...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...

...Nancy Press Kaja Finkler. Experiencing the New Genetics: Family and Kinship on the Medical Frontier. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,2000. 296 pp. $65.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Books...

... and Burnham. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Aging. 2004 . The Older Americans Act National Family Caregiver Support Program: Compassion in Action . Washington, DC: Department of Health and Human Services. U.S. Senate. Living Longer, Growing Stronger: The Vital Role...

...Sara Rosenbaum; Peter W. Shin; Alice Mauskopf; Ann Zuvekas Family planning services represent one of the most common managed care services, particularly in the case of Medicaid. In 1986, Congress enacted legislation exempting family planning services from mandatory managed care requirements...

...Ann Bookman; Mona Harrington Based on two years of fieldwork, conducted between March 2003 and March 2005 in the health care industry of the northeastern United States, this study shows that the work of family caregivers of elders goes far beyond previously recognized care in the home...

...Deborah R. McFarlane; Kenneth J. Meier The 104th Congress considered massive structural changes in federal aid to the states. Not only would federal categorical grants be consolidated into block grants, but entitlement programs would be converted to block grants too. Using family planning as a case...

... Report from the Field From Strategy to Reality: The Enactment of New York’s Family Health Plus Program Rima Cohen Greater...

...Deborah R. McFarlane; Kenneth J. Meier Through fiscal cutbacks and structural changes, Reagan's federalism assaulted the ethos of public health. In assessing the effects of Reagan policies on a basic public health program, family planning services, we find a substantial decrease in spending...

... people to remain in foster care until age twenty-one affects their health insurance coverage, use of family planning services, and information about birth control. We find that young women are more likely to have health insurance if they remain in foster care until their twenty-first birthday...

...Barbara J. Nelson Carole Joffe, The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family Planning Workers (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986), 196 pp., $24.95 cloth, $12.95 paper. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 768 Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law...

...Susan J. Lambert Jody Heymann. Forgotten Families: Ending the Growing Crisis Confronting Children and Working Parents in the Global Economy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 306 pp. $27.50 cloth. Duke University Press 2007 Books...

... to this policy issue. This article uses experience from Washington State’s Basic Health Plan to examine the enrollment choices of low-income families in a state-subsidized voluntary insurance plan offered through managed care organizations. We hypothesize that the decision to enroll, which encompasses...

...Sidney D. Watson Jonathan Engel. Poor People's Medicine: Medicaid and American Charity Care since 1965 . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 318 pp. $22.95 paper. Ronald J. Angel, Laura Lein, and Jane Henrici. Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis . New York: Cambridge...