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Author Patel, Kant, 1946- author.

Title The politics of public health in the United States / Kant Patel and Mark E. Rushefsky ; with a foreword by Deborah R. McFarlane
Published Oxfordshire [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2015
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Figures and Tables; Foreword; Preface; Acronyms; 1. The Politics of Public Health in the United States; Accomplishments of the Public Health System; Shortcomings of the Public Health System; History of Public Health Policy in the United States; The Colonial Period: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; The Nineteenth Century; The Twentieth Century; The Organization of the U.S. Public Health Service; The National Government; State Governments; Local Governments; Politics and Public Health; Organization of the Book; Note
Study Questions2. Leadership, Politics, and Public Health; Leadership and Public Health; Public Health Leadership at the National Level; The Surgeon General; Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration; Director of the National Institutes of Health; Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Public Health Leadership at State and Local Levels; Leadership and Professional Public Health Organizations; The American Public Health Association; The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials; The National Association of County and City Health Officials
The National Association of Local Boards of HealthThe Public Health Foundation; The Association of Schools of Public Health; The Society for Public Health Education; The American Association of Public Health Physicians; The Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine; The American College of Preventive Medicine; The American Association of Public Health Dentistry; Leadership, Politics, and Public Health; Study Questions; 3. The Politics of Public Health and Private Medicine; Differences Between Public Health and Private Medicine
History of the Relationship Between Medicine and Public HealthThe Nineteenth Century: Period of Ambivalence and Accommodation; The Twentieth Century; The 1990s and Beyond: Inching Toward Cooperation and Collaboration; The Politics of Public Health and Private Medicine; Study Questions; 4. The Politics of Public Health and Law; Legal Foundations of Public Health Practice; Shortcomings of Current Public Health Laws; Public Health Law Reform Movement; Law as a Tool to Protect the Public's Health; Land Use Planning, Zoning, and Public Health Law; Drug Abuse and Public Health Law
Tobacco Use and Public Health LawViolence, Firearms, and Public Health Law; Tort Litigation as a Public Health Strategy; Tobacco Litigation; Firearms Litigation; The Politics of Public Health and Law; Study Questions; 5. The Politics of Science and Public Health; Science and Public Health Research; The Evolution of Public Health Research; Role of Science in the Formulation of Public Health Policies; Evaluation of Public Health Policies; Politics, Science, and Public Health Politics; Scientific Evidence and Realities of Politics; Contradictory and Inconclusive Scientific Evidence
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Public health -- United States.
Public health -- Political aspects -- United States
Medical policy -- United States
Medical policy
Public health
Public health -- Political aspects
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Rushefsky, Mark E., 1945- author
McFarlane, Deborah R., author of introduction, etc
ISBN 9781315699240
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0765611368
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