New Journal

World Medical & Health Policy

 

http://www.psocommons.org/wmhp

 

The Policy Studies Organization (PSO) and Berkeley Electronic Press are pleased to announce the launch of a new peer-reviewed journal, World Medical & Health Policy.

The journal fills a unique niche at the intersection of politics, policy, research, medicine and global public health. The Editors hope that this first issue, with notable contributors from around the world and a distinguished group of expert advisors, will help to shed light on some of the difficult decisions health care providers make on a routine basis.

Articles in the journal's first issue analyze the impact of H1N1, health system reconstruction in Iraq, tobacco control, and several issues of social responsibility. You may access any of the articles below at no charge.

Editorials

Editorial

Arnauld Nicogossian, Otmar Kloiber, Tom Zimmerman, and Naoru Koizumi


Invited Articles

Current Global Trends in Medical Professionalism

Jeff Blackmer

U.S.A. Tobacco Control: Six Lessons in Public Policy for Medical and Science Professionals

Catherine E. Rudder and A. Lee Fritschler

A Community Health System Response to the Pandemic of Novel H1N1

Scott Cornier, Edward J. Septimus, Julia Moody, and Jonathan B. Perlin

Personalized Medicine and Its Ethical Challenges

Paul Root Wolpe

Training and Supply of Japanese Physicians: An Impending Crisis?

Kazuyoshi Yajima


Letters and Commentaries

Reflections on Public Policy and Medicine

Kingsley E. Haynes

Commentary for the Inaugural Issue

Paul J. Rich


Original Articles

The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Why Today is Not 1918

Gregory D. Koblentz

Comparative Analysis of Health Insurance Systems in the United States and South Korea

Soogwan Doh and Benjamin R. Cole


Policy Forum

Professional Governance and the Practice of Medicine: A Matter of Civil Engagement and Social Responsibility

Otmar Kloiber

Health System Reconstruction in Iraq - The Way Ahead: A Report from the Iraq Health Symposium, May 20-21, 2008

David A. Tarantino Jr., Melinda J. Morton, Akhila Kosaraju, Shakir Jawad, and S. Ward Casscells


Book Reviews

Creeping Punji Sticks: A Review of Six-Legged Soldiers

Kevin Hallock

A Review of David Watts' Bedside Manners

Jeremy D. Mayer and Naoru Koizumi

Book Reviews

Arnauld Nicogossian


In the News

In The News

Michelle Kloc, Arnauld Nicogossian, and William Jacobs

About this journal

World Medical & Health Policy studies the ways that public policy affects the practice of medicine. Though medical practice itself focuses on the individual patient, it occurs in an increasingly complex and increasingly global environment governed by macro-level policy decisions as well as social and economic contexts. Diseases, patients, treatments, doctors, and medical technology spread and travel around the world, and medical practice is now as much subject to global policy decisions as it is to micro-level clinical practices. The mission of World Medical & Health Policy is to publish evidence-based research on the intersection of public policy and medical practice, and to translate it into policy implications and recommendations. Edited by a group of medical doctors, medical researchers, and policy scholars from the World Medical Association and George Mason University, the journal helps clinicians navigate the often tangled world of policies, regulation, and medical ethics, procedures, and helps policymakers design policies that improve health outcomes.

Edited by

Arnauld Nicogossian
George Mason University

Otmar Kloiber
World Medical Association

Thomas Zimmerman
International Society of Microbial Resistance

Anatoly Grigoriev
Russian Academy of Sciences

Naoru Koizumi
George Mason University

Submit your next paper!
The editors of World Medical & Health Policy invite your submissions on topics germane to the mission of the journal. Please visit the Aims & Scope page for more information.
 

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