Senior German health officials sacked

JAMA’s editor sacked

Editor—The sacking of Lundberg as JAMA’s editor is a very sad event for editorial freedom in general and for medical journals world wide in particular. This disgraceful incident has shown that neither size nor success gives any guarantee for editorial freedom— not even the two combined. The fight for integrity must go on continuously in every editorial office every day. Lundberg has been an exa...

Health officials seek ways to halt AIDS.

On 4 January the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) convened a workshop a t its Atlanta headquarters to assess the options for halting the spread of the new disease called acquired immunodeficien­ cy syndrome o r , more commonly, AIDS. The main topic of discussion was the possibility that the disease, which may kill u p to 70 percent of the patients within 2 years of diagnosis, might b e spread ...

Attitudes of organized labor officials toward health care issues: an exploratory survey of Alabama labor officials.

Delegates to the Alabama AFL-CIO Convention were surveyed concerning their attitudes toward their health benefits and various options for health care reform. Most are satisfied with their current health care coverage, but dissatisfied with its high costs. Participants attribute the high costs to providers' pricing policies and insurance companies' overhead.

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Topology of local health officials' advice networks: mind the gaps.

OBJECTIVE To determine how a health officials' advice network might contribute to a high-performing public health systems by facilitating diffusion of innovation and best practices. DESIGN A secondary analysis of cross-sectional data obtained from the National Association of County and City Health Officials 2010 Profile of local health departments (LHDs) using network analysis. SETTING The ...