This book provides a comprehensive introduction to significant U.S. health policy controversies, including Democratic and Republican responses to the coronavirus pandemic. It explores partisan divisions, major challenges, and policy preferences of key Democratic and Republican stakeholders. This volume provides readers with a broad overview of a variety of issues in contemporary health policy that span health care reform, health insurance, pharmaceuticals, public health, health care for underserved populations, and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The book explores the politics of each issue, drawing upon historical evidence, legislative research, public opinion polls, and the views of key decision makers from both Democratic and Republican perspectives. This coverage provides readers with a clear sense of how policymakers from each party think about the issues involved. This resource devotes special attention to the COVID-19 public health crisis, providing authoritative coverage of the actions, rhetoric, and policy choices of President Trump and his administration, governors across the nation, and leaders of Congress from both parties. This chapter, like all others in the book, is written so that it is accessible to readers from a variety of audience levels, including students and general readers.

Health and Wellness: Secrets That Will Change Your Life shows you spectacularly simple ways to avoid such chronic killers as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity You'll learn how good nutrition heals the body and boosts the mind; how purpose increases resilience; how love and forgiveness mend the heart! Health and Wellness caught the attention of award-winning documentary filmmaker Martin Doblmeier. "While there are countless self-help books on the market today, Health and Wellness: Secrets That Will Change Your Life stands apart because it speaks from proven success. Contained in these insightful chapters is an emphasis on making wise choices about the riches entrusted to each of us-a body that has the potential to heal itself, a mind capable of the extraordinary, and a spirit that longs to be reunited with the Creator. This book not only offers a road map for a healthier, more productive life-it provides the greatest gift of all: the reason for the journey." Book jacket.

‘My hope and expectation that the Havelock North Drinking Water Inquiry would waken us from our national slumber has not been realised.’ In August 2016, 40 per cent of the residents of Havelock North were struck down by a serious bacterial infection. Eminent medical researcher David Skegg argues that the outbreak highlights weaknesses in our country’s health infrastructure – weaknesses already evident in problems ranging from child nutrition to cancer. New Zealand, Skegg explains, must invest more in public health and find the political will needed to oppose the forces that damage health. Personal health care is important, but we neglect public health at our peril.