Themed Issue

Themed Issue: Prevention Politics and Public Health Governance

Editor's Note

Colleen M. Grogan

The Hidden Strength of Prevention Politics

Politics of Prevention

Rick Mayes and Thomas R. Oliver

Chronic Disease and the Shifting Focus of Public Health: Is Prevention Still a Political Lightweight?

Adam Oliver and Lawrence D. Brown

A Consideration of User Financial Incentives to Address Health Inequalities

Narratives of Prevention

Lars Thorup Larsen

The Leap of Faith from Disease Treatment to Lifestyle Prevention: The Genealogy of a Policy Idea

Steven Ney

Making Sense of the Global Health Crisis: Policy Narratives, Conflict, and Global Health Governance

Public Health Governance

Peter D. Jacobson, Jeffrey Wasserman, Anda Botoseneanu, Amy Silverstein, and Helen W. Wu

The Role of Law in Public Health Preparedness: Opportunities and Challenges

Behind the Jargon

Colleen M. Grogan

Prevention Spending

Books

Reviews

Michael K. Gusmano

/ The Politics of Medicaid / Medicaid Everyone Can Count On: Public Choices for Equity and Efficiency

/The Politics of Medicaid/–by Olson Laura Katz.

/Medicaid Everyone Can Count On: Public Choices for Equity and Efficiency–by Grannemann Thomas W. and Pauly Mark V..

John D. Chappell

/ Under the Radar: Cancer and the Cold War. Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series / Contested Medicine: Cancer Research and the Military

/Under the Radar: Cancer and the Cold War/–by Leopold Ellen.

/Contested Medicine: Cancer Research and the Military/–by Kutcher Gerald.

Books Received

Contributors