...Clark C. Havighurst The so-called state action doctrine is a judicially created formula for resolving conflicts between federal antitrust policy and state policies that seem to authorize conduct that antitrust law would prohibit. Against the background of recent commentaries by the federal...

...Rongal D. Nikora; Deborah R. McFarlane World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health . Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 2008. 246 pp. $40.00 paper, or free...

... continued diversity and innovation in national social policy even amid general convergence (e.g., Murillo 2002 ). Nelson ( 2004 : 32) finds, for instance, across seven country cases that “external attempts to prompt specific actions had a rather limited impact [on health-sector reform], despite the...

... nature, extent, and impact of those changes. This paper examines several monitoring efforts in maternal and child health and recommends additional action at the state level to meet urgent information requirements. Copyright © 1983 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1983...

...Sylvia N. Tesh Phil Brown and Edwin J. Mikkelsen. No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990. 260 pp. $24.95 cloth. Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992...

...Richard J. Bogue; Mazda Antia; Rita Harmata; Claude H. Hall, Jr. In the United States, health system change occurs as the interaction of politics and policies is played out and pushed forward by individuals and organizations taking action in their local communities and markets. This article...

..., p. B1. Arnold , R. Douglas . 1990 . The Logic of Congressional Action. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Baumgartner , Frank R. , and Bryan D. Jones. 1993 . Agendas and Instability in American Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Belkin , Gary S. 1997 . The...

...Ran Coble Eli Ginzberg, Edith M. Davis, and Miriam Ostow, and associates, Local Health Policy in Action (Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Allanheld, 1985), 136 pp., $28.50. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 194 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law costs of installing...

...Karen Gutermuth Previous research has heightened the debate over what motivates the American Medical Political Action Committee (AMPAC), the campaign financing arm of the American Medical Association (AMA). Analyses of roll call votes typically assume that vote-buying is the reason AMPAC...

...William S. Brewbaker, III The state action doctrine receives relatively little attention in the Federal Trade Commission/Department of Justice 2004 report on competition in the health care sector. Not surprisingly, the report focuses primarily on urging states to reconsider specific laws that tend...

... the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 Prometheus Revisited: Popular Myths, Medical Realities, and Legislative Actions Concerning Death Carla Dowben, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas Abstract. Natural Death Acts have been enacted...

... state actions. We present evidence from six states that enacted major pieces of health care legislation in the late 1980s or early 1990s: Massachusetts, Oregon, Florida, Minnesota, Vermont, and Washington State. The variation in design casts doubt on the proposition that states can invent plans and...

...Charlene Harrington; Julie Stockton; Sarah Hooper Abstract This article examines the effects of state regulation and civil class action litigation on corporate compliance with nurse staffing and quality standards, corporate strategies to manage staffing and quality, and corporate financial status...

...Figure 1 State Medical Board Disciplinary Actions 1993–2010 Note : Disciplinary actions = (number of license Removals + number of license restrictions + number of other punitive actions)/thousand doctors in state. Figure 1. State Medical Board Disciplinary Actions 1993–2010. / Note...

... would harm competition and consumers. In addition, it reviews common antitrust issues that can arise with ACOs and provides examples of enforcement actions that have prevented health care providers from taking or continuing anticompetitive actions. Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

...Jeffrey Rubin A confusing array of options to reform mental health care is now under consideration by policymakers. To clarify the implications of these options, five categories of actions are distinguished. These reforms are: federal program change, litigation, state commitment statute reform...

...-regulation to coregulation. Yet there are notable differences in each country that cannot be explained solely by diverging institutional contexts. They also result from the strategic actions by the actors involved. Based on an assessment of the recent literature on institutional transformation, this article...

... health care. This article analyzes public policy issues related to integrated rural health network development, discusses current efforts to encourage network development in rural areas, and suggests actions that states may take if they desire to support rural health network development. These actions...