The index-versus-active debate has assumed importance in light of increasing interest in sector investing and a growing number of active and passive sector investment options.
Information Technology funds constitute nearly a third of all active sector funds.
Asset weighted returns are a better indicator of investor experience because they more accurately reflect the returns of the total money invested in that particular style category.
These reports remove this bias by (a) taking all available funds in that particular category as the investment opportunity set as the denominator for outperformance calculations in Report 1, (b) explicitly showing the survivorship rate in each category in Report 2, and (c) constructing a peer average monthly return series for each sector based on all available funds at that period of time.
2003_HCBSconf_brochure
The location of this year's conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin provides an opportunity to learn more about the State of Wisconsin's unique managed long term care programs (Family Care and Partnership), to visit a public housing project with intensive in-home services, to learn how outcomes are being used as quality measures across waivers, and to see demonstrations of the web-based functional screen for waiver eligibility.
The intensive will offer details about how the program works, the forces that led to its creation, the experience of the pilot counties, the program's approach to quality, and how consumers experience the change from their former HCBS waiver services to the new program.
homeless_choices http://www.mhfa.state.mn.us/about/homeless_choices.pdf
housing, community, support, housing options, service choices, apartments, families, Considerations, scattered site, treatment, management, single family homes, Medication, duplexes, townhouses.
Goal: Make available housing and service options that allow families and individuals who have experienced chronic homelessness to be successfully housed over the long-term.
Types of services: information and referral, outreach and engagement, health related and home health services, alcohol and drug abuse services, mental health and counseling services, inpatient services, supportive case management services, intensive case management services, income management and support, residential treatment services, discharge planning, life skills, child care, education and training, employment, legal and transportation.
Housing Options: Provide housing through a range of options: leasing rental units, rehabilitating existing units, and developing new units.
Types of housing: Scattered -site single family homes, townhouses, duplexes (may be shared) or apartments; clustered apartments; small single-site developments (4-12 units); medium single-site development (13-30 units); large single-site apartment building (31+ units); single-site SRO: single room occupancy (bath, shared kitchen); or other housing types.
03d http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/leveraging/03d.pdf
OSHA, inspection, SICs, employers, establishments, industries, hazards, safety, health, workers, LWDII rate, workplaces, public/offices/reinvention/NPR/Real Choices, worksites, OSHA ReO.
With lessons learned in mind OSHA then developed an agency-wide directive entitled, " OSHA High Injury/Illness Rate Targeting and Cooperative Compliance Programs," which became known as the CCP program.
Regardless of the employer's site-specific rate, OSHA conducted an inspection.
These efforts have been designed to increase OSHA's impact on worker safety and health and, at the same time, to help OSHA change its way of conducting business from one of command and control to one that provides employers a real choice between partnership and a traditional enforcement arrangement.
This instruction states the agency's general policy on OSP programs but does not bind the agency to approve or disapprove any particular partnership proposal, limit the agency's discretion to enter into agreements that do not meet the criteria listed within this instruction, or create any rights in private parties.
InvestingInRuralHealthinWesternChina
health, village, county, governments, township, community, financing, income, reforms, insurance, households, funds, cooperatives, farmers, costs.
It has been widely believed that the rapid decline of the cooperative medical system in the 1980s resulted from the abolition of the People's Communes.
However, the recall of the farmers whom the author interviewed in studied provinces and the archives for Fengyang County in Anhui Province showed that the medical cooperatives were barely able to survive even when the people's commune system was at its peak, and that their decline was the outcome of their own unsustainability.
The village doctors have been the one that the majority of the rural people most frequently visited among the health services providers whenever they get ill.
Medicare_Choices
medicare, plan, care, providers, pay, health, insurance, managed care, premiums, SHIBA HelpLine, enrollment, physician, Washington, deductibles, Medigap.
There are deductibles, co-payments, and---in some cases---charges over and above what Medicare considers reasonable and necessary, which Medicare won't pay.
The Original Medicare plan (sometimes called fee-for-service or "traditional Medicare") lets beneficiaries obtain care for Medicare-approved, medically necessary services from any Medicare-contracting provider.
Traditional Medicare plus a Medigap and/or employer plan offers freedom---to choose doctors and hospitals, switch providers, and see specialists without referral.
Under Medicare+Choice, the government created Medicare Medical Savings Accounts (there are also non-Medicare MSAs) on a demonstration basis.
A Medicare MSA combines two sources of coverage for health care expenses: the account itself, and a highdeductible (maximum $6,000) insurance policy that backs it.
d02544t http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02544t.pdf
long-term care, Medicaid, budgets, financing, insurance, disability, assistance, costs, spending, Social Security, expenditures, health, baby boom, aging, nursing home.
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: I am pleased to be here today as you discuss the effects of the aging baby boom generation on the demand for long-term care services and the challenges that increased demand will bring for federal and state budgets.
As the estimated 76 million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 become elderly, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will nearly double as a share of the economy by 2035.
Medicare growth rates reflect not only a rapidly increasing beneficiary population, but also the escalation of health care costs at rates well exceeding general rates of inflation.
josephcenterApr03newsletter http://www.catholiccharities-md.org/pdf/josephcenterApr03newsletter.pdf
Broadway, Joseph SeniorLife, lunch, SeniorLife, arthritis, exercise, meals, discount, trips, members, aging, volunteer, specials, Coordinator, resources.
The Joseph SeniorLife Center is available to help you find new opportunities for fun, fitness, friendship and productivity and to assist you when you need help finding resources to meet your changing needs.
Today doctors are recommending a broad approach to managing arthritis which includes among other things staying active with exercise.
The Hairspray daughter is about to be married, and she wanten bigger heart, has only one passion -- to s her father at the wedding.
The problem is Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an ev that she doesn't know who her father is, and it' dance program, "Thes just possible that her mother doesn't know dance.
survey_2000
Canadians, pharmacists, medicare, support, physicians, doctors, coverage, provinces, government, health care, nurses, accountability, costs, survey, drug.
The Health Care in Canada survey has been tracking the views of Canadian citizens and health care providers for three years now.
This year, a greater number of partners working in collaboration resulted in better questions and a clearer picture of the challenges faced by Canada's doctors, nurses and other health workers.
A question of confidence: general attitudes concerning the health care system Making the system accountable Tough choices toward sustainability Who decides coverage?
The 1999 survey reported a drop to 9% of Canadians specifically concerned about insufficient funding, which may have been attributable to health budgets passed that year.
muggahhard http://www.ssrc.org/programs/gsc/publications/quarterly9/muggahhard.pdf
refugees, UNHCR, CDA, Bhutanese, camps, partners, community, rights, programmes, health, durable solution, refugee situations, prospects, government, rights-literate.
The UNHCR's community development approach (CDA) consists of a disparate set of guidelines designed to strengthen the self-reliance of refugees during protracted refugee situations.
This raises a number of concerns to do with the desired aims of the CDA, the accountability of UNHCR and its implementing partners, and the capacity of UNHCR to administer development while preserving its core mandate.
In the light of these concerns, this article casts a critical eye over CDA as experienced in Bhutanese refugee camps in Nepal.
In Africa alone, millions of refugees have spent perhaps decades in camps with little or no prospect of returning to their home countries.
consumer
food, nutrition, Uzbekistan, water, orphans, cost, health, environment, Nukus, Aral Sea, resources, Curtis, education, consumer, orphan facility.
The focus of the project was to identify 1) poor consumer choices that directly impact the nutritional status and health of orphans in Uzbekistan, and 2) pragmatic solutions which involve little or no increase in cost and which could be implemented immediately.
Extreme poverty in rural areas, environmental devastation, contaminated drinking water, poor nutrition, and lack of education about basic nutrition and sanitation procedures have contributed to the prevalence of debilitating illnesses.
The following suggestions are offered for cost-effective implementation of the new food plans.
The researcher has observed that families are concerned about the health of family members, but the need for education about nutrition and sanitation is great.
AIMconferencesxs
plans, beneficiaries, Medicare, payment, drug, coverage, AIM, provisions, health, enrollment, care, private plans, prescription drug, card, physician.
Beginning in 2006, beneficiaries could choose between traditional fee-for-service Medicare, local-based Medicare Advantage (MA) plans and regional PPOs, called Enhanced Fee-for-Service (EFFS) plans.
Beginning 2006, Medicare would offer a new Part D prescription drug benefit to all beneficiaries, regardless of whether they enroll in FFS, Medicare Advantage, or EFFS.
Before 2009, plans could compete against each other but payments would be limited by traditional FFS Medicare payment rates.
AIM supports new beneficiary choices for health care coverage.
At the end of the 20042005 eligibility period, any remaining funds could be used toward premium expenses for purchase of and enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans.
wp10 http://www.worldbank.org/gender/prr/wp10.pdf
child care, households, mothers, wage, household members, employment, Russia, estimation, income, price, simulations, subsidies, economy, labor, wage rates.
The model estimates the effects of the price of child care, mother's wage, and household income on household behavior and well-being.
The results of the analysis indicate that mothers' labor force participation and working hours are responsive to the price of child care and hourly wages.
respect to Lm, L0, T0, and Qp as a function of the exogenous variables, it is possible to show that there is no full interior solution for those situations when the household freely chooses all four variables: Lm, L0, T0, and Qp, i.e., when the mother works, other household members work, child care is provided by the working mother when she does not work; by other working family members during periods when the mother works and they do not work; and by a formal child care provider during periods when both the mother and the other family members work3.
NNews_May02 http://www.bazelon.org/issues/elders/resources/NNews_May02.pdf
care, housing, health care, facilities, disabilities, assisted living, law, clients, Michael, seniors, advocates, attorneys, Fair Housing Act, CCRC, perspectives.
Among elder law attorneys, "aged and disabled" is a pairing just as common as "peanut butter and jelly" is among the preschool crowd.
Eric direct violation of the Fair Housing Act regulations, which say that a housing provider cannot inquire about the existence or severity of a disability.
If they are to be admitted, they shouldn't have to fear that a change in their medical conditions will jeopardize their housing.
But CCRCs and assisted living facilities (ALFs) are not your ordinary landlords.
They also are health care providers or, at a minimum, have responsibility to assure that their residents' health care needs are met.
CO_Dis10
plans, health, disenrollment, Medicaid, enrollment, providers, switching, physicians, members, ethnicity, cultural competence, families, care, managed care, beneficiaries.
Consumer decisions to switch health plans have implications concerning to quality and risk selection.
We examine factors related to disenrollment in a Medicaid Managed Care program where beneficiaries face a menu of plans and can change plans every month.
Because language has been identified as a key component of cultural competence, we use data from the CalOPTIMA provider directory on the languages spoken by affiliated physicians and their staff to identify one plan that includes a large number of physicians who are fluent in Vietnamese (the "Vietamese plan" for brevity) and two plans with a large percentage of physicians who speak Spanish (the "Spanish plans").
