...Steven L. Yaffee Bruce A. Ackerman and William T. Hassler, Clean Coal/Dirty Air (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), 193 pp, $20.00 hardbound, $5.95 paperback Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 512 Journal of Health Politics...

...Peter D. Jacobson; Jeffrey Wasserman We examine the process by which antitobacco laws and ordinances were implemented and enforced in seven states and nineteen localities. Our findings indicate that state- and local-level clean indoor air laws were rarely enforced by governmental agencies. Instead...

... to these problems. This pattern is evident in the evolution of Superfund, the national program to clean up abandoned hazardous waste sites. The prolonged process of reauthorization in the 1980s contributed to serious program delay and failed to resolve a number of fundamental questions concerning the national...

... greenhouse gases were accumulating in the atmosphere and threatening catastrophic changes in climate. By the early 1990s, international institutions recognized that threat, but for the past 30 years emissions have continued to rise. The barriers to shifting from carbon energy to clean energy exemplify...

... the likelihood that agency ad- herence to strict timetables can divert attention away from remediating the worst sites and toward bean-counting exercises that clean up minor sites first to satisfy numerical requirements. More generally, two important di- mensions of regulatory policy cloud...

.... Alexandria, VA: Clean Sites, Inc. Downs , A. 1957 . An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper. Elmore , R. , and L. McDonnell. 1986 . Getting the Job Done: Alternative Policy Instruments. Paper prepared at the Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis...

.... An examination of the documentation supporting the 1848 law, how- ever, suggests that although the Public Health Act directed authorities to clean up the slums, the legislation was not inspired by a conviction that deleterious social conditions can explain disease. Instead, the thinking that prompted...

... (California Policy Seminar, Monograph Number 8), 198 1 Toward Rational Technology in Medicine: Considerations for health policy. By H. David Banta, Clyde J. Behney, and Jane Sisk Willems. 242 pp. New York: Springer Publishing Company, 1981. $28.50 Miscellaneous Clean CoallDirty Air...

.... Battjes and R. Pickens. Washington, DC: National Institute on Drug Abuse. Flynn , N. , S. Jain, and E. Keddie, et al. 1988 . Cleaning IV Paraphernalia: Bleach Was Just the Beginning. Paper presented at the Fourth International Conference on AIDS, Stockholm, 12–16 June. Friedland , G...

... 13 : 531 -59. Goldberg , A. J. 1988 . Toward Sensible Regulation of Hazardous Air Pollutants under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act. New York University Law Review 63 : 612 -61. JRB Associates. 1983 . Economic and Environmental Impact Study of Ethylene Oxide. McLean, VA: JRB...

... clean indoor air laws that restrict smoking in a wide range of public places (Tobacco-Free America 1990). This apparent anomaly led us to ask the following questions. If between 80 and 85 percent of the public favors restrictions on smoking in public places,2 why is it so difficult to enact...

... the baby, taking her for a drive, then at the end bringing his wife home. Jones has readied everything carefully for his wife’s homecoming. The house is clean and orderly. For days he has restricted himself to only one part of the house so that his clutter will be minimal. Jones helps his...

... with statutory construction than with bureaucratic behavior. Judging from the frustration felt by the framers of the 1970 Clean Air Act, the old expert agency performed no better (especially at the state level). Clean CoallDirty Air focuses briefly on how to change bureaucratic behavior by examining...

... the interactions of regulatory agencies, the courts, Congress, the regulated parties, and environ- mentalists. All of this is analyzed across several jurisdictions and across six case studies involving the Clean Air Act. (This also follows Shapiro’s The Supreme Court and Administrative Agencies [ 19681...

... accurate to say that the reader is informed about the health consequences of living in a city lacking basic public health infrastructure (sewers, clean water, garbage disposal). Greater attention is given to the social networks of Seattle s poor denizens as they endure impoverishment at the bottom...

... phoned the bank to make sure I was not a bad-check artist. I was charged $40 for the guards, $25 for use of the corner, $10 for the telephone call, and $50 for the clean bill of financial health. I went along the corridor toward the room occupied by my friend, a wealthy entrepreneur who had...

... financing . . . might its prestige improve” (209). Home health work has been organized very differently over the course of its history and can entail a wide range of activities. People who are paid to provide care in others’ homes might clean, cook, and shop; plan and organize the household...

... financing . . . might its prestige improve” (209). Home health work has been organized very differently over the course of its history and can entail a wide range of activities. People who are paid to provide care in others’ homes might clean, cook, and shop; plan and organize the household...

... and lowered health care costs: Temporary Housing. “We had an individual who had a very severe intestinal disease, and she was homeless and living in her car. . . . Because she had this intestinal disease, it was difficult for her to keep herself clean. She couldn't get evaluated by a doctor, and she...

... The CDC’s statement of the ten most important public health achieve- ments of the twentieth century also conveys this broad notion of public health’s role. The top-­ten list includes controlling infectious diseases by providing basic sanitation and clean water and more recently clean air; improving...