TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 29, Issue 2 (2008)
Articles
Laboratory Epidemiologist: Skilled Partner in Field Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance in Kenya
A team of Kenyans and their US consultants explain how they went about building a laboratory component for the country's epidemiology and surveillance programs.
M Kariuki Njenga, Denise Traicoff, Christopher Tetteh, Sopiato Likimani, Joseph Oundo, Robert Breiman, Jack Nyamongo, Heather Burke, Peter Nsubuga and Mark E White
J Public Health Pol 29: 149-164; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.3
Poverty, Health and Policy: A Historical Look at the South African Experience
Focusing on three phases of policy reform related to poverty and health, three South Africans explore the relationship between research and politics.
William Pick, Laetitia Rispel and Shan Naidoo
J Public Health Pol 29: 165-178; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.1
Commentary: Are You Being Co-Opted? The Politics and Ethics of Public Health Research
In response to the experience in South Africa, as described, a policy researcher pursues the question: How can we better address the politics and ethics of public health research?
Shyama Kuruvilla
J Public Health Pol 29: 179-186; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.10
Commentary: Cautionary Notes on Interpreting History from Additional First-Hand Observers of Poverty, Health and Policy in South Africa
These authors ask whether the commission reports representing the three phases of policy reform in South Africa reveal the central historical developments and links between poverty, health and policy over the past century.
Zena A Stein and Mervyn W Susser
J Public Health Pol 29: 187-191; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.11
Towards Equivalent Health Care of Prisoners: European Soft Law and Public Health Policy in Geneva
How Geneva developed and implemented legal rules and structures to guide health care in prisons, often adopting principles from the Council of Europe.
Bernice S Elger
J Public Health Pol 29: 192-206; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.6
Factors Influencing Hepatitis C Virus Sero-prevalence among Blood Donors in North West Pakistan
A study of prevalence provides important clues to the sources and transmission of this blood borne disease.
Muhammad Naeem Khattak, Saeed Akhtar, Sadia Mahmud and Tariq Mahmood Roshan
J Public Health Pol 29: 207-225; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.7
State Sales Tax Rates for Soft Drinks and Snacks Sold through Grocery Stores and Vending Machines, 2007
Because of observations from the tobacco wars, the authors look at how taxes on junk food might help combat obesity.
Jamie F Chriqui, Shelby S Eidson, Hannalori Bates, Shelly Kowalczyk and Frank J Chaloupka
J Public Health Pol 29: 226-249; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.9
The Federation Pages
WFPHA: World Federation of Public Health Associations www.wfpha.org FREE
J Public Health Pol 29: 250-255; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.8
Book Reviews
Book Review
Sheldon Krimsky
J Public Health Pol 29: 256-257; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.5
Today's Capitalism a Virulent Strain
Nicholas Freudenberg
J Public Health Pol 29: 258-261; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.4
