World Medical & Health Policy
- Canadian policy changes for alcohol‐based hand rubs during the COVID‐19 pandemic and unintended risks
- COVID‐19 Shelter‐at‐Home Orders: Impacts and Policy Responses in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence
- Leader gender, country culture, and the management of COVID‐19
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- Sexual Assault in the U.S. Military: Trends and Responses
- David Courtwright, Herman Joseph , and Don Des Jarlais. 2012. Addicts Who Survived: An Oral History of Narcotic Use in America before 1965. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. $24.99. Paper. pp. 416. ISBN‐10: 1572339373.
- Malignant: How bad policy and bad evidence harm people with cancer Vinayak Prasad Baltimore, Maryland: John Hopkins University Press, 2020. $32.00. pp. 246. Hardcover. ISBN: 97814214376441421437643.
- Nicholas Freudenberg. Lethal But Legal: Corporations, Consumption and Protecting Public Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. $29.95. pp. 324. Hardback. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐993719‐6.
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- Chigudu, Simukai . The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis, and Citizenship in Zimbabwe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. $99.99. pp. 346. Hardback. ISBN 9781108773928.
- Information Sharing and Community Resilience: Toward a Whole Community Approach to Surveillance and Combatting the “Infodemic”
- Trauma‐Informed Educational Yoga Program for Teens as an Addiction Prevention Tool
- In Memoriam: David G. C. McCann, M.D., MPH, FAASFP, FAADM (September 29, 1960 ‐ August 7, 2011)
- I Refuse for the Devil to Take My Soul: Inside Cook County Jail Lili Kobielski by powerHouse Book, 2018. 152 pages, ISBN13: 9781576878880
- Rwanda's Potential to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals for Health
- Attributes of funding flows and quality of maternal health services in a mixed provider payment system: A cross‐sectional survey of 108 healthcare providers in Indonesia
- Creeping Punji Sticks: A Review of Six‐Legged Soldiers
- Improving WMHP Journal Manuscripts
- An Evaluation Tool for National‐Level Pandemic Influenza Planning
- In the News
- Factors Influencing Basic and Complementary Health Insurance Purchasing Decisions in Iran: Analysis of Data From a National Survey
- Review of L.H. Kahn's Who's In Charge? Leadership during Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises
- A discussion of critical errors in a longitudinal study on the deterrent effect of drug‐induced homicide laws on opioid‐related mortality across 92 counties and the District of Columbia in the United States
- Robbery in the illegal drugs trade: Violence and vengeance Robert McLean and James A. Densley Bristol University Press, 2022, pp. 129. ISBN: 978‐1‐5292‐2391‐0
- The Use of U.S. Academic Institutions in Community Medical Disaster Recovery
- A Design Thinking Mindset Beyond the Public Health Model
- Challenges and Opportunities Implementing the WHO Global Strategy on Alcohol
- The Geography of Life and Death: Evidence and Values in the Evolution of U.S. Liver Transplant Rules
- Social Media Engagement With Cancer Awareness Campaigns Declined During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
- Health Disparities, Social Determinants of Health, and Health Insurance
- Scope and Limitations of Municipal Health Councils: A Case Study
- The Impossible Dream? Codes of Practice and the International Migration of Skilled Health Workers
- Culture, Freedom, and the Spread of Covid‐19: Do Some Societies and Political Systems Have National Anti‐Bodies?
- State Mandate Influences on FEMA‐Approved Hazard‐Mitigation Plans Under the Disaster Management Act of 2000
- Examining the effects of the Medicaid expansion on health outcomes
- Review of Tabloid Medicine: How the Internet is Being Used to Hijack Medical Science for Fear and Profit
- Moderating the Impact of Nurse Emigration on the Health Sector: The State and Policy Instrument Choice
- The relationship between state Medicaid and CHIP options and child health outcomes
- Comparison of Availability and Accessibility of Oral Oncology Products between Medicare, Commercial U.S., and U.K. National Health Service (NHS) Patient Populations
- In the News
- HIV: The Hidden Face of Human Trafficking
- Education Pathways in Public Health
- Towards age‐friendly municipalities: What are municipalities doing to support their ageing population with mental health problems?
- Elevated Rates of Violence Victimization and Suicide Attempt Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Patients in an Urban, Safety Net Health System
- Health Concerns and Access to Services: Female Sex Workers’ Experiences in Mumbai, India
- Using Ebola as a Lens to Examine Medical Waste Sterilization
- In Memoriam: Kevin Allen Mack, MD
- Fourth and a Mile: Using Theater in Comparison to Workshop/Lecture as an Approach to Educating African American Men About Prostate Cancer
- Getting There: Overcoming Barriers to Reproductive and Maternal Health Services Access in Northern Togo—A Qualitative Study
- Review of Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights
- Emerging themes and factors influencing the prices of biotherapeutics
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- Hepatitis C Risk and Protective Factors Associated With Drug Policies in the Republic of Georgia
- Mario Luis Small. Someone To Talk To. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. $23.99. pp. 274. Hardcover. ISBN 9780190661427.
- Medical Humanities Role in Medical Education
- The Context for Government Regulation of Obesity Around the Globe: Implications for Global Policy Action
- Recommendations for Sustainable Midwifery in Guatemala
- Mark A. R. Kleiman, Jonathan P. Caulkins, and Angela Hawken. 2011. Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York: Oxford University Press. $16.95. Softcover. ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐976450‐1
- Review of Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Reform
- Assessing the implementation of India's new health reform program, Ayushman Bharat, in two Southern states: Kerala and Tamil Nadu
- Modeling Urban Atmospheric Anthrax Spores Dispersion: Assessment of Health Impacts and Policy Implications
- Interventions for adapting health care providers to new situations in the workplace during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A scoping review for developing a policy brief
- The association between media exposure and enrollment in health insurance in Nepal: Implications for health policy
- W. A Bogart. 2013. Regulating Obesity? Government, Society, and Questions of Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press. $85. pp. 224. Hardback. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐985620‐6.
- A Canary in a COVID Coal Mine: Building Better Healthcare Biopreparedness Policy
- The COVID‐19 pandemic: Stay Home policy and exposure to risks of infection among Nigerians
- Shaken brain: The science, care, and treatment of concussion Elisabeth Sandel Harvard University Press, 2020. pp. 368. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780674987418.
- Peter Gluckman, Mark Hanson, Chong Yap Seng, and Anne Bardsley. Nutrition and Lifestyle for Pregnancy and Breastfeeding. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015. $52.50. pp. 432. Paperback. ISBN 9780198722700.
- Stem Cells, Cloning, and Political Liberalism
- The Digital Health Divide: A New Threat to Health Care Quality and Cost?
- DOD and NGOs in Haiti ‐ A Successful Partnership
- The Role of Technology in Translational Science
- Public Health Policy Options for Improving Well‐Water Quality in West Point, Liberia
- Access to Care versus Access to Coverage: What Can We Learn from the Louisiana State Hospital Model?
- Stringency and timeliness of COVID‐19 policies in managing the pandemic in Queensland: Lessons from 2020
- Inequalities in hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in New York City before and after the affordable care act
- Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccines and Diagnoses of Autism Spectrum Disorders among Children: A Meta‐Analysis
- Integrating Spatial Analysis into Policy Formulation: A Case Study Examining Traffic Exposure and Asthma
- Poverty, Disparities, Disasters and Global Burden of Disease
- Lactating Women's Perception of the Free Health Care Initiative in Rural Sierra Leone
- Katharine M. Broton , Clare L. Cady . Food Insecurity on Campus: Action and Intervention. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. $39.95. pp. 312. ISBN 9781421437729.
- Assessing the Potential Role of Indian Homeopathic Practitioners in HIV Education and Prevention
- Mark Lawrence Schrad. 2014. Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State. Oxford: Oxford University Press. $35.00. pp 492. Hardback. ISBN: 978‐0‐199‐7559‐2
- Illicit and Prescription Drug Use Pandemic Calls for Global Health Policy Actions
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- Saru Jayaraman. Forked: A New Standard for American Dining. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. $24.95. pp. 235. Hardback. ISBN 97099380473.
- The Rapidly Increasing Number of Emergency Global Food Crises and the Implications for the International Community
- When talk is not cheap: What factors predict political campaign messaging on social determinants of health issues?
- Community Handwashing Guide: Utilizing Available Resources to Initiate a Handwashing Intervention
- Review of Cost Containment and Efficiency in National Health Systems: A Global Comparison
- Mobilizing a Culture of Health in the Era of Smart Transportation and Automation
- Health, Homelessness, and Poverty: A Way Forward
- Testing Drugs Together With Those Who Need Them
- Timothy Faust. Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next. Brooklyn: Melville House Publishing, 2019. $13.59. Paperback. 245. ISBN 978‐1‐61219‐716‐6.
- Hospital Accreditation: A Solution for Iranian Challenges or a Challenge for the Hospitals?
- Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta. 2011. Health and Cultural Values: Female Circumcision within the Context of HIV/AIDS in Cameroon. Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, $49.90. pp. 240. Hardback. ISBN‐10:1443826421.
- Medical and Public Health Consequences of 2001
- How Partisanship Affected Public Reaction to Potential Treatments for COVID‐19
- A Canadian Community–University Research Alliance: Focus on Poverty and Social Inclusion for Psychiatric Consumer–Survivors
- The Challenges of Health System Financing
- Evaluating South African and Namibian governments’ use of digital media during Covid‐19
- Professional Governance and the Practice of Medicine: A Matter of Civil Engagement and Social Responsibility
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- What It Will Take to End Homelessness
- Cross‐Border Reproductive Care: Two Lenses in Political Science
- How to Find the Right Approach to Quality Measurement: Determinants of Quality and Its Measurement in Healthcare
- Practicing Pathology: The Rhetoric of Pathology in Jane Doe's Struggle to Obtain an Abortion in Federal Immigration Custody
- Social injustices and public health Barry S. Levy Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN‐13: 978‐0190914646.
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- Reproductive health information‐seeking: Predictors and perceived barriers among young Peruvian women
- Behavioral Features of Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in Harbin, China
- Examination of Safe Crack Use Kit Distribution from a Public Health Perspective
- Grazyna Jasienska. 2013. The Fragile Wisdom: An Evolutionary View on Women's Biology and Health. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. $35.00, pp. 336, cloth. ISBN 978‐0‐674‐04712‐9.
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- The triumph of doubt: Dark money and the science of deception David Michaels New York: Oxford University Press, 2020, 2 pp.
- Addressing Major Health Disparities Related to Coronavirus for People With Behavioral Health Conditions Requires Strength‐Based Capacity Building and Intentional Community Partnership
- Medical System Rant and Response
- Medical System Rant and Response: Perspective of a Substance Abuse Counselor
- In the News
- Philipp Trein . Healthy or Sick? Coevolution of Health Care and Public Health in a Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. pp. 332. ISBN 9781108670883.
- Gender Differences in Attitudes and Behaviors Toward Condoms and Birth Control Among Chicago Adolescents
- Joan Fitzgerald. Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Hardback. pp. 246. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐069551‐4.
- The global challenge of cancer governance
- Sandro Galea. Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 304. Hardback. ISBN 978‐0190916831.
- Cardiovascular diseases preventive policy‐making process in Iran: A framework‐based policy analysis
- Assessment of country readiness for drug development: A qualitative study in Indonesia
- Review of Disconnect: The Truth about Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family
- Felicia Marie Knaul, Rebeca Wong, and Héctor Arreola‐Ornelas, editors. 2013. Household Spending and Impoverishment, Volume 1: Financing Health in Latin America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Global Equity Initiative, in collaboration with Mexican Health Foundation and International Development Research Centre; distributed by Harvard University Press. $24.95. Pp. 285. Paperback. ISBN‐13:978‐0‐98229144‐2‐7.
- Spread of Infections and Global Health Security
- Positively Influencing Policy Prescriptions
- Medical Errors: Next Steps
- Managing Religion and Morality Within the Abortion Experience: Qualitative Interviews With Women Obtaining Abortions in the U.S.
- David Sheff. Clean−Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy. New York: Mariner Books, 2014.
- Developing International Standards for Disaster Preparedness and Response: How Do We Get There?
- What's the Technology behind Tele TBI
- Identifying National Health Priorities: Content Analysis of the Islamic Republic of Iran's General Health Policies (GHPs)
- Continuing Medical Education and the Marketing of Fentanyl for Breakthrough Pain: Marketing Messages in an Industry‐Funded CME Module on Breakthrough Pain
- Health‐Related Quality of Life Associated With Physical Activity: New Estimates by Gender and Race and Ethnicity
- Review of Global Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems and Policies
- Kelley Lee and Jennifer Fang. 2012. Historical Dictionary of the World Health Organization. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. pp. 501. Hardback. ISBN 978‐0‐8108‐7858‐7
- Tough on Drugs: Law and Order Dominance and the Neglect of Public Health in U.S. Drug Policy
- How do you solve a problem like Maria? The politics of disaster response in Puerto Rico, Florida and Texas
- The Impact of United Kingdom and Malaysia's Inherent Health Systems on Their COVID‐19 Responses: A Comparison of Containment Strategies
- Modeling the Effect of Income Segregation on Communicable Disease Transmission
- The State of Medical and Health Care Education: A Review and Commentary on the Lancet Commission Report
- Maximizing Utility of a Deployable Medical Team from an Academic Medical Center to a Disaster
- The Elusive Goal of Eliminating Global Hunger: Progress and Challenges
- Kathryn H. Jacobsen. 2013. Introduction to Global Health, Second Edition. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning. pp. 404. $93.95. ISBN‐13: 9781449688349. ISBN‐10:1449688349
- Jeff Kane. Healing Healthcare: How Doctors and Patients Can Heal Our Sick System. New York: Helios Press, 2015. pp. 156. Paperback. ISBN‐13: 978‐1‐62153‐461‐7.
- Feasibility of teledentistry in population groups: Introducing a matrix model for its assessment
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- Patient Copayments, Provider Incentives, and Income Effects: Theory and Evidence From the Essential Medications List Under China's 2009 Healthcare Reform
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- Kathryn H. Jacobsen. Introduction to Global Health. 3rd ed. Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning. 2018. $59.95. pp. 450. Paperback. ISBN 9781284123890.
- Reflections on Public Policy and Medicine
- Jeffrey Bishop. 2011. The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power and the Care of the Dying. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 411. Paperback. ISBN‐13: 978‐0‐268‐02227‐3.
- Optimal U.S. State Alcohol Excise Taxes to Recover Government Cost of Excessive Consumption
- Does Race Matter in Addressing Homelessness? A Review of the Literature
- Cyber Security Threats to Public Health
- Cooperation Instead of Competition
- Kalofonos Ippolytos. All I eat is medicine: Going hungry in Mozambique's AIDS economy Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2021. 287pp. ISBN 9780520289406.
- Collaborative Paths and Contexts: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Rhetoric of Medical and Health Policy
- Global Health Security at the Crossroads
- Tania Jenkins. Doctors' orders: The making of status hierarchies in an elite profession
- FMT Happens: Regulating Fecal Microbiota Therapy in Canada; What You Need to Know
- Challenges and Opportunities From COVID‐19 for Global Sustainable Development
- Choice‐Based Reminder Cues: Findings From an mHealth Study to Improve Tuberculosis (TB) Treatment Adherence Among the Urban Poor in India
- Connecting Climate Change and Health Through Global Summitry
- Access to Care During a Pandemic: Improving Planning Efforts to Incorporate Community Primary Care Practices and Public Health Stakeholders
- Review of The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine
- Presidential Rhetoric and Policy Outcomes: The President and the American Struggle with Heroin Abuse
- Medicalizing the Disclosure of Mental Health: Transnational Perspectives of Ethical Workplace Policy Among Healthcare Workers
- A Tale of Two Programs: Access to High Quality Providers for Medicare Advantage and Affordable Care Act Beneficiaries in New York State
- Paid Parental Leave Policies and Infant Mortality Rates in OECD Countries: Policy Implications for the United States
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- I. Glenn Cohen, Editor. The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues. 2013. New York: Oxford University Press. $95.00. pp. 480. Hardcover. ISBN‐10: 0199917906.
- Can Public Schools Serve as Communication Networks for Community Disaster Medical Preparedness and Recovery? A Review
- Food Security as Basic Goods Provision
- Medicaid Reimbursement and the Quality of Nursing Home Care: A Case Study of Medi‐Cal Long‐Term Care Reimbursement Act of 2004 in California
- Review of G. Trotter's The Ethics of Coercion in Mass Casualty Medicine
- Correlates of Cervical Cancer Screening Among Adult Latino Women: A 5‐Year Follow‐Up
- Diagnosing Possible Hypertension When Blood Pressure Is High in The Emergency Department
- Ronald C. Kramer, Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020. Paperback. pp. 230. ISBN: 9781978805583.
- Community health equity: A Chicago reader Edited by David A. Ansel, Fernando De Maio, John Mazzeo, and Raj C. ShahChicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Paperback. 449 pp. ISBN: 978‐0‐226‐6162‐5.
- Gretchen Long. 2012. Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation. The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History & Culture. Waldo E. Martin, Jr. and Patricia Sullivan, eds. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. $37.50. pp. 248. Cloth. ISBN: 978‐0‐8078‐3583‐8.
- Did We Respond Quickly Enough? How Policy‐Implementation Speed in Response to COVID‐19 Affects the Number of Fatal Cases in Europe
- Carceral and Climate Crises and Health Inequities: A Call for Greater Transparency, Accountability, and Human Rights Protections
- Understanding the gap between policy and facts: The Italian experience on federal decoupling in the implementation of breast units
- Daniel J. Wallace. The Lupus Book: A Guide for Patients and Their Families. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. $29.95. pp. 304. Hardback. ISBN‐13 978‐0‐19‐992940‐5.
- Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health. Eugene T. Richardson. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press. 2020. Xxv+193pp. Price $25.00 ISBN 9780262045605
- Political power and awareness of nursing during the COVID‐19 pandemic from the views of senior nursing students
- Technology Implications in Global Health
- Amenable Mortality and Neighborhood Inequality: An Ecological Study of São Paulo
- Social determinants of incidence, outcomes, and interventions of cardiovascular disease risk factors in American Indians and Alaska Natives
- Malcolm R. Dando. Neuroscience and the Problem of Dual Use—Neuroethics in the New Brain Research Projects, 2020. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. ISBN 9783030537906.
- Methodological Prospects with the Use of Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Statistics for the Evaluation of Alcohol Policy
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- The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Why Today is Not 1918
- Fevers, feuds, and diamonds: Ebola and the ravages of history Paul Farmer New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. pp. 652. ISBN 978‐0‐374‐23432‐4.