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...Joseph Schilling; Sheila D. Keyes Weaving together the disciplines of planning and policy change with the emerging research of active living, this article explores the competing interests and underlying political forces behind the design and passage of Wisconsin's Comprehensive Planning Law of 1999...

...Sy Adler; Noelle Dobson; Karen Perl Fox; Lynn Weigand This case study is about the politics of incorporating active-living elements into a concept plan for a new community of about 68,000 people on the edge of the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area. Development on the rural-urban fringe is ongoing...

...Emily Lees; David Salvesen; Elizabeth Shay To contribute to the understanding of the links between urban planning and school siting and, ultimately, the impact of both on physical activity, we conducted a case study of Lee County, Florida. Our study examined the extent of state-mandated...

...Daniel M. Fox Hospital planning in New York has been since the 1930s an intensely political process with high stakes. The leaders of Blue Cross and their allies used the hospital planning process in the city and the state as a means to extend and protect corporate authority in what they took...

... policy documents. We conclude that all stakeholders underpin the need for a structured approach toward health manpower planning in the form of a more coherent system of planning, decision making, and control. A compromise on mutual responsibilities between the less dominant Ministry of Health and the two...

...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...

...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...

...Linda Roemer Sondra Z. Koff, Health Systems Agencies: A Comprehensive Examination of Planning and Process (New York: Human Sciences Press, 1988), 233 pp. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Book Reviews 763 States political...

...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...

...Jonathan P. West; Michael D. Stevens With the implementation of the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act, comprehensive health planning is moving into a new phase. In search of lessons to guide future planning efforts on the part of the Health Systems Agencies (HSAs) established...

...Arthur A. Atkisson; Richard M. Grimes This paper examines major features of the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-641), a piece of legislation that would radically restructure the health planning system of the United States. The Act combines several, previously...

...Drew Altman This paper examines the political and bureaucratic dynamics of health regulation under the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act and, to a lesser extent, the Carter Cost Proposal now before Congress. A number of underlying issues that affect the day-to-day exercise...

... 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...

...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...

... to the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Sexuality Training and Education Session, Population Section, October 18, 1976. Regulatory Policy and Abortion Clinics: Implications for Planning Bonnie J. Kay, Georgia Institute of Technology...

...Harold S. Luft; Gary A. Frisvold Health Systems Agencies (HSAs), the new regional health planning agencies established by the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974 , have as their major goals quality, accessibility, continuity and cost containment. One of the tools for cost...

...Peter T. Ittig Copyright © 1980 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 706 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law and practitioners of health administration, policy and planning. It provides a prototype for rigorous health services research which keeps us...

...Christa Altenstetter This article on hospital planning programs in France and North-Rhine Westfalia (a state in the Federal Republic of Germany), assembles information on the formal building blocks of inter-organizational relations in the formulation and implementation process. Because...

...Richard B. Saltman The World Health Organization considers Finland's health planning system to be among the most successful in the developed world. Despite tight resource constraintssymbolized by total health expenditures held consistently to less than 7 percent of gross domestic productthe Finns...