Health and Health Care

Taking on Big Tobacco: David Kessler and the FDA (Abridged)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

Food and Drug Commissioner David Kessler's landmark 1996 decision to propose regulation of tobacco as a drug marked him as one of the most prominent appointees in the first Clinton Administration -- one both revered and reviled. Kessler's...

FDA, Blood Donor Policy, and the Advent of AIDS

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

The emergency of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s has been widely viewed, in retrospect, as having been handled poorly by those responsible for US public health measures and its blood supply. But how was it seen by those facing key decisions...

Regulatory Reform at OSHA (C)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration, created by Congress in 1970 to curtail what was viewed as a still-alarming level of industrial accidents, had, 20 years later, become a lightning rod for controversy. Its advocates...

Regulatory Reform at OSHA (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration, created by Congress in 1970 to curtail what was viewed as a still-alarming level of industrial accidents, had, 20 years later, become a lightning rod for controversy. Its advocates...

Regulatory Reform at OSHA (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration, created by Congress in 1970 to curtail what was viewed as a still-alarming level of industrial accidents, had, 20 years later, become a lightning rod for controversy. Its advocates...

Santiago's Sewage

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

Although 81 percent of Santiago, Chile's households are connected to sewers, the sewage is dumped untreated into local rivers that are in turn used to irrigate farmers' fields. These practices have caused serious health problems including...

Taking on Big Tobacco: David Kessler and the FDA

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

Food and Drug Commissioner David Kessler's landmark 1996 decision to propose regulation of tobacco as a drug marked him as one of the most prominent appointees in the first Clinton Administration -- one both revered and reviled. Kessler's...

Swine Flu Decision: An Analytic Summary

Publication Date: January 01, 1996

This case invites students to use public policy tools to consider what to do when the government faces a possible, but not certain, outbreak of "swine flu."Learning Objective:The case invites students to use benefit-cost analysis and decision...

Catastrophic Health Insurance for the Elderly

Publication Date: September 01, 1995

Ronald Reagan's 1987 proposal to change the federal Medicare system to help protect against the costs of "catastrophic illness" seemed to portend an important change in the US social insurance system. And, indeed, an amended version of the...

Catastrophic Health Insurance for the Elderly: Appendix: CCA Act

Publication Date: January 01, 1995

In 1987, Ronald Reagan proposed changes to the federal Medicare system, which were designed to protect against the costs of "catastrophic illness." His choice seemed to portend an important change in the US social insurance system. And, indeed,...

Beyond "Mama Management": Redefining the Role of the Nursing Administrator in the Operating Room of the Southern California Multispeciality Center

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This is a case about retrenchment forced upon an institution--a premier specialty hospital--whose staff had thought itself virtually immune from economic pressures. A battle is joined specifically as a result of the decision by a new...

Private Lives, Public Fears (A): Documenting HIV-Related Information at a Teaching Hospital in Boston

Publication Date: January 01, 1993

A major Boston teaching hospital must decide whether its historic policy of maintaining medical records which reflect personal information about patients and their illnesses makes sense in an age when insurers have routinely begun to cancel the...