Word: health
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...William Hsiao, a School of Public Health (SPH) professor and ardent critic of inefficiencies in the US health care industry, offers similar critiques of medicine in Hong Kong in a report to be released today...
Hsiao, Li professor of economic development and health at the SPH, is now in Hong Kong giving lectures and talking to Chinese government officials to explain and defend his assessment...
Hsiao first attained prominence when his criticisms of Medicare in 1986 led to its reform and brought Health Maintenance Organizations to the forefront of the medical industry...
Eliot T. Putnam Jr. '61, president of the National Council for International Health and executive director of the Harvard Commission on Health Research and Development, said that students often feel overwhelmed by the decisions they face after college...
While these mayors can't yet proclaim victory, the health of public education in many cities has been so lousy for so long that even modest progress gets hailed as a breakthrough. In most takeovers, city hall has delivered a fiscal and academic accountability that pulls budgets out of the red while improving, albeit modestly, overall student achievement. "Principals, teachers and administrators were there for life and couldn't be removed or forced to change," says Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. "We have shaken things up when necessary...