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Survey finds widespread dissatisfaction with current health care payment system

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 03, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Leaders in health care and health care policy feel strongly that the way we pay for health care in the U.S. must be fundamentally reformed. The latest Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey ...





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Elite opinion leaders greatly vary in their foreign policy beliefs

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 02, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new study in the journal Politics & Policy shows how there is greater diversity of foreign policy beliefs held by elite opinion leaders than previously thought and identifies nine foreign policy orientations.


Should doctors be 'selling' drugs for the pharmaceutical industry?

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 20, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

[B]Feature: Key opinion leaders -- independent experts or drug representatives in disguise?[/B] Are senior doctors who help drug companies sell their drugs independent experts or just drug representatives in disguise, ask ...


Following the leader: Social networks of schoolchildren

Other Sciences / Other

created May 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Kids always seem to be ahead of trends, and marketers realize the importance of new products and services taking off with the younger set. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research helps identify which children might ...


Iraqi police and army survey a destroyed home following a car bomb

Public opinion a good predictor of terror attacks: study

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Public opinion polls are good predictors of terrorist attacks, according to a study published Thursday which argues that terrorists do not act independently of their countrymen's attitudes.


Experts favor broad medicare reforms to control costs and foster health-care innovations

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A vast majority of leaders in health care and health policy believe Medicare has been successful in providing access to care and stable coverage to the elderly and disabled individuals; however only a small percentage think ...


UM Law professor examines the role of corporate lawyers in the court of public opinion

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In today's world, legal issues and controversies are not only tried in the court of law, but also in the "court" of public opinion. However, corporate lawyers tend to separate legal activities from public relations strategies. ...


The evolving manager stereotype: Gender a factor in measuring a team's performance

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Although women have made strides in the business world, they still occupy less than two percent of CEO leadership positions in the Fortune 500. Not surprisingly therefore leaders still tend to be thought of as men and most ...


The state of America's leadership

New White House Fellows survey: Leaders are less trusting, less cynical

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Contemporary leaders are less trusting, but also less cynical, than those in top positions nearly four decades ago, according to a new comprehensive survey of White House Fellows -- a group that includes more ...


Public attitudes to nanotechnology: Lessons for regulators

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New technologies may change our lives for the better, but sometimes they have risks. Communicating those benefits and risks to the public, and developing regulations to deal with them, can be difficult -- particularly if ...


Golden State: Yes, No or Maybe?

Golden State: Yes, No or Maybe?

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dan Schnur, director of the College's Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics, analyzes the findings from the first of six USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences/Los Angeles Times statewide ...



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