...Katherine Fierlbeck Books 995 Carolyn Hughes Tuohy, Accidental Logics: The Dynamics of Change in the Health Care Arena in the United States, Britain, and Canada. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 312 pp. $88.00 cloth. How useful...

...Henri Bergeron; Constance A. Nathanson In this article we examine the transformation over the past two decades of public health as a policy arena in France from a backwater of little interest to politicians, bureaucrats, the media, and the public into a central preoccupation of the state. Recent...

...Carolyn Hughes Tuohy Current ideas about the role of the state include an enthusiasm for mechanisms of “indirect” or “third-party” governance. The health care arena, in which models of indirect governance have a long history, is an important test bed for these ideas. Classically, the arena...

...Deborah R. McFarlane Andrzej Kulczycki. The Abortion Debate in the World Arena. New York: Routledge, 1999. 246 pp. $80.00 cloth; $24.99 paper. © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 JHPPL 26.4-09 Books 7/20/01 3:44 PM Page 789...

... of the Community Tracking Study of the Center for Studying Health System Change, this article reviews the politics of four “arenas” of managed care regulation—prompt payment, mandated benefits, external appeals, and financial solvency—and concludes that the power of providers is contingent on patterns of coalition...

... by professionalizing occupations. These groups enter the political arena to secure their regulatory objectives, and their success in obtaining these goals depends on organizational resources and the political environment in the states. The findings help to explain why state regulatory policies often appear to benefit...

... and Medicaid casts doubt on whether a commercial market model yields superior results in coping with these kinds of error. Finally, the study points to some more general implications of the VA's experience for discussions of service problems in the health policy arena. Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health...

... slate to the local HSA board, and caused consumers to reconsider their participation in health planning. Among the conclusions drawn is that health planning operates in an imbalanced political arena in which providers can mobilize powerful resources to defeat consumer action. The Empire Strikes Back...

... coverage decisions. Finally, regarding constitutional rights, courts have had limited opportunity to intervene because, outside of specially protected arenas such as reproduction, constitutional law gives government wide discretion to define health and safety goals and methods. Thus, courts have had only...

... such ventures are implemented-to examine how such cooperative program development can be successfully accomplished in today's competitive and complex health care arena. School-Based Mental Health Program Development: A Case Study of Interorganizational Collaboration...

...-related decisions are made, it argues that elite-level engagement necessitates the additional task of linking policy change to opponents' broader philosophical and policy goals. Current debates surrounding the application of sales taxes to electronic commerce—a policy arena that seems far removed from...

...: the political needs of a “politician-supplier,” the organizational resources of a strategic institutional position, and the availability of a relatively favorable policy arena. An assessment of the future role of state attorneys general in this area suggests that their health antitrust initiatives will increase...

... that, in turn, produce incremental growth in overall government involvement in the health care arena. This is the impact of what can be called catalytic federalism. Inching toward Incrementalism: Federalism, Devolution, and Health Policy...

...David F. Drake; David M. Kozak This paper begins with a comparison of the effects of regulation and antitrust litigation on general market dysfunction. The authors then describe the medical marketplace and the effects both regulation and antitrust efforts have had in this arena. They conclude...

.... These facts, in combination with the understanding that child health decisions are frequently made in arenas where the interests of children are not well represented, strongly suggest that child health care decision making can be improved. Children's advocacy offers opportunities for such improvement...

..., and the connection between the choice of form and the cost impact is highly variable and somewhat uncertain. PPS needs considerable improvement; so, unquestionably, does the current nonsystem of physician payment. An analysis of potential improvements in both arenas will constitute the bulk of this discussion...

... of insurance. This history exemplifies how health policy is often made outside conventional arenas. On the basis of published primary sources and interviews with a number of key participants, the paper describes how interest groups which rarely act together coalesced to create and sustain semipreemption...

... public universal insurance. Although these plans may prove difficult, the potential to form an anti-universalistic coalition seems strong in the contemporary Italian health care arena. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 References Abel Smith , B. , and E. Mossialos. 1994 . Cost...

... less influence to some stakeholders than they would have in public regulatory arenas, giving them an incentive to seek public rule making as a remedy for their persistent losses within the framework of private rule making. Duke University Press 2007 Blumstein, J. F. 1989 . Government's Role...

... UNOS guidelines and state laws under the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, and about the ideological stance undergirding much of current federal policy in the organ transplantation arena. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 References Andrews , Lori B. 1986 . My Body, My Property...