Anne R Somers

Biographic Data

ID1007192
NAMEAnne R Somers
GIVEN NAMESAnne R
FAMILY NAMESomers
SIGNATURESOMERS A R
AFFILIATIONSPrinceton University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT18
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1953
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
H-INDEX2

  • The Case for Prevention: How Strong Is It

    Anne R Somers, Shelagh A Smith et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1987

  • The Quandaries of Health Policy: Medicine, Prevention, and Specialism

    Frank J Thompson, Karen Davis et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1979

  • Health and Health Care: Policies in Perspective

    Sue Keir Hoppe, Anne R Somers et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1978

  • Television and children: Issues involved in corrective action

    Anne R SomersARTICLEAmerican Journal of Orthopsychiatry1978References: 4

    Economic, legal, and political/moral factors affecting the state of children's programming on television are reviewed, and their effects on the effort to encourage "pro-social" programming are considered. It is suggested that the leadership of child-care professionals is essential in the battle to reduce gratuitous violence, limit questionable advertising, and increase positive programming for children

  • Regulation of Hospitals

    Open AccessAnne R SomersARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1972Cited by: 2

    The hospital industry is already subject to exten sive regulation covering, in varying degrees: construction or ex pansion of facilities; review of rates; quality of care; wages and labor relations; criteria for tax exemption; qualification for Medicare and Medicaid, and for Hill-Burton construction funds; and other matters. There are, however, many serious shortcomings in the present mishmash of uncoördinated, incon sistent, and often contradict…

  • The Nation's Health: Issues for the Future

    Open AccessAnne R SomersARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1972Cited by: 2

    Nine major issues with respect to the nation's health are identified: 1) the lifestyle of the consumer and prob lems of health education, 2) availability of 24-hour compre hensive care, 3) rationalization of the delivery system, 4) re- definition of professional roles to assure personalized care, 5) free choice, consumer responsibility, and administrative decen tralization, 6) quality controls, 7) cost controls, 8) long-range financing, and 9) lo…

  • The organization and financing of health care: Issues and directions for the future

    Anne R Somers, Herman M SomersARTICLEAmerican Journal of Orthopsychiatry1972References: 1

    The various legislative proposals for national health insurance and for reform of the delivery system are discussed in relation to the goal of a workable, rational health care system. The authors suggest the elements of a pluralistic planning and regulatory system, designed to assure comprehensive care to all Americans, as well as criteria for a viable national financing mechanism

  • Medicare and the Hospitals: Issues and Prospects

    Roger M Battistella, Herman M Somers et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1968

  • An American City and its Health Problems: A Case Study in Comprehensive Health Planning

    Anne R SomersARTICLEMedical Care1967

  • The Health Organization of a Nation

    Wallace H Best, Eugene A Confrey et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1963

  • The Genesis of the British National Health Service

    Anne R SomersARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health…1962

    THE GENESIS OF THE BRITISH NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE Anne R. Somers CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.52.4.707-b Published Online: August 29, 2011

  • Doctors, Patients, and Health Insurance: The Organization and Financing of Medical Care

    Claude J Burtenshaw, Herman M Somers et al.ARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1962

  • Doctors, Patients, and Health Insurance: The Organization and Financing of Medical Care

    Louis S Reed, Herman M Somers et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1962

  • Health Insurance: Are Cost and Quality Controls Necessary

    Anne R Somers, R Anne et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1960

    As this note is being written, a proposal to provide health insurance to retired workers under Social Security--the Forand bill--is being vigorously debated. Although health care for such workers involves some special considerations, the arguments of the proponents of this bill and the massive support being marshalled for its passage are symptomatic of general concern over voluntary health insurance. The dilemma threatening the survival of many o…

  • Workmen's Compensation

    Edison L Bowers, Herman M Somers et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1957

  • The Health Service: Diagnosis and Prognosis

    Open AccessHerman M Somers, Anne R SomersARTICLEThe Political Quarterly1956

  • Rehabilitation: Challenge to Compensation Medicine

    Herman M Somers, Anne R SomersARTICLESocial Service Review1955

  • Industrial Safety and Health in the United States

    Herman M Somers, Herman M et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1953

    Progress of the industrial safety and occupational health movements in the United States toward their common goal of protecting the physical welfare of workers is discussed in this article. When these activities and workmen's compensation began, about a half century ago, it was anticipated that they would be complementary and mutually sustaining. Besides presenting historical accounts of the safety and health movements, the authors evaluate the c…