Consumer Control and Public Accountability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2581925 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Kong-Ming New (corresponding author), Richard M Hessler, Phyllis Bagwell Cater |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 196 |
| Publication date | 1973-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3317084 |
| OpenAlex | W2331963780 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 13 |
a southern United States city. The framework of analysis includes the following two elements: (1) structure-the context or setting in which the participates, including goals and purposes of the health center, organization of the center, and the funding mechanism; (2) processincluding the health center's operations and the role of consumers. For the past seven years, the notion of maximum feasible has surfaced dramatically in the United States in a number of spheres of activities ranging from education to health. Regarding community health centers and neighborhood schools, participation is sometimes used co-terminously with and is often undifferentiated from consumer or community. Thus, we sometimes talk about citizen or control when we really mean or we talk about community control when we really mean community involvement or (Hollister 1970). When, therefore, we examine the effectiveness of citizen or citizen control, we have not considered the basic assumption under which a program has been promulgated. Are citizens really supposed to participate, in an advisory capacity, or do they have the ultimate control over all policy matters regarding the program? In either case, what is the nature of public accountability associated with in health care? Since many federally-funded programs operate through a series of sponsoring or delegated agencies (such as medical societies, for example, who in turn may delegate authority of running these programs
Accountability · Business · Control (management · Economics · Management · Political science · Sociology · Law · Public Health Policies and Education
Consumer Evaluation of Health Services
The Links Between Health and the Political Structure in New China
The Politics of Health Care in Nicaragua before and after the Revolution of 1979
Citizen Participation in Neighborhood Health Centers for the Poor
Consumer-based boards of health centers
Power, Exchange, and the Research-Development Link
Conflict, Consensus and Exchange
Consumer Evaluation Research
Maximum feasible misunderstanding
Consumer participation in health planning
The black health worker and the black health consumer--new roles for both
The neighborhood health center
Pimps, prostitutes, and policemen
The consumer as policy-maker--issues of training
Working relationships between providers and consumers in a neighborhood health center
Role strains of a health care team in a poverty community
Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding
The Politics of Community Medicine Projects
A Sociological Evaluation of the Watts Neighborhood Health Center
A Political Scientistʼs View of the Neighborhood Health Center as a New Social Institution
The Patient-Client as a Consumer
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1975 - 1983 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |