politics

Summary

Summary: Activities concerned with governmental policies, functions, etc.

Top Publications

  1. ncbi Political orientations are correlated with brain structure in young adults
    Ryota Kanai
    University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK
    Curr Biol 21:677-80. 2011
  2. ncbi Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and conservatism
    David M Amodio
    Department of Psychology, New York University, 6 Washington Place, New York, New York 10003, USA
    Nat Neurosci 10:1246-7. 2007
  3. ncbi Political conservatism as motivated social cognition
    John T Jost
    Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, California 94305, USA
    Psychol Bull 129:339-75. 2003
  4. ncbi Inferences of competence from faces predict election outcomes
    Alexander Todorov
    Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
    Science 308:1623-6. 2005
  5. ncbi Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific
    Thomas E Currie
    Evolutionary Cognitive Science Research Center, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo 153 8902, Japan
    Nature 467:801-4. 2010
  6. ncbi Tick-borne encephalitis incidence in Central and Eastern Europe: consequences of political transition
    Sarah E Randolph
    Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
    Microbes Infect 10:209-16. 2008
  7. ncbi Effects of political and military traumas on children: the Palestinian case
    A Baker
    Birzeit University, West Bank, Palestine
    Clin Psychol Rev 19:935-50. 1999
  8. ncbi Political ideology: its structure, functions, and elective affinities
    John T Jost
    Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
    Annu Rev Psychol 60:307-37. 2009
  9. ncbi The political environment of HIV: lessons from a comparison of Uganda and South Africa
    Justin O Parkhurst
    Health Policy Unit, Health Systems Development Programme, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
    Soc Sci Med 59:1913-24. 2004
  10. ncbi Maternal and child undernutrition: effective action at national level
    Jennifer Bryce
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Lancet 371:510-26. 2008

Research Grants

  1. Defining the Role of Mexican Pharmacies in HIV Prevention-A Mixed Method Approach
    Robin Pollini; Fiscal Year: 2007
  2. Using Community Participation to Improve the Health System in South India
    KAIVAN MUNSHI; Fiscal Year: 2010
  3. PHARMACOLOGY OF ANTICANCER DRUGS IN ADVANCED AGE
    HEINZ LENZ; Fiscal Year: 2003
  4. Proximal determinants of risk for tularemia outbreaks
    Sam Telford; Fiscal Year: 2004
  5. ECONOMICS OF MANAGED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE
    Richard Scheffler; Fiscal Year: 2004
  6. Parkinson's Disease Gene Therapy Study Group
    Howard Federoff; Fiscal Year: 2006
  7. Individualizing cancer predictions via selective voting in convex-hull ensembles
    Ralph L Kodell; Fiscal Year: 2010
  8. Voting Empowerment Study among People with Traumatic Brain Injury
    Mark Hirsch; Fiscal Year: 2007
  9. Aging and Altruism: Towards a Neuroeconomic Model of Age-Related Changes in Givin
    Ulrich Mayr; Fiscal Year: 2007
  10. WSTDtv: Adolescent Multimedia STD Prevention Curriculum
    Richard Goldsworthy; Fiscal Year: 2009

Detail Information

Publications238 found, 100 shown here

  1. ncbi Political orientations are correlated with brain structure in young adults
    Ryota Kanai
    University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK
    Curr Biol 21:677-80. 2011
    ....
  2. ncbi Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and conservatism
    David M Amodio
    Department of Psychology, New York University, 6 Washington Place, New York, New York 10003, USA
    Nat Neurosci 10:1246-7. 2007
    ....
  3. ncbi Political conservatism as motivated social cognition
    John T Jost
    Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, California 94305, USA
    Psychol Bull 129:339-75. 2003
    ..18); and self-esteem (-.09). The core ideology of conservatism stresses resistance to change and justification of inequality and is motivated by needs that vary situationally and dispositionally to manage uncertainty and threat...
  4. ncbi Inferences of competence from faces predict election outcomes
    Alexander Todorov
    Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
    Science 308:1623-6. 2005
    ..The findings suggest that rapid, unreflective trait inferences can contribute to voting choices, which are widely assumed to be based primarily on rational and deliberative considerations...
  5. ncbi Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific
    Thomas E Currie
    Evolutionary Cognitive Science Research Center, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo 153 8902, Japan
    Nature 467:801-4. 2010
    ..This suggests that, despite the numerous contingent pathways of human history, there are regularities in cultural evolution that can be detected using computational phylogenetic methods...
  6. ncbi Tick-borne encephalitis incidence in Central and Eastern Europe: consequences of political transition
    Sarah E Randolph
    Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
    Microbes Infect 10:209-16. 2008
    ..Many of these stem from the political transition with the end of Soviet rule...
  7. ncbi Effects of political and military traumas on children: the Palestinian case
    A Baker
    Birzeit University, West Bank, Palestine
    Clin Psychol Rev 19:935-50. 1999
    ..Although the article will examine studies from various regions, specific emphasis will be placed on the Palestinian experience...
  8. ncbi Political ideology: its structure, functions, and elective affinities
    John T Jost
    Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
    Annu Rev Psychol 60:307-37. 2009
    ..Finally, we consider the consequences of ideology, especially with respect to attitudes, evaluations, and processes of system justification...
  9. ncbi The political environment of HIV: lessons from a comparison of Uganda and South Africa
    Justin O Parkhurst
    Health Policy Unit, Health Systems Development Programme, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
    Soc Sci Med 59:1913-24. 2004
    ..These elements are relatively static features of the socio-political environments, so lessons can be drawn for current HIV/AIDS policy, both in these two countries and for a wider audience addressing the epidemic...
  10. ncbi Maternal and child undernutrition: effective action at national level
    Jennifer Bryce
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Lancet 371:510-26. 2008
    ..This resource needs to be formalised, shared, and used as the basis for setting priorities in problem-solving research for nutrition...
  11. ncbi The politics of plastics: the making and unmaking of bisphenol a "safety"
    Sarah A Vogel
    Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Am J Public Health 99:S559-66. 2009
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  12. ncbi Psychiatry and politics in Pelotas, Brazil: the equivocal quality of conduct disorder and related diagnoses
    Dominique P Behague
    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
    Med Anthropol Q 23:455-82. 2009
    ..The article uses this Brazilian case study to critically debate theories of medicalization in the anthropology of psychiatry...
  13. ncbi Political will, traditional leaders and the fight against HIV/AIDS: a South African case study
    Catherine Campbell
    Institute of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
    AIDS Care 22:1637-43. 2010
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  14. ncbi Political attitudes vary with physiological traits
    Douglas R Oxley
    Department of Political Science, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
    Science 321:1667-70. 2008
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  15. ncbi The policy and politics of emerging academic-service partnerships
    Joanne Rains Warner
    University of Portland, Portland, OR 97203, USA
    J Prof Nurs 25:329-34. 2009
    ..The political dynamics and resulting policy changes are presented to illuminate the kinds of new thinking and changes required for a partnership model...
  16. ncbi The end of the end of ideology
    John T Jost
    Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Am Psychol 61:651-70. 2006
    ..A psychological analysis is also useful for understanding the political divide between "red states" and "blue states."..
  17. ncbi Are needs to manage uncertainty and threat associated with political conservatism or ideological extremity?
    John T Jost
    Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003 6634, USA
    Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:989-1007. 2007
    ..Implications for understanding the epistemic and existential bases of political orientation are discussed...
  18. ncbi Personalizing politics: a congruency model of political preference
    Gian Vittorio Caprara
    University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
    Am Psychol 59:581-94. 2004
    Modern politics become personalized as individual characteristics of voters and candidates assume greater importance in political discourse...
  19. ncbi Biology, politics, and the emerging science of human nature
    James H Fowler
    Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
    Science 322:912-4. 2008
    ..We describe recent advances and argue that biologists and political scientists must work together to advance a new science of human nature...
  20. ncbi Post-traumatic stress disorder: medicine and politics
    Dan J Stein
    UCT Department of Psychiatry, Groote Schuur Hospital, J 2, Anzio Road, Observatory 7925, Cape Town, South Africa
    Lancet 369:139-44. 2007
    ..In this Review we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of medicalising trauma response, using examples from South Africa, the Armed Services, and post-disaster, to draw attention to our argument...
  21. ncbi The politics of AIDS in South Africa: beyond the controversies
    Didier Fassin
    , , 74 rue Marcel Cachin, 93 017 Bobigny, France
    BMJ 326:495-7. 2003
  22. ncbi Politics, welfare regimes, and population health: controversies and evidence
    Carles Muntaner
    Social Science and Health Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health CAMH and Global Health Program, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Sociol Health Illn 33:946-64. 2011
    In recent years, a research area has emerged within social determinants of health that examines the role of politics, expressed as political traditions/parties and welfare state characteristics, on population health...
  23. ncbi Talking it out: helping our patients live better while dying
    Meltem Zeytinoglu
    Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    Ann Intern Med 154:830-2, W-300. 2011
    ..Overcoming political divides to support end-of-life care conversations is needed to promote care that is consistent with patients' values and needs and is a key step in encouraging better quality of life for dying patients...
  24. ncbi Why are conservatives happier than liberals?
    Jaime L Napier
    Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003 6634, USA
    Psychol Sci 19:565-72. 2008
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  25. ncbi Getting the big picture: the macro-politics of information system development (and failure) in a Canadian hospital
    E Balka
    School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada
    Methods Inf Med 42:324-30. 2003
    ..actors influence health information system design, studies of health informatics have largely focused on micro politics of technology design and implementation...
  26. ncbi The controversy surrounding "The man who would be queen": a case history of the politics of science, identity, and sex in the Internet age
    Alice D Dreger
    Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, Suite 625, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
    Arch Sex Behav 37:366-421. 2008
    ..The essay closes with an epilogue that explores what has happened since 2003 to the central ideas and major players in the controversy...
  27. ncbi AIDS and public policy: the lessons and challenges of "success" in Thailand
    Martha Ainsworth
    Development Research Group, The World Bank, 1818 H Street N W, Washington, DC 20433, USA
    Health Policy 64:13-37. 2003
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  28. ncbi Interplay of politics and law to promote health: improving economic equality and health: the case of postwar Japan
    Stephen Bezruchka
    Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Box 357660, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 7660, USA
    Am J Public Health 98:589-94. 2008
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  29. ncbi Dirty liberals! Reminders of physical cleanliness influence moral and political attitudes
    Erik G Helzer
    Department of Psychology, Cornell University, 211 Uris Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
    Psychol Sci 22:517-22. 2011
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  30. ncbi Getting evidence into policy: The need for deliberative strategies?
    Kathy Flitcroft
    Screening and Test Evaluation Program, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Edward Ford Building, A27 Fisher Road, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
    Soc Sci Med 72:1039-46. 2011
    ..Such deliberative models could help overcome the limitations on the use of evidence by embedding public review of evidence as the first step in the institutional decision-making processes...
  31. ncbi Volunteered, negotiated, enforced: family politics and the regulation of home smoking
    Jude Robinson
    The Health and Community Care Research Unit, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
    Sociol Health Illn 33:66-80. 2011
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  32. ncbi Tactical voting in plurality elections
    Nuno A M Araújo
    Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    PLoS ONE 5:e12446. 2010
    ..Moreover, the model reproduces, quantitatively, the distribution of votes obtained in the Brazilian mayor elections with two, three, and four candidates...
  33. ncbi Mental health care and the politics of inclusion: a social systems account of psychiatric deinstitutionalization
    Enric J Novella
    Centre for Human and Social Sciences CSIC, C Albasanz 26 28, 28037 Madrid, Spain
    Theor Med Bioeth 31:411-27. 2010
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  34. ncbi A primer on the politics of partnership between education and regulation
    Karen Burke
    Oregon State Board of Nursing, Oregon, USA
    J Prof Nurs 25:349-51. 2009
    ..The work of building relationships, communication, mutual need and goal setting, and trust building are described in the context of innovation within a regulatory environment that can lead to empowerment and change...
  35. ncbi The politics of local hospital reform: a case study of hospital reorganization following the 2002 Norwegian hospital reform
    Trond Tjerbo
    Institute of Health Management and Health Economics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
    BMC Health Serv Res 9:212. 2009
    ..The question raised here is whether this has had any effect on the speed of restructuring of the hospital sector...
  36. ncbi HIV/AIDS and the rest of the global health agenda
    Jeremy Shiffman
    Bull World Health Organ 84:923. 2006
  37. ncbi Overlaps and disconnects in reproductive health care: global policies, national programs, and the micropolitics of reproduction in northern Senegal
    Ellen E Foley
    Department of International Development, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610, USA
    Med Anthropol 26:323-54. 2007
    ..The article points to the slow decline in national fertility rates to explore how family planning initiatives fail to address reproduction in the context of women's socio-economic challenges and cultural and religious fertility ideals...
  38. ncbi Health technology adoption and the politics of governance in the UK
    Timothy Milewa
    Centre for the Study of Health and Illness, Sociology, School of Social Sciences and Law, Brunel University, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK
    Soc Sci Med 63:3102-12. 2006
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  39. ncbi Condoms for sexually transmissible infection prevention: politics versus science
    Adrian Mindel
    Sexually Transmitted Infections Research Centre, Marian Villa, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia
    Sex Health 5:1-8. 2008
    ..However, this has lead to considerable controversy and disillusionment with abstinence-only education, both at home and abroad, and there is now incontrovertible evidence that abstinence-only programs are ineffectual...
  40. ncbi Lauriston S. Taylor lecture: fifty years of scientific research: the importance of scholarship and the influence of politics and controversy
    Robert L Brent
    Thomas Jefferson University, A I duPont Hospital for Children, PO Box 269, Room 308 R1A, Wilmington, DE 19899, USA
    Health Phys 93:348-79. 2007
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  41. ncbi Changing health inequalities in east and west Germany since unification
    Ellen Nolte
    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
    Soc Sci Med 58:119-36. 2004
    ..This suggests that mechanisms involved in the association of socio-economic factors and health possibly behave differently in east and west...
  42. ncbi Science, precaution, and the politics of technological risk: converging implications in evolutionary and social scientific perspectives
    Andy Stirling
    SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, Freeman Centre, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9QE, UK
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1128:95-110. 2008
    ..Risk politics is thus implicitly as much about social choice of technological pathways as narrow issues of safety...
  43. ncbi The politics of publication
    Peter A Lawrence
    MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK
    Nature 422:259-61. 2003
  44. ncbi The political economy of tobacco and poverty alleviation in Southeast Asia: contradictions in the role of the state
    Simon Barraclough
    School of Health, La Trobe University, Victoria 3086, Australia
    Glob Health Promot 17:40-50. 2010
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  45. ncbi Voting behavior is reflected in amygdala response across cultures
    Nicholas O Rule
    Psychology Department, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA
    Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 5:349-55. 2010
    ..These data provide insight to the mechanisms that underlie our snap judgments of others when making voting decisions and provide a neural correlate to cross-cultural consensus in social inferences...
  46. ncbi Sex, drugs, and politics: the HPV vaccine for cervical cancer
    Monica J Casper
    Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
    Sociol Health Illn 30:886-99. 2008
    ..We particularly focus on shifts in US health care and sexual politics, where the vaccine has animated longstanding concerns about vaccination (e.g...
  47. ncbi Contextual priming: where people vote affects how they vote
    Jonah Berger
    Marketing Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:8846-9. 2008
    ..These findings underscore the subtle power of situational context to shape important real-world decisions...
  48. ncbi The genesis of advanced nursing practice in New Zealand: policy, politics and education
    Susan H Jacobs
    Faculty of Health and Sport Science, Eastern Institute of Technology, Taradale
    Nurs Prax N Z 24:11-22. 2008
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  49. ncbi Science, politics and animal health policy: epidemiology in action
    W D Hueston
    Virginia Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland Campus, 8075 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD, USA
    Prev Vet Med 60:3-12. 2003
    ..quot;science-based" decisions, animal health policy most commonly emerges at the interface of science and politics. Too often scientists' disdain for politics limits their involvement in formulating policy...
  50. ncbi Importance of health care issues in 2005 presidential elections in Croatia
    Aleksandar Dzakula
    1Department of Social Medicine and Health Care Organization, Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, Medical School, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    Croat Med J 47:499-502. 2006
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  51. ncbi The sequelae of political violence: assessing trauma, suffering and dislocation in the Peruvian highlands
    Duncan Pedersen
    McGill University, 6875 LaSalle Boulevard, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    Soc Sci Med 67:205-17. 2008
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  52. ncbi Science, politics, and ideology in the campaign against environmental tobacco smoke
    Ronald Bayer
    Program in the History and Ethics of Public Health and Medicine, Division of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
    Am J Public Health 92:949-54. 2002
    ..This strategy was necessitated by the context of American political culture, especially the hostility toward public health interventions that are overtly paternalistic...
  53. ncbi Politics and health outcomes
    Vicente Navarro
    Johns Hopkins University, USA
    Lancet 368:1033-7. 2006
    ..Our analysis makes an empirical link between politics and policy, by showing that political parties with egalitarian ideologies tend to implement redistributive ..
  54. ncbi AIDS into the 21st century: some critical considerations
    E Pisani
    Reprod Health Matters 8:63-76. 2000
    ..The first challenge in the fight against AIDS, as in the fight for development in general, is to support good government...
  55. ncbi Changing fortunes: analysis of fluctuating policy space for family planning in Kenya
    Joanna Crichton
    African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya
    Health Policy Plan 23:339-50. 2008
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  56. ncbi Empirical science meets moral panic: an analysis of the politics of needle exchange
    David Buchanan
    School of Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 10003, USA
    J Public Health Policy 24:427-44. 2003
    ..Based on a case study of the politics of needle exchange in Massachusetts, we argue that proponents of needle exchange have relied almost exclusively ..
  57. ncbi What led to the Nigerian boycott of the polio vaccination campaign?
    Ayodele Samuel Jegede
    University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto, ON, Canada
    PLoS Med 4:e73. 2007
  58. ncbi Uganda AIDS prevention: A,B,C and politics
    Robert W Blum
    Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 2002, USA
    J Adolesc Health 34:428-32. 2004
    ..The empirical bases for both an abstinence-only and a combined (A,B,C) strategy is reviewed; and the political consequences of the debate for both Africa and the United States are explored...
  59. ncbi "Culture of life" politics at the bedside--the case of Terri Schiavo
    George J Annas
    Department of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, USA
    N Engl J Med 352:1710-5. 2005
  60. ncbi The global HIV/AIDS pandemic, structural inequalities, and the politics of international health
    Richard Parker
    Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 600 W 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA
    Am J Public Health 92:343-6. 2002
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  61. ncbi The health alert network: partnerships, politics, and preparedness
    Edward L Baker
    Institute for Public Health, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
    J Public Health Manag Pract 11:574-6. 2005
  62. ncbi Decentralisation and TB control in Nepal: understanding the views of TB control staff
    James Nicholas Newell
    Nuffield Centre for International Health, University of Leeds, 71 75 Clarendon Road, Leeds LS2 9PL, UK
    Health Policy 73:212-27. 2005
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  63. ncbi The politics of belonging and intercultural health care
    Sheryl Reimer Kirkham
    Nursing Department, Trinity Western University, USA
    West J Nurs Res 25:762-80. 2003
    ..The overall picture presented is one of a range of social, political, historical, and economic forces reproduced in everyday intercultural health care encounters...
  64. ncbi Decentralizing rural health services: a case study in China
    S Tang
    International Health Division, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
    Int J Health Plann Manage 15:189-200. 2000
    ..It cautions against unrealistically rapid decentralization of health services in poor rural areas...
  65. ncbi The politics of preventable deaths: local spending, income inequality, and premature mortality in US cities
    C R Ronzio
    Department of Pediatrics, Children s National Medical Center, The George Washington University Research Center VI, Washington, DC 20010, USA
    J Epidemiol Community Health 58:175-9. 2004
    ..To examine the association between (1) local political party, (2) urban policies, measured by spending on local programmes, and (3) income inequality with premature mortality in large US cities...
  66. ncbi Is the gift still good? Examining the politics and regulation of blood safety in the European Union
    Anne Maree Farrell
    School of Law, University of Manchester
    Med Law Rev 14:155-79. 2006
  67. ncbi More politics, stronger consumers? A new division of responsibility for food in the European Union
    Florence Bergeaud-Blackler
    Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, CRIC
    Appetite 47:134-42. 2006
    ..Having described these changes, the paper suggests that a specifically European food policy style is emerging in juxtaposition with 'transatlantic' food policy...
  68. ncbi The changing process and politics of health policy in Korea
    Soonman Kwon
    Seoul National University, Korea
    J Health Polit Policy Law 30:1003-26. 2005
    ..essay compares the three reforms in Korea and draws important lessons about the country's changing process and politics of health care policy...
  69. ncbi The politics of public health policy
    Thomas R Oliver
    Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
    Annu Rev Public Health 27:195-233. 2006
    b>Politics, for better or worse, plays a critical role in health affairs. The purpose of this article is to articulate a role for political analysis of public health issues, ranging from injury and disease prevention to health care reform...
  70. ncbi The grant is what I eat: the politics of social security and disability in the post-apartheid South African state
    Hayley MacGregor
    Social Anthropology, School of Social Sciences and Law, Brunel University, UK
    J Biosoc Sci 38:43-55. 2006
    ..The implications of local understandings of 'health citizenship' for expectations of the post-apartheid state are explored...
  71. ncbi Proximal, distal, and the politics of causation: what's level got to do with it?
    Nancy Krieger
    Professor, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge 717, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Am J Public Health 98:221-30. 2008
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  72. ncbi Politics and independence--the collapse of the Canadian Medical Association Journal
    Miriam Shuchman
    Department of Psychiatry at SUNY-Buffalo, USA
    N Engl J Med 354:1337-9. 2006
  73. ncbi Putting politics first
    Jacob S Hacker
    Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, USA
    Health Aff (Millwood) 27:718-23. 2008
    The greatest lesson of the failure of comprehensive health reform in the early 1990s is that politics comes first. Even the best-laid policy plans are worthless if they lack the political support to pass...
  74. ncbi The political economy of AIDS leadership in developing countries: an exploratory analysis
    Jacob Bor
    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
    Soc Sci Med 64:1585-99. 2007
    ..Models developed in the analysis explain over half of the variation in commitment across the countries in the sample. In particular, press freedoms, income equality, and HIV prevalence stand out as determinants of political commitment...
  75. ncbi Politics is nothing but medicine at a larger scale: reflections on public health's biggest idea
    J P Mackenbach
    Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    J Epidemiol Community Health 63:181-4. 2009
    ..origins and contemporary resonances of Rudolf Virchow's famous statement "Medicine is a social science, and politics nothing but medicine at a larger scale"...
  76. ncbi Predicting elections: child's play!
    John Antonakis
    Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
    Science 323:1183. 2009
    ..Naïve adults judged a pair on competence; after playing a game, children chose who they would prefer to be captain of their boat. Children's (as well as adults') preferences accurately predicted actual election outcomes...
  77. ncbi The politics of obesity: a current assessment and look ahead
    Rogan Kersh
    NYU Wagner School, New York University, 295 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012, USA
    Milbank Q 87:295-316. 2009
    ..Nearly a decade's worth of political debates may be hardening into an obesity issue regime, comprising established sets of cognitive frames, stakeholders, and policy options...
  78. ncbi Association between political ideology and health in Europe
    S V Subramanian
    Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Eur J Public Health 19:455-7. 2009
    ..95, 95% confidence interval 0.94-0.96). Although political ideology per se is unlikely to have a causal link to health, it could be a marker for health-promoting latent attitudes, values and beliefs...
  79. ncbi The law and chronic disease prevention: possibilities and politics
    Roger S Magnusson
    Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Med J Aust 188:104-5. 2008
  80. ncbi Presidential politics and the resurgence of health care reform
    Jonathan Oberlander
    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
    N Engl J Med 357:2101-4. 2007
  81. ncbi The inequalities of medical pluralism: Hierarchies of health, the politics of tradition and the economies of care in Indian oncology
    Alex Broom
    University of Sydney, Australia
    Soc Sci Med 69:698-706. 2009
    ..trajectories in vast social inequalities and, indeed, the intermingling of therapeutic pluralism and the politics of social value...
  82. ncbi Pay for performance in Medicare: evidentiary irony and the politics of value
    Sandra J Tanenbaum
    Ohio State University, USA
    J Health Polit Policy Law 34:717-46. 2009
    ..reasons for Medicare P4P's popularity despite its evidentiary deficiencies and emphasizes its role in the politics of value...
  83. ncbi A public health framework to translate risk factors related to political violence and war into multi-level preventive interventions
    Joop T V M de Jong
    VU University Medical Center, VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Soc Sci Med 70:71-9. 2010
    ..A deeper understanding of the association between risk and protective factors and the developmental pathways of generic, country-specific and culture-specific factors leading to political violence is needed...
  84. ncbi The state of political priority for safe motherhood in India
    J Shiffman
    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244 1020, USA
    BJOG 114:785-90. 2007
    ..An unpredictable confluence of events concerning problem definition, policy alternative generation and politics led to this outcome...
  85. ncbi SARS and New York's Chinatown: the politics of risk and blame during an epidemic of fear
    Laura Eichelberger
    University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, PO Box 210030, Tucson, AZ 85721 0030, USA
    Soc Sci Med 65:1284-95. 2007
    ..This research demonstrates that myriad historical, political, and economic factors shape responses and risk perceptions during an unfamiliar epidemic, even in places without infection...
  86. ncbi Braking the bandwagon: scrutinizing the science and politics of empirically supported therapies
    Steven D Hagemoser
    VA Central Iowa Health Care System, 3600 30th Street, Building 6M, Room 138, Des Moines, IA 50310, USA
    J Psychol 143:601-14. 2009
    ..The author concludes with some cautionary statements about the perils of equating the EST paradigm with the scientist-practitioner ideal...
  87. ncbi The politics and science behind GMO acceptance
    Theodoros H Varzakas
    T H Varzakas Technological Educational Institute of Kalamata, School of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Processing of Agricultural Products, Hellas, Greece
    Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr 47:335-61. 2007
    ..These issues are discussed in this paper along with a case of study of GM fish...
  88. ncbi Ethical challenges related to elder care. High level decision-makers' experiences
    Anna Greta Mamhidir
    Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
    BMC Med Ethics 8:3. 2007
    ..The aim of this paper was to illuminate the meaning of being in ethically difficult situations related to elder care as experienced by high level decision-makers...
  89. ncbi Generating political priority for maternal mortality reduction in 5 developing countries
    Jeremy Shiffman
    Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244 1020, USA
    Am J Public Health 97:796-803. 2007
    ..The experiences of these 5 countries offer guidance on how political priority can be generated for other health causes in developing countries...
  90. ncbi iPS cells and the politics of promise
    Herbert Gottweis
    Nat Biotechnol 26:271-2. 2008
  91. ncbi Decentralization of health systems in Ghana, Zambia, Uganda and the Philippines: a comparative analysis of decision space
    Thomas J Bossert
    Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Health Policy Plan 17:14-31. 2002
    ..There was insufficient evidence of the impact of decentralization to assess how these differences in 'decision space' influenced the performance of each health system. The authors suggest that this is a major area for future research...
  92. ncbi Prevention and promotion in decentralized rural health systems: a comparative study from northeast Brazil
    Sarah Atkinson
    School of Environment and Development, Mansfield Cooper Building, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
    Health Policy Plan 20:69-79. 2005
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  93. ncbi It's a chronic condition. Our current health-care debate is rooted in the 1930s
    Mary Carmichael
    Newsweek 149:43. 2007
  94. ncbi C. Everett Koop, M.D., Sc.D.: a visionary leader of science-based public health policy and tobacco control
    Jack E Henningfield
    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Pinney Associates, Bethesda MD 20814, USA
    Nicotine Tob Res 5:611-2. 2003
  95. ncbi Private wealth and public health: a critique of Richard Epstein's defense of the "old" public health
    William J Novak
    Department of History, University of Chicago, 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
    Perspect Biol Med 46:S176-98. 2003
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  96. ncbi More bills coming due. Although Medicare reform has passed Congress, the final package remains uncertain. And what about the fate of other health legislation?
    Tony Fong
    Mod Healthc 33:28-31. 2003
  97. ncbi The U.S. presidential election and health care workforce policy
    Matthew D McHugh
    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
    Policy Polit Nurs Pract 9:6-14. 2008
    ..Three general themes are highlighted for their implications on the physician and nurse workforce supply, including (a) expansion of health care coverage, (b) workforce investment, and (c) cost control and quality improvement...
  98. ncbi Looking back at the future: why Hillarycare failed
    Vicente Navarro
    Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
    Int J Health Serv 38:205-12. 2008
    ..It is a worrisome sign that these lobbies are financing the campaigns of many of today's presidential candidates...
  99. ncbi Shadow governance: the political construction of health policy leadership
    Lawrence D Brown
    Department of Health Policy and Management, Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, USA
    J Health Polit Policy Law 28:517-24. 2003
  100. ncbi The skeptic's guide to a movement for universal health insurance
    Constance A Nathanson
    Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, USA
    J Health Polit Policy Law 28:443-71. 2003
    ..The prospects for such a conjunction are not hopeless, but they are not high...
  101. ncbi Between welfare medicine and mainstream entitlement: Medicaid at the political crossroads
    Colleen Grogan
    School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, USA
    J Health Polit Policy Law 28:821-58. 2003
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Research Grants72

  1. Defining the Role of Mexican Pharmacies in HIV Prevention-A Mixed Method Approach
    Robin Pollini; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Prior to earning her Ph.D. in epidemiology, the candidate completed training in international politics and spent several years working in health policy positions...
  2. Using Community Participation to Improve the Health System in South India
    KAIVAN MUNSHI; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..The project explores the feasibility of using community volunteers for case management of tuberculosis, a serious infectious disease and a leading cause of death worldwide. ..
  3. PHARMACOLOGY OF ANTICANCER DRUGS IN ADVANCED AGE
    HEINZ LENZ; Fiscal Year: 2003
    ....
  4. Proximal determinants of risk for tularemia outbreaks
    Sam Telford; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ..We seek to test the 'rule of the incumbent' hypothesis: by analogy with politics, F...
  5. ECONOMICS OF MANAGED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE
    Richard Scheffler; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ..The first project proposed here, in particular, lays out that challenge. ..
  6. Parkinson's Disease Gene Therapy Study Group
    Howard Federoff; Fiscal Year: 2006
    ..Focus 5: Development of a hioethics approach to PD gene therapy. PP VIII. "Measuring and Explaining PD Patients' Participation Preferences Regarding Phase I Studies in Gene Transfer Therapy" (PI: Kim). ..
  7. Individualizing cancer predictions via selective voting in convex-hull ensembles
    Ralph L Kodell; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..Not only will this increase the likelihood of successful treatment, but also it can contribute to a better understanding of the underlying cancer processes. ..
  8. Voting Empowerment Study among People with Traumatic Brain Injury
    Mark Hirsch; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ....
  9. Aging and Altruism: Towards a Neuroeconomic Model of Age-Related Changes in Givin
    Ulrich Mayr; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ....
  10. WSTDtv: Adolescent Multimedia STD Prevention Curriculum
    Richard Goldsworthy; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..Intended to address this gap, the effort proposed herein describes the development of WSTDtv - an STD/HIV curriculum for use by teachers in middle school and early secondary school classrooms. ..
  11. WSTDtv: Adolescent Multimedia STD Prevention Curriculum
    Richard Goldsworthy; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Intended to address this gap, the effort proposed herein describes the development of WSTDtv - an STD/HIV curriculum for use by teachers in middle school and early secondary school classrooms. ..
  12. International Conference on Tobacco Induced Diseases
    Denis Kinane; Fiscal Year: 2004
    ..Scientific Sessions: Epidemiology: 1. Magnitude of the problem; 2. The growing pandemic in China; 3. Politics of prevention; 4. Secondhand smoke exposure General pathogenic mechanisms: 5...
  13. Aging and Metacognition in Strategic Skill Acquisition
    Christopher Hertzog; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ....
  14. Social Science Training and Research SMS-HMU Partnership
    Jennifer Hirsch; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..experience in three pilot studies (on masculinity and HIV risk, the social impact of ART scale-up, and the politics of harm reduction)...
  15. Optimizing MDCT display for detection and diagnosis of pulmonary embolism
    Walter F Good; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ....
  16. Optimizing MDCT display for detection and diagnosis of pulmonary embolism
    WALTER GOOD; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ....
  17. Optimizing MDCT display for detection and diagnosis of pulmonary embolism
    WALTER GOOD; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ....
  18. SOCIAL DESIRABILITY EFFECTS ON SELF-REPORTS OF BEHAVIOR
    Mick Couper; Fiscal Year: 2001
    ....
  19. Childhood Neurodevelopmental and Degenerative Disease
    Ira Bergman; Fiscal Year: 2006
    ....