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N Aries

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PubMed1998

Optimal internship/residency-interview assignments for health care administration student placement.

Interview assignment is an issue of importance to all health care administration programs containing internships and residencies. More generally, many master's and doctoral level educational programs in social work, clinical psychology, and other health fields are faced with the interview assignment problem. We present a linear programming approach, which has been employed at the Baruch College/Mt. Sinai School of Medicine Graduate Program in Health Care Administration, for determining optimal internship/residency-interview assignments. Specifically, a capacitated transportation model, with the objective of maximizing the overall utility of the interview assignments, was implemented. This research is intended to demonstrate to academic program directors dealing with such problems the value of this objective method and to assist educators in their efforts to optimize the student internship/residency placement process at their various institutions.

Career Choice↗
PubMed1989

Career development of women in health care administration: a preliminary consideration.

As greater numbers of women enter health care administration, it is important to understand their career perceptions so that organizations can assist them in becoming effective leaders. This article reports findings from focused interviews of women administrators regarding their career development and expectations and suggests issues that require attention.

Career Choice↗
PubMed1987

Fragmentation and reproductive freedom: federally subsidized family planning services, 1960-80.

This paper analyzes the evolution of the federal family planning program from 1960 to 1980. Political pressure to offer family planning raised the question how best to organize services. Long-standing providers preferred a categorical approach in order to maintain a diverse political coalition for an historically invisible service. In addition, categorical funding meant financial support for non-traditional providers. A compelling argument was also made for service integration. Given an expanded definition of health and the medicalization of contraceptive technology, the health delivery system presented itself as the appropriate service provider. Neither group prevailed. By 1980, federally supported family planning services were provided in autonomous clinics but also were integrated into existing maternal and child health programs. The debate continues but, under the Reagan Administration, terms and motivations differ from those of the past.

Delivery of Health Care↗
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Evaluating service delivery models for pregnant adolescents.

Because programs for pregnant adolescents and teenage parents were developed locally, with little federal or state direction, no standard model of service delivery exists. Programs vary in degree of comprehensiveness and in primary location--hospital, school, social agency, or other. A common assumption, however, has been that multi-service programs providing health, educational, and social services have a greater impact on their participants than programs offering only one of these services. The study reported here tested this assumption by comparing the medical course and subsequent life histories of school-age mothers who participated in a comprehensive program during the prenatal period with those of young mothers who received only health-related services from a hospital in the same city. The relative impact of the two programs was examined controlling for social factors such as age, race, and socioeconomic status. With the exception of post-delivery educational status, the two study groups had similar medical and social outcomes. The educational difference, however, could not be attributed solely to the impact of the comprehensive program because of variations in educational status prior to entering the two programs. This study suggests that the comprehensive and hospital programs, with their unique emphases, served different groups of clients. The "goodness of fit" which existed between the program and clients demonstrates the need for multiple models of delivering services to school-age parents.

Adolescent↗
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Achieving the top: women in management.

Because of its unique structure, the health-care industry can take the lead in creating a responsive organizational environment where women can achieve top-level positions. This requires greater flexibility from both the organization and the individual. This article examines gender-related obstacles (e.g., a male-defined workplace and the inability of women to divorce themselves from family responsibilities) to career advancement and suggests some options to eliminate and overcome these obstacles (e.g., compressed and flexible time and mentoring).

Career Mobility↗