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

... 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...

...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...

.... Books Review Essay Caring for Elderly Parents: Family Relationships, Ageist Medical Care, and the Search for a Dignified End to Life Luisa Margolies. My Mother’s Hip: Lessons from the World of Eldercare. Philadelphia: Temple University Press...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Karen L. Baird In conclusion, Campbell's Trapped in America's Safety Net: One Family's Struggle provides an excellent overview of our social welfare system and its many varied programs, as well as a critique of its many illogical oddities. Where one falls in the system tiers greatly determines...

..., and families. Questions are raised as to the capacity to provide adequate care in response to the increased demand for care outside the hospital setting that will result from the new payment system. Medicare Prospective Payment: Anticipated Effect on Hospitals, Other Community Agencies...

...Phyllis H. Mutschler Jeffrey Dwyer and Raymond Coward, Gender, Families and Eldercare . Newbury Park: Sage, 1992. $40.00 cloth, $23.95 paper. Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Reviews 1005 of entry-level jobs requiring few...

...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...