Introduction
Cigarette Smoking
Substance Abuse
Infectious Disease
Racial Disparities in Health and Mortality
Children-at-Risk
Teenage Pregnancy and Childbearing
Conclusion
Bibliography
Provides a wealth of information for health care policy planners and reveals the critical interplay between economics and the serious public health issues facing our society. John C. Duffy, M.D. Assistant Surgeon General U.S. Public Health Service This data-rich work examines today's most compelling and controversial public health issues, including alcohol and drug abuse, AIDS, abortion, black and infant mortality, drug-affected babies, child abuse, teenage pregnancy, and cigarette smoking. Hammerle's theme is that individual behavioral choices often have far-reaching and costly effects. When practiced by large numbers of people, the human and fiscal costs can be monumental, taxing virtually all our social systems as well as our financial resources. Hammerle enumerates these costs and, employing economic analytic tools, recommends public policies that will reduce the incidence of such behavior or otherwise reduce its social cost. CONTENTS:Introduction; Cigarette Smoking; Substance Abuse; Infectious Disease; Racial Disparities in Health and Mortality; Children-at-Risk; Teenage Pregnancy and Childbearing; Conclusion; Bibliography. Nancy Hammerle is Assistant Professor of Economics at Stonehill College in Massachusetts.
NANCY HAMMERLE is Assistant Professor of Economics at Stonehill College in Massachusetts.
." . . provides a wealth of information for health care policy
planners and reveals the critical interplay between economics and
the serious public health issues facing our society."-John C.
Duffy, M.D. Assistant Surgeon General U.S. Public Health
Service
?I hasten to add that this book should be read by those involved in
public health policy. The author's analysis is informative and her
work offers an important database for guiding broad choices of
emphasis for public policy around important questions of social and
health risk.?-Inquiry
?Recommended as a concise reference for all levels of academic
audience interested in health care and health-care
policy.?-Choice
?This text provides the best economic analysis of public health
issues this reviewer has seen. The six chapters on (1) Cigarette
Smoking, (2) Substance Abuse, (3) Infectious Diseases, (4) Racial
Disparities in Health and Mortality, (5) Children at Risk, and (6)
Teenage Pregnancy and Childbearing are outstanding. . . . This text
will be of great value to academics, practitioners, and
policy-makers in the fields of public health, health care
administration, public policy, child protection, and family
planning. Economists and sociologists in the field of social
welfare, as well as lay persons who are concerned about these
timely public health issues, will also find it useful and
interesting. I will require it of all my graduate students involved
in health related research activities.?-Journal of Health & Social
Policy
"I hasten to add that this book should be read by those involved in
public health policy. The author's analysis is informative and her
work offers an important database for guiding broad choices of
emphasis for public policy around important questions of social and
health risk."-Inquiry
"Recommended as a concise reference for all levels of academic
audience interested in health care and health-care
policy."-Choice
"This text provides the best economic analysis of public health
issues this reviewer has seen. The six chapters on (1) Cigarette
Smoking, (2) Substance Abuse, (3) Infectious Diseases, (4) Racial
Disparities in Health and Mortality, (5) Children at Risk, and (6)
Teenage Pregnancy and Childbearing are outstanding. . . . This text
will be of great value to academics, practitioners, and
policy-makers in the fields of public health, health care
administration, public policy, child protection, and family
planning. Economists and sociologists in the field of social
welfare, as well as lay persons who are concerned about these
timely public health issues, will also find it useful and
interesting. I will require it of all my graduate students involved
in health related research activities."-Journal of Health & Social
Policy
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