Child welfare managers and administrators are increasingly adapting managed care principles and performance-based evaluation to foster achievement of positive outcomes for children and families, identify programs that work, target get those that don't work for technical assistance and/or sanction, and link payment to performance.
The program described in this article, namely, a Medicaid managed care health maintenance organization and its interaction with one hospital's care of women, especially pregnant women, serves to illustrate how traditional public health values and managed care principles may be linked.
The skills considered more important were communication skills, ethics, conflict resolution, time management, managed care, management principles, coding and billing, quality improvement, public speaking and risk management.
(3) Although risk management principles are universal, managing risk is more than a numerical task or a structural matter; it involves values and culture.
This act directed that the national forests be managed under principles of multiple use so as to produce a sustained yield of products and services.
The OECD also provides data on how well countries manage to apply principles adopted by the Small Business Act (SBA) for Europe 2008.19 One of the main principles of this act is related to entrepreneurship learning and training.
Her students, however, manage to balance principles and popularity.
Mr Primakov has just about managed, in principle at least, to prise yet another dollop of cash out of western fists, amid all the usual vacuous promises of prudence and probity.
Priority areas that need to be considered include successful management of the extra stresses on the grid, and a focus on "measure, analyse, manage" as the principle we need to follow.
The irony was clear: Top management agreed in principle to manage diversity, but the middle to lower management levels did not.
