TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 26, Issue 1 (2005)
Theory is the Eye of Practice
Editorial
Top of pageArticles
Preparing for Pandemic Vaccination: An International Policy Agenda for Vaccine Development
A motivating analysis of the problems the world faces in creating an adequate supply of influenza vaccine – to blunt the impact should a pandemic begin.
David S Fedson
J Public Health Pol 26: 4-29; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200008
Prison Health in Russia: The Larger Picture
Is it possible that for young men in Russia it is safer to be in prison than in the society at large? This study suggests just that possibility.
Alexey Bobrik, Kirill Danishevski, Ksenia Eroshina and Martin McKee
J Public Health Pol 26: 30-59; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200002
Commentary
Health Status in US and Russian Prisons: More in Common, Less in Contrast
Robert Greifinger
J Public Health Pol 26: 60-68; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200003
Mortality in Russian Penitentiaries and the General Population
Two commentaries, one from a leading prison health expert in the US, the other from two US-based Russian biostatisticians/epidemiologists, one of whom spent his military services working as a prison guard, dissect the data and analysis, but still conclude that Bobrik et al have made a plausible case.
Andrey I Egorov and Elena N Naumova
J Public Health Pol 26: 69-74; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200015
Tobacco Industry Opposition to Designating Environmental Tobacco Smoke Through E-codes
The story of how the tobacco industry opposed a simple administrative data collection rule suggests the lengths to which it will go to keep its deadly products on the market. Because exposed, non-smokers had not chosen to smoke, any recognition of the role of environmental tobacco smoke in disease was particularly threatening to industry
Michael Givel
J Public Health Pol 26: 75-89; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200009
Commentary
The Global Fight for Smoke-Free Public Places
The former head of WHO's anti-tobacco efforts draws global lessons from the US case study.
Derek Yach and Norbert Hirschhorn
J Public Health Pol 26: 90-95; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200006
Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in India: An Attempt to Link Biosocial Determinants
Can India implement a comprehensive tuberculosis control strategy? The authors use their knowledge of efforts to control multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in India to argue for a holistic approach to control programs.
Sachin R Atre and Nerges F Mistry
J Public Health Pol 26: 96-114; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200014
Commentary
Defusing the Global Timebomb
In a supportive commentary, one of the world's leading TB experts discusses how "multidrug-resistant TB is strong evidence of public health failure."
Lee B Reichman
J Public Health Pol 26: 115-121; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200005
Meeting the Challenge of Epidemic Infectious Disease Outbreaks: An Agenda for Research
Although this article was written long before the tsunami of 26 December 2004, its analysis of recovery from epidemics is particularly timely for just the part of the world about which the authors write.
Kai-Lit Phua and Lai Kah Lee
J Public Health Pol 26: 122-132; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200001
Commentary
Social, Behavioural and Environmental Factors and Their Impact on Infectious Disease Outbreaks
The former chief of communicable disease control at WHO expands on how social, behavioral, and environmental factors, linked to a host of human activities, have accelerated and amplified these natural phenomena.
David L Heymann
J Public Health Pol 26: 133-139; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200004
Book List
Public Health Books for the Bedside Table
Anthony Robbins and Elizabeth Fee
J Public Health Pol 26: 140-141; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200012
Book Reviews
Sickness and Wealth: the Corporate Assault on Global Health
Klaudia Dmitrienko
J Public Health Pol 26: 142-147; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200007
Insuring America's Health: Principles and Recommendations
Ross Mullner
J Public Health Pol 26: 148-154; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200010
Understanding the U.S. Health Services System
Amardeep Thind
J Public Health Pol 26: 155-157; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200011
