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J Health Polit Policy Law (1982) 7 (3): 580–628.
Published: 01 June 1982
...Paul Starr [The following is a chapter from Book Two of The Social Transformation of American Medicine and should be seen as a piece of a larger puzzle. Throughout the entire work I am concerned with the origins of the social and economic structure of medical institutions. One of the problems...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1990) 15 (2): 445–449.
Published: 01 April 1990
... of the chapters: the examination of various health issues by race alone while ignoring all other correlates. For ex- ample, holding income constant to separate the effects of race from low income is virtually ignored in most of the pieces. Yet there is a large body of evidence that income is a more...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1998) 23 (6): 1012–1015.
Published: 01 December 1998
.... Practitioners will find them valu- able as well because they demystify the complexities of the policy envi- ronment. Both texts deal with health policy and politics, but their emphases differ. The Patel and Rushefsky volume focuses on specific health policies (e.g., it has separate chapters for Medicare...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2019) 44 (5): 807–811.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of 24 chapters by leading researchers, fills this lacuna. The book opens with a foreword by Cass R. Sunstein on choices and default rules. He hones in on the fundamental pillars of nudging and behavioral economics (individual choice vs. paternalism), as well as providing an opportunity to counter...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1989) 14 (2): 433–435.
Published: 01 April 1989
..., policy analyst, or policymaker looking for a solid overview of the current state of health care in rural America would be well advised to refer to LaVonne Straub and Norman Walzer’s Financing Rural Health Care. The first several chapters set the stage by using secondary data to describe broad...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1979) 4 (2): 273–333.
Published: 01 April 1979
... of (univariate) statistics and computer program use. The book consists of ten chapters and eight appendices. The first two chapters introduce cluster analysis and establish a conceptual foundation for further developments. Chapters 3-5 give a thorough discussion of the relevant fundamentals...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2024) 49 (4): 665–671.
Published: 01 August 2024
... chapter. For example, age served as an interesting counterbalance to partisan expectations in some circumstances and served to exacerbate partisan differences in others, but this factor was excluded from several chapters. Similarly, race, education, income, and gender are inconsistently included...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2000) 25 (6): 1178–1185.
Published: 01 December 2000
.... The central question of the book is, What structural adjustments do national health care systems seek to implement in reaction to the new and challenging conditions of changing economic, political, and social cir- cumstances (ix)? In the three final chapters, the editors try to answer this question...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1988) 13 (1): 179–182.
Published: 01 February 1988
... in this volume accurately convey the complexity of the health problems facing black Americans as well as the multifaceted challenge posed for those who seek to improve the accessibility and quality of their health care. At the same time, the chapters fit together to provide a framework for thinking about...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1983) 7 (4): 965–967.
Published: 01 August 1983
... in urban / temperate / affluent popula- tions.” Four chapters refer to infectious diseases and rural settings (dengue haemorrhagic fever, malaria, gastroenteritis ,malnutrition); seven to chronic diseases and urban settings (chronic lung disease, multiple sclerosis, cancer, coronary heart...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1983) 8 (1): 188–193.
Published: 01 February 1983
..., however, miss many opportunities to follow potentially valuable lines of inquiry: the reader is rarely satisfied with the development or elaboration of the argu- ments presented, since each of the nine chapters focuses on different conceptual and substantive issues. This results in a book...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1983) 8 (1): 188–193.
Published: 01 February 1983
... opportunities to follow potentially valuable lines of inquiry: the reader is rarely satisfied with the development or elaboration of the argu- ments presented, since each of the nine chapters focuses on different conceptual and substantive issues. This results in a book that often reads like...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2023) 48 (1): 125–130.
Published: 01 February 2023
... countries, grouped into seven regional sections, and each section with an extended regional outlook overview chapter. As if the European Union membership was not a big enough task, the handbook covers candidate and “potential candidate” countries as well as non-EU countries Norway, Switzerland...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2012) 37 (4): 729–732.
Published: 01 August 2012
... himself or herself to mastering the level of detail and argumentation in the book. The vol- ume also delivers a broader cross- national analysis than the title suggests. To provide a comparative context for the Canadian system, three of the twelve chapters are devoted to synopses of the state...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1990) 15 (4): 887–913.
Published: 01 August 1990
... describes a potential implementation strategy for the Health Care for All legislation. On 21 April 1988 Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts signed into law Chapter 23 of the Acts of 1988, a bill popularly known as Health Care for All. This legislation promises that by 1992 every...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2014) 39 (6): 1289–1294.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., footnotes, and preoccupations are lawyerly. Most chapters explore legal problems (e.g., where medical tourists can seek redress) or propose policies (e.g., global telemedicine standards or a new approach to funding drug development). Most exhibit the lawyer's characteristic blurring of normative...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2024) 49 (5): 939–947.
Published: 01 October 2024
... Catholic, nor that European midcentury conservatism was not antistatist in the ways Americans might expect. In his concluding chapter, Professor Toth then summarizes major points from his analysis in a way that should help remind readers of what they have learned. Toth's reform discussion emphasizes...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1994) 19 (1): 271–274.
Published: 01 February 1994
... insurance. The connection between “health and wealth” cannot be denied after reading this book, particularly the chapters on access to health care (Ginzberg, especially), on the link between health and work productivity (Marshall), and on the health status of elderly Hispanics who are less likely...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1998) 23 (6): 1012.
Published: 01 December 1998
.... The Patel and Rushefsky volume focuses on specific health policies (e.g., it has separate chapters for Medicare and Medicaid) and topics (e.g., there are separate chapters for cost containment and technology). Weissert and Weissert, on the other hand, concentrate more on health politics...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1993) 18 (4): 1005–1008.
Published: 01 August 1993
... or no skills that result from a shift to a service economy. According to Blau, a variety of economic and social changes pro- duced the contemporary problems of homelessness, which he defines in his introductory chapters. Then he assesses the causes of contemporary homelessness in separate...