...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...

...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...

...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...

... . 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...

...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...

... 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 have negative connotations for many Americans, we measured how many news...

... 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...

..., 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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...