... attention to this possibility. “You shall not put a stumbling block before the blind.” Leviticus 19:14. “Publicity is … a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best disinfectant.” Louis Brandeis, Other People's Money . Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration...

... of the conventional economic model, and then provides a number of health applications. It concludes that by not considering the validity of these assumptions in health care applications, researchers and policy analysts will blind themselves to policy options that may be most effective in improving social welfare...

... is that conservatives have been blind to the widening network of support for the ACA, while those on the left have underestimated health reform's impact in broadening recognition of medical care as a right of citizenship instead of a privilege earned in the workplace. The forces that constrained the ACA's development...

...Gunnar Dybwad Diane Driedger, The Last Civil Rights Movement: Disabled Peoples' International (New York: St. Martin's, 1989), 137 pp., $35.00 cloth, $15.95 paper. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 References National Federation of the Blind. 1970 . The First Thirty...

...Lisa I. Iezzoni James I. Charlton. Nothing about Us without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment . Berkeley: University of California Press,1998. 194 pp. $27.50 cloth; $16.95 paper; Rod Michalko. The Two in One:Walking with Smokie, Walking with Blindness . Philadelphia: Temple...

... and a control group of subjects (patients) with similar characteristics, thereby reducing the probability that nontherapeutic factors, known as confound- ers, may influence the outcome. Confounders are factors such as age, socioeconomic status, and comorbidities. RCTs also blind or mask both researchers...

.... RCTs also blind or mask both researchers and subjects so that neither knows who is in the treatment or control group. Such knowledge is known to affect experimental outcomes. Lower on the EBM pyramid are several types of observational studies, which examine the results of tests and treatments...

.... RCTs also blind or mask both researchers and subjects so that neither knows who is in the treatment or control group. Such knowledge is known to affect experimental outcomes. Lower on the EBM pyramid are several types of observational studies, which examine the results of tests and treatments...

... is an unalloyed success, survey data suggest a high level of satis- faction with the system among Medicaid recipients. This success seems even more extraordinary given the fact that Oregon has integrated its aged, blind, disabled, and mentally ill populations into its Medicaid man- aged care, a population...

... Federation of the Blind. 1970. The First Thirty Years: A History ofthe National Federation of the Blind. Des Moines, IA: NFB. Tigar, M. 1989. Reflections on the Life and Work of Jacobus TenBroek. Braille Monitor, March, pp. 76-179. Books in Brief Lu Ann Aday, Designing and Conducting...

... of the research which must be done in order to validate that safety and effective- ness. Will double-blind studies be required and how will consent be obtained? Are terminal patients likely to risk getting into the placebo cohort-especially for a drug aimed at palliation when there is no cure...

... and Development . 2004 . Towards High-Performing Health Systems . Summary Report . Paris : OECD . Oxfam International . 2009 . Blind Optimism: Challenging the Myth about Private Health Care in Poor Countries . Oxfam Briefing Paper . February 12 . London : Oxfam International . Oxfam, VSO...

... Institutes of Health, published in 1973, indicate that the prevalence of legal blindness (distance vision of 20/200 or worse with best correction using ordinary lenses or a visual field limited to 20 degrees or less at the widest point) ranges from 10.5/100,000 in the under five age category...

..., unidentified or “blinded” surveillance has been done on samples of blood drawn for routine newborn screening or venereal disease testing, stripped of identifiers. In the United States and other high-income nations, this centerpiece of surveillance, which was typically done without individual consent...

... of California Press, 1998. 255 pp. $35.00 cloth. The Two in One: Walking with Smokie, Walking with Blindness. Rod Michalko. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. 256 pp. $44.95 cloth; $16.95 paper. Law and Ethics Abortion Law and Politics Today. Ellie Lee, ed. New York: St. Martin’s, 1998. 251 pp...

... century all but the smallest counties in California were direct providers of comprehensive health care through public hospitals. These institutions provided extensive benefits to essentially all comers from their communities, including vaccinations and services for the blind, the deaf, the disabled...

... implies a simplistic progression, quite the opposite of what Simmons describes. I think Simmons would rather leave us with the sense that “we should not let our infatuation with the contemporary vocab- ulary of mental retardation policy blind us to the fact that policy has always been complicated...

... of careful historical analysis. One concludes, contrary to this book, that the pre-World War I1 NIH and post- war NIH were vastly different enterprises. A retrospective view of events will always reveal elements of continuity, but that should not blind the analyst to the open-endedness...

... analysis. One concludes, contrary to this book, that the pre-World War I1 NIH and post- war NIH were vastly different enterprises. A retrospective view of events will always reveal elements of continuity, but that should not blind the analyst to the open-endedness that exists at the critical...

..., France, 011-33-1-47.66.01.21. The National Federation for the Blind is offering up to $3,000 of support for legally blind scholars studying or planning to study law, medicine, or natural sciences. Pre- vious winners are encouraged to reapply, and applications must be received by 31 March. For more...