...Richard Freeman The gap between rhetoric and reality in health policy making for disease prevention services is well recognized. I do not try once more to close the gap, but rather argue that the rhetoric of prevention is politically significant. Beginning with an account of prevailing explanations...

...Howard A. Palley Constance A. Nathanson. Disease Prevention as Social Change: The State, Society, and Public Health in the United States, France, Great Britain, and Canada. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007. 328 pp. $37.50 cloth. © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007...

...Harold Pollack Monica S. Ruiz, Alicia R. Gable, Edward H. Kaplan, Michael A. Stato, Harvey V. Fineberg, and James Trussell, eds. Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Committee on HIV Prevention Strategies in the United States. Institute of Medicine. No Time to Lose: Getting More...

...Carol Levine Johannes P. Van Vugt, ed. AIDS Prevention and Services: Community-Based Research . Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1994. 285 pp. $19.95 paper. $59.95 hardcover. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 References Lightman , Alan . 1993 . Einstein's Dreams...

...Robert P. Stoker Anne-Marie Foltz, An Ounce of Prevention: Child Health Politics Under Medicaid (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1982), 254 pp., $27.50 Copyright © 1984 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1984 342 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law...

.... , 2 – 17 . Princeton, NJ : Robert Wood Johnson Foundation . Brown R. Corea J. Luce B. Elixhauser A. Sheingold S. . 1992 . Effectiveness in Disease and Injury Prevention Estimated National Spending on Prevention — United States, 1988 . Morbidity and Mortality Weekly...

...Scott L. Greer The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is the small agency established by the European Union (EU) to act as a hub for disease control, drawing on networks across the continent to achieve what other political systems do with large agencies. Despite...

..., it is clear that preventive public health policies are difficult to fund, adopt, and sustain. This is especially the case if one compares them with more personal, curative health care policies, which are dependent on large amounts of research funding and feature notable scientific breakthrough findings...

... with policy makers, thousands of news articles, and extensive documentation to reconstruct the history of three areas of debate and decision making about HIV prevention since 1990: needle exchange, HIV testing, and sex education for at-risk groups. These histories illuminate three key lessons. First...

...Howard M. Leichter Sylvia Noble Tesh, Hidden Arguments: Political Ideology and Disease Prevention (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988), 215 pp., $30.00. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Book Reviews 583...

...-regulation and non-statutory codes and standards. Copyright © 1982 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1982 Prevention and Hdth Standards: American, Soviet, and European Models Giandomenico Majone, University of Calabria (Italy) Abstract...

...; and the barriers to effective implementation. Copyright © 1983 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1983 Tax-Deductible Alcohol: An Issue of Public Health Policy and Prevention Strategy James F. Mosher, Medical Research Institute of San Francis...

...Harold A. Pollack © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 References Appleby J. 2010 . Groups Vie for a Piece of Health Law's $15 Billion Prevention Fund . Kaiser Health News . May 7 . www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2010/May/08/prevention-money-fight-health-reform-law.aspx...

... Strength of Prevention Politics I recently heard a public health leader tell this story: just after 9/11 Sur- geon General Richard Carmona was called to testify before Congress to brief political leaders on the threats of bioterrorism and our nation’s level...

... chronic disease related to people's unhealthy lifestyles and physical environments. It identifies common features that make it difficult to establish and maintain initiatives to prevent or reduce costly illness and physical suffering: (1) public health benefits are generally dispersed and delayed; (2...

... disease treatment to prevention has been a key focus of public health policy to this day. Every generation of public health reports presents prevention as the answer to past failures, but the continuous experience of failure is strangely coexistent with a fundamental belief in the ability of lifestyle...

...Jeremy Nobel Louise B. Russell, Is Prevention Better Than Cure? (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1986), 134 pp. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 586 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law quences of the key role public health insurance played...

...John A. Bartlett Christine Grady. The Search for an AIDS Vaccine: Ethical Issues in the Development and Testing of a Preventive AIDS Vaccine. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. 193 pp. $26.50 cloth. Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997...

... untreated relative to their higher income counterparts. No research has examined this issue for children with special needs. We analyzed Medicaid enrollment and claims data for special-needs children enrolled in the District of Columbia Medicaid program to evaluate receipt of recommended preventive dental...

... to school for protection. Current proposals for preventing school violence include punishing the violence-prone, expulsion for weapon carriers, and creating a culture of nonviolence through various behavioral methods like conflict resolution. None of these proposals address the issue of lethal violence...