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Plague, Policy, Saints and Terrorists: A Historical Survey
Journal of Infection, 2002Plague is an infectious disease of humans and animals caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. During the Middle Ages millions of people in Europe died from plague, whose current mortality-if untreated-ranges from 50% to 90%. The plague has been a great protagonist in history because it has often been grimly present in the collective events of humans ...
LIPPI, DONATELLA, CONTI, ANDREA
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An Historical Perspective on Home Care Policy
The Milbank Quarterly, 1993Although home care has received increased policy attention in recent years, the health services literature does not offer a historical perspective. The way home care is viewed and the nature of its support have changed significantly, yet history also suggests continuity.
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The Historical Foundations of the Policy
1979Prior to 1955, the establishment of full and cordial relations with Egypt and the other states of the developing East was not high on the list of Soviet objectives. Rather, priorities lay more with domestic economic growth and the establishment of a socialist order in the industrialised West. Nevertheless, both geographically and demographically Russia
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A Primer for Nurses on the Historical Policy of Redlining
Journal of Pediatric Health CareThe long-term impact of social and political policies can leave a legacy of unanticipated consequences that affect future generations. Redlining is a policy that, decades later, continues to fuel poor social determinants of health, resulting in health disparities.
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China's space policy-a historical review
Space Policy, 1991Abstract The political and economic climate in China has changed often and wildly since the country's space programme was founded. Nevertheless the programme has remained remarkably stable and achieved major successes. This article traces the programme's history in the context of the four major periods through which it has lived and offers an ...
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Explaining drug policy: Towards an historical sociology of policy change
International Journal of Drug Policy, 2011The goal of seeking to understand the development over time of drug policies is a specific version of the more general intellectual project of finding ways of explaining social change. The latter has been a preoccupation of some of the greatest thinkers within the social sciences of the last 200 years, from Foucault all the way back to the three ...
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Historical and policy approaches
2004AbstractThis chapter develops a historical understanding of “health promotion” at three different levels. First, it looks at how the term “health promotion” fits into changing definitions of public health and the rationales for those definitions since the 18th century. It then examines a more short-term form of historical evaluation, looking at how the
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A Historical Survey of Nonproliferation Policies
International Security, 1977When Hahn's paper reached this country about a fortnight ago, a few of us got interested in the question whether neutrons are liberated in the desintegration of uranium. Obviously if more than one neutron was liberated, a sort of chain reaction would be possible.
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The Historical Development of Standard Policies
The Journal of Risk and Insurance, 1968Standard insurance policies have historically played an important role in the operation of the insurance business. With the possibility of Federal regulation of the business, the development of new products and new marketing methods, standard policies may become more important in the future.
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