... Policy in Action describes and evaluates the Municipal Health Services Program (MHSP), a multisite demonstration project for delivery of pri- mary care to urban populations. MHSP was a project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to determine whether, with local mayoralty leadership, am...

... and priorities, the design or redesign of systems, and the planning of actions that could translate programs into service delivery. This was the genesis of the Municipal Health Services Program (MHSP), a five-year program to which the Johnson Foundation committed $15 million, that This...

... Administration Sandra Tanenbaum Eli Ginzberg, Edith M. Davis, Miriam Ostow, and Associates, Local Health Pot- icy in Action (Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Allanheld, 1985), 136 pp., $28.50. Local Health Policy in Action describes and evaluates the Municipal Health Services Program (MHSP), a...

... change in the political climate. When the national mood, economy, and 1980 elections dictated a tightening of the budget belt, MHSP project sites could not escape the reality of local budget cutters’ knives, resulting in “a diminution of services and hours at many MHSP sites” (p. 75). North...