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K Street's New Ways Spawn More Pork - As Barriers With Lawmakers Fall,
'Earmarks' Grow
This
Washington Post article explains the issues with earmarks and politics.
Radical Change by Entrepreneurial Design An article by Nancy C.
Roberts, Acquisition Review Quarterly, Spring 1998.
Politics and Publics: Tobacco Industry Issues Management Abstracts
of presentation from The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of
the American Public Health Association.
The Tobacco Industry and Pesticide Regulations: Case Studies from
Tobacco Industry Archives An article by Patricia A. McDaniel, Gina
Solomon, and Ruth E. Malone, from Environmental Health Perspectives,
Volume 113, Number 12, December 2005. Includes an extensive collection
of references with links .
Bloggers, Citizen Media and Rather's Fall -- Little People Rise Up in
2004 An online article by By Mark Glaser, from the USC Annenberg
Online Journalism Review, Posted: 2004-12-21.
Does women's representation in elected office lead to women-friendly
policy? A Research in Brief article by Amy Caiazza, PhD, May 2002,
from the
Institute for Women's Policy Research.
A Primer on Managed Competition By John C. Goodman and Gerald L.
Musgrave, April 19, 1994 ; from the
National Center for Policy Analysis.
It's the Price, Stupid: Why the United States Is So Different from Other
Countries Written by Gerard F. Anderson, Uwe E. Reinhardt, Peter S.
Hussey, and Varduhi Petrosyan, Temple University & Wake Forest
University.
Healthy Aging: Preventing Disease and Improving Quality of Life Among
Older Americans At A Glance from the National Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Chronic Disease Prevention.
Includes graphs illustrating the "The Dramatic Aging of America,
1900–2030.
Unintended Consequences of Health Policy Programs and Policies: Workshop
Summary From the The Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship
Program; 32 pages, 2001. Available online from the National Academies
Press.
Public Health and Aging: Trends in Aging --- United States and Worldwide
An online article illustrated with charts from MMWR: Weekly, February
14, 2003 / 52(06);101-106
FYI: Medicare payments for medical education An article by Craig
Caplan, AARP Public Policy Institute, August 1998.
Information Trading: How Information Influences the Health Policy
Process Marion Ein Lewin and Elise Lipoff, Editors; A Project of the
Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowships Program at the Institute
of Medicine, 152 pages, 1997. Available online from the National
Academies Press.
On the Archeology of Health Care Policy: Periods and Paradigms,
1975-2000 By Lynn Etheredge, The Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy
Fellowships Program, Office of Health Policy Programs and Fellowships;
12 pages, 2001. Available online from the National Academies Press. Be
sure to click the link for the full report.
Reports to the HHS Secretary and the Senate Committee on Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions, and the House of Representatives
Committee on Commerce From the
Council on Graduate Medical Education - COGME.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving: A Crash Course in MADD An online
article by David J. Hanson, PhD, from Dr. Hanson's
Alcohol Facts site
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Nurses Remain Atop Honesty and Ethics List A December 5, 2005
article by Jeffrey M. Jones on Gallup's annual poll on the honesty and
ethics of people in different professions. Access to the article
requires subscription.
A Matter of Trust: Public continues to regard nurses highly in
honesty and ethics. An online article by Beth Ulrich, EdD, RN, from
NurseWeek, December 17, 2001.
Talk About What You Do An article by Donna Cardillo, RN, MA,
from Nursing Spectrum, October 07, 2002
Florence Nightingale: Rural Hygiene Excepted from Florence
Nightingale's original writings, from the
Modern History Sourcebook
Feminism and nursing By Julie Hunt RN, Intensive Care Cart BN(Hons),
MC(NSW) Clinical Nurse Specialist, Intensive Care Unit St Vincent's
Private Hospital; from St Vincent's Healthcare Campus, Sisters of
Charity Health Service, Darlinghurst, Australia, 1998 Nursing Monograph
Health Professional Shortage Areas and
State Health Workforce Profiles From the
U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration.
Nursing Strategy for Canada A report from the Canadian Nursing
Advisory Committee.
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Recent Developments in the Nursing Workforce An online article by
Tim M. Henderson, MSPH, December 2004, from Sigma Theta Tau
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The Registered Nurse Population: March 2000: Findings from the National
Sample Survey Of Registered Nurses and
Preliminary Findings: 2004 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses
Extensive online reports available from the
Bureau of Health Professions,
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Cigarette Anti-Smoking
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Annual Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and
Productivity Losses --- United States, 1997--2001 Online article and
table from MMWR, July 1, 2005 / 54(25);625-628
A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers An ad as "it appeared in the
New York Times and over 400 other newspapers on January 4, 1954." One of
many support documents from the
Tobacco Control Resource Center.
If you're worried about cigarettes ---May we confuse you with some
facts? A 1971 advertisement from the Brown and Williamson Tobacco
Company; available online from the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library,
University of California, San Francisco.
An Introduction to the WHO inquiry on tobacco industry influence
From the World Health Organization, 2000.
Letter to Benson and Hedges in response to mailed survey Available
online from the
Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, University
of California, San Francisco.
PM USA Adult Smoker Database Marketing Past, Present and Future A
2003 report from Phillip Morris, available from the Legacy Tobacco
Documents Library, University of California, San Francisco.
Smoking and Cancer Mortality Table From the American Cancer Society.
Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS) from the
Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Includes
statistical reports, guidelines, related reports, and much more.
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Other Topics |
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Supply, Demand, and Use of Licensed Practical Nurses A 2004 report,
available online, prepared by Jean Ann Seago, PhD, RN; Joanne Spetz,
PhD; Susan Chapman, PhD, RN; Wendy Dyer, MS; Kevin Grumbach, MD; Center
for California Health Workforce Studies, University of California, San
Francisco, for the Department of Health and Human Services, Health
Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Professions,
Office of Workforce Evaluation and Quality Assurance.
Guiding Principles for Future Patient Care Delivery Overview from
the
American Organization of Nurse Executives - AONE.
National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) From the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality.
Major Depression Information from
NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness).
WHO Mortality Database: Tables World Health Organization information
including
information by country for most recent year.
Social Policy Analysis Model A detailed outline from the College of
Social Work, The Ohio State University, Columbus.
Statistics - A Profile of Older Americans From the Administration on
Aging.
Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Health of Older Americans,
1997. Full-text of this book is available online from the National
Academies Press; 300 pages.
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