Health and Health Care

Coping with Pediatric AIDS: A Comprehensive Care Model at Newark's Children's Hospital (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

This case describes the factors that allow one inner city hospital-Children's Hospital, Newark-to develop a program to treat children with AIDS that becomes a national and international model. It sketches the ways in which highly specialized...

Fertility and Control: The Case of RU 486

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The pharmaceutical called RU 486--a pill which could induce miscarriage early in pregnancy--has taken its place in the pitched politics surrounding abortion. This case tracks the development and marketing of the pill with particular emphasis on...

Bringing Medicine to Methadonia: The Case of the Montefiore Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

The emergence of intravenous drug users as a major group suffering from AIDS has the side effect of attracting top-flight medical researchers to methadone maintenance programs in which medical care had not been heretofore emphasized. This case...

Changing a Hospital's Culture: The Guest Relations Program at Medical College of Virginia Hospitals

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

A major teaching hospital in inner-city Richmond seeks to retain its tradition as a public research hospital serving all in need, at the same time it attracts new, fully-insured patients. As a first step, a new top administrator decides to...

Cocaine Mothers

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

Early in 1989, prosecutors in Florida charged a woman with child abuse after she gave birth to her second baby born with signs of cocaine dependency. This case briefly summarizes the problem of cocaine use, the effects of prenatal exposure, and...

Shanti Residence Program: Human Resources Health Center

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

These three cases present different models for long-term, non-hospital housing for persons with AIDS. Taken together, they raise issues as to the appropriate magnitude and expense of care. The individual cases raise their own issues as well. New...

Shanti Residence Program: Bailey House

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

These three cases present different models for long-term, non-hospital housing for persons with AIDS. Taken together, they raise issues as to the appropriate magnitude and expense of care. The individual cases raise their own issues as well. New...

Shanti Residence Program

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

These three cases present different models for long-term, non-hospital housing for persons with AIDS. Taken together, they raise issues as to the appropriate magnitude and expense of care. The individual cases raise their own issues as well. New...

Treating Tuberculosis: Responding to an Epidemic

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

This "thinking-in-time" style case recalls the American response to the tuberculosis epidemic at the turn of the century. It provides a vehicle to look at the social and political forces promoting a variety of types of care--particularly the...

Pam Hyde and Ohio Mental Health: Shifting Control of Inpatient Care (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

When Pam Hyde was appointed director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health in 1983, she inherited a two-tiered state mental health system, consisting of 17 state hospitals and 53 community mental health boards. The state hospitals, which were...

HIV and DC: The AIDS Testing Issue

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In November 1985, District of Columbia Councilmember John Ray introduced a bill that would have imposed a five-year moratorium on all kinds of applicant AIDS-testing in the district by health, life, and disability insurers. Ray wrote the bill...

Matters of Life and Death: Defunding Organ Transplants in the State of Arizona

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This case draws on controversy triggered by a decision to direct medical care funds for the poor to mothers and young children--rather than expensive, life-saving organ transplant operations. In the wake of the death of Diana Brown, a...