Fall/Winter 2002
Volume 19, Number 2
Policy, Law, and the Public's Health
Tobacco
Prevention and Control in Washington State: A Comprehensive
Approach
Victor Colman and Brenda Suiter
Successful tobacco prevention and control takes sustained, 
resourceful, and collaborative efforts among tobacco prevention partners
as well as state and local policy makers.
Alaska
Comes Up for Fresh Air
Caroline Cremo Renner
Sparked by a group of fifth-graders, the Alaska clean air movement in
Bethel soon met with wide-spread community support.
Assessing
Washington's HIV/AIDS Policy for the New Millennium
Jack Jourden and Maria Courogen
Effective policy review can reveal where a policy works and where it
needs to be updated. Even more importantly, an effective review process
can uncover issues that remain untouched by the policies under review.
HIV
Reporting: Balancing Privacy and Public Benefit
Melvin Kohn and Mark Loveless
Name-based reporting on HIV/AIDS has always been controversial, but
Oregon's HIV program developed a successful reporting system that protects
privacy and gathers accurate data.
Short-term
Gain, Long-term Loss: Fiscal and Public Health Policies Clash in
Idaho (also in Adobe
PDF)
Jim Girvan
Raiding the funds dedicated for public health programs
severely compromises any opportunity Idaho might have to realize
tobacco-related savings in the future.
Local
Health Department Targets Preventive Oral Health Policies
Greg Oliver
What does a strapped local health departments do about access to oral
health care for low-income people, particularly when there is no new
funding?
The
Model Emergency Health Powers Act: Why Is It Important Now?
James G. Hodge, Jr., and Lawrence O. Gostin
Two of the Model Act's authors address issues raised in a
critique of the Act in the spring issue of Northwest Public
Health.
Gender-Based
Violence Challenges the Public Health Community
Adesegun Fatusi and Bolanle Oyeledun
Gender-based violence has recently been recognized as a priority
global public health problem. Public health workers are particularly
well-equipped to bring local solutions to this serious global problem.
Evaluating
the New Electronic Disease Surveillance Systems
Bryant T. Karras, William B. Lober, and Gregory T. Smith
Public health's new-found prominence has made it the latest hot
prospect for many software vendors. Here's a checklist for evaluating
these
new disease surveillance packages.
Viewpoint.
Political Paradoxes of Public Health: In Pursuit of Stable Funding
Christopher Jones
A coalition of public health professionals has formed a new
statewide
coalition to obtain sufficient stable state funding for public health.
Policy
Watch. Medicaid on the Line: States Juggle Medicaid Dollars
As Congress debates proposals to increase Medicare spending
for a prescription drug benefit, most states are considering how to
cut Medicaid spending. Why should public health practitioners and
advocates care about Medicaid?
In
Brief
New bioterrorism training materials
Northwest Public Health Leadership Institute
Northwest
Region at a Glance
Smoking rates, smoking-related medical expenditures, and
smoking-related death rates.
