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... the Broadband Age . Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. 2004. Office of Care Coordination Technology Assignment Algorithm. www.va.gov/occ/natl_rollout/Technology_Assignment_Algorithm.pdf (accessed March 25, 2008). U.S. General Accountability Office. 2005...

...Charles M. Kilo Michael L. Millenson. Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 433 pp. $24.95 cloth. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 References Fronstin , P. 1998 . Features...

...Judith G. Gonyea Laura Katz Olson, ed. Age through Ethnic Lenses: Caring for the Elderly in a Multicultural Society. Lanham, MD: Rowman &Littlefield, 2001. 300 pp. $85.00 cloth; $32.95 paper. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Books...

...Leon S. Robertson Although most research on the effect of minimum legal drinking age (LDA) laws on proxies for alcohol-related fatalities find effects of higher LDAs in reducing such fatalities, recent research that supposedly controls for drinking experience claims that higher LDAs have little...

...Marc Rotenberg Institute of Medicine. Health Data in the Information Age: Use, Disclosure, and Privacy . Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1994. 272 pp. $39.95 cloth. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Reviews 235...

... . Medicalization, Public Policy, and the Elderly: Social Services in Jeopardy? Social Science and Medicine 30 ( 7 ): 761 -71. Davies , A. M. 1988 . Epidemiology and the Challenge of Aging. In Epidemiology and Aging, ed. J. A. Brody and G. L. Maddox. New York: Springer. Davies , B...

...Pamela Farley Short; Dennis G. Shea; M. Paige Powell This article provides a systematic evaluation of the options for incremental health insurance reforms aimed at older Americans nearing age sixty-five. It presents three basic arguments for giving special consideration to this age group: (1) early...

... Angeles, CA 90095-1656. On the Use of Age-Adjusted Mortality Rates in Studies of Income Inequality and Population Health To the editor: In our recent article published in the June 2001 issue of this journal (Mel- lor and Milyo 2001b), we demonstrate that the statistical association...

... to transform the text of law into scientifically valid, quantitative data for analysis. The need to measure the effects of large-scale policy experiments, such as raising the drinking age, led to new methods for the scientific measurement of law as a variable (LaFond et al. 2000 ). The Alcohol Policy...

...John F. Kilner In light of the growing prominence of an age criterion in patient selection, it is essential to scrutinize the ethical legitimacy of arguments being offered both for and against using age as a criterion. Accordingly, the present study first explores the primary justifications...

... Public Health Age Rebecca Katz Sara Rosenbaum George Washington University Abstract  This article examines the current state of disease...

...Graham Mooney Christopher Hamlin. Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800–1854 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 368 pp. $64.95 cloth; Nancy Tomes. The Gospel of Germs:Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life . Cambridge: Harvard University...

...Uta Gerhardt David B. Morris. Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 345 pp. $27.50 cloth. © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Bruner, J. 1990 . Acts of Meaning . Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Gerhardt, U. 1989...

...James J. Callahan, Jr. Elizabeth Anne Kutza, The Benefits of Old Age: Social Welfare Policy for the Elderly (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), 187 pp., $5.95 paperback Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 282 Journal...

...David G. Warren Copyright © 1983 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1983 Review Essay The Coming of Age of Health Law: An Examination of Recent Textbooks When Emmanuel Hayt died earlier this year, the trumpet was sounded for the passing of an age.' Every...

...Timothy Callaghan [email protected] [email protected] Shana Kushner Gadarian , Sara Wallace Goodman , and Thomas B. Pepinsky . Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID . Princeton University Press , 2022 . 383 pp. $35.00 . Copyright © 2024...

...Paul Shafer [email protected] Jennifer Pahlka . Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better . Metropolitan Books, 2023 . 336 pp. $31.99 cloth; $19.99 paperback. Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 Policy is hard to pass...