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| 981 - 990 of 1000 Most Recent Health Policy Books, Journals and Periodicals |
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 | An "Epidemic" of Adolescent Pregnancy?: Some Historical and Policy Considerations
by Maris A. Vinovskis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: Thursday, December 31, 1987
Description: In classrooms and in living rooms, in research institutions and on Capitol Hill, teenage pregnancy is one of the most controversial public issues of our day. Yet after all the investigation and government effort, what is really known about the problem of adolescent pregnancy and how to deal
with it?...more
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 | Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-1985 (Studies in Environment and History)
by Samuel P. Hays
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: Saturday, August 01, 1987
Description: Bringing together a wide range of environmental issues that have been debated since the mid-1950s, this book views these issues as a result of changes in values in American society since World War II. The author explores such substantive issues as pollution, natural lands, chemical carcinogens, and population-resources balances....more
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 | The Foundations of Justice: Why the Retarded and the Rest of Us Have Claims to Equality
by Robert M. Veatch
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: Saturday, November 01, 1986
Description: As medical and social services become increasingly expensive, the demands of those with severe and uncorrectable handicaps pose an urgent social problem. The immediate question--how finite resources should be allocated, particularly to people with inexhaustible needs and meager capacities for
improvement--can only be answered by thoroughly examining current concepts of...more
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 | Science in the Federal Government: A History of Policies and Activities
by A. Hunter Dupree
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Date: Friday, August 01, 1986
Description: From the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to the onset of World War II, Dupree shows how federal involvement in science centered on key national interests--geographical exploration and expansion, agriculture and conservation, medicine, public health, industry and the military. Dupree examines the roles and impact that individuals and institutions such as...more
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 | A Sourcebook on Child Sexual Abuse
by David Finkelhor
Publisher: Sage Publications
Publication Date: Thursday, May 01, 1986
Description: This decade review of scientific knowledge about the problem of child sexual abuse integrates as much of the current interdisciplinary literature as possible, both unpublished and recently published, with the older literature. The authors consider five main topics--prevalence of sexual abuse, children at high risk, offenders, effects, and prevention. The...more
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 | The "Discovery" of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Lessons in the Practice of Political Medicine
by Abraham B. Bergman
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Publication Date: Friday, February 21, 1986
Description: "Historically neither the health care system nor the government knew or wanted to know about SIDS. Bergman, who has worked with parents and with a small number of professionals, was president of the National SIDS Foundation (1972-77), got SIDS research into federal programs, and provided help for bereaved parents--counselling rather...more
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 | Just Health Care (Studies in Philosophy and Health Policy)
by Norman Daniels
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: Friday, September 27, 1985
Description: How should medical services be distributed within society? Who should pay for them? Is it right that large amounts should be spent on sophisticated new technology and expensive operations, or would the resources be better employed in, for instance, less costly preventive measures? These and others are the questions addreses...more
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 | U.S. National Health Policy: An Analysis of the Federal Role
by Jennie J. Kronenfeld, Marcia Lynn Whicker
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Publication Date: Sunday, July 15, 1984
Description: This detailed study analyzes the U.S. health care system with special emphasis placed on examining the Federal role in establishing health policy and how the diverse pieces of the system come ...more
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 | The Disabled State (Health Society And Policy)
by Deborah Stone
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication Date: Sunday, January 01, 1984
Description: This is a book about the defining assumptions and assumed definition of the welfare state. It is a work that pulls apart social categories like "disability" or "need" and shows how they function politically and where they come from historically. For many years, the welfare state was expanding....more
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 | Health Policy and the Bureaucracy: Politics and Implementation (American Politics and Public Policy)
by Frank J. Thompson
Publisher: The MIT Press
Publication Date: Thursday, March 10, 1983
Description: Contents: Health as a Political Problem; Health Care Institutions: From Expansion to the Quest for Economy and Efficiency; Man-power Policy and Shortage Areas: The National Health Service Corps Evolves; Medicaid: A Commercial Market Strategy for the Poor; Medicare: The Perils of Payment with a Commercial Market Strategy; When Government Delivers...more
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