...James C. Robinson Right-to-know policies and related market-oriented occupational health policies require an institutionalized means through which workers can interpret and act on information about quality differences among jobs. In principle, labor unions could play this role. However, union...

...Sherry I. Brandt-Rauf; Paul W. Brandt-Rauf Recent court decisions have stressed the necessity for cost-benefit analysis in evaluating Occupational and Safety Health Administration (OSHA) standards, thus raising difficult ethical questions which this paper analyzes using classical approaches of...

...James W. Begun; Edward W. Crowe; Roger Feldman Occupational regulation in the United States is mainly carried out by state licensing boards whose regulatory actions frequently are described as “anticompetitive.” Despite the social, political, and economic importance of these board policies, little...

...Graham Wilson Steven Kelman, Policy Studies in Occupational Safety and Health: Regulating America, Regulating Sweden: A Comparative Study of Occupational Safety and Health Policy (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1981), 280 pp., $19.95; John Mendeloff, Regulating Safety: An Economic and...

...Gerald Markowitz James C. Robinson. Toil and Toxics: Workplace Struggles and Political Strategies for Occupational Health . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. 226 pp. $29.95 cloth. Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993...

...Jacqueline Karnell Corn David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz. Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. 229 pp. $29.95 cloth. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 References...

... micro level, there is no evidence of active consumer support for licensure and it seems to have been introduced mainly at the behest of members of the occupation and bureaucrats involved in the regulation of laboratories. Bureaucrats appear to have acted largely on their own initiative and are the...

...James W. Begun Simon Rottenberg, ed., Occupational Licensute and Regulation (Washington, D.C. : American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1980), 354 pp., $16.25 hardbound, $8.25 paperback Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press...

...Dorothy Robyn; Jack Hadley This article considers a number of issues which might arise in formulating policy for new health occupations. Its particular focus is on nurse practitioners and physicians' assistants and their treatment under potential national health insurance arrangements. The...

...Elizabeth Graddy State regulation of occupations has become more prevalent even while its negative consequences are becoming understood. This raises questions about the source of such regulation and the extent to which the interests of the public are being represented. In my study of the regulation...

...Vicente Navarro This article analyzes and criticizes the “technocratic” view of occupational health and safety policies, which sees the values of the personnel in “post-industrial” regulatory agencies as the most important determinant of those policies. It takes an alternate position, which...

...Elihu D. Richter Telling the worker about exposure to occupational hazards and their potentially adverse health effects has been established as an ethical principle of occupational health and safety. Situations or issues that may result in incomplete application or nonapplication of this principle...

...James W. Begun; Ronald C. Lippincott Historically, most health occupations have developed legal and ethical restrictions on price advertising and other characteristics of “commercial” practice. Many of these regulations recently have come under critical scrutiny, on the grounds that they inhibit...

...James C. Robinson; Dalton G. Paxman In 1989, after almost two decades of substance-by-substance standard setting, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) promulgated its Air Contaminants Standard, imposing new exposure limits for 376 toxic substances encountered in U.S. industry...

... homes will have a harder time promoting quality improvement than for acute care settings, where results have been disappointing thus far. In addition to the conceptual analysis, I evaluate whether the quality information reported on Nursing Home Compare had any impact on nursing home occupancy rates...

...Kenneth E. Warner Seatbelt-wearing occupants of motor vehicles experience a death rate that is half that of nonbelted occupants, yet fewer than 10 percent of the population regularly wear their seatbelts. The potential of effective passenger-restraint systems to substantially reduce mortality and...

...: that effective authority in acute-care hospitals rests in an amorphous power relationship among the hospital's several occupational groups, in which physicians clearly have the upper hand. After a brief introduction to this Danish hospital, the article develops a detailed portrait of its informal power...

... premiums, to deny eligibility for disability insurance benefits, and to deny employment. Screening is similarly used to deny employment, and new technologies for prenatal screening have raised fears of stigma and selective abortion among racial, handicapped, and antiabortion groups. Occupational safety...