...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...

... meetings), and many physicians gave testimony commending these younger physicians because they represented the future of family medicine. In 2012, the reference committee charged with reviewing testimony on behalf of the same-gender marriage declaration used the support of the younger physicians...

... the field of den- tistry, Dr. Ashcraft and Professor Jensen-the field of nursing, and Dr. Estes-community and family medicine. Dentistry and nursing have had no previous representation on our editorial board. The following biographical sketches will give our readers some indica- tion...

... programs require a single point of contact with the medical community. In her article in this special issue, Sorcha A. Brophy shows that American Academy of Family Medicine members articulate strikingly different visions of policy, depending on whether they stand in favor of progressive social policies...

..., MB, ChB, DPH, MD, has been a professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine of Duke University Medical Center since December of 1971. Previous to that, she was employed for nine years by the Harvard School of Public Health, first in the Department of Maternal and Child...

... Residency Training Program, which has a presence in more than 100 residencies in the United States. In the 1990s, these leaders similarly created a Fellowship in Family Planning that trains both ob-gyn and family medicine doctors in abortion-related research as well as advanced methods of abortion provision...

... of Public Health 90 : 716 -721. Henley, E., and R. Williams. 1999 . Is Population-Based Medicine the Same as Community-Oriented Primary Care? Family Medicine 31 : 501 -502. Klevens, M., S. Cashman, A. Margules, and H. Fulmer. 1992 . Transforming a Neighborhood Health Center into a Community...

... likely recognized that a strict definition of primary care omits many US physicians. This may be why researchers often expanded their definition when researching primary care physicians, defining them as “physicians engaging in office-based patient care in family medicine or general practice, general...

... Carolina: Improving Care through Community Health Networks . Annals of Family Medicine 6 ( 4 ): 361 – 367 . Thomas P. Graffy J. Wallace P. Kirby M. . 2006 . How Primary Care Networks Can Help Integrate Academic and Service Initiatives in Primary Care . Annals of Family...

..., 1980. Eva J. Salber, Professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, has received a Senior International Fellowship from the Fogarty International Center of NIH to study the delivery of services to the elderly...

... studying regulatory effects on technology development. Anne R. Somers is a Professor in the Departments of Environmental and Com- munity Medicine and Family Medicine at the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Rutgers Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey. She is senior editor...

... interests in clini- cal medicine and health policy. Her doctoral dissertation highlighted comparisons between community health policy in South Africa, Australia, and the United States. She is currently doing full-time clinical work as a resident physician in the Depart- ment of Family Medicine...

... at Georgetown University School of Medicine in the Department of Community and Family Medicine. Barnett R. Parker is currently Associate Professor of Management Science and Marketing in the Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina...

... 2000 JHPPL 25.4-08.contrib 7/21/00 12:28 PM Page 803 Contributors Edith D. Balbach is the director of the Community Health Program at Tufts Uni- versity and an assistant professor of family...

...., B. G. Saver, P. Franks, and K. Fiscella. 2000 . Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Perceptions of Physician Style and Trust. Archives of Family Medicine 9 : 1156 -1163. Elston Lafata, J., C. Cole Johnson, T. Ben-Menachem, and R. J. Morlock. 2001 . Sociodemographic Differences in the Receipt...

... Health Association International Award for Excellence in Promoting and Protecting the Health of People. Anne R. Somers, D.Sc. (hon.) is Professor, Departments of Community Medicine and Family Medicine, College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Rutgers Medical School. She is co-author...

... and Law Nurit Guttman is on the faculty of the Department of Communication, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and is also on the faculty of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She is the author of Public Health...

... Journal of Public Health, Pediatrics, the Journal of Public Health Policy, Child Abuse and Neglect, Social Science and Medicine, and the Journal of Family Violence, among others. Richard Kronick worked for the Dukakis administration in Massachusetts from 1984 to 1987. In 1984 and 1985 he...

... we have seen the creation of family medicine as a new specialty-a welcome development, but an ambiguous one. In response to the perceived problem of overspecialization, we are given a new specialty? I suppose we will soon find similar specialties in outpatient and emergency care-so...

.... Before joining the Vanderbilt University faculty in 1976, Dr. Sloan was research associate at the RAND Corporation and assistant professor and then associate professor of economics and community health and family medicine at the University of Florida. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine...