CONTENTS

Part 1. Overview of Public Health
Introduction
1. Bernard Turnock, “What is Public Health?” from Essentials of Public Health
2. Larry Gostin et al., “The Law and the Public’s Health: The Foundations” from Law in Public Health Practice
3. Case law: Jacobson v. Massachusetts (validity of state mandatory vaccine law)
4. Case law: DeShaney v. Winnebago County Social Services Department (public welfare and the “negative Constitution”)
5. Case law: Town of Castle Rock, Colorado v. Gonzales (public welfare and the “negative Constitution”)
6. Executive Summary from The Future of the Public’s Health in the 21st Century

Part 2. Health Care Quality
Introduction
7. Executive Summary from Crossing the Quality Chasm
8. Elizabeth McGlynn et al., “The Quality of Health Care Delivered to Adults in the United States” from New England Journal of Medicine
9. Summary from Unequal Treatment
10. Case law: Canterbury v. Spence (patient-oriented standard of informed consent)
11. Case law: Jones v. Chicago (managed care liability for institutional negligence)

Part 3. Policy, Law, Medicine, and Ethics
Introduction
12. Carol Levine, “Analyzing Pandora’s Box: The History of Bioethics” from The Ethics of Bioethics
13. James Childress et al., “Public Health Ethics: Mapping the Terrain”
14. Case law: Roe v. Wade (constitutional right to abortion)
15. Case law: Planned Parenthood v. Casey (validity of Pennsylvania abortion statute)
16. The Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act
17. Case law: Gonzales v. Carhart (constitutionality of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act)
18. Case law: Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health (constitutional right to withdraw life-sustaining treatment)
19. Case law: Washington v. Glucksberg (physician-assisted suicide)
20. Case law: Vacco v. Quill (physician-assisted suicide)
21. The Oregon Death With Dignity Act statute, regulations, and state’s report on its use
22. Case law: Gonzalez v. Oregon (physician-assisted suicide)

Part 4. Rethinking the Public Health and Health Care Systems
Introduction
23. James Morone, “Morality, Politics, and Health Policy” from Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care
24. Thomas Rice, “Can Markets Give Us the Health System We Want?”
25. Sara Wilensky and Dylan Roby, “Health Centers and Health Insurance: Complements, Not Alternatives”
26. Bruce Siegel, Marsha Regenstein, and Peter Shin, “Health Reform and the Safety Net: Big Opportunities; Major Risks”
27. Sara Collins, Karen Davis, and Jennifer Kriss, “ An Analysis of Leading Congressional Health Care Bills, 2005-2007: Part 1, Insurance Coverage
28. State Coverage Initiative, “State of the States: Building Hope, Raising Expectations”
29. Lawrence Brown, “Comparing Health Systems in Four Countries: Lessons for the United States”
30. Karen Davis, invited testimony to the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, “Learning from high performance health systems around the globe”

Part 5. Tools for Health Policy Analysis
Introduction
31. Gail Wilensky, “Framing the Public Policy Question: Financial Incentives for Efficiency and Effectiveness”
32. Selections from Department of Health and Human Services Regulations on Standards for Privacy and Individually Identifiable Health Information as required by the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act
33. State Medicaid Director Letter concerning the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005
34. Department of Health and Human Services 2008 Budget in Brief concerning Medicaid and SCHIP
35. Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate concerning the Improving Head Start Act of 2007
36. New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Board of Health, Amendment to the New York City Health Code, concerning phasing out artificial trans-fat in New York City food services establishments
37. Edwin Park and Matt Broaddus, “SCHIP Reuthorization: President’s Budget Would Provide Less than Half the Funds that States Need to Maintain SCHIP Enrollment.”