Emergence Of Agency Research Articles

Health Care Crisis From a Trauma Center Perspective

In the summer of 1995, the chief administrative officer of the County of Los Angeles proposed closure of Los Angeles County+University of Southern California (LAC + USC) Medical Center, the nation's biggest and busiest hospital, in order to address a budgetary shortfall of $655 million in the Los Angeles County Health Department. The magnitude of the fiscal crisis facing the Los Angeles County public health system is perhaps best demonstrated by the fact that the County Board of Supervisors gave serious consideration to the proposal, despite widespread predictions that such a move would trigger collapse of the nation's second-largest public health system.1(The Los Angeles County emergency agency has predicted a dominolike effect of closure of LAC + USC, where other hospitals' emergency departments would be overwhelmed by the numbers and complexities of patients for whom care would be unreimbursed.) Considering that the hospital (1) is the country's largest teaching hospital,

THE NATIONAL CONTINGENCY PLAN PRODUCT SCHEDULE DATABASE

ABSTRACT The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Emergency Response Division maintains the National Contingency Plan Product Schedule Database that allows users to view and compare product data quickly and efficiently. The current word processing format of the NC? Product Schedule Notebook does not allow for the rapid and efficient searching of toxicity and effectiveness data. Rapid access to NCP product data is vital to on-scene coordinators during the early stages of spills. The NCP Product Schedule Database provides the user with a mechanism to quickly view and/or print product data, comparison reports, and product lists.

Emergency telephone calls: A multiple baseline study using instructional programming

Three women with Down's syndrome and speech difficulties were taught to discriminate emergency fire situations and subsequently how to contact, with minimal verbal requirements, an emergency agency by telephone. A procedure modelled on Engelmann and Carnine's (1982) guidelines for instructional programs was applied using a multiple baseline design across subjects. Independent ratings of each learner at post-testing and follow-up confirmed the utility of the present program.

The ‘sub-trigger’ crisis: An economic analysis of flexible stock policies

This paper investigates the value of international cooperation during an oil supply disruption. The International Energy Agency provides the aegis for energy cooperation among the industrialized countries, but only an enormous disruption would ‘trigger’ the Agency's emergency mechanism. Smaller (‘sub-trigger’) disruptions have occurred three times in the past decade, and twice, in 1973–1974, and again in 1979, the result was havoc in the international oil markets and substantial economic damage. General consensus credits oil inventory accumulation with exacerbating these shocks and decumulation with averting similar problems during the 1980 disruption. The paper employs a small short-run econometric model of the oil market to examine inventory behaviour and to test coordinated government stockpile drawdowns (termed ‘flexible stock policies’) which have been proposed to address these issues. Impacts on GNP are obtained by solving the oil market model simultaneously with an econometric model of the US macro-economy.