... with the election in 1992 of a president sympa- thetic to these concerns, and Congress’s subsequent pronouncements of cooperation and bipartisanship in the search for solutions, comprehensive health reform remains, to say the least, uncertain. Why the United States Does Not Have a National Health Program...

... follow-up diagnostic and treatment services. The National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP), a federally funded initiative that provides cancer screening to low-income uninsured and under-insured women, covers some diagnostic follow-up tests and no treatment services. We...

... is not surprising, but the similar pattern cross-nationally is less expected. Three additional findings are more unexpected. First, the United States outperforms its European peers on several public health metrics. Second, the United States spends a comparable proportion of its health dollar on prevention. Third...

...Mark Schlesinger Abstract Scholars have long recognized the importance of comparisons for envisioning, formulating, and implementing new public policies. But cross-national comparisons of health systems and policies can prove challenging—sometimes potentially misleading—unless one carefully attends...

... of the long-standing deferential approach to state power where matters of population health surveillance are concerned and, second, how the nation's long-standing deferential legal customs might be modified to address the growing emphasis on global public health policy that is undergirded by technological...

... of their very different trajectories. This article explores the implications of recent research on hospital history in the two countries for existing historiographies, particularly the coming of the National Health Service in Britain. It argues that the two hospital systems initially developed in broadly...

...Adam Oliver Over the past twenty years, the emphasis of reform attempts to improve efficiency within the English National Health Service (NHS) has oscillated between markets and targets. Both strategies are informed by standard economic theory but thus far have achieved varying degrees of success...

...Michael Birnbaum Michael Birnbaum interviews Donald Berwick shortly after his departure from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services about the national health care landscape. Berwick discusses the strategic vision, policy levers, operational challenges, and political significance of federal...

...Martin Powell; Robin Miller Abstract This article explores different stakeholder perspectives of “privatization” in the English National Health Service (NHS). Much of the academic literature makes empirical claims about privatization on the basis of absent or shaky definitions of the term...

...Harold A. Pollack © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Point-Counterpoint Changes in the British National Health Service Harold A. Pollack...

...Rudolf Klein This article analyzes the latest battle in the twenty-year war to change England's National Health Service (NHS), starting with the internal market reforms introduced by the Thatcher government and now carried one step farther by David Cameron's coalition government. The government's...

... of “capacity building” through the scientific authority of the National Cancer Institute, beginning in the 1980s. There are several major questions to be answered: (1) How did this program manage to be adopted and sustained despite the well-documented hindrances to effective tobacco control policy...

...Rudolf Klein; Theodore Marmor Copyright © 1978 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1978 Position Paper Evidence to the Royal Commission on the National Health Service Rudolf Klein, University of Bath, with an Introduction by Theodore Marmor...

...Milton I. Roemer Copyright © 1978 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1978 Position Paper National Health Policy Formulation in Socialist Poland Milton I. Roerner, University of Calijbrnia, Los Angeles In the United States, it is conventional...

...G. A. Nalli; David A. Pearson This study is a descriptive analysis of an attempt to coordinate donor agency and government activities in the national leprosy control program of the Philippine Islands. A twofold strategy is employed to realize this purpose: (1) the evolution of the present...

...Charles Brecher Arthur Levin, editor, Health Services: The Local Perspective , Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, Volume 32, Number 3. Copyright © 1978 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1978 Review Essay Redefining National Health...

...Joseph L. Falkson Copyright © 1978 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1978 Washington Report The Disarray of National Health Policy Joseph L. Falkson* The young Woodrow Wilson, then a political scientist at Princeton, observed...

...Joseph L. Falkson Copyright © 1979 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1979 Washington Report The National HMO Development Strategy Joseph L. Falkson I recently participated in an interesting policy analysis project which I'd like to share...

... with substance abuse disorders. The prevalence of these disorders is high, and these individuals often suffer from comorbid chronic medical and social conditions. This article examines the extent to which the nation's fourteen thousand specialty substance abuse treatment (SAT) organizations, which have a daily...

...Joseph L. Falkson Washington Report National Health Policy at Mid-Term Joseph L. Falkson President Carter's recent mid-term massacre of various and sundry cabinet secretaries offers a convenient pause to assess the pluses and minuses of national health policy...