...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...

...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...

.... The question of whether there is an EU policy or policies, and what they might be, emerges from specific EU legal structures. Health policy in the EU is complicated by the weak enumerated power of article 168 of the TFEU, which enumerates what the EU can do in the specific field of public health (as against...

...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...

... Health Providers in Developing Countries: Serving the Public Interest? London: Zed Books, 1997. 318 pp. $25.00 paper. Books Review Essay The Public Economy and Public Health: Lessons from...

...Randall R. Bovbjerg Once epidemic, tuberculosis has reemerged, often in newly drug-resistant forms. This public health threat calls for strong public action as well as improved private care. Action has been hampered by failures in public health infrastructure and legal-philosophical support...

...Scott L. Greer Trein , Phillip . Healthy or Sick? Coevolution of Health Care and Public Health in a Comparative Perspective . Cambridge University Press . 2018 . 332 pp. $105.00 cloth Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 In Healthy or Sick? Phillip Trein has...

...Donley T. Studlar Eric A. Feldman and Ronald Bayer, eds. Unfiltered: Conflicts over Tobacco Policy and Public Health. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. viii + 394 pp. $55.00 cloth. Michael Pertschuk. Smoke in Their Eyes: Lessons in Movement Leadership from the Tobacco Wars...

...Sherri A. Brown Obijiofor Aginam. Global Health Governance: International Law and Public Health in a Divided World. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 240 pp. $60.00 cloth. Duke University Press 2007 Books Obijiofor Aginam...

...William J. Waters Books Reviews Helen J. Muller and Curtis Ventriss, Public Health in a Retrenchment Era: An Alternative to Managerialism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985), 162 pp., $10.95 Public Heulth in a Retrenchment Era: An Alternative...

... the prevailing market ethic of individual responsibility and minimal collective obligations to protect and preserve life is replaced with a new public health ethic rooted in social justice. This new ethic would assign the highest priority to life and would stress the obligations of all citizens to share...

...Suzanne B. Cashman; Frances Kathleen Lopez Bushnell; Hugh S. Fulmer The American Public Health Association defines public health nursing as the“practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences.” In 1993,celebrating...

...Sagar C. Jain Report of the Milbank Memorial Fund Commission, Higher Education for Public Health , New York: Prodist, 1976, 218 pages, $7.95. Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Review Essay Whither Education in Public Health? Sagar C. Jain, University of North Carolina...

... . www.healthcare.gov/center/regulations/prevention/taskforce.html (accessed August 16, 2010) . Fiore M. C. Bailey W. C. Cohen S. J. Dorfman S. F. Fox B. J. Goldstein M. G. Gritz E. . 2000 . A Clinical Practice Guideline for Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: A U.S. Public Health...

...Rebecca Katz; Sara Rosenbaum This article examines the current state of disease surveillance and reporting in the United States and seeks to answer two central questions: first, whether the increasing emphasis on the global importance of public health policies compels a fundamental reexamination...

...Henri Bergeron; Constance A. Nathanson In this article we examine the transformation over the past two decades of public health as a policy arena in France from a backwater of little interest to politicians, bureaucrats, the media, and the public into a central preoccupation of the state. Recent...

...Rick Mayes; Thomas R. Oliver Why is it so politically difficult to obtain government investment in public health initiatives that are aimed at addressing chronic disease? This article examines the structural disadvantage faced by those who advocate for public health policies and practices to reduce...

...Peter D. Jacobson; Jeffrey Wasserman; Anda Botoseneanu; Amy Silverstein; Helen W. Wu We report the results of a study designed to assess and evaluate how the law shapes the public health system's preparedness activities. Based on 144 qualitative interviews conducted in nine states, we used a model...

... Women . Charleston, SC : Medical University of South Carolina, Program in Bioethics . Neufeld Peter J. 2005 . “The (Near) Irrelevance of Daubert to Criminal Justice and Some Suggestions for Reform.” American Journal of Public Health 95 ( suppl. 1 ): S107 – 13 . Ocen...