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...Cyril Roseman Immediately following adoption of Proposition 13 in California in June of 1978, the state legislature adopted a Bail-Out program which included procedures for monitoring the detrimental effects of disproportionate reductions in public health, inpatient and outpatient county budgets...

...Josephine Gittler The reappearance of tuberculosis as a serious public health threat points up the fallacy of the widely held assumption that medical science had conquered the communicable diseases that were once leading causes of morbidity and mortality. In devising a strategy to prevent...

...Jackson Toby Commentary Is a Weapons-Screening Strategy for Public Schools Good Public Policy? Jackson Toby Rutgers University As Professor...

...Scott L. Greer; Holly Jarman Abstract Public health is notoriously difficult to define, and that is the case for public health in the European Union as much as other political systems. In this article, the authors try to identify the actual scope and meaning of public health...

...Mark Schlesinger Reprivatizing the Public Household? Medical Care in the Context of American Public Values Mark Schlesinger Yale and Rutgers Universities Whoever...

...Lu Ann Aday Sara Bennett, Barbara McPake, and Anne Mills. Private Health Providers in Developing Countries: Serving the Public Interest? London: Zed Books, 1997. 318 pp. $25.00 paper. Eileen Stillwaggon. Stunted Lives, Stagnant Economics: Poverty, Disease, and Underdevelopment . New...

.... Gastil J. Levine P. , 111 – 119 . New York : Jossey-Bass . Fishkin J. S. 1991 . Democracy and Deliberation: New Directions for Democratic Reform . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . ———. 1995 . The Voice of the People: Public Opinion and Democracy . New Haven, CT...

.... Because it is poorly understood today, we must debate genomics vigorously if we are to act wisely. Public policy must lead. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Abernethy, B. 2000 . Transcript: Bob Abernethy's Interview with Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the Human Genome Project...

...Russ Lopez; Richard Campbell; James Jennings The Boston Schoolyard Initiative (BSI) is a policy effort to rebuild school yards in Boston through innovative citywide public-private partnerships. At the center of the initiative is a commitment to engage multiple stakeholders and utilize a bottom-up...

...Rogan Kersh; James A. Morone Health care politics are changing. They increasingly focus not on avowedly public projects (such as building the health care infrastructure) but on regulating private behavior. Examples include tobacco, obesity, abortion, drug abuse, the right to die, and even...

... average Americans think of obesity or whether they support obesity-related policies. Using unique survey data collected by the authors, this essay examines public attitudes toward obesity and obesity policy. We find that, contrary to the views of health experts, most Americans are not seriously concerned...

...Jason Barabas Scholars suspect that public policies affect public opinion, but the empirical evidence is mixed, and contemporary theories advance offsetting predictions. This study examines two allegedly similar private investment account programs that differ in politically relevant ways...

...Daniel M. Fox; David Rosner; Rosemary A. Stevens Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Introduction Between Public and Private: A Half Century of Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New York Daniel M. Fox, Milbank Memorial Fund David Rosner, City...

...David J. Rothman I explore the public presentation of Blue Cross, examining in detail the political, cultural, and institutional messages that shaped its advertising. Blue Cross advertisements had the twin purpose of attempting to increase the number of its own subscribers while criticizing...

...Barry G. Rabe Christopher J. Bosso, Pesticides and Politics: The Life Cycle of a Public Issue (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987), 287 pp., $29.95. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Book Reviews 455 Christopher...

...Daniel Swartzman Richard H. Gaskins, Environmental Accidents: Personal Injury and Public Responsibility (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989), 459 pp., $34.95. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 References Barrett , W. 1962 . Irrational Man. Garden City...

...Terri Jackson George Palmer and Stephanie Short, Health Care and Public Policy: An Australian Analysis (Sydney: Macmillan, 1989), 321 pp., $29.95. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Book Reviews 677 Medicare has done a more...

...Susan M. Olson Stephen L. Percy, Disability, Civil Rights, and Public Policy: The Politics of Implementation . Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989. 321 pp. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Reviews 933...

...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...

...Wendy E. Parmet Lawrence O. Gostin and Zita Lazzarini. Human Rights and Public Health in the AIDS Pandemic. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 212 pp. $29.95. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 References Bayer , R. 1991 . Public Health Policy and the AIDS...