TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 27, Issue 3 (2006)
Editorial
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Viewpoint: Terrorism and Dispelling the Myth of a Panic Prone Public
The public and policymakers, including many in the field of public health seem to believe that the populace will panic in response to terrorism. These researchers show that most of the evidence suggests quite the reverse-that the public is unlikely to panic in the face of terrorist attacks and threats.
Ben Sheppard, G James Rubin, Jamie K Wardman and Simon Wessely
J Public Health Pol 27: 219-245; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200083
Commentary - Terrorism and Dispelling the Myth of a Panic Prone Public
A student of bioterrorism, and anthrax in particular, suggests how the image of a panic prone public serves certain interests.
Jeanne Guillemin
J Public Health Pol 27: 246-249; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200088
The Effects of Obesity on Doctor-diagnosed Chronic Diseases in Africa: Empirical Results from Senegal and South Africa
Obesity with its consequences for chronic diseases is a public health problem no longer limited to affluent societies, as this examination of statistics from two sub-Saharan countries demonstrates.
Abay Asfaw
J Public Health Pol 27: 250-264; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200089
Setting Health Priorities Across Nations: More Convergence than Divergence?
Do health systems converge around the world toward similar policies and practices? If similar trends overwhelm variety, this would have powerful implications for policymakers. This study suggests that despite some similarities, countries pursue health policy along many courses.
Robert Blank and Viola Burau
J Public Health Pol 27: 265-281; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200082
Commentary - Evidence Against Breast Self Examination is not Conclusive: What Policymakers and Health Professionals Need to Know
Despite many recent questions about the usefulness of breast self examinations, the authors argue that it is premature to abandon the practice because the studies prove less than is generally assumed.
Anne J Kearney and Michael Murray
J Public Health Pol 27: 282-292; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200086
Policy Needs Regarding the Duty to Protect in Epidemiological Research with High-Risk Populations
This paper identifies areas in need of policy development in the United States to guide researchers conducting epidemiological investigations with high risk populations. Researchers' responsibilities for responding to threats of harm in this domain have been overlooked although risks of harm in clinical experiments involving human subjects have received extensive attention.
David R Buchanan
J Public Health Pol 27: 293-308; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200084
WFPHA World Federation of Public Health Associations www.wfpha.org
WFPHA presents an editorial on the Public Health Workforce, The New Role; special reports on The Knowledge Enterprise in Health – A Country-based Global Landscape: WFPHA alliance with WHO; and Childwatch International: Strengthening Child Research in the Middle East. The Special Section also revisits a WFPHA resolution, Access to Essential Medicines–an unresolved problem from April 2004. It offers information about the 11th World Congress on Public Health, and the 8th Brazilian Congress on Collective Health (21–25, August 2006).
J Public Health Pol 27: 309-315; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200085
Book Review
Crusade to Immunize the World's Children
Reviewed by David M Salisbury
J Public Health Pol 27: 316-319; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200087
Editor's Note
Unexpected Globalization Glitch
J Public Health Pol 27: 320; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200091
