In recent years, a new role for Black pastors has emerged. As agents of health-related social and behavioral change, Black ministers have taken active roles in preventive medicine at the tertiary, secondary, and primary levels of prevention, succeeding despite resistance by some physicians. The literature detailing these new health-related pastoral roles is reviewed, with special reference to t...

Abstract Why do some foreign ministers stay longer in office than others? Are they punished when the country loses a war? Several scholars have focused on tenure of leaders as an important predictor policy outcomes, such war onset, creating interest leadership survival. We here shift focus to survival other politicians cabinet—foreign ministers, hypothesizing that their depends performance offi...

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A Working Party on Venereal Diseases* was appointed by the European Public Health Committee in 1972. As one of the background documents for the Working Party a report was prepared by Dr. Thorstein Guthe (Guthe, 1974). As a result of its work the Working Party presented to the European Public Health Committee a draft resolution on the control of sexually-transmitted diseases which, after approva...