Health Policy and the Disadvantaged

232 Pages·1991·9.6 MB·English

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Health Policy
and the Disadvantaged

Health Policy
and the Disadvantaged
Edited by
Lawrence D. Brown
Duke University Press
Durham and London 1991
The text of this book was originally published, in a slightly
different form and without the present index, as volume 15,
number 2 of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
©1991 Duke University Press
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Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper °°
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Health policy and the disadvantaged / edited by Lawrence D. Brown,
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8223-1138-0 : $29.95. — ISBN 0-8223-1142-9 : $12.95
1.Health policy—United States. 2. Handicapped—United States—
Health and hygiene. 3. Poor—United States—Health and hygiene.
I. Brown, Lawrence D. (Lawrence David), 1947-
RA395.A3H438 1991
362.1'0425—dc20 91-21831
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Contents \°\*\\
Introduction 1
Deborah A. Stone and Theodore R. Marmor
Health Care of the Disadvantaged: The Elderly 6
Judith Feder
Child Health Policy in the U.S.: The Paradox of Consensus 17
Alice Sardell
Health Care and the Homeless: A Political Parable for Our Time 54
Bruce C. Vladeck
Domestic Food Policy in the United States 67
Michael Lipsky and Marc A. Thibodeau
Chronic Disease and Disadvantage: The New Politics of
HIV Infection 89
Daniel M. Fox
Health Care Policy Issues in the Drug Abuser Treatment Field 105
William E. McAuliffe and Kathleen Ackerman
Mental Health Policy for the 1990s: Tinkering in the Interstices 143
M. Gregg Bloche and Francine Cournos
The Medically Uninsured: Problems, Policies, and Politics 169
Lawrence D. Brown
The Deconstructed Center: Of Policy Plagues on Political Houses 184
Lawrence D. Brown
Epilogue: Tales of Trouble 192
James A. Morone
Index 197