Selected Health Policy Articles

 
A Primer on Managed Competition By John C. Goodman and Gerald L. Musgrave, April 19, 1994 ; from the National Center for Policy Analysis.
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.
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.
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.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving: A Crash Course in MADD An online article by David J. Hanson, PhD, from Dr. Hanson's Alcohol Facts site
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
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 .