...Bryan D. Jones Deborah R. McFarlane and Kenneth J. Meier. The Politics of Fertility Control: Family Planning and Abortion Policies in the United States. New York: Chatham House, 2001. 197 pp. $22.95 paper. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002...

...Evelyn Brodkin John A. Gardiner and Theodore R. Lyman, The Fraud Control Game (Bloom-ington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1984), 266 pp., $24.95 hardcover Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 786 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law symbols in political...

...Jerry L. Weaver This paper uses longitudinal data from representative samples of national and southern California populations in an analysis of public opinion regarding proposals for health care cost controls. After examining ethnicity in conjunction with sex, socioeconomic status, age and party...

...Gary J. Young; Kamal R. Desai; Fred J. Hellinger Traditional control of nonprofit hospitals by the communities they serve has been offered as justification for restraining antitrust enforcement of mergers that involve nonprofit hospitals. The community is arguably a constraint on a nonprofit's...

...Jon M. Kingsdale Elliott A. Krause, Power and Illness: A Political Sociology of Health and Medical Care , New York: Elsevier, 1977, 383 pp, $12.95 Copyright © 1977 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1977 Review Essay Consumer Control Over...

...Charles J. Barrilleaux; Mark E. Miller States have implemented a number of strategies to provide services, pay providers, and control Medicaid spending. We test the effects of some differences in state Medicaid policies on program enrollees' access to and use of health care services. Logistic and...

...Robert G. Evans “Control” of health care costs is often portrayed as a struggle between external, “natural” forces pushing costs up and individuals, groups, and societies trying to resist the inevitable. This picture is false. Control includes strenuous efforts by some to raise costs, and by others...

... industry worries about the future market for cigarettes. Copyright © 1980 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 The Political Obstacles to the Control of Cigarette Smoking in the United States Harvey M. Sapolsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

..., controls must be rooted in an analysis of the forces that have shaped the hospital's present form and structure. Factors to be considered are those that have defined what a “good” hospital is, who its real consumers are, and what economic and quality control factors must be part of the entire health system...

...Kenneth C. Fraundorf Organized dentistry spent nearly a century laboring to obtain control over entry into the profession. The first attempt, the American Society of Dental Surgeons, failed because the issue of using amalgam so split the Society that collective action became impossible. The second...

...Deborah A. Stone Leon S. Robertson, Injuries: Causes, Control Strategies, and Public Policy (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1983), 219 pp., $25.00 Copyright © 1984 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1984 534 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law...

... control within large regions in this country becomes concentrated within the operation of three or four health plans, we become increasingly dependent upon oligopolies for our market solutions. As economic arrangements, all that oligopolies can offer are indeterminate outcomes. Some may be good for...

... enforcement and that are opposed by powerful and politically well-connected interests. For tobacco control laws to be effective, public health advocates need to consider the locus of enforcement responsibility and the sanctions available to the enforcement agency, such as license removal by local authorities...

... concepts that are addressed include notions of public accountability, control of the purse strings, consumer protections, and provider privileges. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 References Alford, Robert. 1975 . Health Care Politics: Ideological and Interest Group Barriers to...

...Joseph White Discussion of health care cost control policy and politics tends to focus on terms such as “market,” “government,” and “managed care” that are either too general or too value laden to encourage sound analysis. This article proposes an alternative framework for classifying cost control...

.... Commentary Hitting the “Target” in Health Care Cost Control Alan B. Cohen Boston University Ever since health care costs in the United States began their steep and...

...Peter D. Jacobson; Kenneth E. Warner Many tobacco control advocates, believing that legislators and regulators have failed to enact and implement sufficiently stringent tobacco control laws, have supported litigation as a means of achieving public health policy goals. In this article, we examine...

...Per Lægreid; Ståle Opedal; Inger Marie Stigen This essay focuses on the balance between governmental control and enterprise autonomy by examining the Norwegian hospital reform. We describe the enterprise model and give a description of the policy instruments that the government, as owner, has for...

...David Rosner Evelynn Maxine Hammonds. Childhood's Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880–1930 . Baltimore, MD:Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 299 pp. $39.95 cloth. 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 JHPPL 26.6 09 Books 12/18/01 2:34 PM Page...

...Robert F. Coulam; Roger D. Feldman; Bryan E. Dowd The Medicare program faces a serious challenge: it must find ways to control costs but must do so through a system of congressional oversight that necessarily limits its choices. We look at one approach to prudent purchasing — competitive pricing...