Changing The Debate About Health Research For Development

The International Health Research Award recipients present their provocative thoughts about how to improve capacity for health research in developing countries.

N Abrahams, R Adhikari, I P Bhagwat, N Christofides and M Djibuti

J Public Health Pol 25: 259-287; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3190028

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Access to Essential Drugs in 11 Brazilian Cities: A Community-based Evaluation and Action Method

These researchers used their study of the availability of essential drugs to stimulate consumer action in Brazilian cities.

Margô Gomes de Oliveira Karnikowski, Otávio de Toledo Nóbrega, Janeth de Oliveira Silva Naves and Lynn Dee Silver

J Public Health Pol 25: 288-298; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3190029

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Reducing Maternal Mortality: Can we derive policy guidance from developing country experiences?

Sri Lanka and Malaysia have achieved low rates of maternal mortality and it was not by accident. These researchers describe the roots of this success.

Jerker Liljestrand and Indra Pathmanathan

J Public Health Pol 25: 299-314; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3190030

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Controlling Cigarette Smoking in the Workplace in Taiwan: Opportunities and Challenges

Workplace smoking is both a source of exposure to tobacco smoke and an opportunity to reduce smoking more broadly. The Taiwan example is illustrative.

Chi P Wen, Susan C Hu, Sheu-Jen Huang, Shan P Tsai and Ting-Yuan Cheng

J Public Health Pol 25: 315-327; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3190031

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Modifying National Malaria Treatment Policies in Peru

Good information about drug resistance in malaria parasites made it possible to improve programs more effectively. Peru, dominated by public programs, has shown how.

Trenton K Ruebush II, Daniel Neyra and César Cabezas

J Public Health Pol 25: 328-345; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3190032

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Legal Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic: An Introduction

Law-legislation, regulation and litigation at the local, national, and international levels can be a powerful process for shaping health policy in general and the food environment in particular. Heath policy decision-makers in the United States, both government and private, have been slow to make use of this process in designing obesity control programs. The papers presented in this Special Section address these and other aspects of the role of law in countering the obesity epidemic.

Ben Kelley and Jason A Smith

J Public Health Pol 25: 346-352; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3190033

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The Obesity Epidemic in the United States

Allison C Morrill and Christopher D Chinn

J Public Health Pol 25: 353-366; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3190035

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Food Marketing to Children in the Context of a Marketing Maelstrom

Susan E Linn

J Public Health Pol 25: 367-378; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3190036

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Legislative Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic

Rachel I Weiss, Cheryl L Hayne and Jason A Smith

J Public Health Pol 25: 379-390; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3190037

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Regulating Environments to Reduce Obesity

Cheryl L Hayne, Patricia A Moran and Mary M Ford

J Public Health Pol 25: 391-407; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3190038

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Private Enforcement: Litigation as a Tool to Prevent Obesity

Richard A Daynard, P Tim Howard and Cara L Wilking

J Public Health Pol 25: 408-417; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3190039

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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

Stephen C Schoenbaum

J Public Health Pol 25: 435-443; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3190041

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Science in the Public Interest: Has the Lure of Profits Corrupted Biomedical Research?

Peter Lurie

J Public Health Pol 25: 444-447; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3190042

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Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice

Peter Lurie

J Public Health Pol 25: 448-449; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3190043

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