WMHP Issues and Initiatives: Update From the Editors

• Author: Arnauld Nicogossian,Bonnie Stabile
• Date: 01 September 2017
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.238
• Published date: 01 September 2017

WMHP Issues and Initiatives: Update From the Editors

Bonnie Stabile and Arnauld Nicogossian

This current issue of World Medical & Health Policy (WMHP) highlights a

number of the themes developed in the journal in recent years through calls for

papers, workshops, and symposia on Homelessness,Drug Policy,Women’s

Health, and Organ Transplantation.

From 2012 through 2015, WMHP had an annual Call for Papers and Forum

on Health, Homelessness, and Poverty in November at George Mason

University’s Schar School of Policy and Government. These gatherings offered an

opportunity for academics and practitioners concerned with the problem of

homelessness and its intersection with health to be in dialogue, and yielded a

series of articles on various facets of the topic. Marion Moser Jones wrote Does

Race Matter in Addressing Homelessness? A Review of the Literature in

Volume 8 Issue 2: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/wmh3.189/

full, and Thomas Byrne, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Daniel Treglia, Christopher

Brent Roberts, and Dennis P. Culhane examined Health Services Use Among

Veterans Using U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Mainstream Homeless

Services in Volume 5 Issue 4: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/

wmh3.75/full. In this issue, Jessica Lin, Laura Petry, Shahera Hyatt, and Colette

Auerswald continue this line of inquiry in an article on We Count, California! A

Statewide Capacity-Building Effort to Improve Youth Inclusion in California’s

Point-in-Time Homeless Counts.

WMHP’s successful 6-ye ar collaboration with Ro osevelt University in

Chicago, made possible by Kathie Kane-Willis, resulted in a series of articles on

Drug Policy, a theme that has continued t o be of interest to our read ers. In this

issue, Kim Hoffman’s piec e with Javier Ponce Teras hima, Dennis McCarty, an d

John Muench looks Towa rd a Patient Registry for Can nabis Use: An

Exploratory Study of Pat ient Use in an Outpatient Hea lth-Care Clinic in

Oregon; and Cathy Zadoretsky’s tea m investigates The New Yor k 911 Good

Samaritan Law and Opioid Overdose Prevention Among People Who Inject

Drugs. These articles join some n oteworthy work previou sly published in

WMHP. One particularly not eworthy examples is Kathar ine A. Neill’s article,

Tough on Drugs: Law and Order D ominance and the Neglect of Pub lic

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doi: 10.1002/wmh3.238

#2017 Policy Studies Organization