Fall 2006

Editor's Note
Alexandra Harwin

Staff

Features

The Big Answer: Rediscovering Prevention at a Time of Crisis in Health Care
Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH

Some Economics of Health Promotion: What We Know, Don’t Know and
Need to Know Before Spending to Promote Public Health

Alan Shiell, PhD, and Karen McIntosh, MA

Prevention Just in Case or Treatment Just Because: Measuring Societal Preferences
Phaedra S. Corso, PhD

In Focus

The Contemporary Health Insurance Company:
Shaping Public Health in the 21st Century

Sachin H. Jain, Lisa Latts, MD, MSPH, MBA, and Samuel Nussbaum, MD

Overcoming Barriers to Cancer Screening: A Case Study in Colorectal Cancer
Karen Fitzner, PhD, Hoyon Lee and Charles Bennett, MD, PhD, MPP

Kicking AIDS in Africa: Soccer Players as
Educators in Adolescent-Targeted HIV Prevention

Thomas S. Clark, MD, Zachary A. Kaufman, Gerhard K. Friedrich, Methembe Ndlovu, Torsten B. Neilands, PhD, and Willi McFarland, MD, PhD

Racial Disparities in Perinatal Health: A Multiple Determinants
Perinatal Framework with a Lifespan Approach

Dawn P. Misra, MHS, PhD

International

Accelerating Policy, Deployment and Access to New and
Underutilized Vaccines in Developing Countries

Jon Kim Andrus, MD, Vance Dietz, MD, MPH, TM, John W. Fitzsimmons, MURP, and Carlos Castillo-Solórzano, MD, MPH

Changing Health Care Provider Incentives to Promote
Prevention: The Chilean Case

Rodrigo Castro Apablaza, MSc, Camilo Cid Pedraza, MA, Alfredo Roman, MPH, and Neel Butala

HIV and AIDS in India: Will the Next 20 Years Be Different?
William Stones, MD, FRCOG, and Saseendran Pallikadavath, PhD

HIV Prevention in India: Focus on Men, Alcohol Use and Social Networks
Sudha Sivaram, DrPH, MPH, Carl A. Latkin, PhD, Suniti Solomon, MD, and David D. Celentano, ScD

Health Highlights

Obesity...Be Dammed!: What It Will Take to Turn the Tide
David Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP

Farm, Food, Health: How Public Policy Affects Childhood Nutrition
Alice S. Ammerman, DrPH, RD, David Cavallo, BA, May May Leung, MS, and Alison Gustafson, MPH, RD

   
 

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