...Beatrix Hoffman Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, and James Colgrove. Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 342 + xxiv pp. $55.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Duke University Press 2009...

...Donley T. Studlar Eric A. Feldman and Ronald Bayer, eds. Unfiltered: Conflicts over Tobacco Policy and Public Health. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. viii + 394 pp. $55.00 cloth. Michael Pertschuk. Smoke in Their Eyes: Lessons in Movement Leadership from the Tobacco Wars...

... Books Review Essay Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Don Cahalan. An Ounce of Prevention: Strategies for Solving Tb- bacco, Alcohol and Drug Problems. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1991. 290 pp. $30.95 cloth. Robert Goodin. No Smoking: 7he...

...Mordachai Soroka; Robert D. Newcomb Eye care services are largely provided by two professional groups–optometrists and ophthalmologists. Professional rivalry between the two exists mainly because both are in direct competition for patients with routine diagnostic and treatment needs...

...Christina Barsky; Earlene Camarillo Abstract Context : The contributions from the field of public health to human society are numerous and are often taken for granted. The COVID-19 pandemic thrust the largely invisible public health workforce into the public eye. Like other career civil servants...

... have effects that are meaningful but small. We then turn to the literature on variations, where we argue that the body of evidence suggests there are large efficiency gaps, though these gaps are smaller than the initial eye-catching results that began this strand of research. Ultimately, these findings...

...Lawrence D. Brown As the challenges of maintaining (or, in the US case, attaining) affordable universal coverage multiply, the debate about what constitutes “real” reform intensifies in Western health care systems. The reality of reform, however, lies in the eyes of myriad beholders who variously...

... and delivery models being pioneered in Medicare, especially those built around accountable care organizations (ACOs), offer an opportunity to reduce pricing power, but only if they are implemented with a clear eye on the impact on prices in commercial insurance markets. This article proposes approaches...

... Choice of optometry. Optometrists test eyes for optical error and treat vision problems with corrective lenses or vision therapy. Presently responsi- ble for a major portion of vision services in the United States,l* optometry is a relatively new occupation in this country. It was licensed...

... well and with an eye toward what can be learned for ACA policy diffusion; and second, we asked scholars who are knowledgeable about the ACA to study early trends in policy diffusion with an eye toward lessons for future adoption. The result is a combination of articles in this issue: some focused...

... treatment relative to other health care. In two chapters, “The Eye of the Storm” and “Facing Your Fetus,” Sanger presents a social history of fetal life, including a dynamic historical review of fetal imagery in art, film, and literature. Such observations are seen in public health texts but less so...

... that the infant’s eye infection was due to bacteria in the mother’s milk. “Personally,” the young doctor stated, “I wouldn’t have been so flippant about telling the woman she’d have to stop breast-feeding because I breast-fed and I know that it was very important for both my children and me.” None...

..., kidneys, blood, immune system, digestive, hormones, liver, glands, temperature d Eyes, face, ears, nose, mouth, head, teeth Table B2 Examples of Medically Accurate Statements by Week (LMP) Week Statement 2 The ball of cells digs into the lining of the uterus 2...

... in Proactive Safety Surveillance.” Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety 9 : 273 – 80 . Cruickshank Garry . 2009 . “Eye on Technology.” Pharmacy Practice , July–August . www.canadianhealthcarenetwork.ca/pharmacists/magazines/pharmacy-practice/julyaugust-2009/eye-on-technology-julyaugust...

... their ultrasound images. Four women we interviewed did not look at the image. As noted in the introduction, the law permits women to turn their heads or avert their eyes if they do not wish to view the image, while still requiring that the ultrasound technician display the image in the woman's line of sight...

... di- agnostic technology was still primitive, what doctors knew about sick miners was what they could see with the naked eye. In large numbers of miners this was la- bored breathing, a chronic cough, and black sputum. Doctors readily attributed these common symptoms to work in the mines...

... majority, I am one more leaf on the great human tree. . . . I learned much more from the huge tide of lives, from the tenderness I saw in thousands of eyes watching me together. This message may not come to all poets but anyone who has felt it will keep...

... procedure than kidney transplantation. Eye banks received at least 22,390 eyes in the United States in 1977 and at least 8,711 corneal transplants were pe~formedAlthough the tissue supply appears adequate from these figures, it is not. A chronic shortage of tissue for grafting means that many...

... policy needs of disadvantaged groups on 24 April 1989 in Durham, NC. For information on registration, contact Kathy Brodeur, Box 3018 DUMC, Durham, NC 27710, (919) 684- 4188. The National Health Lawyers Association, 1620 Eye Street NW, Suite 900, Washington, DC 20006, has planned the following...

...—ranging from rules governing provider conscience protections to drug pricing transparency—have also been challenged in court. In the meantime, all eyes are on Texas v. United States , a third global challenge to the ACA. In the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Congress—after multiple high-profile failed...