of the Ayurvedic concepts of mental illness.

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