How to fight the regulator glut: the role of the HCFA-type survey

More and more hospitals in this country are being threatened by the removal of their Health Care Financing Authority (HCFA) Medicare Certification. A perception of competitiveness among HCFA, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), and other organizations has heightened this concern. This unpleasant situation has provoked many hospitals to prevent any type of regulator decertification. One of the practical methods of prevention is the use of a HCFA-type survey. These surveys prepare institutions for unexpected, unarmored review by regulators and should be part of the quality improvement (QI) process even in institutions with limited resources. This article discusses the means to accomplish the HCFA-type survey. The development of the survey process involves institutional commitment, hospital policy and procedures, a department review schedule, selection of review personnel, preparation of review personnel, record keeping, and department education.     

信息与激励:看得见的机制设计——2007年诺贝尔经济学奖得主学术贡献述评

机制设计理论主要涵盖信息效率、激励相容、显示原理和实施理论等内容.不同的机制设计会导致不同的信息成本、不同的激励效应和不同的配置结果.能否满足资源的有效配置、信息的有效利用和激励相容的条件,是检验机制设计优劣的惟一标准.可以期望,机制设计理论伴随着人类经济社会的发展,将在经济、政治、文化等领域中发挥不可估量的作用.     

School–work systems in postindustrial societies: Evidence from Japan

The Japanese system of school–work has been widely admired for the strong communication and recruitment relationships that exist between high schools and employers. We develop a framework for understanding the macro-level conditions that fostered the effectiveness of the system up until the early 1990s. These conditions included a stratified secondary educational system, a large supply of high-quality high school graduates, and high demand for young workers to fill entry-level positions in the internal labor markets of large firms. We use original data from a sample of urban high schools to analyze how Japanese employers’ recruitment patterns changed in the 1990s and beyond. The results of that analysis and a counterfactual analysis suggest that recent changes, especially in Japanese employment institutions, have significantly weakened high school–employer relationships. We suggest implications of the Japanese case for school–work processes in other postindustrial societies.     

儒家文化视角下的现代大学德育

博大精深的儒家文化是中国传统文化的主流，其道德文化的精粹是中国文化的重要标志。儒家道德文化以“内圣外王”为价值目标、“以人为本”为基本精神、“知行合一”为践行方法，建构起以仁、义、礼、智、信、忠、孝、悌、慈、惠、勇为主要范畴的伦理思想体系。用唯物主义的观点重新审视，吸取其精华，对创新和发展现代大学德育目标、原则、方法和途径有重要的借鉴意义。关键词：大学德育；内圣外王；以人为本；知行合一；继承；创新     

心理咨询在高校德育中运用的意义探讨

心理咨询是高校德育的组成部分。心理咨询在高校德育中运用的意义主要表现在三个方面 :有利于实现高校德育的预见性和针对性 ;有利于提高高校德育的实效性 ;有利于提高高校德育工作者自身的素质     

腐败的机制分析及反腐防腐措施探讨

腐败有自己的机制,是由对人性的基本假设不完全正确导致的制度内在缺陷所决定的,其机制有三种:动力机制、运行机制、调控机制。这三个机制是官员对制度内在缺陷的适应。因此,从根本上反腐败就必须对假设加以调整,运用权力制衡,破坏腐败发生、发展变化的机制。     

网络时代高等学校加强大学生爱国主义教育方式分析

网络时代的迅速到来,为高等学校开展爱国主义教育带来了新的机遇也带来了新的挑战。高等学校应该丰富网络化教育方式、充实网络化社会实践内容、提升教育者的主导性地位、加强用中国特色社会主义核心价值体系引领大学生爱国主义意识。关注大学生个性特点和个人成长,通过多种途径来推动高等学校网络化教育进程,不断提高大学生爱国主义教育的实效性。     

民主改革前西藏流动人口救助问题刍议——以拉萨、昌都两地流动人口互助互济活动为基点

本文对20世纪上半叶民主改革前西藏流动人口救助问题进行了整体性的考察,认为当时互助组织的规范和实践强调某种"平均主义",互助行为具有一定的排他性,成为互助组织成员需要经历一定时间的考验以求认同.此外,互助组织对变迁中的政治经济条件有一定的调适能力.     

Social class and workers’ rent, 1983–2001

Sociologists and economists continue to seek explanations for the growth of earnings inequality since the late 1970s. In this article, we draw upon the structural tradition of labor market analysis in sociology in order evaluate the conjecture that selective rent destruction is a source of the recent increase in earnings inequality. In empirical analysis of the Outgoing Rotation Groups of the Current Population Surveys from 1983 to 2001, we demonstrate that (1) the earnings of workers at the bottom of the class distribution have declined relative to the earnings of those at the top and (2) the variance of wage premia associated with employment in alternative industries has declined relatively more for those at the bottom of the class distribution. Adopting the position from both the sociology and labor economics literatures that these industry wage premia are reasonable measures of industry rents, we conclude that the results support the rent destruction conjecture and, by implication, that structural models of labor markets can explain some of the increase in earnings inequality.     

对创建世界知名高水平大学的思考

文章从学校的实际出发,结合国家对高等院校管理体制进行调整及实施西部大开发战略等形势,对如何把西南交通大学建设成世界知名的高水平大学进行了深入思考,并提出了切实可行的发展战略和具体措施.不但成为指导学校跨世纪的指针,而且对国内同类院校的办学具有一定的参考价值.