Planning Articles & Essays

Selected articles and essays on topics relevant to health planning and policy professionals. All items are in Adobe Acobat format (PDF) unless otherwise noted.
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Health Planning

• Health Planning is Alive and Well
• New Voices: Consumerism in Health Care
• Massachusetts Health Professionals
• New Health Planning for the New Millenium
• Health Planning Book Published
   

Regulation

• Is This Any Way to Do Health Planning
• A Brief History of " Report Cards"
• CON Trends in America: A Panorama of Change
• Deregulation in New Jersey
• Regulating in the Public Interest:The Quality of Nursing Care
• Policy Perspective March 2007
• Also see CON Articles and Essays
   

Public Health

• The Vision of Public Health in the 21st Century
• Protecting Our Communities
• COMMUNITY: The Fourth Dimension in Public Health
• With Liberty and Justice for All?
• Community Health Planning and National Public Health Performance Standards
• It's Public Health, Stupid!
• A Bit of History...
• The Primacy of Public Health
   

Health Policy

• States & Health Care Reform: Solutions or Illusions?
• Asking the Right Question
• The End of the Social Contract
• Universal Health Care II     
• Universal Health Care
• Don't Tread on Me
• Managed Care, Regulatory Oversight, and Health Planning: Challenges for a New Age
• Conditions for Failure
• What Needs to Be Reformed
• An International Report Card
• Health Care Reform in New York State: Looking Forward and Looking Backward