"This book describes the public health system in broad strokes in order to focus the reader on basic public health goals, principles, structures, and practices. The context in which public health is practiced today has changed considerably since its historic roots in the Industrial Revolution of...

The Settings for Health Care Delivery -- The People Who Provide Health Care -- Medicines, Devices, and Technology -- Government and the Health Care System -- Financing the Health Care System -- Health Care System Performance -- Debates That Have Structured Health Care System Change -- History of...

The settings for health care delivery -- The people who provide health care -- Government and the health care system -- Financing the health care system -- Health care system performance -- Debates and conflicts that have structured health care change -- History of change from 1990 to the...

This study tests a path model which indicates the occurrence of appraisal following the accident at Three Mile Island (TMI). The model posits a causal relationship between trust in TMI-related authorities, perceived danger, perceived harm to health, and psychological distress. The implications...