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J C Lashof

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PubMed1988

AIDS, policy analysis, and the electorate: the role of schools of public health.

Current debates concerning appropriate policy to combat the epidemic of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) have raised critical questions regarding the role that schools of public health and individual public health professionals should play, if any, in AIDS-related policy analysis and social advocacy. In the summer of 1986, the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley initiated a telegram sent by the Deans of all 23 schools of public health to protest US Department of Justice AIDS policy and, in the subsequent fall, the school expanded its public educational role in an unprecedented manner by initiating and issuing, with California's other three schools of public health, a policy analysis of Proposition 64, the LaRouche AIDS Quarantine Initiative. That analysis exposed the proposition's fallacious claims regarding casual transmission of AIDS and served to educate the electorate on the likely public health impact of this deleterious legislation. Based on these experiences, and in light of ongoing national controversy regarding AIDS, we believe schools of public health have an important role to play in policy analysis, and individual public health professionals have a role to play in social advocacy.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
PubMed1986

Teaching community-oriented primary care (COPC): a practical approach.

To improve education in community-oriented primary care (COPC) and to promote its practice in the community, the University of California's School of Public Health in Berkeley and School of Medicine in San Francisco are collaborating in an innovative program in cooperation with several federally-funded community clinics in the San Francisco Bay Area. The School of Public Health designed a COPC track for graduate public health students from various departments of the school who wished to work in community health care. The track includes a seminar given in the spring of the students' first year in which COPC theory is taught and teams of students working with a faculty advisor and a clinic preceptor design COPC projects for the primary care sites. These projects are then implemented in the summer and fall by students who elect to use this experience to satisfy their fieldwork requirement. This paper is a report of the first year's experience with this collaborative effort.

California↗
PubMed1979

St. Louis encephalitis: the Chicago experience.

The largest laboratory-documented outbreak of St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) in the United States occurred in the Chicago metropolitan area in the summer and early fall of 1975. Of 1,456 illnesses investigated, 326 cases of confirmed or probable SLE and 420 cases of suspected SLE were found in the six-county area. The outbreak peaked in early September, but cases continued to occur through October. Cases clustered geographically in the southwestern suburbs. There was a direct correlation between age and attack rate, severity of illness, and mortality rate--all of which increased with successive age groups. Thirty-six persons died. Males and females were equally affected. This epidemic marked the first time that St. Louis encephalitis has been documented in the Chicago area.

Adult↗