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25 2004 Numbers 3-4
THEORY IS THE EYE OF PRACTICE
LETTER
FROM THE EDITORS: OUR NEW PUBLISHER
SPECIAL
SECTION: CHANGING THE DEBATE ABOUT HEALTH RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT
Changing the Debate about Health Research for Development
Abrahams, N., Adhikari, R., Bhagwat, I. P., Christofides,
N., Djibuti, M., et al.
The
International Health Research Award recipients present their provocative
thoughts about how to improve capacity for health research in developing
countries.
Access to Essential Drugs in 11 Brazilian Cities: A Community-based
Evaluation and Action Method
Margô
Gomes de Oliveira Karnikowski, Otávio de Toledo Nóbrega,
Janeth de Oliveira Silva Naves, and Lynn Dee Silver
These
researchers used their study of the availability of essential drugs
to stimulate consumer action in Brazilian cities.
ARTICLES
Reducing
Maternal Mortality: Can we derive policy guidance from developing
country experiences?
Jerker
Liljestrand and Indra Pathmanathan
Sri Lanka and Malaysia have achieved low rates of maternal mortality
and it was not by accident. These researchers describe the roots
of this success.
Controlling Cigarette Smoking in the Workplace in Taiwan:
Opportunities and Challenges
Chi P. Wen, Susan C. Hu, Sheu-Jen Huang, Shan P. Tsai,
and Ting-Yuan Cheng
Workplace smoking is both a source of exposure to tobacco smoke
and an opportunity to reduce smoking more broadly. The Taiwan example
is illustrative.
Modifying National Malaria Treatment Policies in Peru
Trenton K. Ruebush II, Daniel Neyra, and César
Cabezas
Good information about drug resistance in malaria parasites
made it possible to improve programs more effectively. Peru, dominated
by public programs, has shown how.
SPECIAL SECTION: LEGAL APPROACHES TO THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC
Law-legislation,
regulation and litigation at the local, national, and international
levels-can be a powerful process for shaping health policy in general
and the food environment in particular. Heath policy decision-makers
in the United States, both government and private, have been slow
to make use of this process in designing obesity control programs.
The papers presented in this Special Section address these and other
aspects of the role of law in countering the obesity epidemic.
Legal Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic: An introduction
Ben
Kelley and Jason A. Smith
The Obesity Epidemic in the United States
Allison C. Morrill and Christopher D. Chinn
Food Marketing to Children in the Context of a Marketing
Maelstrom
Susan E. Linn
Legislative Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic
Rachel I. Weiss, Cheryl L. Hayne, and Jason A. Smith
Regulating Environments to Reduce Obesity
Cheryl L. Hayne, Patricia A. Moran, and Mary M. Ford
Private
Enforcement: Litigation as a Tool to Prevent Obesity
Richard A. Daynard, P. Tim Howard, and Cara L. Wilking
Confronting the Epidemic: The Need for Global Solutions
Neville J. Rigby, Shiriki Kumanyika, and W. Phillip
T. James
BOOK REVIEWS
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
by John M. Barry
Reviewed by Stephen C. Schoenbaum
Science in the Private Interest: Has the Lure of Profits
Corrupted Biomedical Research? by Sheldon Krimsky
Reviewed by Peter Lurie
Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive
Justice by Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta
Ross, and Elena Gutiérrez
Reviewed
by Meredeth Turshen
Margret Sanger: Her Life in Her Words by Miriam
Reed
Reviewed by Paula Tavrow
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