President's page: Politics and preventive care

Presidents and Parties in Regional Politics : Italy and Spain Compared

President's Page: looking beyond the politics of health care reform.

So here we are— hoping that Congress has the will to create a new health care system that solves delivery problems, but once again gearing up to fight physician reimbursement issues, the sustained growth revenuemandated cuts, and attacks on Stark exemptions. y original intention with this column was to comment on how this is a year of health care reform. Below this brief commentary, which becam...

A Comment on Presidents and the Politics of Structure

Preventive War and Democratic Politics

I define the concept of preventive war, distinguish it from preemption and other sources of better-now-than-later logic, and examine numerous conceptual issues that confound theoretical and empirical analyses of prevention. I then consider the argument that democracies rarely if ever adopt preventive war strategies because such strategies are contrary to the preferences of democratic publics an...

Introducing a One-page Adult Preventive Health Care Schedule: USPSTF Recommendations at a Glance.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is an independent voluntary panel of experts in primary care, prevention, and evidence-based practice. As of April 2016, the USPSTF has recommendation statements for more than 80 active topics, most of which are endorsed by the American Academy of Family Physicians.1 Its process has been recognized by the Institute of Medicine as a model for deve...