... norms on children's beliefs about health and nutrition as the Popeye Principle. The history of the malnutrition crisis demonstrates the importance of understanding the cultural and economic conditions surrounding childhood nutrition, the use and influence of numerical norms, and the mutually reinforcing...

... Principle Marshall B. Kapp Wright State University American tobacco companies are very bad guys who have done many very bad things to the public over the years (Hurt and Robertson 1998). On an emotional level, the third...

...Benita M. Jackson F. Douglas Scutchfield and C. William Keck. Principles of Public Health Practice. Albany, NY: Delmar, 1997. 377 pages. $56.00 cloth. Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Reviews 1441 Johnson, H., and D. S...

...Kenneth R. Wing Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Report from the Supreme Court The Principles and Principals of Abortion Compromise Kenneth R. Wing...

... advertising in the United States. Utilizing multiple data sources and methods, we demonstrate a consistent failure by companies that market erectile dysfunction drugs to comply with the industry's guiding principles for ethical DTCA over a four-year period despite pledges of compliance by company leaders...

... immediate “relief” to families, with poverty as a precondition for eligibility. But his strongest defense of an increased role for American social policy was based on the principles of social insurance. The concept had received growing attention in the United States in the decades leading up to the New...

...Claus Wendt Abstract This article discusses recent developments in and new principles of European social health insurance (SHI). It analyses how privatization policies and competition have altered social insurance and whether financial difficulties are caused by social insurance features not...

... profession to eschew specialization and return to their generalist roots founded on the principles of community-based prevention and health promotion. Soon the Public Health Functions Project, designed in part to identify skills and curriculum needs of an array of practicing public health workers, examined...

... insurance are (a) to distribute health care costs over time, (b) to protect against rare but expensive illness, and (c) to provide everyone basic health care. Both cost sharing and maximum limits to coverage to contain costs fails to satisfy all three purposes. The following principle of noncovered services...

...Maurizio Ferrera In 1978, a sweeping reform created the first national health service of continental Europe: Italy's Servizio Sanitario Nazionale. This new scheme was based on the principle of “full democratic universalism”: The state would provide free and equal benefits to every citizen and the...

...Sherry Ahrentzen Greendale, Wisconsin, was intentionally created with many of the design and planning principles that active-living advocates promote today. This case study examines the processes behind sustaining these particular planning and design principles over time in light of economic and...

...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...

... productive labor–and the general positive value of individual performance evaluation. In the effort to resolve the conflict, three principles are suggested as a basis for future policy. (1) the individual benefits more from activity–physical and mental–than inactivity; (2) society benefits from the maximum...

... principles. In contrast, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dissenting opinion for the four more liberal justices is just as much about health care law as it is about constitutional law. Her opinion gives detailed attention to the unique features of health care finance and delivery in order to inform her analysis...

... regulation of DTCA. These organizations argue that the negative impact of such advertising outweighs the informational value claimed by the pharmaceutical industry. The industry maintains that further restrictions on DTCA are not warranted because it is successfully self-regulating via “guiding principles...

...Timothy Stoltzfus Jost; Diane Dawson; André den Exter The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice 2004 report Improving Health Care: A Dose of Competition expresses a clear allegiance to competition as the organizing principle for health care. In Europe, by contrast, the key organizing...

...Anthony S. Chen; Margaret Weir Why do the states seem to be pursuing different types of policy innovation in their health reform? Why so some seem to follow a “solidarity principle,” while others seem guided by a commitment to “actuarial fairness”? Our analysis highlights the reciprocal influence...

... historically determined legitimating ideology of US firms. From the era of the “corporate commonwealth,” US business inherited the principles of private welfare provision and of resistance to any expansion of government control. Once complementary, these principles are now mutually exclusive: employer-provided...

...George J. Annas; Wendy K. Mariner Abstract Public health's reliance on law to define and carry out public activities makes it impossible to define a set of ethical principles unique to public health. Public health ethics must be encompassed within—and consistent with—a broader set of principles...

... among health care providers. Although many parts of the welfare state are being questioned today, the principle of universal-ism in health care has not been seriously challenged, but support for the present health care system among Swedes depends on how well the system functions. The prospects for...