...Edmund R. Becker This study uses national data from the American Hospital Association and the National Labor Relations Board in a multivariate framework to assess the impact of various structural factors on union activity in hospitals. The theoretical framework includes both management and union...

..., Minnesota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Vermont, and Wisconsin) having pursued 1332 waivers since 2017—the first year in which the law authorized them to do so—it is increasingly important to understand the political and policy dynamics surrounding state innovation waiver activity across the country. Before...

...Mark Carl Rom Steven Epstein. Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 480 pp.$40.00 cloth; $17.95 paper. Stephanie Kane. AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs,and Crime in the Americas . Philadelphia: Temple University Press,1998...

...Gloria J. Bazzoli; Jan P. Clement; Hui-Min Hsieh The definition of hospital community benefits has been intensely debated for many years. Recently, consensus has developed about one group of activities being central to community benefits because of its focus on care for the poor and on needed...

...G. A. Nalli; David A. Pearson This study is a descriptive analysis of an attempt to coordinate donor agency and government activities in the national leprosy control program of the Philippine Islands. A twofold strategy is employed to realize this purpose: (1) the evolution of the present...

...Joseph L. Falkson Washington Report Activism, Analysis, and Health Policy Joseph L. Falkson The Carter Administration has been receiving substantial cri- ticism: in some cases, for trying to do too much, too soon; in other cases, for doing...

...Lily M. Hoffman There have been two trends within the physician housestaff movement: increased acceptance of collective bargaining and unions, and a shift from narrower economic to broader political demands, including some involving patient care. Case studies of politically active housestaff...

...Douglas A. Hastings Increasingly, medical peer-review organizations are entering into contracts with insurance companies and self-insured employers to conduct utilization reviews and quality-of-care assessments. Such private review activities raise new legal issues, requiring analysis of state law...

... of Health Politics, Policy and Law open access option. EU competition law economic and noneconomic activities undertaking health care providers 28. Commission Decision C(2017) 7973 of 4 December 2017 on State aid SA.39913 (2017/NN), para. 82. 29. Commission Decision C(2017) 7973 of 4...

...Suzanne Mettler Andrea Louise Campbell. How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. 229 pp. $52.50 cloth; $19.95 paper. Duke University Press 2006 Soss, Joe. 2005 . Unwanted Claims...

... trails, bike lanes, bike routes, and other biking assets, such as workplace showers. Understanding the conditions that led to Arlington's current biking system can provide lessons in the strategy and tactics of active-living politics. One potentially effective political strategy that was successful...

...Sherry Ahrentzen Greendale, Wisconsin, was intentionally created with many of the design and planning principles that active-living advocates promote today. This case study examines the processes behind sustaining these particular planning and design principles over time in light of economic...

...Joseph Schilling; Sheila D. Keyes Weaving together the disciplines of planning and policy change with the emerging research of active living, this article explores the competing interests and underlying political forces behind the design and passage of Wisconsin's Comprehensive Planning Law of 1999...

... to improving fitness and health. This article, based on direct observation and interviews with key informants, examines the implementation of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation–funded project that gave tribal youth councils minigrants to design and run diverse projects that encourage physical activity...

...Sy Adler; Noelle Dobson; Karen Perl Fox; Lynn Weigand This case study is about the politics of incorporating active-living elements into a concept plan for a new community of about 68,000 people on the edge of the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area. Development on the rural-urban fringe is ongoing...

...Emily Lees; David Salvesen; Elizabeth Shay To contribute to the understanding of the links between urban planning and school siting and, ultimately, the impact of both on physical activity, we conducted a case study of Lee County, Florida. Our study examined the extent of state-mandated...

...Karen L. Baird Ulrike Boehmer. The Personal and the Political: Women's Activism in Response to the Breast Cancer and AIDS Epidemics. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 208 pp. $18.95 paper. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002...

...) have been the most active in dealing with minority health issues through statutes. In the eighteen months of the 2001–2002 legislative session that we studied, the most common bills called for studies of disparities and appropriations for identifiable minority health initiatives. Measures...

... global abortion rights activism Around the time Roe v. Wade was decided in the United States, countries such as India, Zambia, and Tunisia also liberalized their abortion laws. Each had its own motivations for doing so, but few countries liberalized abortion to uphold human rights. The prevailing...