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2. Supporting access to midwifery services in the United States (position paper).
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- Female, Humans, Nurse Midwives, Pregnancy, United States, Health Policy, Health Services Accessibility, Midwifery
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- 2001
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3. 200015: Drinking Water Quality and Public Health (Position Paper).
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HEALTH policy , *PUBLIC health , *DRINKING water , *WATER supply , *WATER pollution - Abstract
The article addresses further debate and decision-making by the American Public Health Association (APHA) on a public policy statement on safe drinking water. The paper provides the scientific basis and justification for the importance of improving water supplies in the U.S. The quality and safety of drinking water in the U.S. continues to be an important public health issue. Specific contaminants of concern include microbial contaminants and chemical contaminants. Recommended goals for the APHA are to foster greater involvement of the public health professional as advisor, educator and advocate on issues related to drinking water and health, and to promote understanding in public health practice and policy making of the potential public impact of water contamination.
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- 2001
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4. The American Journal of Public Health: 1957-1973.
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Yankauer, Alfred
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PERIODICALS ,PUBLIC health ,HEALTH policy ,HEALTH care reform ,NEWSPAPER circulation ,EDITORS - Abstract
The article examines how the "American Journal of Public Health," the official organ of the American Public Health Association cope with the changes in the health policy in the U.S. During the period of editorship of Dr. George Rosen, both the Journal's circulation and its sponsoring organization's membership has doubled. The source of offerings to the Journal expanded far beyond the lists of Association members and the papers presented at public health meetings during the years of Rosen's editorship.
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- 1979
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5. Types of Planning in the Health Care System.
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Palmiere, Darwin
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HEALTH planning ,MEDICAL care ,PRIMARY health care ,HEALTH policy ,PUBLIC health ,MEDICAL personnel - Abstract
Health planning in this paper is considered as a developmental process in which different types of planning appear at different times. These types are discussed and the place in the complex health care system developing in the United States is assessed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1972
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6. Gun Shows and Gun Violence: Fatally Flawed Study Yields Misleading Results.
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Wintemute, Garen J., Hemenway, David, Webster, Daniel, Pierce, Glenn, and Braga, Anthony A.
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ARMS control -- Government policy ,FIREARMS & crime ,FIREARMS ,HEALTH policy ,VIOLENCE ,ETHICS ,CONFERENCES & conventions - Abstract
A widely publicized but unpublished study of the relationship between gun shows and gun violence is being cited in debates about the regulation of gun shows and gun commerce. We believe the study is fatally flawed. A working paper entitled "The Effect of Gun Shows on Gun-Related Deaths: Evidence from California and Texas" outlined this study, which found no association between gun shows and gun-related deaths. We believe the study reflects a limited understanding of gun shows and gun markets and is not statistically powered to detect even an implausibly large effect of gun shows on gun violence. In addition, the research contains serious ascertainment and classification errors, produces results that are sensitive to minor specification changes in key variables and in some cases have no face validity, and is contradicted by 1 of its own authors' prior research. The study should not be used as evidence in formulating gun policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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7. Medical Technology Assessment and Practice Guidelines: Their Day in Court.
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Anderson, Gerard F., Hall, Mark A., and Steinberg, Earl P.
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PHYSICIAN practice patterns ,UTILIZATION review (Medical care) ,TECHNOLOGY assessment ,MEDICAL care ,HEALTH policy ,HEALTH outcome assessment ,LAW - Abstract
There is the expectation that outcomes research and the promulgation of medical practice guidelines will be able to identify and hopefully reduce the amount of unnecessary or inappropriate medical care through a variety of methods, including utilization review. However, past efforts by public and private insurers to deny claims on the basis of formal technology assessments or practice guidelines have frequently been overturned by the courts for multifarious reasons. This paper examines the court's reluctance to accept a variety of technology assessment methods in coverage policy decisions. The paper reviews the options that have been proposed to restrict judicial involvement in the formulation of coverage policy and then proposes a new option that employs a more precise taxonomy of medical practice assessment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1993
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8. The Prevalence of Severe Mental Disorder Among Male Urban Jail Detainees: Comparison with the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program.
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Teplin, Linda A.
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SCHIZOPHRENIA ,AFFECTIVE disorders ,PRISONERS ,HEALTH service areas ,MEDICAL care ,HEALTH planning ,HEALTH policy ,PSYCHOSES ,PATHOLOGICAL psychology - Abstract
Abstract: This paper presents the prevalence rates of schizophrenia and major affective disorders by age and race among a random sample of male jail detainees. Subjects were administered the National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule (NIMH-DIS). The jail prevalence rates were then compared with general population data from the five-city Epidemiologic Catchment Area program using difference of proportion tests and loglinear analysis. After controlling for demographic differences between the jail and five-city samples, the jail prevalence rates were still two to three times higher than those in the general population. These findings suggest several public policy modifications concerning the psychiatric management of our burgeoning jail population. (Am J Public Health 1990; 80:663-669.) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1990
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9. The Health Care Reform in Mexico: Before and After the 1985 Earthquakes.
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Soberón, Guillermo, Frenk, Julio, and Sepúlveda, Jaime
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EARTHQUAKES ,EARTH movements ,NATURAL disasters ,MEDICAL care ,HEALTH care reform ,HEALTH policy ,HEALTH promotion - Abstract
The earthquakes that hit Mexico City in September 1985 caused considerable damage both to the population and to important medical facilities. The disaster took place while the country was undertaking a profound reform of its health care system. This reform had introduced a new principle for allocating and distributing the benefits of health care, namely, the principle of citizenship. Operationally, the reform includes an effort to decentralize the decision-making authority, to modernize the administration, to achieve greater coordination within the health sector and among sectors, and to extend coverage to the entire population through an ambitious primary care program. This paper examines the health context in which the reform was taking place when the September earthquakes hit. After presenting the damages caused by the quakes, the paper analyzes the characteristics of the immediate response by the health system. Since many facilities within the system were severely damaged, a series of options for reconstruction are posited. The main lesson to be learned from the Mexican case is that cuts in health care programs are not the inevitable response to economic or natural crises. On the contrary, it is precisely when the majority of the population is undergoing difficulties that a universal and equitable health system becomes most necessary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1986
10. Family Planning Practices of Low Income Women in Two Communities.
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Pomeroy, Richard and Torres, Aida
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BIRTH control ,PARENTHOOD ,CONTRACEPTIVES ,MEDICAL care ,PUBLIC health ,MEDICAL personnel ,PRIMARY health care ,MEDICAL care surveys ,HEALTH policy - Abstract
This paper provides information on contraceptive practices of women in certain low-income areas useful for family planning agencies, and examines the utilization patterns of the medically indigent poor as compared with others in low income areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1972
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11. U.S. Army Heroin Abuse Identification Program in Vietnam: Implications for a Methadone Program.
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Baker Jr., Colonel Stewart L.
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DRUG abuse ,HEROIN ,METHADONE treatment programs ,MILITARY personnel ,NARCOTICS ,HEALTH policy ,DRUGS of abuse - Abstract
This paper describes the program of the U.S. Army to identify heroin users in Vietnam and how it operates. Whether methadone can be used with servicemen is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1972
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12. Ethics in public health research: privacy and public health at risk: public health confidentiality in the digital age.
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Myers J, Frieden TR, Bherwani KM, and Henning KJ
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- Computer Security trends, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act standards, Humans, Medical Records Systems, Computerized, United States, Computer Security standards, Confidentiality, Ethics, Research, Health Policy, Information Systems, Public Health ethics, Quality Control, Security Measures
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Public health agencies increasingly use electronic means to acquire, use, maintain, and store personal health information. Electronic data formats can improve performance of core public health functions, but potentially threaten privacy because they can be easily duplicated and transmitted to unauthorized people. Although such security breaches do occur, electronic data can be better secured than paper records, because authentication, authorization, auditing, and accountability can be facilitated. Public health professionals should collaborate with law and information technology colleagues to assess possible threats, implement updated policies, train staff, and develop preventive engineering measures to protect information. Tightened physical and electronic controls can prevent misuse of data, minimize the risk of security breaches, and help maintain the reputation and integrity of public health agencies.
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- 2008
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13. Use of Groups, Councils, and Committees in Comprehensive Health Planning -- Birmingham, Alabama Style.
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Rice, George E.
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HEALTH planning ,COMMUNITY health services administration ,VOLUNTARY health agencies ,COMMUNITY involvement ,HEALTH policy ,WORKS councils ,ORGANIZATIONAL structure - Abstract
This paper discusses principles of group activity and bases their validity on behavior in an actual setting, as applied to health planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1972
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14. Keeping competition fair for health insurance: how the Irish beat back risk-rated policies.
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Light DW
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- Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Health Policy economics, Health Policy history, History, 20th Century, Humans, Insurance, Health history, Insurance, Health legislation & jurisprudence, Ireland, Middle Aged, Risk, Economic Competition history, Economic Competition legislation & jurisprudence, Health Policy legislation & jurisprudence, Insurance, Health economics
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Objectives: This paper describes how Ireland created a level playing field for competition in health insurance, the strategies of a major insurer to introduce risk-rated policies that would segment the market, the successful campaign to block these policies, and the policy implications of the European Union requirement of competition in health insurance., Methods: Policy documents, interviews, and press reports were analyzed., Results: The minister of health forced the commercial insurer to withdraw its policies and replace them with community-rated policies., Conclusions: Because it is easier and more profitable for insurers to engage in risk selection than to become more efficient, beneficial competition in health insurance markets is extremely difficult to create. Carefully drawn rules and monitoring are required to overcome inherent causes of market failure. The current enthusiasm for saving money through competitive schemes in health insurance seems likely to produce higher costs and greater inequality.
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- 1998
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15. Public policy and environmental noise: modeling exposure or understanding effects.
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Staples SL
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- Community Participation, Health Services Needs and Demand, Humans, Maximum Allowable Concentration, Research, United States, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Health legislation & jurisprudence, Health Policy legislation & jurisprudence, Noise prevention & control, Public Health legislation & jurisprudence
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This paper argues that if the federal government is to successfully protect the public from the adverse effects of environmental noise, its policies will need to be informed by a scientific understanding of the psychological and social factors that determine when noise results in annoyance and when noise may affect health as an environmental stressor. The overreliance of federal agencies on mathematical modeling of average group responses to physical noise levels is discussed as oversimplifying and limiting the understanding of noise effects in crucial ways. The development of a more sophisticated information base is related to policy needs, such as the need to make accurate predictions about the annoyance of particular communities, the need to understand relationships between public participation in noise abatement efforts and annoyance, and the need to identify populations that may be susceptible to stress-related health effects.
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- 1997
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16. The invisibility of public health: population-level measures in a politics of market individualism.
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Burris S
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- Choice Behavior, Humans, Individuality, Politics, United States, Health Policy, Public Health
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This paper models the prevailing political attack on government as a heuristic, a judgmental strategy that simplifies complex phenomena by applying simple tests to a limited set of relevant data. The heuristic of market individualism offers three tools for analyzing the problems of governing: the supremacy of the free market as a regulatory device, a belief in individual freedom of choice and personal responsibility, and the elevation of individual satisfaction as the chief goal of society. Because public health is inherently concerned with the health of the population rather than individual health, because the market itself is a major source of ill health, and because individual choice is socially mediated, use of the heuristic precludes the recognition of the value of public health work. Although some degree of accommodation to current political realities is a practical necessity, public health advocates must not neglect the task of fashioning radically different alternative visions over the long term.
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- 1997
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17. Smokers' knowledge and understanding of advertised tar numbers: health policy implications.
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Cohen JB
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- Adult, Female, Humans, Interviews as Topic methods, Male, Middle Aged, Nicotine, Random Allocation, Smoking epidemiology, Telephone, United States epidemiology, Advertising, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Health Policy, Plants, Toxic, Smoking psychology, Tars, Nicotiana
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Objectives: This article examines health policy implications of providing smokers with numerical tar yield information in cigarette advertising., Methods: Results of a national probability telephone survey regarding smokers' knowledge and understanding of numerical tar yields and deliveries are reported., Results: Few smokers knew the tar level of their own cigarettes (the exception being smokers of 1- to 5-mg tar cigarettes), and a majority could not correctly judge the relative tar levels of cigarettes. Smokers were unsure whether switching to lower-tar cigarettes would reduce their personal health risks. Many smokers relied on absolute numbers in making trade-offs between number of cigarettes smoked and their tar levels, thus confusion machine-rated tar-yields with actual amounts ingested., Conclusions: The wisdom of the present method of providing tar and nicotine numbers in ads and recommendations for modifying the test protocol are now under discussion. This research indicates that these tar numbers and their implications are poorly understood. The paper recommends revisions in tar ratings to make them more useful and a required statement on cigarette packages to more explicitly relate tar levels to major health risks.
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- 1996
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18. Policy as intervention: environmental and policy approaches to the prevention of cardiovascular disease.
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Schmid TL, Pratt M, and Howze E
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- Environmental Health, Health Behavior, Health Education, Health Services Needs and Demand, Humans, Organizational Innovation, Risk Factors, Cardiovascular Diseases prevention & control, Health Policy, Public Health
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This paper describes the evolution of efforts to prevent cardiovascular disease, from individual health education approaches to broader community education efforts and, finally, to comprehensive and integrated programs addressing environmental, policy, and individual behavior change. Policies are divided into two areas: legislation/regulation and organizational policy. Environmental strategies are measures that alter or control the physical or social environment. Dimensions along which these strategies might be implemented are provided. Policy and environmental approaches can be justified on economic, strategic, and theoretical grounds. Experiences from other fields and other countries provide a framework for conceptualizing cardiovascular disease prevention approaches.
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- 1995
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19. Redefining the goals of national drug policy: recommendations from a working group.
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Reuter P and Caulkins JP
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- Alcohol Drinking legislation & jurisprudence, Humans, Smoking legislation & jurisprudence, United States, Drug and Narcotic Control legislation & jurisprudence, Health Policy legislation & jurisprudence, Illicit Drugs legislation & jurisprudence, Substance-Related Disorders prevention & control
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This paper discusses what the goals of national drug policy have been and suggests an alternative set of goals. The past emphasis on use reduction is found wanting. Total harm related to drugs can be viewed as the product of use and harm per use. Thus, reducing use usually serves to reduce harm. However, in some cases, use reduction programs may increase harm per use so much that they increase overall harm even as they succeed in reducing use. Hence, use reduction goals can be usefully augmented with the explicit objective of reducing the total harm created by the production, distribution, consumption, and control of drugs. Numerous programmatic recommendations flow from this approach.
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- 1995
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20. The dual epidemics of tuberculosis and AIDS: ethical and policy issues in screening and treatment.
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Bayer R, Dubler NN, and Landesman S
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- AIDS Serodiagnosis, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome epidemiology, Antitubercular Agents therapeutic use, Employment, Humans, Patient Advocacy legislation & jurisprudence, Patient Compliance, Personal Autonomy, Prejudice, Resource Allocation, Tuberculin Test, Tuberculosis prevention & control, United States epidemiology, Vulnerable Populations, AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections epidemiology, Ethics, Medical, Health Policy, Tuberculosis epidemiology, Voluntary Programs
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As the recent increase in cases of tuberculosis is addressed, there is a danger that the need for increased protection of the public health will create a climate in which the rights of individuals with tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection may be disregarded. This paper considers ethical and policy issues in the control of tuberculosis. The authors conclude that mandatory HIV testing is not critical to effective tuberculosis control, and that although individuals infected with HIV are at increased risk for developing tuberculosis, exclusionary employment practices are not justified. Because failure to complete the course of tuberculosis treatment increases the prospect that drug-resistant strains will develop, it is crucial to require all those who commence treatment to complete their therapy. To ensure the completion of treatment, special attention must be paid to the needs of the homeless, drug users, and those with psychiatric impairments. In addition, all tuberculosis patients should begin their posthospital care under direct observation. Patients who fail to complete treatment despite efforts to encourage and facilitate their cooperation should be subject to confinement after a hearing with full due process protections.
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- 1993
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21. The President's Committee on Health Education: a 20-year retrospective on its politics and policy impact.
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Guinta MA and Allegrante JP
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- Consumer Advocacy legislation & jurisprudence, Health Education legislation & jurisprudence, Health Education organization & administration, Health Plan Implementation, Health Planning Guidelines, Health Priorities, Health Promotion legislation & jurisprudence, Humans, Organizational Objectives, United States, Writing, Health Education standards, Health Planning Councils organization & administration, Health Policy legislation & jurisprudence, Health Policy trends, Politics
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The President's Committee on Health Education was created by Richard M. Nixon in September 1971 and submitted its final report in September 1973. The committee resulted from the convergence of (1) a perceived national domestic policy need in response to escalating medical costs, (2) Nixon's personal and political ambitions, and (3) the dynamic political context of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Its work led to both private and public initiatives designed to influence the public's health through education; its findings and recommendations also laid the foundation for the National Consumer Health Information and Health Promotion Act of 1976 and thus contributed significantly to the development of subsequent national policy in health promotion and disease prevention. This paper places the work and contributions of the committee into historical perspective by analyzing the committee's origins and methods and the underlying politics that shaped its work and final report. The impact of the President's Committee is traced from the emergence of health education in the early 1970s as a potentially cost-effective alternative to medical care to the pivotal role health education now plays in health promotion and disease prevention efforts.
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- 1992
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22. Addressing the Epidemiologic Transition in the Former Soviet Union: Strategies for Health System and Public Health Reform in Russia.
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Tulchinsky, Theodore H. and Varavikova, Elena A.
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PUBLIC health ,HEALTH policy ,HEALTH status indicators ,HEALTH surveys ,MEDICAL statistics ,CARDIOVASCULAR diseases ,EPIDEMIOLOGY - Abstract
Objectives. This paper reviews Russia's health crisis, financing, and organization and public health reform needs. Methods. The structure, policy, supply of services, and health status indicators of Russia's health system are examined. Results. Longevity is declining; mortality rates from cardiovascular diseases and trauma are high and rising; maternal and infant mortality are high. Vaccine-preventable diseases have reappeared in epidemic form. Nutrition status is problematic. conclusions. The crisis relates to Russia's economic transition, but it also goes deep into the former Soviet health system. The epidemiologic transition from a predominance of infectious to non infectious diseases was addressed by increasing the quantity of services. The health system lacked mechanisms for epidemiologic or economic analysis and accountability to the public. Policy and funding favored hospitals over ambulatory care and individual routine checkups over community-oriented preventive approaches. Reform since 1991 has centered on national health insurance and decentralized management of services. A national health strategy to address fundamental public health problems is recommended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1996
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23. State Health Care Expenditures Under Competition and Regulation, 1980 through 1991.
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Melnick, Glenn A. and Zwanziger, Jack
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MEDICAL care costs ,MANAGED care programs ,HEALTH insurance ,HEALTH policy - Abstract
Objects. This paper examines health expenditure growth under two alternative policy approaches competition-based managed care and state government rate regulation. Methods. Data are presented on cumulative growth in real per capita health expenditures between 1980 and 1991 so as to compare California, a state with a pro-competitive policy, with established regulation programs. Results. Real per capita expenditures for hospital services in the United States grew 54% between 1980 and 1991, while in California the growth was half the national rate, or 27%. Real per capita expenditures for physicians services and drug expenditures in the United States grew by 82% and 65%, respectively, white in California these expenditures in creased only 58% and 41%, respectively. California's growth rate was below that of an four regulatory states for all measures of health care cost inflation. Constitution. On the basis of these findings, a properly structured Competitive approach could play a significant role in controlling health expenditures in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1995
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24. Commentary: Recent Reforms in the British National Health Service--Lessons for the United States.
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Holland, Walter W. and Graham, Clifford
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HEALTH care reform ,HEALTH policy - Abstract
President Clinton recently announced his reform plan for health care in the United States. The United Kingdom, along with other countries, has already enacted reforms in an effort to overcome the basic problem of having insufficient funds to provide a health service to meet modern demands. This paper briefly describes the recent health reforms in the United Kingdom and highlights some lessons for the United States, which include the need to choose procedures that should be universally provided. Health reforms that involve some fundamental restructuring need to be evaluated everywhere and agreed to by the staff in advance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1994
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25. The Opium Wars Revisited as US Forces Tobacco Exports in Asia.
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Chen, Ted T. L. and Winder, Alvin E.
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TOBACCO industry ,TOBACCO advertising ,ANTISMOKING movement ,SOCIAL movements ,PUBLIC health ,INTERNATIONAL trade ,HEALTH policy - Abstract
Abstract: The tobacco industry has lobbied successfully to obtain the support of the United States government for opening Asian Markets to American tobacco products. This paper comments on two issues arising from these efforts: the development of an atmosphere of invasion and resistance to invasion in Asia; and the change in the image of the United States in Asian nations from that of a leader in health to that of an exporter of death. The threat of sanctions and the effects of the open market and United States tobacco company advertising in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea are noted. Parallels are drawn between the opium wars a century and a half ago in China and the current threat of trade sanctions. Reacting to American policy, an Asia-Pacific Association for Control of Tobacco has been formed and linked with the US Coalition Against Smoking. (Am J Public Health 1990;80:659-662.) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1990
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26. An Overview of Japanese Occupational Health.
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Reich, Michael R. and Frumkin, Howard
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JAPANESE people ,INDUSTRIAL hygiene ,INDUSTRIAL management ,WORK environment ,HEALTH ,HAZARDS ,HAZARD mitigation ,LABOR unions ,HEALTH policy - Abstract
Abstract: This paper provides an overview of Japanese occupational health and evaluates the current situation from three perspectives. Major occupational health hazards are assessed using four sources of data, showing patterns similar to those found in other advanced industrial societies. Institutional structures for occupational health policy are then examined, illustrating strengths and weaknesses of the Japanese legal and administrative systems. Trade union activities are presented, indicating the constraints of enterprise unions, and the tendency for a greater orientation toward compensation than prevention. Significant occupational health problems persist among marginal workers in Japan, including women and various minority groups. The analysis demonstrates a record for occupational health in Japan considerably more mixed than the conventional view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1988
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27. Health Advertising: Prevention for Profit.
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Freimuth, Vicki S., Hammond, Sharon L., and Stein, Judith A.
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HEALTH promotion ,ADVERTISING campaigns ,ADVERTISING ,HEALTH products ,HEALTH policy ,FOOD labeling laws ,CONSUMER behavior ,PRODUCT acceptance ,CEREAL products industry ,FOOD industry - Abstract
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) estimates on the basis of current knowledge alone that, at a minimum, 30,000 lives could be saved in the year 2000 if Americans would modify their dietary habits. A recent innovative way of responding to this challenge was the Kellogg Company/NCI All-Bran advertising campaign. This paper will describe the campaign, and its impact on consumers, cereal industry sales, food industry advertising practices, health regulatory policy, and the organizational credibility of both NCI and Kellogg. For the past three years, Kellogg has included NCI's cancer prevention messages in their advertisements for All-Bran cereal and on their bran cereal boxes. This collaborative effort has stimulated considerable controversy over whether the health claims made on the cereal label are in violation of federal food labeling regulations. Meanwhile, research has demonstrated the positive impact of the campaign on consumer's knowledge and behavior regarding fiber as well as on Kellogg's profits. Other manufacturers are anxious to jump on the "branwagon"; however, many unanswered questions remain about this new approach to health advertising. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1988
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28. A Case-Control Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Mass Neonatal BCG Vaccination among Canadian Indians.
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Young, T. Kue and Hershfield, Earl S.
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BCG vaccines ,TUBERCULOSIS vaccines ,TUBERCULOSIS prevention ,MYCOBACTERIAL diseases ,NEWBORN infants ,HEALTH policy ,DISEASE risk factors - Abstract
Abstract: This paper reports a case-control study to assess the protective effect of BCG (bacille Calmette-Guerin) vaccination among Indian infants in Manitoba, Canada. A record of past BCG vaccination was found in 49 per ¢ of the tuberculosis cases, compared to 77 per ¢ of the controls, yielding a relative risk of 0.30. Stratified analysis, controlling for age, increased the relative risk to 0.39 (95% confidence interval 0.22 - 0.69). The preventive fraction was 44 per ¢. Non-differential misclassification of exposure status could have occurred; if this was adjusted for, the relative risk would be reduced. If only bacteriologically confirmed cases were analyzed, the age-adjusted relative risk was 0.27. The protective effect of BCG vaccination in the newborn among Manitoba Indians is therefore at least 60 per ¢. The implications for health policy in this population are further discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1986
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29. The National Profile of Access to Medical Care: Where Do We Stand?
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Aday, Lu Ann and Andersen, Ronald M.
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MEDICAL care surveys ,MEDICAL care ,HEALTH policy ,PHYSICIANS ,URBAN health ,HEALTH insurance ,PUBLIC health research ,POPULATION research - Abstract
Abstract: This paper presents analyses of recent natioanl survey data on access to medical care. In particular, information on major access indicators and special problems associated with the economic and political climate of the 1980s collected in a 1982 national telephone survey of 6.610 United Scales adults and children, representing some 4.802 families, is compared with previous national stirrers for kef population subgroups--by age. place of residence, income, race, insurance coverage, and type of regular source of care In general, the findings show that favorable progress has been made, but some inequities continue to persist. Some traditionally disadvantaged groups are more likely to have a regular family doctor, private insurance coverage, have been to a doctor, or had certain preventive tests and procedures than was true for them in the past. On the other hand, compared to the more economically and/or socially advantaged groups in 1982, they have still not "caught up" entirely. There also is evidence that they may be hardest hit by the exacerbation of the financial barriers to care thai result from unemployment, inflation, and cutbacks in health program eligibility and benefits that have characterized the decade of the 1980s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1984
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30. Health Services, Health Manpower, and Universities in relation To Health for All: An Historical and Future Perspective.
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Bryant, John H.
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HEALTH policy ,MEDICAL care ,MEDICAL personnel ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges ,PUBLIC health ,GOVERNMENT policy ,HEALTH planning ,MEDICAL laws - Abstract
The World Health Organization's goal of Health for All by the Year 2000 (HFA) has become a major force in national and international health policies. This paper deals with some of the historical roots of HFA and describes ways in which the major components of the health sector--health services, manpower, and universities--have evolved and should evolve in the future if they are to support the idea of HFA. One conclusion is that the changes called for in relation to HFA are not simply incremental extensions of previous values, structures, and functions. Rather a radical break with the past is often required. To expect otherwise is to misunderstand how fundamentally the concepts of HFA differ from values that have governed the health sector in the past. A second conclusion is that recent decades have seen a remarkable progression of new ideas and changes in the health sector, so much so that the changes called for by HFA are not so improbable as one might otherwise think. (Am J Public Health 1984: 74:714-719.) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1984
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31. An Evaluation of Subsidized Rural Primary Care Programs: I. A typology of Practice Organizations.
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Sheps, Cecil G., Wagner, Edward H., Schonfeld, Warren H., DeFriese, Gordon H., Bachar, Miriam, Brooks, E. F., Gillings, Dennis B., Guild, Priscilla A., Konrad, T. Robert, McLaughlin, Curtis P., Ricketts, Thomas C., Seipp, Conrad, and Stein, Jane S.
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PRIMARY care ,RURAL health ,RURAL health services ,COMMUNITY health services ,HEALTH policy ,HEALTH promotion ,PUBLIC health ,MEDICAL care ,RURAL development projects - Abstract
The design of a comprehensive evaluation of subsidized rural primary care programs on a large national scale is described. Its major purpose is to derive data whose analysis will answer major policy questions about the factors influencing the outcome of the major types of such programs in different communities. This first paper also delineates a typology which was developed of five principal organizational forms of these programs. This classification appears to provide suitable operational definitions of forms of rural practice as a basis for evaluating the differential impact of alternative types of primary care programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1983
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32. Uses of Ecologic Analysis in Epidemiologic Research.
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Morgenstern, Hal
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PUBLIC health ,EPIDEMIOLOGY ,HEALTH planning ,HEALTH policy ,ETIOLOGY of diseases ,ENVIRONMENTALLY induced diseases ,HUMAN services ,PREVENTIVE medicine ,ENVIRONMENTAL responsibility - Abstract
Abstract: Despite the widespread use of ecologic analysis in epidemiologic research and health planning, little attention has been given by health scientists and practitioners to the methodological aspects of this approach. This paper reviews the major types of ecologic study designs, the analytic methods appropriate for each, the limitations of ecologic data for making causal inferences and what can be done to minimize these problems, and the relative advantages of ecologic analysis. Numerous examples are provided to illustrate the important principles and methods. A careful distinction is made between ecologic studies that generate or test etiologic hypotheses and those that evaluate the impact of intervention programs or policies (given adequate knowledge of disease etiology). Failure to recognize this difference in the conduct of ecologic studies can lead to results that are not very informative or that are misinterpreted by others. (Am J Public Health 1982: 72:1336-1344.) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1982
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33. Recombinant DNA Research: The Scope and Limits of Regulation.
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Krimsky, Sheldon and Ozonoff, David
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GENETIC engineering ,RECOMBINANT DNA ,HEALTH policy ,NUCLEIC acids ,PUBLIC health - Abstract
Abstract: The paper provides an overview of public policy issues pertaining to the use of gene-splicing (recombinant DNA [deoxyribonucleic acid]) techniques in research and for industrial applications. Included is a discussion of the regulatory framework at the federal and institutional levels. The principal limitation of the current federal guidelines is its failure to provide mandatory coverage for private sector activities. Four municipalities and two states have passed their own legislation to remedy the situation. These enactments and their tie-in to the public health sector are examined. (Am J Public Health 69:1252-1259, 1979.) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1979
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34. The State and Territorial Public Health Laboratory: Program Activities, Organization and Prospects for the Future.
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Schmidt, Robert M. and Madoff, Morton A.
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PUBLIC health laboratories ,MEDICAL laboratories ,PUBLIC health ,MEDICAL care ,HEALTH policy ,HEALTH planning ,LABORATORIES ,GUIDELINES - Abstract
During the past two years we have studied the characteristics of state and territorial public health laboratories in an attempt to develop guidelines for considering reorganization of laboratory services in Massachusetts. Only a few recent monographs have dealt with this topic and, to our knowledge, the functional and organizational characteristics of these laboratories have not been reviewed. The state public health laboratory system affords an excellent example of applied laboratory science or technology organized to provide basic public health services. In this paper the programs and organization of the state public health laboratory are reviewed, and a functional basis more responsive to society's current needs is suggested. INSET: Cheap Bubble Fountains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1977
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35. A Bayesian approach To Health Project Estimation.
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Chasse, John Dennis
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BAYESIAN analysis ,ESTIMATION theory ,MEDICAL care research ,TUBERCULOSIS ,MEDICAL records ,HEALTH policy ,PUBLIC health ,DECISION making - Abstract
This paper illustrates how a Bayesian statistical approach was used to estimate the outcomes of the National Tuberculosis Program in India. Such an estimate, it is argued, is necessary for a proper judgmere about a project's social usefulness. The process of medical care delivery is reduced to a set of conditioned probabilities. The numbers are estimated using as source material medical records, the results of medical research, and the opinion of experts. Bayesian methods of estimation are used and their value is discussed. The final discussion contains a brief treatment of the role of project analysis in public decision making. The place of Bayesian methods in project analysis is briefly illustrated, demonstrating their operational value in the field of public health decision making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1976
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36. Demographic Change in a Corporate Health Benefits Population, 1983-87.
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Kinter, Hallie J.
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MEDICAL care costs ,MEDICAL economics ,MEDICAL care ,MARRIED people ,PUBLIC health ,HEALTH ,HEALTH policy ,HUMAN services - Abstract
This paper describes changes in the population for which General Motors provides health benefits using data from domestic personnel records. Total population size grew from 2.01 million in 1983 to 2.14 million in 1987, twice as fast as the US populations. Dependents, particularly spouses, fueled the population growth. Trends suggest that nonworker eligibility for employer-provided health benefits may receive more attention in health care cost containment efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1989
37. Health Planning--A Method for Generating Program Objectives.
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Dolfman, Michael L.
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HEALTH planning ,HEALTH policy ,HEALTH promotion ,PREVENTIVE health services ,HEALTH education ,MEDICAL care ,HEALTH services administration ,PUBLIC health - Abstract
This paper endeavors to overcome one difficulty in health planning, namely, the transformation of general goals and ideas into operational objectives for programs. A method is developed to be used for generating such program objectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1973
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38. The Role of Areawide Comprehensive Health Planning in the Environment.
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Gorfain, Daniel
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HEALTH planning ,ENVIRONMENTAL health ,MEDICAL care ,ENVIRONMENTAL policy ,HEALTH policy ,PUBLIC health ,ENVIRONMENTALISM ,ENVIRONMENTAL engineering ,ENVIRONMENTAL protection - Abstract
This paper emphasizes the need to bring environmental health into the framework of comprehensive health planning. The author discusses how this can be done. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1972
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39. Data for Health Planning.
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Reeves, Philip N.
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NATIONAL health insurance laws ,HEALTH policy ,HEALTH planning ,PUBLIC health ,INFORMATION services - Abstract
The author of this paper argues that we need a national system for collection of health data which will meet the needs of planners, evaluators and investigators at local, state and federal levels and that national health insurance legislation should require the collection of these data as well as the facts needed for fiscal management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1972
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40. Changing State Laws Regulating Health Manpower.
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Mosow, Steven, Fifer, Ellen Z., and Guthman, Judith
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HEALTH planning ,WORKFORCE planning ,LABOR supply ,MEDICAL care ,MEDICAL laws ,HEALTH policy - Abstract
This paper deals with the political strategies employed by the Minnesota Comprehensive Health Planning Program to remove legal impediments to effective manpower planning, as well as the consequences. Conclusions as to alternative courses of action are stated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1973
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41. Decision analysis and polio immunization policy.
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Hinman AR, Koplan JP, Orenstein WA, and Brink EW
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- Child, Child, Preschool, Ethics, Professional, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Risk Factors, Social Values, United States, Decision Support Techniques, Health Policy, Poliomyelitis prevention & control, Poliovirus Vaccine, Oral
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Dr. Salk's comments on our paper fall into four major categories: our use of the techniques of decision analysis, the assumptions we used, the fact that we did not include individual and social values in the model, and the way in which vaccine policies are developed in the United States. We believe that the methods were used correctly, that the assumptions we used are defensible, and that our conclusions were both appropriate and appropriately worded. We explicitly did not include individual and social values since we were addressing the scientific and epidemiologic issues rather than ethical and moral issues. Vaccine policy development in the United States is carried out in public forums with opportunity for presentation of all sides of an issue.
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- 1988
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42. Winning Policy Change to Promote Community Health Workers: Lessons From Massachusetts in The Health Reform Era.
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Mason, Terry, Wilkinson, Geoffrey W., Nannini, Angela, Martin, Cindy Marti, Fox, Durrell J., and Hirsch, Gail
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HEALTH care reform ,CERTIFICATION laws ,COMMUNITY health workers ,INTERPROFESSIONAL relations ,LEADERSHIP ,LOBBYING ,OCCUPATIONAL achievement ,MEDICAL personnel ,HEALTH policy ,PROFESSIONAL associations ,WAGES ,EMPLOYEE retention ,COMMUNITY support ,EDUCATION - Abstract
There is a national movement among community health workers (CHWs) to improve compensation, working conditions, and recognition for the workforce through organizing for policy change. As some of the key advocates involved, we describe the development in Massachusetts of an authentic collaboration between strong CHW leaders of a growing statewide CHW association and their public health allies. Collaborators worked toward CHW workforce and public health objectives through alliance building and organizing, legislative advocacy, and education in the context of opportunities afforded by health care reform. This narrative of the path to policy achievements can inform other collaborative efforts attempting to promote a policy agenda for the CHW workforce across the nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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43. Promoting Health in American-Occupied Japan.
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Nishimura, Sey
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PUBLIC health administration ,HEALTH policy ,JAPANESE people ,JAPAN-United States relations ,ALLIED occupation of Japan, 1945-1952 ,ETHICS ,GOVERNMENT policy ,SOCIAL history - Abstract
As soon as the authority of the Public Health and Welfare Section (PHW) of the Supreme Commander for Allied Powers waned in May 1951. the Japanese government overturned several measures it had implemented. Although the PHW contributed greatly toward improving public health conditions, not all of Its activities were models of cooperative success. Many Japanese perceived some measures — terminated pensions for wounded Japanese veterans, lack of support for segregated orphanages for mixed-race children, and suppression of Japanese atomic bomb medical reports — as promoting US national interest at the expense of Japanese public health needs. Similarly, the PHW's upgrade of nursing education and separation of the professions of medicine and pharmacy were reversed because neither professionals nor the public saw these measures as urgent. Their reinstitution toward the end of the twentieth century suggests that the progressive measures were sound, but broke too sharply with Japanese tradition and were enforced prematurely. (Am J Public Health. 2009; 99:1364-1375. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2008.150532) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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44. Policy Statements Adopted by the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association, November 15, 2000.
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LISTS ,HEALTH policy ,MIDWIFERY ,INTERNET in medicine - Abstract
A list of the policy statements adopted by the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association on November 15, 2000 is presented. It includes Supporting Access to Midwifery Services in the U.S., Effective Interventions for Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health, Public Health Role of the National fire Protection Association in Setting Codes and Standards for the Built Environment, the Need for Continued and Strengthened Support for Immunization Programs, and the Criteria for Assessing the Quality of Health Information on the Internet.
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- 2001
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45. Economic Organization of Medicine and the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care.
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Perkins, Barbara Bridgman
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MEDICAL care costs ,HEALTH care reform ,HEALTH policy ,MEDICAL care ,MEDICINE - Abstract
Recent strategies in managed care and managed competition illustrate how health care reforms may reproduce the patterns of economic organization of their times. Such a reform approach is not a new development in the United States. The work of the 1927-1932 Committee on the Costs of medical Care examplifies an earlier effort that applied forms of economic organization to medical care. The committee tried to restructure medicine along lines consistent with its economic environment while attributing its models variously to science, profession, and business. Like current approaches, the committee's reports defined costs as the major problem and business models of organization as the major solution. The reports recommended expanded financial management and group medicine, which would include growth in self-supporting middle-class services such as fee clinics and middle-rate hospital units. Identifying these elements as corporate practice of medicine, the American Medical Association-based minority dissented from the final report in favor of conserving individual entrepreneurial practice. This continuum in forms of economic organization has limited structural reform strategies in medicine for the remainder of the century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1998
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46. From public health science to prevention policy: Placing science in its social and political contexts.
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Atwood, Katherine, Colditz, Graham A., and Kawachi, Ichiro
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PUBLIC health , *MEDICAL care , *HEALTH policy , *PREVENTIVE medicine , *HEALTH planning - Abstract
The article comments on the public health promotion policy in the U.S. proposed by J. B. Richmond and M. Kotelchuck in their paper titled "Coordination and Development of Strategies and Policy for Public Health Promotion in the United States," that was published in the book "Oxford Textbook of Public Health." According to the authors, the health policy model devised by Richmond and Kotelchuck posits that there are three necessary ingredients that make preventive action happen, namely, the knowledge base; the political will to support change; and a social strategy to accomplish change.
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- 1997
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47. Will Uninsured People Volunteer for Voluntary Health Insurance? Experience from Washington State.
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Diehr, Paula, Madden, Carolyn W., Cheadle, Allen, Martin, Diane P., Patrick, Donald L., and Skillman, Susan
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HEALTH care reform ,HEALTH policy ,NATIONAL health insurance ,HEALTH insurance ,MEDICALLY uninsured persons - Abstract
Objectives. In national and local discussions of health care reform, there is disagreement about whether a national health insurance plan should he mandatory or voluntary. This study describes characteristics of low-income people who were more likely or less likely to be covered by a voluntary plan. Methods. Survey data were available from an evaluation of Washington State's Basic Health Plan, which offered subsidized health insurance to low-income residents. For those subjects who were eligible and uninsured at baseline, those who joined were compared with those who did not join on a variety of demographic and health-related characteristics. Results. There were substantial differences between those who did and did not join the Basic Health Plan. Those who did not enroll were generally less well-off, with less education, lower income, and worse health. Many had never had health insurance. Conclusions. If health care reform results in a voluntary plan, additional measures may be needed to ensure that less advantaged citizens have adequate access to health care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1996
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48. Apartheid and the Causes of Death: Disentangling Ideology and Laws from Class and Race.
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Susser, Mervyn
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PUBLIC health ,APARTHEID ,HEALTH policy - Abstract
The article reports on the apartheid and the health pattern differences between South Africa and the United States. The Nationalist Party made apartheid as government policy in year 1948. It gave Blacks the chance to share economic power in finance and industry with English-speaking Whites but excluding them from political power, economic power, and landownership. Whites usually die of developed world diseases while Blacks die of Third World diseases.
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- 1983
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49. Emergence of the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association, 1926-1948.
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Viseltear, Arthur J.
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MEDICAL care ,PUBLIC health ,COMMUNITY health services ,HUMAN services ,HEALTH policy ,PREVENTIVE medicine ,HEALTH promotion - Abstract
The article offers information on the challenges faced by the American Public Health Association on the development of the association's Medical Care Section in the U.S. On November 10, 1948, the American Public Health Association's Governing Council voted to approve the petition requesting the establishment of a Medical Care Section. In 1972, the association expanded their health services because of the changes on their needs and demands. In 1920, the association created a committee to study the municipal health departments and determine the extent of variation on the health services and procedures offered in a specific community.
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- 1973
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50. The Neighborhood Health Center Foundation for Health Care: A Portend for the Future or a Necessity for Survival?
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Chapman, Larry S.
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COMMUNITY health services ,MEDICAL care ,PUBLIC health ,COMMUNITY support ,MEDICAL centers ,HEALTH funding ,HEALTH care reform ,HEALTH policy - Abstract
The article focuses on the development of neighborhood health center approach to health care delivery in the U.S. The neighborhood health centers have proliferated under a variety of federal grant-in-aid programs and private sources of support. It was mentioned that neighborhood health center approach demands an increasing emphasis on cost-effective management of neighborhood health centers and increased revenue generation activities. In addition, changes in federal health service funding policies have necessitated a reevaluation of sources of future support for neighborhood health centers.
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- 1973
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