... control prices of pharmaceuticals, prior to enactment of some form of national health insurance, if successful, will call forth pharmaceutical industry strategies which could negate program benefits. Copyright © 1979 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1979 The authors wish to express...

...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...

...Theodore R. Marmor W. Kip Viscusi. Smoke Filled Rooms: A Postmortem on the Tobacco Deal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 263 pp. $27.50 cloth. Donley T. Studlar. Tobacco Control: Comparative Politics in the United States and Canada. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 2002. 327 pp...

..., at a gun show, or on the Internet are not required to undergo a background check prior to purchase. While many Americans across the political spectrum report support for universal background check policies, only about half support “stricter gun control” ( PollingReport.com 2014 ). As the phrase may...

...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 health...

... . Ferguson , Thomas . 1984 . From Normalcy to New Deal: Industrial Structure, Party Competition, and American Public Policy in the Great Depression. International Organization 38 ( 1 ): 41 -94. Fligstein , Neil . 1990 . The Transformation of Corporate Control. Cambridge, MA: Harvard...

...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 Medical Care...

... One of the most widespread criticisms of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is that it does little to contain health care costs. While some economists argue that the ACA will “bend the cost curve,” Jonathan Oberlander and Thomas Rice contend that the provisions will not control...

... . Kim M. Blendon R. Benson J. M. . 2001 . How Interested Are Americans in New Medical Technologies? A Multicountry Comparison . Health Affairs 20 ( 5 ): 194 – 201 . Marmor T. 2010 . How Not to Think about Cost Control of American Health Care . Institute for America's...

...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...

...Heather A. Elliott; David K. Jones; Scott L. Greer Understanding both the current performance of communicable disease control in Europe and the scale of the differences among systems is crucial to understanding its present performance and possible Europeanization. We attempt to identify the...

...Margitta Mätzke This commentary discusses the causes and consequences of diversity in how European countries organize communicable disease control. Drawing on the historical record of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it first reviews the main explanations of that diversity, with a...

...Tamara Hervey What role(s) does the European Court of Justice (ECJ) play in the Europeanization of communicable disease control? Drawing on a review of the ECJ's case law, especially but not exclusively in public health fields, from the 1950s to 2009, this article argues that the ECJ's past and...

...Scott L. Greer The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is the small agency established by the European Union (EU) to act as a hub for disease control, drawing on networks across the continent to achieve what other political systems do with large agencies. Despite this...

...Daniel M. Fox The eight articles on the governance of communicable disease control in Europe in this issue contribute information and insight to the literature on health politics, policy, and law. Each is a carefully researched and well-argued analysis of a subject on which its authors are experts...

...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 1409...

... South African alcohol control policies — the Western Cape Liquor Bill and the city of Cape Town's liquor bylaws — in two regional English-language newspapers between 2007 and 2011. In so doing, the article highlights the particularities of the political valence of alcohol in the South African context...

...Donley T. Studlar Abstract The role of the US federal government in developing tobacco control through a cooperative, interactive program with state and local private and public organizations has been underestimated. This article investigates how the government initiated and sustained a program of...

... 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...