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Public health and economics : externalities, rivalries, excludability, and politics / Sherry Glied -- The limits of relying on employers in an intersectoral public health partnership / Dennis P. Scanlon and Marianne H. Hillemeier -- Speaking for the public : the ambivalent quest of twentieth-century public health / Nancy Tomes -- Environmental health as a core public health component / Phil Brown -- Paternalism and its discontents : motorcycle helmet laws, libertarian values, and public health / Marian Moser Jones and Ronald Bayer -- Prevention strategies and public health : individual and structural prevention in homelessness / William McAllister, Mary Clare Lennon, and Iðsil ðCelimli -- Dealing with Humpty Dumpty : research, practice, and the ethics of public health surveillance / Amy L. Fairchild -- Health production : a common framework to unify public health and medicine / Alvin R. Tarlov -- The challenge of 9/11 to the ideologies of population and public health / David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz -- Public health preparedness : evolution or revolution? / Nicole Lurie, Jeffrey Wasserman, and Christopher D. Nelson -- Blown away : health care, health coverage, and public health after 9/11 and Katrina / Beatrix Hoffman

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Primera Jornada de Catalogacion.
Salud pública--Estados Unidos.
Gobierno federal--Estados Unidos.
Medical policy--United States.
Public health--United States.
Attitude to Health--United States.
Dissent and Disputes--United States.
Federal Government--United States.
Politique sanitaire--âEtats-Unis--1990-....

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