Horizontal interest in industrial purchasing

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 337
Author(s):  
Pauliina Ulkuniemi
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Purchasing

A Script-Theoretic Analysis of Industrial Purchasing Behavior

1984 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Leigh ◽  
Arno J. Rethans
Keyword(s):  
Purchasing Behavior ◽  
Theoretic Analysis ◽  
Industrial Purchasing

Managed Care and Public Health: Conflict and Collaboration

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Rosenbaum ◽  
Brian Kamoie
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Managed Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Medical Care System ◽  
American Health Care System ◽  
Public Health Goal ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Industrial Purchasing ◽  
Care System

This article reviews the relationship between managed care and public health. Managed care, with its seemingly infinite structural and organizational variation, dominates the modern American health-care system for the non-elderly U.S. population. Through its emphasis on standarhzed practice norms and performance measurement, coupled with industrial purchasing techniques, prepayment, risk downstreaming, and incentives-based compensation, managed care has the potential to exert considerable influence over the manner in which the health-care system is organized and functions. Given the degree to which the attainment of the basic public health goal of protecting the public against population health threats for which there are known and effective medical interventions depends on the successful interaction between public health policy and the medical care system, the importance of a viable working relationship between public health and managed care is difficult to overstate.The potential for conflict between public health and medical care is nothing new; indeed, delineating the boundaries of public health to shape and influence medical practice has occupied the energies of policymakers and the medical industry for well over a century.

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