...Thomas D. Watts Book Review Thomas D. Watts, University of Texas at Arlington Dan E. Beauchamp, Beyond Alcoholism: Alcohol and Public Health Policy (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1980), 222 pp. Dan E. Beauchamp’s book will sharpen and increase the velocity...

... University Press. Bayer , R. 1991b . Public Health Policy and the AIDS Epidemic: An End to HIV Ex-ceptionalism. New England Journal of Medicine 324 : 1500 -4. Bayer , R. , N. N. Dubler, and S. Landesman. 1993 . The Dual Epidemics of Tuberculosis and AIDS: Ethical and Policy Issues...

...Robyn Martin; Alexandra Conseil This article provides a critical portrait of the current state of public health policies and laws governing pandemic influenza prevention and control in Europe. It examines the role of and relationship between national public health policy and national communicable...

...; and the barriers to effective implementation. Tax-Deductible Alcohol: An Issue of Public Health Policy and Prevention Strategy James F. Mosher, Medical Research Institute of San Francis co Abstract. In 1982 U.S. businesses will spend over $10 billion (12 percent...

...James G. Hodge, Jr. Abstract Though public health policy surveillance is an integral tool in correlating the law to scientifically based public health law studies, drawing accurate legal conclusions from collected data can be challenging. Data may be of poor quality, inaccessible to law and policy...

...Peter D. Jacobson; Kenneth E. Warner Many tobacco control advocates, believing that legislators and regulators have failed to enact and implement sufficiently stringent tobacco control laws, have supported litigation as a means of achieving public health policy goals. In this article, we examine...

... ). Some think obesity is a matter of public health and policy, while others believe it is a matter of personal behavior and choice (Spradlin et al. 2012 ; Advisory Board Company 2015 ). It seems that public policy has had little significant impact on the problem of childhood obesity, and in fact obesity...

...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...

...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...

...Scott L. Greer de Ruijter , Anniek . EU Health Law and Policy: The Expansion of EU Power in Public Health and Health Care . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 . 215 pp. $75.00 cloth. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 In any circumstances this book would...

... Hits 20-Year High As Recession Adds 2 Million More Poor, Analysis Finds. Memorandum. Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Centers for Disease Control (Centers for Disease Control, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). 1980 . 1979 Tuberculosis...

.... The Health of Nations: Public Opinion and the Making of American and British Health Policy. Ithaca: Cornell Uni- versity Press, 1993. 259 pp. $34.50 cloth. Lawrence Jacobs’s new book, The Health of Nations, is part of a growing body of political science scholarship that reassesses the relationship...

...Lawrence R. Jacobs; Suzanne Mettler Research on stasis or change in public opinion toward health, health policy, and medical care tends to focus on short-term dynamics and to emphasize the impact of discrete messages communicated by individual speakers in particular situations. This focus on what...

... of problems and on the formulation of prescriptive policies in the health field. It will also focus on the different values that are promoted by different policy perspectives and consider alternative modes for implementing value choices. This article was supported by the Vanderbilt Institute for Public...

... of usable data. This article makes the case for the practice of policy surveillance to help end the anomalous treatment of law in public health research and practice. Policy surveillance is the systematic, scientific collection and analysis of laws of public health significance. It meets several important...

...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...

... of their benefits. We conclude by discussing the balance of public preferences and organized interests' preferences on state health policy. Duke University Press 2007 Barrilleaux, C. J., P. Brace, and B. Dangremond. 1994 . The Sources of State Health Reform. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting...

... and the importance, when assessing the impact of laws, of examining public events and administrative interventions which may have significant causal links with legal interventions. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 The Impact of Public Policy and Publicity on Admissions...

...Howard M. Leichter Lawrence B. Joseph, ed. Paying for Health Care: Public Policy Choices for Illinois . Chicago: University of Chicago, Center for Urban Research and Policy Studies, 1992. 326 pp. $14.95 paper. Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 1008 Journal of Health Politia...

...Barnett R. Parker Policy problems in the health and public sectors are quickly assuming a new level of complexity. Thus, the health/public sector analyst is being confronted with the task of identifying, formulating, evaluating, and making choices among larger and more complicated sets of decision...