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Obesity and Public Policy

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2012
There is a pressing need to reduce both the prevalence and impact of obesity. This review begins with a discussion of the roles of treatment and prevention. Two overriding issues, weight bias and the addictive nature of food, are covered because of their importance not only to the individuals affected but also to public policy.
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Media and public policy

2018
Mass media has taken on an increasingly influential role with respect to the design, implementation and critical evaluation of public policy. This chapter explores the many ways in which media “matters” to the policy process, by highlighting media’s traditionally limited role in the scholarly literature on public policy, then moving on to a wider ...
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Public Policy (Studies)

2020
Public policy is a specific branch of policy studies, having as its field of research a specific definition of the sociopolitical phenomenon intended as policy. To define public policy, it is necessary to start from the fact that labels like policy studies, policy sciences, policy analysis, policy inquiry, and public policy are often used synonymously.
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Public comment and public policy

American Journal of Political Science
AbstractIs public policy responsive to demographically and ideologically unrepresentative comments given at public meetings? I investigate this possibility using a novel data set of over 40,000 comments made at the San Francisco Planning Commission between 1998 and 2021, matched to information about proposed developments discussed in hearings and ...
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Cholesterol and public policy

Atherosclerosis, 1994
Cholesterol lowering in both primary and secondary prevention has been clearly demonstrated to lower coronary morbidity and, in secondary prevention, to lower coronary mortality as well. Putative dangers of cholesterol lowering remain unproven. Population studies linking low cholesterol to noncoronary mortalities do not demonstrate cause-and-effect ...
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Smoking and Public Policy

New England Journal of Medicine, 1984
The federal government has long engaged in a political balancing act to accommodate the conflicting forces that debate the shape of public policies affecting the use of tobacco in the United States...
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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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Pain and Public Policy

New England Journal of Medicine, 2000
Some physicians, patients, and policy makers conceive of illness in purely biologic terms. According to this view, social, economic, and legal forces are irrelevant to symptoms and behavior; only t...
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Public policy-making.

2002
AbstractThis chapter provides an introduction to public decision-making processes, particularly in leisure, sport and tourism. The following are discussed: international dimensions of public policy; formal national constitutions; other institutions involved in leisure, sport and tourism policy making and implementation; theoretical models and ...
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