TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 30, Issue 1 (April 2009)
Editorial
President Obama: Protect everyone's health while paying for patient care
The Editors urge renewed attention to population strategies to improve health as part of President Obama's health reform and provide here a link to National Health Care Reform Minus Public Health: A Formula for Failure, first published by JPHP in 1994 and equally timely today.
Anthony Robbins and Phyllis Freeman
The Co-Editors
J Public Health Pol 30: 1-2; doi:10.1057/jphp.2009.1
Original Articles
A case study of the New York City trans-fat story for international application
The author recounts the story of how New York imposed restrictions on the trans-fat content of foods, a strategy under consideration by many jurisdictions around the world.
Andy S L Tan
J Public Health Pol 30: 3-16; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.42
Job strain exposures vs. stress-related workers' compensation claims in Victoria, Australia: Developing a public health response to job stress
How does stress on the job affect workers' compensation claims and what strategies might be invoked to reduce it?
Tessa Keegel, Aleck Ostry and Anthony D LaMontagne
J Public Health Pol 30: 17-39; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.41
The development of American public health, a commentary: Three documents that made an impact
The 1850 Shattuck Report, 1932 Report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care, and 1964 Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General on 'Smoking and Health' provide a paradigm of evidence-based public health policy in the United States and the basis for this analysis.
Warren Winkelstein, Jr
J Public Health Pol 30: 40-48; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.39
Commentary: Again, public health in the United States needs an influential report
This health services researcher and clinician argues for a new report to synthesize evidence of how special interests thwart efforts to restrain growth of medical expenditures. US reformers will need more than fortitude to insulate program spending decisions from political influence.
Hoangmai H Pham
J Public Health Pol 30: 49-53; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.67
Minamata disease: Catastrophic poisoning due to a failed public health response
The famous outbreak of mercury poisoning is dissected, revealing how faulty public health management contributed to the human harm.
Toshihide Tsuda, Takashi Yorifuji, Soshi Takao, Masaya Miyai and Akira Babazono
J Public Health Pol 30: 54-67; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.30
Restricting the retail supply of tobacco to minors
Comparisons in Australia shed light on the question: can aggressive restrictions on tobacco sales to minors greatly reduce smoking?
Douglas Tutt, Lyndon Bauer and Joseph DiFranza
J Public Health Pol 30: 68-82; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.44
2005 and 2006 seasonal influenza vaccination coverage rates in 10 countries in Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East
Can industrial world strategies to vaccinate annually be imported to lower income countries and, if so, what strategic elements ensure success?
Camille de Lataillade, Stéphane Auvergne and Isabelle Delannoy
J Public Health Pol 30: 83-101; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.40
'Tell us something we don't already know or do!' — The response of planning and transport professionals to public health guidance on the built environment and physical activity
As public health guidance is targeted at programs that might improve health outcomes, these UK researchers looked at the response of planning and transport professionals. Knowing how guidance is received may be key to success.
Steven Allender, Nick Cavill, Mike Parker and Charles Foster
J Public Health Pol 30: 102-116; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.43
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Turkish Public Health Association
J Public Health Pol 30: 117-120; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.66
