Jeffrey Wasserman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5877506 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Wasserman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Wasserman |
| SIGNATURE | WASSERMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jeanne S. Ringel and Jeffrey Wasserman are with RAND, Santa Monica, Calif. Tatiana Andreyeva is with the Pardee RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, Calif. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Conceptualizing and Defining Public Health Emergency Preparedness
Since September 11, 2001, and the anthrax attacks that followed, a substantial federal investment—totaling well in excess of $5 billion—has been made to increase our nation’s ability to prepare for, and respond to, public health emergencies. Yet despite anecdotal reports suggesting that progress has been made, it is unclear whether these investments have left the nation better prepared to respond to a bioterrorist attack, pandemic influenza, or a…
Effects of Public Policy on Adolescents’ Cigar Use
To determine the effect of prices and regulations on youth cigar demand, we estimated logistic regression models of the probability of current cigar smoking among students in grades 6 to 12 with data from the 1999 and 2000 waves of the National Youth Tobacco Survey. We found that youth cigar demand is sensitive to price but not state tobacco-control regulations. The results suggested that raising excise taxes on cigars could reduce cigar use prev…
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…
Wasserman Responds
Wasserman Responds Jeffrey Wasserman CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.83.6.910-a Published Online: October 07, 2011
Report of the Tobacco Policy Research Study Group on Tobacco Pricing and Taxation in the United States
It is widely recognised that tobacco taxes are a potent device to decrease tobacco consump tion. In the United States, however, tobacco taxes have fallen, after adjustment for inflation, since the first Surgeon General's report was issued in 1964 in which the US government acknowledged the link between tobacco and disease. The proportion of pack price accoun ted for by tax has decreased by nearly half since 1964. Indeed, there have been only two …
The effects of excise taxes and regulations on cigarette smoking
The external costs of a sedentary life-style
Using data from the National Health Interview Survey and the RAND Health Insurance Experiment, we estimated the external costs (costs borne by others) of a sedentary life-style. External costs stem from additional payments received by sedentary individuals from collectively financed programs such as health insurance, sick-leave coverage, disability insurance, and group life insurance. Those with sedentary life-styles incur higher medical costs, b…
Case Studies
A case study is presented in which an obstetrician who performs fewer cesarean sections than his colleagues is asked by a hospital administrator to reconsider his pattern of practice. The administrator points out that, because the hospital is reimbursed on the basis of "diagnosis related groups" (DRGs), it loses money on normal deliveries. Three commentators debate the ethics of the administrator's request, the obligations of physicians to consid…
Conceptualizing and Defining Public Health Emergency Preparedness
Since September 11, 2001, and the anthrax attacks that followed, a substantial federal investment—totaling well in excess of $5 billion—has been made to increase our nation’s ability to prepare for, and respond to, public health emergencies. Yet despite anecdotal reports suggesting that progress has been made, it is unclear whether these investments have left the nation better prepared to respond to a bioterrorist attack, pandemic influenza, or a…
Effects of Public Policy on Adolescents’ Cigar Use
To determine the effect of prices and regulations on youth cigar demand, we estimated logistic regression models of the probability of current cigar smoking among students in grades 6 to 12 with data from the 1999 and 2000 waves of the National Youth Tobacco Survey. We found that youth cigar demand is sensitive to price but not state tobacco-control regulations. The results suggested that raising excise taxes on cigars could reduce cigar use prev…
The external costs of a sedentary life-style
Using data from the National Health Interview Survey and the RAND Health Insurance Experiment, we estimated the external costs (costs borne by others) of a sedentary life-style. External costs stem from additional payments received by sedentary individuals from collectively financed programs such as health insurance, sick-leave coverage, disability insurance, and group life insurance. Those with sedentary life-styles incur higher medical costs, b…
Case Studies
A case study is presented in which an obstetrician who performs fewer cesarean sections than his colleagues is asked by a hospital administrator to reconsider his pattern of practice. The administrator points out that, because the hospital is reimbursed on the basis of "diagnosis related groups" (DRGs), it loses money on normal deliveries. Three commentators debate the ethics of the administrator's request, the obligations of physicians to consid…
The external costs of a sedentary life-style
Using data from the National Health Interview Survey and the RAND Health Insurance Experiment, we estimated the external costs (costs borne by others) of a sedentary life-style. External costs stem from additional payments received by sedentary individuals from collectively financed programs such as health insurance, sick-leave coverage, disability insurance, and group life insurance. Those with sedentary life-styles incur higher medical costs, b…
The effects of excise taxes and regulations on cigarette smoking
Report of the Tobacco Policy Research Study Group on Tobacco Pricing and Taxation in the United States
It is widely recognised that tobacco taxes are a potent device to decrease tobacco consump tion. In the United States, however, tobacco taxes have fallen, after adjustment for inflation, since the first Surgeon General's report was issued in 1964 in which the US government acknowledged the link between tobacco and disease. The proportion of pack price accoun ted for by tax has decreased by nearly half since 1964. Indeed, there have been only two …
Wasserman Responds
Wasserman Responds Jeffrey Wasserman CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.83.6.910-a Published Online: October 07, 2011
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…
Effects of Public Policy on Adolescents’ Cigar Use
To determine the effect of prices and regulations on youth cigar demand, we estimated logistic regression models of the probability of current cigar smoking among students in grades 6 to 12 with data from the 1999 and 2000 waves of the National Youth Tobacco Survey. We found that youth cigar demand is sensitive to price but not state tobacco-control regulations. The results suggested that raising excise taxes on cigars could reduce cigar use prev…
Conceptualizing and Defining Public Health Emergency Preparedness
Since September 11, 2001, and the anthrax attacks that followed, a substantial federal investment—totaling well in excess of $5 billion—has been made to increase our nation’s ability to prepare for, and respond to, public health emergencies. Yet despite anecdotal reports suggesting that progress has been made, it is unclear whether these investments have left the nation better prepared to respond to a bioterrorist attack, pandemic influenza, or a…
Medicine (8 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Business (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Public health (3 works) · Smoking Behavior and Cessation (3 works)