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Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine
Advances in Virus Research, Volume 108, in this ongoing series,
highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume
presenting interesting chapters on topics including Virus
infections of the developing brain, Geminivirus assembly,
Flavivirus assembly, Cell-cell transmission, Archael virus
assembly, Potyvirus assembly, Poxvirus assembly and exit, Mycovirus
assembly, Reo/orbivirus assembly and exit, Giant virus assembly,
Quasi-enveloped virus assembly/exit, and Betaherpesvirus assembly
and exit.
The existence of health inequities across racial, ethnic, gender,
and class lines in the United States has been well documented. Less
well understood have been the attempts of major institutions,
health programs, and other public policy domains to eliminate these
inequities. This issue, a collaboration with the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research
Program, brings together respected historians, political
scientists, economists, sociologists, and legal scholars to focus
on the politics and challenges of achieving health equity in the
United States. Articles in this issue address the historical,
legal, and political contexts of health equity in the United
States. Contributors examine the role of the courts in shaping
health equity; document the importance of political discourse in
framing health equity and establishing agendas for action; look
closely at particular policies to reveal current challenges and the
potential to achieve health equity in the future; and examine
policies in both health and nonhealth domains, including state
Medicaid programs, the use of mobile technology, and education and
immigration policies. The issue concludes with a commentary on the
future of health equity under the Trump administration and an
analysis of how an ACA repeal would impact health equity.
Contributors. Alan B. Cohen, Keon L. Gilbert, Daniel Q. Gillion,
Colleen M. Grogan, Mark A. Hall, Jedediah N. Horwitt, Tiffany D.
Joseph, Alana M.W. LeBron, Julia F. Lynch, Jamila D. Michener,
Vanessa Cruz Nichols, Francisco Pedraza, Isabel M. Perera, Rashawn
Ray, Jennifer D. Roberts, Sara Rosenbaum, Sara Schmucker, Abigail
A. Sewell, Deborah Stone, Keith Wailoo
Government interest in wellbeing as an explicit goal of public
policy has increased significantly in recent years. This has led to
new developments in measuring wellbeing and initiatives aimed
specifically at enhancing wellbeing, that reflect new thinking on
'what matters' and challenge established notions of societal
progress. The Politics and Policy of Wellbeing provides the first
theoretically grounded and empirically informed account of the rise
and significance of wellbeing in contemporary politics and policy.
Drawing on theories of agenda-setting and policy change, Ian Bache
and Louise Reardon consider whether wellbeing can be described as
'an idea whose time has come'. The book reflects on developments
across the globe and provides a detailed comparative analysis of
two political arenas: the UK and the EU. Offering the first
reflection grounded in evidence of the potential for wellbeing to
be paradigm changing, the authors identify the challenge of
bringing wellbeing into policy as a 'wicked problem' that
policymakers are only now beginning to grapple with. This
pioneering account of wellbeing from a political science
perspective is a unique and valuable contribution to the field. The
authors' theoretical and empirical conclusions are of great
interest to scholars of politics and wellbeing alike.
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