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Gerald N. Grob, 1931-2015
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - August 8, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Mechanic, D., Marsh, M., Horwitz, A. V. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy In Memoriam Source Type: research

Bringing the Social Sciences to Health Policy: An Appreciation of David Mechanic
David Mechanic has been a pioneering leader in the social and behavioral sciences of health, health services, and health and mental health policy for more than fifty years. One of David's most distinctive qualities has been his vision in identifying trends and defining new research areas and perspectives in health care policy. His early work on how methods of physician payment by capitation and fee-for-service in England and the United States affected physicians' responses to patients and patient care addressed present challenges and many ongoing studies of payment mechanisms. His papers on rationing of health care establi...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - August 8, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Boyer, C. A., Gray, B. H. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Introduction Source Type: research

Democratic Governance and Health: Hospitals, Politics, and Health in New Zealand
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - May 15, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Byers, V. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Books Source Type: research

JHPPL at Forty
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - May 15, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Grogan, C. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Retrospective Source Type: research

Does Anything Work to Reduce Obesity? (Yes, Modestly)
A large number and range of policies to address the obesity epidemic have been implemented. However, the prevalence of obesity has continued to rise, or at best has leveled off, and many individual interventions have had disappointing results. This has led some people to question whether anything works to prevent or reduce obesity. In this essay I review the evidence on the effectiveness of antiobesity programs. Although some programs have had negligible effects, others have had small beneficial effects on diet, physical activity, and weight. Nutrition labels on packaged foods and calorie labels on menus have led to health...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - May 15, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Cawley, J. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Point-Counterpoint Source Type: research

Legislating Weight Loss: Are Antiobesity Public Health Policies Making an Impact?
Obesity affects America's children both in childhood and into their adult years. Unfortunately, a long history of public policy has done little to effectively reduce obesity among children. Federal programs including the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, and the School Meals Initiative for Healthy Children have proven to be less than effective in reducing obesity rates among school-aged children. Studies find that children participating in these programs are more likely to be overweight than their brown-bag peers while nutritional targets are missed. Various iterations of school-based nutrition progr...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - May 15, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Essington, M., Hertelendy, A. J. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Point-Counterpoint Source Type: research

The Problem of Obesity
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - May 15, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Pollack, H. A. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Point-Counterpoint Source Type: research

Implementing Intellectual Property of Pharmaceuticals in Middle-Income Countries: A Case Study of Patent Regulation in Brazil
The protection of pharmaceutical intellectual property (IP) rights is one of the most controversial debates in contemporary public health as countries have to balance incentives for drug development with the necessity of providing life-saving drugs. Compliance with IP protections is mandatory for members of the World Trade Organization (WTO). However, because of the costs associated with IP implementation we should expect late and/or poor implementation in middle-income countries. Surprisingly, this was not the case in Brazil. The country not only just fully implemented the WTO's requirement but declined the grace period g...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - May 15, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: da Fonseca, E. M., Bastos, F. I. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Articles Source Type: research

A Tale of Many Cities: A Contemporary Historical Study of the Implementation of School Closures during the 2009 pA(H1N1) Influenza Pandemic
Applying qualitative historical methods, we examined the consideration and implementation of school closures as a nonpharmaceutical intervention (NPI) in thirty US cities during the spring 2009 wave of the pA(H1N1) influenza pandemic. We gathered and performed close textual readings of official federal, state, and municipal government documents; media coverage; and academic publications. Lastly, we conducted oral history interviews with public health and education officials in our selected cities. We found that several local health departments pursued school closure plans independent of CDC guidance, that uncertainty of ac...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - May 15, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Navarro, J. A., Kohl, K. S., Cetron, M. S., Markel, H. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Articles Source Type: research

Path Dependency and the Politics of Socialized Health Care
Rich democracies exhibit vast cross-national and historical variation in the socialization of health care. Yet, cross-national analyses remain relatively rare in the health policy literature, and health care remains relatively neglected in the welfare state literature. We analyze pooled time series models of the public share of total health spending for eighteen rich democracies from 1960 to 2010. Building on path dependency theory, we present a strategy for modeling the relationship between the initial 1960 public share and the current public share. We also examine two contrasting accounts for how the 1960 public share in...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - May 15, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Brady, D., Marquardt, S., Gauchat, G., Reynolds, M. M. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Articles Source Type: research

Boutique to Booming: Medicare Managed Care and the Private Path to Policy Change
This article investigates the policy features that made Medicare susceptible to this dramatic policy shift, as well as the processes by which the initial policy change remade the politics of Medicare and solidified the MA program. The first enrollment surge occurred in the absence of a proximate legislative or administrative change. Instead, increased spending and expanded benefits were the result of the interaction of new market dynamics with an existing legislative framework—demonstrating an expansionary form of policy drift. The 1982 Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act created a policy space that gave the new...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - May 15, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Kelly, A. S. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Articles Source Type: research

Editor's Note
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - May 15, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Grogan, C. M. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Editor ' s Note Source Type: research

America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System * Overcoming Obamacare: Three Approaches to Reversing the Government Takeover of Health Care
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Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - April 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Davidson, S. M. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Books Source Type: research

Iowa Wavering on Medicaid: From Expansion to Modernization
This article highlights the local factors driving expansion, the interplay of the state and federal political landscape, the challenges of providing consumer choice within Iowa's marketplace, and the future of Iowa's Medicaid program under managed care. (Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law)
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - April 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Wright, B., Potter, A. J., Nattinger, M. C. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Report from the States Source Type: research

Business Associations, Conservative Networks, and the Ongoing Republican War over Medicaid Expansion
A major component of the Affordable Care Act involves the expansion of state Medicaid programs to cover the uninsured poor. In the wake of the 2012 Supreme Court decision upholding and modifying reform legislation, states can decide whether to expand Medicaid—and twenty states are still not proceeding as of August 2015. What explains state choices about participation in expansion, including governors' decisions to endorse expansion or not as well as final state decisions? We tackle this puzzle, focusing closely on outcomes and battles in predominantly Republican-led states. Like earlier scholars, we find that partisa...
Source: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - April 18, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Hertel-Fernandez, A., Skocpol, T., Lynch, D. Tags: Health Policy & Education, Political Science, General, Public Policy Report on Health Reform Implementation Source Type: research