Health Care Issues in Black America

WOODROW JONES, JR., is Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health at San Diego State University.MITCHELL F. RICE is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Political Science at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

• Black Health Care and Health Status Black Health Care: An Overview by Woodrow Jones, Jr., and Mitchell F. Rice Racial Differences in Mortality: Blacks and Whites by Antonio A. Rene Risk Factors Associated with the Health Status of Black Women in the United States by Nancy R. Cope and Howard R. Hall Health Policy, Politics, and the Black Community Congress and Black Health: Dynamics and Strategies by K. Robert Keiser Health Policy Design: Implementation Politics of Child Health and Family Planning Programs by Malcolm L. Goggin Public Policy Compliance/Enforcement and Black American Health: Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by Mitchell F. Rice and Woodrow Jones, Jr. Closing the Gap Between Black and White Infant Mortality Rates: An Analysis of Policy Options by Dorothy C. Howze Issues in the Delivery of Health Services Substance Abuse in the Black Community by Patrick R. Clifford Promoting Mental Health: The Potential for Reform by Woodrow F. Jones, Jr., and Mitchell F. Rice Long-Term Health Care and the Black Elderly by Verna M. Keith Health Care of Blacks in American Inner Cities by Marianne Foley and Glen R. Johnson Competitive Health Care: Assessing an Alternative Solution for Health Care Problems by Mylon Winn