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Public knowledge and attitudes to AIDS

Public Health, 1989
Three independent cross-sectional surveys of public knowledge and attitudes about AIDS were conducted on a representative sample of people aged 15-54 resident in Wales. 1,303 were interviewed in their homes in February 1987, 683 in September 1987 and 676 in March 1988.
D, Nutbeam, J C, Catford, S A, Smail, C, Griffiths   +3 more
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Public awareness of AIDS in Rwanda

Social Science & Medicine, 1987
AIDS is a rapidly growing epidemic in Kigali, Rwanda. To understand the level of public awareness of AIDS in that city, 33 informants (15 men and 18 women) were interviewed during September, 1985. Most (66.7%) said that they first heard of the disease only within the previous eight months. About half (46.9%) could not mention one or more AIDS symptoms.
D A, Feldman, S R, Friedman, D C, Des Jarlais   +2 more
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AIDS and the Threat to Public Health

The Hastings Center Report, 1985
This article discusses problematic ethical issues such as sexual identity medical confidentiality civil liberties and discrimination raised by the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). In the absence of an effective treatment or vaccine education has been the dominant weapon against AIDS.
M F, Silverman, D B, Silverman
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Public Policy and Aids

Clinics in Perinatology, 1994
In summary of some of the major issues raised by AIDS (Table 1), social, political, and economic forces all impact on the global outbreak of AIDS. Conversely the epidemiologic and medical realities of this disease have forced a reconsideration of moral and ethical values, prioritization of resource allocation, and pervasion of virtually every aspect of
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Public policy, federalism, and AIDS

Death Studies, 1988
The AIDS epidemic poses important challenges to the American political system. In the context of AIDS, relationships between the public and private sectors as well as those among federal, state, and local governments have had a significant impact in shaping the nations response to the epidemic. The character of health policy in the United States has in
A E, Benjamin, P R, Lee
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Public Aid

Urban Life, 1986
This article examines public aid among strangers in public places—that is, instances of helping behavior among the unacquainted that are the right of citizens to expect and the duty of citizens to provide. Structurally, public aid encounters involve acts of petitioning and acts of granting; the aid that may be exchanged through such acts involves ...
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AIDS, Public Policy and Biomedical Research

Chest, 1984
The current epidemic of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) raises numerous public policy concerns for the medical community. The issues can be divided into two groups. Those concerns which require both immediate action and results are referred to as short-term issues. Those issues whose results will not be forthcoming for an indefinite time are
Sandra Panem, S. Woolen
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AIDS: Bioethics and public policy

New Review of Bioethics, 2003
(2003). AIDS: Bioethics and public policy. New Review of Bioethics: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 127-144.
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Public Choice and Economic Aid

Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1990
A major development in the analysis of government economic policies in the developed countries has been the rise of the public choice school. The essence of this approach is the application of the same basic assumptions that are used in the study of consumers and producers to political decision makers.
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