...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 to be...

... study of relevant 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...

...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...

...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...

...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 of...

...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...

...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 these...

...Theodore R. Marmor; Amy Bridges This paper reviews case studies of eighteen countries to identify similarities and differences in health planning problems and institutional arrangements for resolving them. On the basis of this review, it is argued that in order for cost-containment to be effective...

...John K. Iglehart Copyright © 1980 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1980 Washington Report The Uncertain Future of Health Planning John K. lglehart At any given time in American society, overriding trends play an influential role in government...

...Harry P. Cain, II The health planning program developed under P.L. 93-641 is attempting to establish “community trusteeships” for health care in communities across the nation. It is based on a series of assumptions concerning public participation and involvement that are likely to remain viable for...

...James M. Brasfield Efficacious but expensive new technology has contributed to the rapid escalation of health care costs. The CT Scanner has become a symbol of the technological imperative. The health planning process at its best has experienced only limited success with this problem. This article...

...Joseph L. Falkson; Henry A. Leavitt Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 Response to Checkoway The Real Lessons of National Health Planning Joseph L. Falkson and Henry A. Leavitt, Health Sector Management, Inc...