...Richard Cooper; Richard David The category of race is widely used in public health. Although its significance may be clear-cut in some practical situations, an adequate theoretical construct for the concept of race does not exist. Public health appears to lag far behind the other biological...

... 19 (2): 110 -28. JHPPL 26.5 05 Sloan 10/29/01 4:20 PM Page 899 Arrow’s Concept of the Health Care Consumer: A Forty-Year Retrospective Frank A. Sloan...

...Michael S. Sparer; Lawrence D. Brown; Lawrence R. Jacobs Duke University Press 2009 Editors’ Note Exploring the Concept of Single Payer As this issue goes to press, President...

...Charles Lockhart This essay presents data on the thinking of health policy elites in the United States, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany. These three national groups are compared in terms of the values they perceive health policy should serve and their conceptions...

... questionnaires are seen as distinct from quality of care by most patients. Second, there are important limitations of the concept of “satisfaction” when assessing health care quality. Satisfaction implies only that expectations have been met. Patients can be satisfied with care that is not high quality and can...

... . Hospital Strategies for the Eighties: A Mid-Decade Look. Health Care Management Review 10 ( 5 ): 9 -19. Applying Antitrust Concepts to the Acute Care Hospital Industry: Defining the Relevant Market for Hospital Services James M. Klingensmith, University...

... among them are possible today in Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. At the same time, new state regulation has been introduced to achieve fair competition, such as risk adjustment schemes to reduce incentives for selecting “good risks,” as in Germany and Switzerland. Concepts for improving...

...Sy Adler; Noelle Dobson; Karen Perl Fox; Lynn Weigand This case study is about the politics of incorporating active-living elements into a concept plan for a new community of about 68,000 people on the edge of the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area. Development on the rural-urban fringe is ongoing...

... patients to refuse psychotropic medications. Both cases approach this issue in different ways, but inevitably point to some very complicated philosophical concepts such as the meaning of self-determination, autonomy and identity of personhood, especially as these concepts are applied to mentally ill...

...Miranda R. Waggoner Since the 1980s, maternal and child health experts have sought to redefine maternity care to include the period prior to pregnancy, essentially by expanding the concept of prenatal care to encompass the time before conception. In 2004, the Centers for Disease Control...

...Heather Elliott; Jennifer Bernstein; Diana M. Bowman Abstract This article examines the concept of wellness through a comparative political economy and legal framework. It asks whether wellness , an increasingly defined term within US federal and state legislative instruments including, for example...

...Lewis Freiberg, Jr. This paper provides a logical framework for considering possible alternatives to inpatient care. First it presents the concept of a substitute-complement relationship among factors of production (or goods and services in consumption) and examines several problems often...

... in the health field remains largely descriptive. We theorize the implications of ISDS mechanisms for health policy by integrating the concept of global constitutionalism with veto point theory. It is argued that attempts to constitutionalize investment law, through a proliferation of International Investment...

...Mark Schlesinger Local communities have long played an important role in health and social policy in the United States. But the concept of community was strangely absent from the federal debate on health care reform in 1993 and 1994. I attribute this absence to the paradoxical nature of community...

... of the health service to the present, as they have grappled with the overlapping challenges of pharmaceutical safety, efficacy, cost-effectiveness, pricing, promotion, and advertising. The article draws on the concepts of “corporate bias” and “regulatory capture” from political theory, and “counter-vailing...

...Nurit Guttman; Deena R. Zimmerman; Myra Schaub Nelson Investigating why people use the hospital emergency department (ED) for visits considered medically nonurgent can enhance our understanding of people's expectations of health care services, of their conceptions of prudent lay judgment...

...Betty A. Lockett This article describes the creation of the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health, as a case study in “agenda-building” (a theoretical concept used to explain why some issues receive official attention from the public and its leaders, while others, often...

... the basis of the current scientific concepts of causation and the means of incorporating epidemiological and statistical evidence of causation into the legal process, primarily with respect to cases of harm to individuals. Experiments with and adjustments of the legal system to effect an adequate...

...John A. Robertson The controversy over nontreatment of handicapped newborns arises in a context of criminal and civil law, against which the current controversy has unfolded. This article examines the legal setting and background under traditional criminal and civil law concepts of nontreatment...

...Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau In this article, post-modern theory is described and applied to health politics with examples from community health organizing, social movements, and health promotion. Post-modernism questions conventional assumptions about concepts such as representation, participation...