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J Health Polit Policy Law (1983) 8 (2): 395–398.
Published: 01 April 1983
...Diane Hoffman Samuel S. Epstein, Lester 0. Brown, and Carl Pope, Hazardous Waste in America (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1982), 539 pp., $27.50 Copyright © 1983 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1983 Book Review...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1992) 17 (2): 299–328.
Published: 01 April 1992
...Robert T. Nakamura; Thomas W. Church; Phillip J. Cooper We use the passage and implementation of the Medical Waste Tracking Act of 1988 (MWTA) to explore the implications of health and environmental policies that are formulated in the context of events defined politically as a crisis. Building...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1992) 17 (1): 181–184.
Published: 01 February 1992
...Sylvia N. Tesh Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Phil Brown and Edwin J. Mikkelsen. No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990. 260 pp. $24.95 cloth...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2004) 29 (2): 322–325.
Published: 01 April 2004
...Barry G. Rabe Thomas H. Fletcher. From Love Canal to Environmental Justice: The Politics of Hazardous Waste on the Canada-U.S. Border . Peterborough,Ontario: Broadview, 2003. 239 pp. $19.95 paper. © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Books...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1992) 17 (4): 637–666.
Published: 01 August 1992
.... U.S. DHHS (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). 1990 . U.S. Health Care Expenditures, 1960–1988. April. Washington, DC: U.S. DHHS, Health Care Financing Administration. The United States:
Breakthroughs and Waste...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1995) 20 (4): 1078–1081.
Published: 01 August 1995
...Gary C. Bryner Barry G. Rabe. Beyond NIMBY: Hazardous Waste Siting in Canada and the United States . Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1994. 199 pages. $34.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 1078 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1995) 20 (2): 509–513.
Published: 01 April 1995
...John A. Hird Andrew Szasz. Ecopopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. 216 pages, $39.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Reviews...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2018) 43 (5): 739–765.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Sherry Glied; Adam Sacarny Abstract This review critically evaluates perspectives on waste in the US health care sector. The conventional discussion of waste is often imprecise and blames factors outside the purview of the health care system. Taking an economic perspective, we propose...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1992) 17 (1): 119–142.
Published: 01 February 1992
...Barry G. Rabe Hazardous waste management poses increasing problems for Canadian provinces and American states, given the vast quantities and types of wastes generated and the virtual inability to open new storage, treatment, or disposal facilities. The Canadian experience is very similar...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1986) 11 (4): 569–583.
Published: 01 December 1986
... of the traditional medical model, in the 1970s and 1980s policy makers have launched various competitive and regulatory programs aimed mainly at containing costs. These interventions, however, have mainly sought savings through reductions in waste and inappropriate utilization; they have done little about deeper...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1983) 8 (2): 221–234.
Published: 01 April 1983
... directly to support physician shortage and minority recruitment programs. This article argues that unrestricted subsidies are inequitable, wasteful, unnecessary, and inflationary; therefore they should be abandoned, in favor of programs that contribute directly to the supply of primary care physicians...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2023) 48 (4): 545–568.
Published: 01 August 2023
... personhood. Discourses delegitimized abortion providers and used quasi-medical justifications for banning abortion. Finally, legislation constructed abortion clinics as sites of contagion and waste and consequently as risks to public health. The results highlight the vulnerability of abortion...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2016) 41 (3): 453–461.
Published: 01 June 2016
... nutritional targets are missed. Various iterations of school-based nutrition programs have proven to be ineffective and wasteful, yet policy leaders continue to consume tax dollars with their implementation. Although strict guidelines for evaluating scientific evidence were historically used to ensure...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (5): 787–800.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Eric M. Patashnik Abstract The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) was established as part of the Affordable Care Act to promote research on the comparative effectiveness of treatment options. Advocates hoped this information would help reduce wasteful spending by identifying low...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (5): 889–904.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Sayeh Nikpay; India Pungarcher; Austin Frakt Abstract The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted in 2010 to address both high uninsured rates and rising health care spending through insurance expansion reforms and efforts to reduce waste. It was expected to have a variety of impacts in areas within...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2008) 33 (5): 943–963.
Published: 01 October 2008
...—rebates and spread pricing—that account significantly for PBMs' profits but have been neglected in the bioethics and health policy literature as important sources of fiscal waste in our current health care system. We offer analyses of two common cases, consider employers' and employees' vulnerabilities...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1990) 15 (3): 571–589.
Published: 01 June 1990
... to these problems. This pattern is evident in the evolution of Superfund, the national program to clean up abandoned hazardous waste sites. The prolonged process of reauthorization in the 1980s contributed to serious program delay and failed to resolve a number of fundamental questions concerning the national...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2014) 39 (1): 171–208.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Alan S. Gerber; Eric M. Patashnik; David Doherty; Conor M. Dowling Abstract The Obama administration has made a major investment in comparative effectiveness research (CER) to learn what treatments work best for which patients. CER has the potential to reduce wasteful medical spending and improve...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2024) 49 (4): 631–664.
Published: 01 August 2024
... companies, with less involvement by private equity (PE). The second investment wave followed the Affordable Care Act and was led by PE firms. It has generated concerns of wasteful spending, less cost-effective care, and initiatives harmful to patient welfare. This article compares the two waves and asks...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1993) 18 (4): 999–1001.
Published: 01 August 1993
... for corporate redress, as well as centralized efforts by the national
government.
But the task is not merely to offer solutions. Books like Toxic Politics
are necessary in order to develop our understanding of toxic waste crises,
for we still know too little about the manifold causes and implications...
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