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From the Editor

The State Of Public Health John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Infrastructure

PROLOGUE: Public Health Infrastructure And Capacity [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Public Health Enterprise: Examining Our Twenty-First-Century Policy Challenges Hugh Tilson and Bobbie Berkowitz [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Public Health At Center Stage: New Roles, Old Props Leslie M. Beitsch, Robert G. Brooks, Nir Menachemi, and Patrick M. Libbey [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Public Health Workforce, 2006: New Challenges Kristine M. Gebbie and Bernard J. Turnock [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Preparedness

PROLOGUE: Public Health Preparedness [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Public Health Preparedness: Evolution Or Revolution? Nicole Lurie, Jeffrey Wasserman, and Christopher D. Nelson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Preparing For The Unknown, Responding To The Known: Communities And Public Health Preparedness Aaron Katz, Andrea B. Staiti, and Kelly L. McKenzie [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Challenge Of Mandatory Evacuation: Providing For And Deciding For Amy L. Fairchild, James Colgrove, and Marian Moser Jones [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Evidence & Information

PROLOGUE: Evidence And Information In Public Health [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Promoting Evidence-Based Public Health Policy: Can We Have Better Evidence And More Action? Jonathan E. Fielding and Peter A. Briss [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Using Local Health Information To Promote Public Health Jeff Luck, Carol Chang, E. Richard Brown, and John Lumpkin [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Exhibit 1] [Reprints & Permissions]

Prevention

Arkansas Fights Fat: Translating Research Into Policy To Combat Childhood And Adolescent Obesity Kevin W. Ryan, Paula Card-Higginson, Suzanne G. McCarthy, Michelle B. Justus, and Joseph W. Thompson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: A Vision For A Healthier America: What The States Can Do Mike Huckabee [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: The Prevention Challenge And Opportunity David Satcher [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Putting Prevention In Its Place: The Shift From Clinic To Community Douglas Shenson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Partnerships

PROLOGUE: Public Health Partnerships And Reform [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Case For Transforming Governmental Public Health Eileen Salinsky and Elin A. Gursky [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Public Health And Business: A Partnership That Makes Cents Paul A. Simon and Jonathan E. Fielding [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Putting The Public In Public Health: New Approaches Georges C. Benjamin [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Commentary

Can Public Health And Medicine Partner In The Public Interest? J. Michael McGinnis [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

What Does Social Justice Require For The Public’s Health? Public Health Ethics And Policy Imperatives Lawrence O. Gostin and Madison Powers [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

MARKETWATCH: The Impact Of Globalization On Vaccine Development And Availability Julie B. Milstien, Miloud Kaddar, and Marie Paule Kieny [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: How Much More Cost Sharing Will Health Savings Accounts Bring? Dahlia K. Remler and Sherry A. Glied [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKET WATCH: It Ain’t Necessarily So: The Electronic Health Record And The Unlikely Prospect Of Reducing Health Care Costs Jaan Sidorov [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Do Mandates Requiring Insurers To Pay For Emergency Care Influence The Use Of The Emergency Department? Renee Y. Hsia, Jia Chan, and Laurence C. Baker [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: The Rise And Fall Of Natrecor For Congestive Heart Failure: Implications For Drug Policy Aaron S. Kesselheim, Michael A. Fischer, and Jerry Avorn [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: Fact, Fiction, And Fairness: Resource Allocation Under The Ryan White CARE Act Erika G. Martin, Harold A. Pollack, and A. David Paltiel [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: The Personal Assistance Workforce: Trends In Supply And Demand H. Stephen Kaye, Susan Chapman, Robert J. Newcomer, and Charlene Harrington [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Going Blind On Our Watch Toni Martin [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

HIPAA, TB, And Me Irene M. Wielawski [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

Comparing Health And Health Care Use In Canada And The United States Claudia Sanmartin, Jean-Marie Berthelot, Edward Ng, Kellie Murphy, Debra L. Blackwell, Jane F. Gentleman, Michael E. Martinez, and Catherine M. Simile [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Influence Of The Labor Market On German Health Care Reforms Stephanie Stock, Marcus Redaelli, and Karl Wilhelm Lauterbach [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Does Medicare Coverage Of Colonoscopy Reduce Racial/Ethnic Disparities In Cancer Screening Among the Elderly? Ya-Chen Tina Shih, Lirong Zhao, and Linda S. Elting [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

GRANTWATCH: REPORT: Can We Trust Population Surveys To Count Medicaid Enrollees And The Uninsured? Jennifer Kincheloe, E. Richard Brown, Janice Frates, Kathleen Thiede Call, Wei Yen, and Jim Watkins [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GRANTWATCH: REPORT: Foundations’ Roles In Transforming The Mental Health Care System Lauren LeRoy, Margaret Heldring, and Elise Desjardins [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch: Outcomes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [GrantWatch Online 31 July][GrantWatch Online 16 August][GrantWatch Online 31 August] [Reprints & Permissions]

UpDate

Publications & Reports [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

BOOK REVIEWS: Rediscovery Of The ‘Public’ In Public Health David Mechanic [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Triumph And Tragedy Scott Barrett [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Consumerism And Payment Reform: Seeking To Create A More Perfect Union Peter V. Lee [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Vouchers For FDA Priority Reviews Ian D. Spatz [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Vouchers: The Authors Respond David B. Ridley [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Drugs Down Under Michael J. Wonder and Debbie Wyber [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Drugs Down Under: The Authors Respond Steve Morgan [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Chile And Physician Migration Victor Zarate, Jorge Jimenez, and Gabriel Bastias [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Chile: The Author Responds Fitzhugh Mullan [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Postapproval Drug Safety Ivo L. Abraham and Karen M. MacDonald [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Postapproval Drug Safety: The Authors Respond David B. Ridley and Judith M. Kramer [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

What’s Time Got To Do With It? Joseph A. DiMasi [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Time: The Authors Respond Salomeh Keyhani [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Read And Decide Timothy P. Love [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Come Look At Lafayette Edgar L. Feinberg, II [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Web Exclusives

INTERVIEW: Science For Life: A Conversation With Nobel Laureate David Baltimore Barbara J. Culliton (published online 16 May 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

INTERVIEW: Dealing With Innovation And Costs In Orthopedics: A Conversation With Dane Miller Lawton R. Burns (published online 18 May 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: A First Look At The New Medicare Prescription Drug Plans Austin B. Frakt and Steven D. Pizer (published online 23 May 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Emerging Lessons From The Drug Effectiveness Review Project Peter J. Neumann (published online 6 June 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: The Drug Effectiveness Review Project: An Important Step Forward Mark Gibson and John Santa (published online 6 June 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: The DERP: Is It An Effective Methodology? Alan H. Heaton (published online 6 June 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Evidence-Based Coverage Decisions? Primum Non Nocere Newell E. McElwee, S. Yin Ho, Kimberly A. McGuigan, and Mark L. Horn (published online 6 June 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Bringing The DERP To Consumers: ‘Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs’ Steven D. Findlay (published online 6 June 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

How Nonprofits Matter In American Medicine, And What To Do About It Mark Schlesinger and Bradford H. Gray (published online 20 June 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Technical Appendix][Table of Contents][Erratum] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Tax Preferences For Nonprofits: From Per Se Exemption To Pay-For-Performance M. Gregg Bloche (published online 20 June 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Nonprofit Ownership, Private Property, And Public Accountability Jill Horwitz (published online 20 June 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Subsidizing Health Care Providers Through The Tax Code: Status Or Conduct? David A. Hyman and William M. Sage (published online 20 June 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Hospitals’ Responses To Nurse Staffing Shortages Jessica H. May, Gloria J. Bazzoli, and Anneliese M. Gerland (published online 26 June 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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