Analyzes the origins, history, status, and future of health care as problems in political and economic theory and as puzzles in policy formation. Considers current American reform controversies in the light of several disciplines and in comparison to foreign experiences and structures.
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Reviews the major human physiological systems and their integrated toxicological functions; considers key bodily defenses; and discusses classic, emerging, and ambiguous risks; in all ecological context. Applies to scientific controversy, the methods of policy formation, such as risk analysis, social-cost analysis, "outcomes" analysis, and decision analysis, all in political-economic context.
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Evaluates development — cultural, agricultural, industrial, social, economic, and political — as a bringer of disease prevention and treatment and as a bringer of disease itself, from acute infections and poisonings to chronic conditions attributable to the "westernization" of diets. Assesses development’s uncertain resilience in disaster and the developed world’s uneven response to disasters of various sorts — political, economic, environmental, geophysical, meteorological, nutritional, epidemic, epizootic, epiphytotic — with particular attention paid to the performance of national agencies, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, institutions, charities, professions, and activists.
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School Authors: R. H. Sprinkle
Other Authors: Devon C. Payne-Sturges
School Authors: David Mussington, R. H. Sprinkle
Other Authors: Jodi Benenson, Cynthia Baur, David Mussington (6696), R. H. Sprinkle (1216)
School Authors: David Mussington, R. H. Sprinkle
Other Authors: David Mussington (6696), R. H. Sprinkle (1216)
School Authors: R. H. Sprinkle