After the Cure: Managing AIDS And Other Public Health Crises

by Levin, Martin A.

• ISBN13: 9780700610235
• ISBN10: 0700610235
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KANSAS

Summary

As alarming stories about new pathogens like the Ebola virus or Mad Cow Disease fill today's headlines, scientists face a test of their abilities to contain them. But public health officials face a crisis of their own, because even when effective treatments become available, efforts to control disease often fall short.

After the Cure was written to improve the prospects for effective management of AIDS and other public health crises. Martin Levin and Mary Bryna Sanger draw on cases of previous large-scale public health initiatives to show how management effectiveness can meet threats to public health.

Focusing on AIDS as the most compelling contemporary example of the need for change, the authors advocate a commonsense approach that seeks to minimize the chances of failure. They encourage health officials to exercise "strategic skepticism" by developing plans that anticipate potential problems -- such as scientific controversy over a vaccine's effectiveness or media sensationalism -- which could arise from flaws in program design and implementation.

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Author Biography

Martin Levin is professor of political science at the Gordon Public Policy Center at Brandeis University Mary Bryna Sanger is professor of urban policy analysis and management of the Milano Graduate School at New School University

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xix
Taming the Management Beast: Approaching Management with Strategic Skepticism	1	(28)
The Successful Management of Polio	29	(21)
The Swine Flu Immunization Program	50	(23)
The Clinton Administration's Childhood Immunization Policy	73	(22)
Controlling Reemergent TB: Successful Management of an Impossible Job	95	(24)
Predicting the Future from the Past: The Early Mismanagement of the AIDS Crisis	119	(22)
Scenario Building: The Day After an AIDS Vaccine Is Discovered	141	(35)
Curing the Disease: Prospects for Improving the Management of Public Health Initiatives	176	(29)
Notes	205	(34)
Index	239