Peter Jacobson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5459820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Jacobson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobson |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBSON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1769-1827 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Defending Public Health Regulations: The Message Is the Medium
The second of five commentaries on “Bloomberg's Health Legacy: Urban Innovator or Meddling Nanny?” from the September-October 2013
The Courts and Public Health: Caught in a Pincer Movement
Public health practitioners are familiar with the general outlines of legal authority and with judicial standards for reviewing public health regulations. What may not be as familiar are 3 emerging judicial doctrines that pose considerable risks to public health initiatives. We explain the contentious series of judicial rulings that now place health departments’ broad grant of authority in jeopardy. One doctrine invokes the First Amendment to lim…
Changing the Culture of Health: One Public Health Misstep at a Time
Evaluating Hospitals’ Provision of Community Benefit: An Argument for an Outcome-Based Approach to Nonprofit Hospital Tax Exemption
Nonprofit hospitals are exempt from federal income taxation if they pass organizational and operational tests, including satisfying the community-benefit standard. Policymakers, however, have questioned the adequacy of the community benefits that nonprofit hospitals provide in exchange for these exemptions. The Internal Revenue Service recently responded to these concerns by redesigning its tax forms for nonprofit hospitals. The new Form 990 Sche…
Malpractice Burden, Rural Location, and Discontinuation of Obstetric Care: A Study of Obstetric Providers in Michigan
Context: It has long been a concern that professional liability problems disproportionately affect the delivery of obstetrical services to women living in rural areas. Michigan, a state with a large number of rural communities, is considered to be at risk for a medical liability crisis. Purpose : This study examined whether higher malpractice burden on obstetric providers was associated with an increased likelihood of discontinuing obstetric care…
Ethical Issues in Public Health Practice in Michigan
Objectives. We sought to ascertain the types of ethical challenges public health practitioners face in practice and to identify approaches used to resolve such challenges. Methods. We conducted 45 semistructured interviews with public health practitioners across a range of occupations (e.g., health officers, medical directors, sanitarians, nurses) at 13 health departments in Michigan. Results. Through qualitative analysis, we identified 5 broad c…
Neumann Et Al. Respond
We appreciate Holtgrave's letter and agree with him that the disconnect between health economists and public health practitioners is a longstanding one. We also agree that the field lacks conceptual frameworks that can help articulate how quantitative policy analysis can foster linkages between researchers and public health practitioners. Indeed, in follow-up work to our recent article, we are developing a framework that practitioners can use to …
The Impact of Malpractice Burden on Michigan Obstetrician-Gynecologists' Career Satisfaction
Measuring the Value of Public Health Systems: The Disconnect Between Health Economists and Public Health Practitioners
We investigated ways of defining and measuring the value of services provided by governmental public health systems. Our data sources included literature syntheses and qualitative interviews of public health professionals. Our examination of the health economic literature revealed growing attempts to measure value of public health services explicitly, but few studies have addressed systems or infrastructure. Interview responses demonstrated no co…
Privatization of Public Services: Organizational Reform Efforts in Public Education and Public Health
The public health and the public education systems in the United States have encountered problems in quality of service, accountability, and availability of resources. Both systems are under pressure to adopt the general organizational reform of privatization. The debate over privatization in public education is contentious, but in public health, the shift of functions from the public to the private sector has been accepted with limited deliberat…
Threats to family planning services in Michigan: Organizational responses to economic and political challenges
Lawyers, Doctors, and the Future of Health Care
The Effect of Legal and Hospital Policies on Physician Response to Prenatal Substance Exposure
Conference participants
Innovative approaches to youth tobacco control: Introduction and overview
Cigarette smoking is a vicious cycle. Each year a new generation of children experiments with smoking. In many societies, half of them will become addicted, most destined to smoke for decades thereafter until either they manage to quit or death ends their struggle to do so. The glamorous, seductive, and youthful images of cigarette advertising copy—the ruggedly handsome cowboy pulling on his cigarette, the sexy and impossibly lean female toying w…
Medical necessity and defined coverage benefits in the Oregon Health Plan
The policy debate in Oregon has primarily focused on the Prioritized List of Services. However, little information is available on how defined coverage benefits and managed care affect the role of medical necessity in determining care for Medicaid patients. This issue is important because medical necessity determinations are currently used by many states to limit extraneous health care costs but require resource-intensive oversight, are open to w…
Historical Overview of Tobacco Legislation and Regulation
In this paper we describe the legislative and regulatory history of tobacco control efforts and discuss the ways in which the debate over tobacco control has been framed. From a regulatory perspective, primary concern is how to balance the individual 's legal use of tobacco products with society's obligation to limit the use of a lethal product. Our review demonstrates the progress tobacco control advocates have made in enacting statewide legisla…
Seizing the moment: Harnessing the information technologies
In this article, we review some of the historical trends and events that suggest the scope and power of the Information Revolution. We speculate how these trends and events may be interpreted in new models or theories of human affairs, in perhaps the greatest and most fundamental change since the latter part of the eighteenth century for human transactions of power of all kinds—political, economic, and military—and at all levels—global, national,…
Rosebery and Liberal Imperialism, 1899-1903
“Liberal Imperialism” has been a confusing label ever since the Boer War, when it was first widely applied. It was then a source of controversy within the Liberal party, much of it centering around Lord Rosebery, who introduced the term. Some of his contemporaries considered Liberal Imperialism to be marked by dangerously aggressive policy, while J. A. Spender, who also lived through these years, later interpreted it as a revival of the Palmersto…
Measuring the Value of Public Health Systems: The Disconnect Between Health Economists and Public Health Practitioners
We investigated ways of defining and measuring the value of services provided by governmental public health systems. Our data sources included literature syntheses and qualitative interviews of public health professionals. Our examination of the health economic literature revealed growing attempts to measure value of public health services explicitly, but few studies have addressed systems or infrastructure. Interview responses demonstrated no co…
Privatization of Public Services: Organizational Reform Efforts in Public Education and Public Health
The public health and the public education systems in the United States have encountered problems in quality of service, accountability, and availability of resources. Both systems are under pressure to adopt the general organizational reform of privatization. The debate over privatization in public education is contentious, but in public health, the shift of functions from the public to the private sector has been accepted with limited deliberat…
Seizing the moment: Harnessing the information technologies
In this article, we review some of the historical trends and events that suggest the scope and power of the Information Revolution. We speculate how these trends and events may be interpreted in new models or theories of human affairs, in perhaps the greatest and most fundamental change since the latter part of the eighteenth century for human transactions of power of all kinds—political, economic, and military—and at all levels—global, national,…
Evaluating Hospitals’ Provision of Community Benefit: An Argument for an Outcome-Based Approach to Nonprofit Hospital Tax Exemption
Nonprofit hospitals are exempt from federal income taxation if they pass organizational and operational tests, including satisfying the community-benefit standard. Policymakers, however, have questioned the adequacy of the community benefits that nonprofit hospitals provide in exchange for these exemptions. The Internal Revenue Service recently responded to these concerns by redesigning its tax forms for nonprofit hospitals. The new Form 990 Sche…
Rosebery and Liberal Imperialism, 1899-1903
“Liberal Imperialism” has been a confusing label ever since the Boer War, when it was first widely applied. It was then a source of controversy within the Liberal party, much of it centering around Lord Rosebery, who introduced the term. Some of his contemporaries considered Liberal Imperialism to be marked by dangerously aggressive policy, while J. A. Spender, who also lived through these years, later interpreted it as a revival of the Palmersto…
Changing the Culture of Health: One Public Health Misstep at a Time
Rosebery and Liberal Imperialism, 1899-1903
“Liberal Imperialism” has been a confusing label ever since the Boer War, when it was first widely applied. It was then a source of controversy within the Liberal party, much of it centering around Lord Rosebery, who introduced the term. Some of his contemporaries considered Liberal Imperialism to be marked by dangerously aggressive policy, while J. A. Spender, who also lived through these years, later interpreted it as a revival of the Palmersto…
Seizing the moment: Harnessing the information technologies
In this article, we review some of the historical trends and events that suggest the scope and power of the Information Revolution. We speculate how these trends and events may be interpreted in new models or theories of human affairs, in perhaps the greatest and most fundamental change since the latter part of the eighteenth century for human transactions of power of all kinds—political, economic, and military—and at all levels—global, national,…
Medical necessity and defined coverage benefits in the Oregon Health Plan
The policy debate in Oregon has primarily focused on the Prioritized List of Services. However, little information is available on how defined coverage benefits and managed care affect the role of medical necessity in determining care for Medicaid patients. This issue is important because medical necessity determinations are currently used by many states to limit extraneous health care costs but require resource-intensive oversight, are open to w…
Historical Overview of Tobacco Legislation and Regulation
In this paper we describe the legislative and regulatory history of tobacco control efforts and discuss the ways in which the debate over tobacco control has been framed. From a regulatory perspective, primary concern is how to balance the individual 's legal use of tobacco products with society's obligation to limit the use of a lethal product. Our review demonstrates the progress tobacco control advocates have made in enacting statewide legisla…
The Effect of Legal and Hospital Policies on Physician Response to Prenatal Substance Exposure
Conference participants
Innovative approaches to youth tobacco control: Introduction and overview
Cigarette smoking is a vicious cycle. Each year a new generation of children experiments with smoking. In many societies, half of them will become addicted, most destined to smoke for decades thereafter until either they manage to quit or death ends their struggle to do so. The glamorous, seductive, and youthful images of cigarette advertising copy—the ruggedly handsome cowboy pulling on his cigarette, the sexy and impossibly lean female toying w…
Lawyers, Doctors, and the Future of Health Care
Threats to family planning services in Michigan: Organizational responses to economic and political challenges
Privatization of Public Services: Organizational Reform Efforts in Public Education and Public Health
The public health and the public education systems in the United States have encountered problems in quality of service, accountability, and availability of resources. Both systems are under pressure to adopt the general organizational reform of privatization. The debate over privatization in public education is contentious, but in public health, the shift of functions from the public to the private sector has been accepted with limited deliberat…
The Impact of Malpractice Burden on Michigan Obstetrician-Gynecologists' Career Satisfaction
Measuring the Value of Public Health Systems: The Disconnect Between Health Economists and Public Health Practitioners
We investigated ways of defining and measuring the value of services provided by governmental public health systems. Our data sources included literature syntheses and qualitative interviews of public health professionals. Our examination of the health economic literature revealed growing attempts to measure value of public health services explicitly, but few studies have addressed systems or infrastructure. Interview responses demonstrated no co…
Malpractice Burden, Rural Location, and Discontinuation of Obstetric Care: A Study of Obstetric Providers in Michigan
Context: It has long been a concern that professional liability problems disproportionately affect the delivery of obstetrical services to women living in rural areas. Michigan, a state with a large number of rural communities, is considered to be at risk for a medical liability crisis. Purpose : This study examined whether higher malpractice burden on obstetric providers was associated with an increased likelihood of discontinuing obstetric care…
Ethical Issues in Public Health Practice in Michigan
Objectives. We sought to ascertain the types of ethical challenges public health practitioners face in practice and to identify approaches used to resolve such challenges. Methods. We conducted 45 semistructured interviews with public health practitioners across a range of occupations (e.g., health officers, medical directors, sanitarians, nurses) at 13 health departments in Michigan. Results. Through qualitative analysis, we identified 5 broad c…
Neumann Et Al. Respond
We appreciate Holtgrave's letter and agree with him that the disconnect between health economists and public health practitioners is a longstanding one. We also agree that the field lacks conceptual frameworks that can help articulate how quantitative policy analysis can foster linkages between researchers and public health practitioners. Indeed, in follow-up work to our recent article, we are developing a framework that practitioners can use to …
Evaluating Hospitals’ Provision of Community Benefit: An Argument for an Outcome-Based Approach to Nonprofit Hospital Tax Exemption
Nonprofit hospitals are exempt from federal income taxation if they pass organizational and operational tests, including satisfying the community-benefit standard. Policymakers, however, have questioned the adequacy of the community benefits that nonprofit hospitals provide in exchange for these exemptions. The Internal Revenue Service recently responded to these concerns by redesigning its tax forms for nonprofit hospitals. The new Form 990 Sche…
Defending Public Health Regulations: The Message Is the Medium
The second of five commentaries on “Bloomberg's Health Legacy: Urban Innovator or Meddling Nanny?” from the September-October 2013
The Courts and Public Health: Caught in a Pincer Movement
Public health practitioners are familiar with the general outlines of legal authority and with judicial standards for reviewing public health regulations. What may not be as familiar are 3 emerging judicial doctrines that pose considerable risks to public health initiatives. We explain the contentious series of judicial rulings that now place health departments’ broad grant of authority in jeopardy. One doctrine invokes the First Amendment to lim…
Changing the Culture of Health: One Public Health Misstep at a Time
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