Peter C Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3758587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter C Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter C |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | East–West Population Institute, East–West Center, 1777 East–West Rood, Honolulu, Hawaii 96848 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Health facility quality peer effects: Are financial incentives necessary
Women in the Cities of Asia: Migration and Urban Adaptation
This book is concerned with the relatively new and growing phenomenon of female migration from village to city in Asia. It consists of a series of papers by various authors. The papers are grouped under four major headings: overview and theoretical perspectives; national perspectives on trends policies and programs with studies on India Pakistan Peninsular Malaysia Thailand the Philippines and the Republic of Korea; women migrants in cities with …
Healthy Life-Years Lost and Excess Bed-Days Due to 6 Patient Safety Incidents: Empirical Evidence From English Hospitals
BACKGROUND: There is little satisfactory evidence on the harm of safety incidents to patients, in terms of lost potential health and life-years. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the healthy life-years (HLYs) lost due to 6 incidents in English hospitals between the years 2005/2006 and 2009/2010, to compare burden across incidents, and estimate excess bed-days. RESEARCH DESIGN: The study used cross-sectional analysis of the medical records of all inpatients …
Oxford Handbook of Health Economics
Health, policy and geography: Insights from a multi-level modelling approach
Does progress towards universal health coverage improve population health?
Minding the gap: Changes in life expectancy in the Baltic States compared with Finland
BACKGROUND: In the 20 years since the three Baltic States, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, have been independent, they have converged progressively with a Western neighbours, politically economically and socially. In contrast, the health gap has widened. METHODS: Trends in life expectancy in the three Baltic States were compared with Finland and were decomposed by age for the years 1994, 1999, 2004 and 2009 and by cause of death for year 2009. 199…
The Oxford handbook of health economics
Le système de santé anglais: Régulation Et Rapports Entre Les Différents Acteurs
Cet article porte sur la régulation financière du système de santé en Angleterre. Après un rapide historique, il présente la structure institutionnelle actuelle avant de s'intéresser aux instruments de régulation et à l'organisation financière du système. Pour conclure, il propose une analyse critique de certaines des réformes en cours, en soulignant que l'Angleterre peut être une source d'inspiration pour d'autres pays cherchant à réformer leur …
Regulation and relations between the different participants in the English health care system
This paper describes the financial regulation of health care in England. It starts with a historical overview, and then summarises the current institutional structure. The main instruments of regulation in the system are then outlined, and the elements of the finance system described. The paper ends with some views on current reforms, suggesting that England offers a fertile source of ideas for other countries interested in options for restructur…
How Robust Are Hospital Ranks Based on Composite Performance Measures
BACKGROUND: Composite indices of healthcare performance are an aggregation of underlying individual performance measures. They are increasingly being used to rank healthcare organizations. Although composite indicators present the "big picture" in a way that is easy to interpret, misleading conclusions may be drawn if attention is not paid to key methodological issues in their construction. OBJECTIVES: We examine variability in performance measur…
What works?Evidence-based policy and practice in public services
What counts is what works – but how can we actually tell what works? And what can we do with such knowledge to influence policy and practice? As all parts of the public sector embrace ‘evidence’ as a means of providing more effective and efficient public services, this book provides a contribution to such debates. The authors consider the role of evidence in specific public policy areas (healthcare, education, criminal justice, social care, welfa…
What Works?: Evidence-Based Policy and Practice in Public Services
This book provides a timely and novel contribution to the debate surrounding the role of 'evidence' in specific public policy areas. It explores the creation, dissemination and use of evidence within the areas of healthcare, education, criminal justice, social care, welfare, housing, transport and urban renewal.
Risk and the general practitioner budget holder
Victoria's Victories
Rural punjabi social organization and marriage timing strategies in Pakistan
Using data from the Asian Marriage Survey and ethnographic material for the Punjab and South Asia we examine the contribution of social organization and marriage processes to the explanation of female marriage age in rural Pakistan. The perspective is that marriage constitutes an alliance-building strategy involving whole households and patrilines and that kinship distance between families dowry values landed status of families and direction of w…
Migration of Women to Cities: The Asian Situation in Comparative Perspective
This article examines the participation of women in rural-to-urban migration, with a special focus on patterns in Asia. Most studies of migration have focused on male migrants or heads of households (See, reviews by Simmons et al., 1977; Yap, 1977 for example) on the assumption that females frequently migrate only as part of families and therefore the causes and consequences of their migration are those of their spouses and families. Recently, ho…
Migration of Women to Cities: The Asian Situation in Comparative Perspective
Siew-Ean Khoo, Peter C. Smith, James T. Fawcett, Migration of Women to Cities: The Asian Situation in Comparative Perspective, The International Migration Review, Vol. 18, No. 4, Special Issue: Women in Migration (Winter, 1984), pp. 1247-1263
Migration, the Urban Informal Sector, and Earnings in the Philippines
This study investigates several issues pertaining to the urban informal sector and cityward migration in Philippine cities. The analysis of cross-sectional national demographic data reveals the four major patterns. First, the pattern of migrants' participation in the urban labor market varies greatly between male and female migrants. The widely held notion that migrants tend to enter the urban occupational structure through the informal sector se…
Social Origins and Sex-Differential Schooling in the Philippines
Residence History Analysis. Studies in Migration and Urbanization: No. 3
Filipinos Overseas: A Bibliography
Asian Marriage Patterns in Transition
Both social and economic forces have contributed to changing traditional marital patterns in Asian societies in the last several decades. Such changes are compared to the changes in marital patterns which occurred in Europe before and again at the time of industrialization. Analyses are based on schedules of percentages ever married by age and sex and nuptiality indicators derived from them. Social change seems to have led to later marriage for b…
Crisis Mortality in the Nineteenth Century Philippines: Data from Parish Records
This paper describes mortality patterns across forty localities in the nineteenth century Philippines and suggests an interpretation of these patterns. Burial records from the Catholic church archives of the localities (parishes) are combined with local population estimates to obtain local mortality levels and trends over time, seasonal variations in mortality, and, especially, episodes of abnormal or "crisis" mortality. It is observed that the l…
A Demographic Path to Modernity: Patterns of Early-Transition in the Philippines
Asian Marriage Patterns in Transition
Both social and economic forces have contributed to changing traditional marital patterns in Asian societies in the last several decades. Such changes are compared to the changes in marital patterns which occurred in Europe before and again at the time of industrialization. Analyses are based on schedules of percentages ever married by age and sex and nuptiality indicators derived from them. Social change seems to have led to later marriage for b…
Crisis Mortality in the Nineteenth Century Philippines: Data from Parish Records
This paper describes mortality patterns across forty localities in the nineteenth century Philippines and suggests an interpretation of these patterns. Burial records from the Catholic church archives of the localities (parishes) are combined with local population estimates to obtain local mortality levels and trends over time, seasonal variations in mortality, and, especially, episodes of abnormal or "crisis" mortality. It is observed that the l…
Rural punjabi social organization and marriage timing strategies in Pakistan
Using data from the Asian Marriage Survey and ethnographic material for the Punjab and South Asia we examine the contribution of social organization and marriage processes to the explanation of female marriage age in rural Pakistan. The perspective is that marriage constitutes an alliance-building strategy involving whole households and patrilines and that kinship distance between families dowry values landed status of families and direction of w…
Migration, the Urban Informal Sector, and Earnings in the Philippines
This study investigates several issues pertaining to the urban informal sector and cityward migration in Philippine cities. The analysis of cross-sectional national demographic data reveals the four major patterns. First, the pattern of migrants' participation in the urban labor market varies greatly between male and female migrants. The widely held notion that migrants tend to enter the urban occupational structure through the informal sector se…
Risk and the general practitioner budget holder
The Social Demography of Filipino Migrations Abroad
Health, policy and geography: Insights from a multi-level modelling approach
Migration of Women to Cities: The Asian Situation in Comparative Perspective
This article examines the participation of women in rural-to-urban migration, with a special focus on patterns in Asia. Most studies of migration have focused on male migrants or heads of households (See, reviews by Simmons et al., 1977; Yap, 1977 for example) on the assumption that females frequently migrate only as part of families and therefore the causes and consequences of their migration are those of their spouses and families. Recently, ho…
Migration of Women to Cities: The Asian Situation in Comparative Perspective
Siew-Ean Khoo, Peter C. Smith, James T. Fawcett, Migration of Women to Cities: The Asian Situation in Comparative Perspective, The International Migration Review, Vol. 18, No. 4, Special Issue: Women in Migration (Winter, 1984), pp. 1247-1263
The Social Demography of Filipino Migrations Abroad
Migratory movements have always been present as an underlying element of continuity in Philippine history. From the earliest coloniza? tions (Yengoyan 1967), to the major frontier movements of the twentieth century, long-distance migration?often permanent, frequently disrup? tive socially, but generally positive in its motivation?has been the recurrent theme. One such pattern of frontier movement is the focus of this essay: the migration of Filip…
Negro Hamlets and Agricultural Estates in Kentucky's Inner Bluegrass
rT nOURISTS, artists, and agriculturists alike have proclaimed Kentucky's Inner Bluegrass region to be one of the loveliest of all rural landscapes.1 Long, wooded lanes reach back from ornamental wrought-iron gates mounted on limestone posts. Stylish wooden fences bound the beautiful bluegrass paddocks, white ducks float leisurely in the ponds and creeks, thoroughbred horses and blooded cattle grace the fields, and stately, pillared mansions symb…
Regulation and relations between the different participants in the English health care system
This paper describes the financial regulation of health care in England. It starts with a historical overview, and then summarises the current institutional structure. The main instruments of regulation in the system are then outlined, and the elements of the finance system described. The paper ends with some views on current reforms, suggesting that England offers a fertile source of ideas for other countries interested in options for restructur…
Social Origins and Sex-Differential Schooling in the Philippines
Negro Hamlets and Agricultural Estates in Kentucky's Inner Bluegrass
rT nOURISTS, artists, and agriculturists alike have proclaimed Kentucky's Inner Bluegrass region to be one of the loveliest of all rural landscapes.1 Long, wooded lanes reach back from ornamental wrought-iron gates mounted on limestone posts. Stylish wooden fences bound the beautiful bluegrass paddocks, white ducks float leisurely in the ponds and creeks, thoroughbred horses and blooded cattle grace the fields, and stately, pillared mansions symb…
The Social Demography of Filipino Migrations Abroad
Migratory movements have always been present as an underlying element of continuity in Philippine history. From the earliest coloniza? tions (Yengoyan 1967), to the major frontier movements of the twentieth century, long-distance migration?often permanent, frequently disrup? tive socially, but generally positive in its motivation?has been the recurrent theme. One such pattern of frontier movement is the focus of this essay: the migration of Filip…
The Social Demography of Filipino Migrations Abroad
A Demographic Path to Modernity: Patterns of Early-Transition in the Philippines
Crisis Mortality in the Nineteenth Century Philippines: Data from Parish Records
This paper describes mortality patterns across forty localities in the nineteenth century Philippines and suggests an interpretation of these patterns. Burial records from the Catholic church archives of the localities (parishes) are combined with local population estimates to obtain local mortality levels and trends over time, seasonal variations in mortality, and, especially, episodes of abnormal or "crisis" mortality. It is observed that the l…
Residence History Analysis. Studies in Migration and Urbanization: No. 3
Filipinos Overseas: A Bibliography
Asian Marriage Patterns in Transition
Both social and economic forces have contributed to changing traditional marital patterns in Asian societies in the last several decades. Such changes are compared to the changes in marital patterns which occurred in Europe before and again at the time of industrialization. Analyses are based on schedules of percentages ever married by age and sex and nuptiality indicators derived from them. Social change seems to have led to later marriage for b…
Social Origins and Sex-Differential Schooling in the Philippines
Migration, the Urban Informal Sector, and Earnings in the Philippines
This study investigates several issues pertaining to the urban informal sector and cityward migration in Philippine cities. The analysis of cross-sectional national demographic data reveals the four major patterns. First, the pattern of migrants' participation in the urban labor market varies greatly between male and female migrants. The widely held notion that migrants tend to enter the urban occupational structure through the informal sector se…
Migration of Women to Cities: The Asian Situation in Comparative Perspective
This article examines the participation of women in rural-to-urban migration, with a special focus on patterns in Asia. Most studies of migration have focused on male migrants or heads of households (See, reviews by Simmons et al., 1977; Yap, 1977 for example) on the assumption that females frequently migrate only as part of families and therefore the causes and consequences of their migration are those of their spouses and families. Recently, ho…
Migration of Women to Cities: The Asian Situation in Comparative Perspective
Siew-Ean Khoo, Peter C. Smith, James T. Fawcett, Migration of Women to Cities: The Asian Situation in Comparative Perspective, The International Migration Review, Vol. 18, No. 4, Special Issue: Women in Migration (Winter, 1984), pp. 1247-1263
Rural punjabi social organization and marriage timing strategies in Pakistan
Using data from the Asian Marriage Survey and ethnographic material for the Punjab and South Asia we examine the contribution of social organization and marriage processes to the explanation of female marriage age in rural Pakistan. The perspective is that marriage constitutes an alliance-building strategy involving whole households and patrilines and that kinship distance between families dowry values landed status of families and direction of w…
Victoria's Victories
Risk and the general practitioner budget holder
What works?Evidence-based policy and practice in public services
What counts is what works – but how can we actually tell what works? And what can we do with such knowledge to influence policy and practice? As all parts of the public sector embrace ‘evidence’ as a means of providing more effective and efficient public services, this book provides a contribution to such debates. The authors consider the role of evidence in specific public policy areas (healthcare, education, criminal justice, social care, welfa…
What Works?: Evidence-Based Policy and Practice in Public Services
This book provides a timely and novel contribution to the debate surrounding the role of 'evidence' in specific public policy areas. It explores the creation, dissemination and use of evidence within the areas of healthcare, education, criminal justice, social care, welfare, housing, transport and urban renewal.
How Robust Are Hospital Ranks Based on Composite Performance Measures
BACKGROUND: Composite indices of healthcare performance are an aggregation of underlying individual performance measures. They are increasingly being used to rank healthcare organizations. Although composite indicators present the "big picture" in a way that is easy to interpret, misleading conclusions may be drawn if attention is not paid to key methodological issues in their construction. OBJECTIVES: We examine variability in performance measur…
Le système de santé anglais: Régulation Et Rapports Entre Les Différents Acteurs
Cet article porte sur la régulation financière du système de santé en Angleterre. Après un rapide historique, il présente la structure institutionnelle actuelle avant de s'intéresser aux instruments de régulation et à l'organisation financière du système. Pour conclure, il propose une analyse critique de certaines des réformes en cours, en soulignant que l'Angleterre peut être une source d'inspiration pour d'autres pays cherchant à réformer leur …
Regulation and relations between the different participants in the English health care system
This paper describes the financial regulation of health care in England. It starts with a historical overview, and then summarises the current institutional structure. The main instruments of regulation in the system are then outlined, and the elements of the finance system described. The paper ends with some views on current reforms, suggesting that England offers a fertile source of ideas for other countries interested in options for restructur…
The Oxford handbook of health economics
Does progress towards universal health coverage improve population health?
Minding the gap: Changes in life expectancy in the Baltic States compared with Finland
BACKGROUND: In the 20 years since the three Baltic States, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, have been independent, they have converged progressively with a Western neighbours, politically economically and socially. In contrast, the health gap has widened. METHODS: Trends in life expectancy in the three Baltic States were compared with Finland and were decomposed by age for the years 1994, 1999, 2004 and 2009 and by cause of death for year 2009. 199…
Oxford Handbook of Health Economics
Health, policy and geography: Insights from a multi-level modelling approach
Economics (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Geography (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Demography (9 works) · Population (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Business (7 works)