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A.E. Benjamin is associate professor, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Los Angeles; while writing this article, he was on the faculty of the Institute for Health and Aging, University of California-San Francisco. His fields of work include long-term-care and hospice services for various populations with chronic illness.
Barbara Berney is a Pew Fellow and project director, School of Public Health, Boston University. Her work focuses on how scientists, health professionals, and others with technical expertise can enhance the effectiveness of citizens groups in working to solve environmental and other health problems.
W. Clayton Bordley is a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Gordon H. DeFriese is professor of social medicine, epidemiology, and health policy and administration, and director of the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His recent work is on the effectiveness and efficiency of preventive health services and the functional health status of older adult populations.
Gary L. Freed is assistant professor of pediatrics and of health policy and administration, School of Medicine and Public Health, and a research associate at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Freed is the author of several upcoming articles on the dissemination of new immunization recommendations to physicians.
William A. Glaser is professor of health services management at the New School for Social Research. For many years, he has done cross-national research about health services, public administration, education, and industry. His latest book is Health Insurance in Practice.
Thomas A. LaVeist is assistant professor of health policy and management, School of Hygiene and Public Health, and assistant professor of sociology at The Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on how social organization produces health differentials between racial groups. Mr. LaVeist is also a fellow at the Brookdale Foundation.
Robert Zussman is the author of Intensive Care: Medical Ethics and the Medical Profession, published in 1992 by the University of Chicago Press. His interests include the empirical study of medical ethics.
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Volume 71, Issue 1 (pages 187–188) Published in 1993