suspended in the netherworld between the living and the dead

In the United States, the health system is divided into two distinct components:(1) public health, and (2) healthcare services delivery and financing organiza-tions

Technology

Loan repayment programs and scholarships for nursing students• Public service announcements to encourage more people to enter thenursing profession• Career ladder programs for those who wish to advance in the profession• Best-practice grants for nursing administration• Long-term care training grants to develop and incorporate gerontologycurriculum into nursing programs• A fast-track faculty loan repayment program for nursing students whoagree to teach at a school of nursing

The effect of economic conditions on the health of children is espe-cially dramatic. Impoverished children, on average, have lower birth weightsand more conditions that limit school activity compared with other children.These children are more likely to become ill and to have more serious illnessesthan other children because of increased exposure to harmful environments,inadequate preventive services, and limited access to health services

African Americans and Hispanics feel the impact of this more acutely,as they are represented disproportionately below the poverty line

A number of social factors can affect health. Chronic unemployment, theabsence of a supportive family structure, poverty, homelessness, and discrimi-nation, among other social factors, affect people’s health as surely—and oftenas dramatically—as harmful viruses or carcinogens

Over many decades, government has made efforts to exorcise environ-mental health hazards through public policies. Examples of federal policiesinclude:• Clean Air Act (P.L. 88-206)• Flammable Fabrics Act (P.L. 90-189)• Occupational Safety and Health Act (P.L. 91-596)• Consumer Product Safety Act (P.L. 92-573)• Noise Control Act (P.L. 92-574)• Safe Drinking Water Act (P.L. 93-523)

The SymbioticRelationshipAmong HealthPolicy, HealthDeterminants,and HealthStatu

Social regulation

Market-preserving controls

Quality-control regulations

Price or rate-setting regulations

Market entry–restricting regulations

Regulatory policies are designed to influence the actions, behaviors, and decisionsof others by directive

Allocative policies provide net benefits to some distinct group or class of individualsor organizations at the expense of others to meet public objectives

allocative or regulatory

Although the judicial branch of government has played an important rolein health policy for decades, its role is increasingly relevant. For example, as we sawin the policy snapshot, in National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) v.Sebelius, the US Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that the ACA was indeed consti-tutional. This ruling was a crucial milestone for the law, permitting it to proceed(Liptak 2012). Its rationale and importance will be discussed in detail in chapter8, which is devoted to the vital role played by the judiciary in health policy.

Policies can take several forms:• Laws• Rules or regulations• Implementation decisions• Judicial decisions

The healthcare system has been describedaccurately as “unsustainable” and “flawed” and is characterized by uncon-trolled costs, variable quality, and millions of uninsured and underinsuredpeople

If we are spending more forhealthcare services than anyone in the world by any measure, do we have thebest healthcare system in the world? Regrettably, the answer is no

After entering office, President Donald Trumpreduced or eliminated previous promotional efforts. Consequently, the num-ber of newly insured Americans has declined

21 million people not previously insured became beneficiarie

“iron triangle” of cost, quality, and access is important

and the healthcaredelivery system remains Kafkaesque with misaligned incentives

Thus, a govern-ment’s health policy is a large set of authoritative decisions made through thepublic policymaking process

public-sector health policy asauthoritative decisions regarding health or the pursuit of health made in the legis-lative, executive, or judicial branches of government that are intended to direct orinfluence the actions, behaviors, or decisions of other

efines public policy as the “sumof government activities, whether acting directly or through agents, as thoseactivities have an influence on the lives of citizens.” Birkland (2001) definesit as “a statement by government of what it intends to do or not to do, suchas a law, regulation, ruling, decision, or order, or a combination of these.”Cochran and Malone (1999) propose yet another definition: “Political deci-sions for implementing programs to achieve societal goals.”

potential of technological rescue and a cultural preferencefor the prolonging of individual life regardless of the monetary cost

Americans place a high value on individual autonomy,self-determination, and personal privacy and maintain a widespread, althoughnot universal, commitment to justice

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if all states couldreach the benchmarks set by leading states, an estimated 86,000 fewer peoplewould die prematurely and tens of millions more adults and children wouldreceive timely preventive care

what government does about supportingpeople with low incomes.

Wealthier Americans tend to be inbetter health than their poorer counterparts primarily because of differencesin education, behavior, and environment

In spite of progress, continued racial disparity is easily identified. Forexample, an African American woman is 22 percent more likely to die from heartdisease than her white counterpart, 71 percent more likely to die from cervicalcancer, and 243 percent more likely to die from pregnancy- and childbirth-related causes (Hostetter and Klein 2018). As a matter of equity, statistics likethese are unacceptable

with notable, although unfinished, progress

There is evidence that the ACA contributedto reducing disparities that existed for Hispanics and African Americans (Hayeset al. 2017)

Health-care disparities refer to differences in such variables as access to care, insurancecoverage, and quality of services received. Health disparities occur when onepopulation group experiences higher burdens of illness, injury, death, or dis-ability than another group

Older people consume relatively more health services, and their health-related needs differ from those of younger people. Older people are more likelyto consume long-term care services and community-based services intended tohelp them cope with various limitations in the activities of daily living.

particular prioritizationamong determinants

United States ranks first in health expenditures but twenty-fifth in spendingon social service

fixed fac-tors, is unchangeable and includes such variables as age and gender. A secondcategory, named modifiable factors, includes lifestyles, social networks, com-munity conditions, environments, and access to products and services such aseducation, healthcare, and nutritious food

Force Field paradigm (Blum 1974). In this theory, four major influences, orforce fields, determine health: environment, lifestyle, heredity, and medicalcare

Health determinants are defined as factors that affect health or, moreformally, as a “range of personal, social, economic, and environmental fac-tors that influence health” both at the individual and population levels

Source: Adapted from OECD (2019).

the moment is no: the US does not obtain good results, especially in light ofcosts, in a number of metrics intended to elucidate the quality of a healthcaresystem

US spends more on healthcare services than anyother nation: in total dollars, dollars per capita, or percentage of the GDP.But does that spending represent value?

ood health is also an integral part of thriving modern societies,a cornerstone of well performing economies, and a shared principle of . . .democracies

state of physical and mental well-being necessary to live a meaningful, pleasant, and productive lif

state in which the biological and clinical indica-tors of organ function are maximized and in which physical, mental, and rolefunctioning in everyday life are also maximize

and a basic anduniversal human right

dynamic state

“state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merelythe absence of disease or infirmity,”

In this book, policy competence simply means that healthprofessionals understand the policymaking process sufficiently to exert someinfluence and achieve their goals—improved healthcare services delivery. Thepath toward policy competence begins with some key definitions—of health,health determinants, public policy, and health policy

Despite government’s substantive role through health policy, most ofthe necessary clinical, diagnostic, and ancillary resources used in the pursuitof health in the United States are owned and controlled by the private sec-tor.

early one-half of NHE will most likelycome from public source

growing percentage of elderly in the population and their greater use ofhealthcare resources, and Medicaid, because of the expansion funded in partby the Affordable Care Act

$3.5 trillion in pursuit of health in 2017, represent-ing about 17.9 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) andequaling about $10,739 per person (CMS 2020a)

Health is essential not only to the physicaland mental well-being of people but also to nations’ economies

corporate taxes,

capital gains

personal (individual) taxes

missionstatement

stakeholders

benefit corporation (B corporation)

gency problem

transparency,

community benefits

Schedule H

Form 990

residual earnings

privately held company

publicly held companies

tockholders (shareholders

hybrid form

S corporation

C corporation.

iquid investment

for-profit corporation

partnership

proprietorship (or sole proprietorship)

professional liability

cost-containment programs

licensure

patient captureThe concept that oncea patient enters thesystem (e.g., a doctor’soffice), all servicesneeded by that patientshould be provided inthe system

Long-term care consists of healthcare (and some personal care) services provided to indi-viduals who lack all or some functional ability, specifically in the activities of daily livingsuch as eating, bathing, and locomotion.

Ambulatory (outpatient) care encompasses services provided to patients who are not admit-ted to a hospital or nursing home

investor-owned hospital, also known as the for-profit hospital

70 percent of all privatehospitals (57 percent of all community hospitals) are not-for-profit entities (AHA 2021).

charitable origins

private not-for-profit hospital is a nongovernmental entity organized for thesole purpose of providing inpatient healthcare services

The category of government hospital, which makes up about 19 percentof all hospitals, is broken down into federal and public (nonfederal) entities (AmericanHospital Association [AHA] 2021).

The Joint Commission (previously calledthe Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations). Joint Commissionaccreditation is a voluntary process intended to promote high standards of care.

Those that were linked tended to be part of a horizontal system,which controls a single type of healthcare facility, such as a group of hospitals or nursinghomes. Recently, however, many healthcare organizations have created a vertical system,which controls two or more related types of providers, such as medical practices, hospitals,and nursing homes.

comptrolle

costs, cash, capital, and control

Miroand TRAK proteins act as adaptors that link kinesin-1 and dynein, aswell as myosin of class XIX (MYO19), t

Assays were performed with0.6 mM total lipids at a 1:2 labeled/unlabeled ratio. For all assays,proteoliposomes were mixed with A100 buffer containing 5 mMMgCl2, and then pre-incubated at 37°C for 5 min in a 96-wellplate. Following pre-incubation, the plate was placed in a Sparkplate reader (Tecan), two baseline readings were taken, and then2 mM GTP or A100 buffer of equal volume was added with amultichannel pipette. For 60 min NBD dequenching was moni-tored at 10 s intervals (excitation at 460 nm, dequenching at 538nm). Maximum possible dequenching was determined after60 min via the addition of 0.5% Anapoe X-100, with two morecycles read on the plate reader after Anapoe addition. Fmax wascalculated by taking the average of these two post-Anapoe cy-cles. Fusion calculations were performed using the functionFusion  Fluorescence observed−Initial fluorescence observedF max × 100. In instanceswhere initial kinetics were extremely rapid and the first readingpost-GTP addition was not representative of time zero, the aver-age of two readings taken immediately before GTP addition wasused to calculate initial fluorescence observed. This difference incalculation of initial fluorescence was used for ATL3 at 1:300 andATL2 1-547 at 1:500

with ATL3having the lowest rate, but converging to a similar rate athigher enzyme concentrations

However, due to thelower dimer affinity of ATL3 relative to that of ATL2, the GTPaserates diverge when compared at lower protein concentrations.

It should be noted that the lack of C-terminal autoinhibitionin ATL3 does not rule out the possibility of ATL3 regulation byother means

The lack of autoinhibition in ATL3 and a corresponding lackof autoinhibition in the single Drosophila ortholog leads us tospeculate that having at least one constitutive form of ATL mightbe beneficial to cells and to organisms.

Second, an in-depth phylogenetic analysis reveals that C-terminal auto-inhibition in ATL1 and ATL2 are recent innovations that likelyarose independently during the diversification of vertebrates

Our findings herein support a model in which C-terminal au-toinhibition of human ATL1/2 fusion activity is not a core con-served feature of the ATL mechanism but more likely aregulatory adaptation

(model 1) ancestral autoinhibition, followed byindependent losses of autoinhibition in ATL3 and in ATLi;(model 2) lack of autoinhibition in the ancestor with recent in-dependent gains of autoinhibition in ATL1 and ATL2; or (model3) lack of ancestral autoinhibition, gain of autoinhibition in thevertebrate ancestor, and a later loss in ATL3

indicates that ATL1/2/3 arose throughtwo duplications at the base of the vertebrate lineage, with ATL1branching first and a subsequent duplication leading to ATL2and ATL3, in line with the more recently reported phylogeny(Neufeldt et al., 2019). Significantly, ATL3, which altogetherlacks autoinhibition, and ATL2, the most strongly autoinhibitedparalog (Crosby et al., 2022), are sister taxa, while ATL1 andATL2, the two paralogs that exhibit autoinhibition, are not (Figs.5 C and S4 A); thus, the presence or absence of autoinhibitiondoes not appear to correlate with the overall evolutionary rela-tionship between paralogs. Based on the gene tree, the presenceand absence of autoinhibition in the canonical ATL paralogscould be most parsimoniously explained by three distinctmodels

C-terminal autoinhibition seen in ATL1/2 (Crosby et al., 2022)might represent a vertebrate specialization rather than a core-conserved feature of the ATL fusion machinery. Deciphering theevolutionary history of C-terminal autoinhibition would shedlight on this hypothesis but would require an understanding ofthe phylogeny of the ATLs and their C-termini.

When ATL3 was incor-porated at either two- or approximately threefold higher pro-tein/lipid ratios of 1:500 or 1:300, respectively, it catalyzedfusion at dramatically higher initial rates

To further demonstrate that the ATL3 C-terminal extensionlacks an autoinhibitory activity, an ATL2/3 chimera was con-structed. As anticipated, replacing the C-terminal extension ofATL2 with that of ATL3 resulted in an ATL2/3 chimera thatlargely lacks autoinhibiti

trikingly, ATL3truncation had no effect on the fusion rate (Fig. 3 B) and nosignificant effect on GTPase activity when measured under thesefusion conditions

In contrast to ATL1/2, there appear to be nodocumented C-terminal variants of ATL3.

Thus, when introducedexogenously into ATL1/2/3 KO cells as the sole source of ATL,ATL3 can restore and maintain a normal ER network.

Fusion by ATL3 was also disrupted by a I503Dmutation, similar to the block by an equivalent I507D mutation

We purified His-tagged human ATL3 from a transiently trans-fected HEK293-derived suspension cell line

R membrane fusionfunction for ATL3 that, unlike ATL1/2, is most likely constitu-tive.

we find that ATL3 altogether lacks theC-terminal autoinhibition observed for ATL1/2

Despite substantial advances using DATL, reconstitution offusion activity by the human ATLs had proved refractory untilrecently, when our lab demonstrated that ATL1/2 expressed andpurified from HEK cells, rather than E. coli, has robust fusionactivity

Notably, while Drosophila andinvertebrates in general appear to have a single ATL, humanshave three paralogs (ATL1-3) that are broadly important forhuman health, with mutations in ATL3 causing hereditary sen-sory neuropathy

ith the absence of ATL causingdisruptions to ER structure in both insect and mammalian cells

two of the three human ATL paralogs

Homotypic membrane