Politics and Public Policy in the United States

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 20.03.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Objectives and Rationale
  3. Background
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Teacher Resources
  7. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  8. Bibliography
  9. Notes

Health and Public Policy

Jenna O'Neill

Published September 2020

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Notes

1 “The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009.”

2 Blackburn and Epel, The Telomere Effect, 6.

3 Blackburn and Epel, The Telomere Effect, 3.

4 Blackburn and Epel, The Telomere Effect, 10.

5 Blackburn and Epel, The Telomere Effect, 11.

6 Blackburn and Epel, The Telomere Effect, 12-13.

7 Blackburn and Epel, The Telomere Effect, 224-239.

8 Blackburn and Epel, The Telomere Effect, 100-126.

9 Blackburn and Epel, The Telomere Effect, 255-279.

10 Blackburn and Epel, The Telomere Effect, 178.

11 Coghlan, “Healthy Living Can Turn Our Cells' Clock Back.”

12 Buettner, “Reverse Engineering Longevity.”

13 “International Diet Swap Shows Effects of Diet on Colon Cancer Risk”

14 Buettner, “Reverse Engineering Longevity.”

15 Tander et al., “Measuring Overall Health System Performance From 191 Countries.”

16 “World Health Organization Assesses the World's Health Systems.”

17 Emanuel, Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?

18 Halliwell et al., eds., “World Happiness Report 2020.”

19 “Why Finland and Denmark are the happiest countries in the world.”

20 “Why Finland and Denmark are the happiest countries in the world.”

21 McCarthy, “The Birthplace Of 'Gross National Happiness' Is Growing A Bit Cynical.”

22 “Why Finland and Denmark are the happiest countries in the world.”

23 Halliwell et al., eds., “World Happiness Report 2020.”

24 Fendt, “Why Costa Rica Is One of the Happiest Countries In The World.”

25 Nova, “How the Affordable Care Act Transformed Our Health-Care System.”

26 Levine et al., “Health Care Industry Insights: Why the Use of Preventive Services Is Still Low.”

27 Emanuel, Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?, 52.

28 Emanuel, Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?, 50.

29 Emanuel, Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?, 53.

30 Emanuel, Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?, 52-54.

31 Treuhaft and Karpyn, “The Grocery Gap: Who Has Access to Healthy Food and Why It Matters”

32 Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land, 50.

33 Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land, 61-62.

34 Case and Deaton, Anne Case and Angus Deaton Discuss the Depths of Dispair, Center for the Economics.

35 Burke Harris, The Deepest Well,

36 Burke Harris, The Deepest Well, 38-39.

37 Burke Harris, The Deepest Well, 9-10.

38 Burke Harris, The Deepest Well,

39 Llewellyn, Unnatural Causes, Episode 1.

40 Burke Harris, The Deepest Well, 100-115.

41 Allen, Racism's Impact on Lifespan and Health.

42 Garcia Rios and Rodriguez, Unnatural Causes, Episode 2.

43 Fortier (Metis-Ojibway), Unnatural Causes, Episode 4.

44 Jane Mayer, Dark Money, 123.

45 Dahl and Shapiro, ON DEMOCRACY, 202-203.

46 Graetz and Shapiro, The Wolf at the Door, 39.

47 Graetz and Shapiro, The Wolf at the Door, 37.

48 Graetz and Shapiro, The Wolf at the Door, 37.

49 Graetz and Shapiro, The Wolf at the Door, 40-41.

50 Graetz and Shapiro, The Wolf at the Door, 42.

51 Graetz and Shapiro, The Wolf at the Door,

52 Graetz and Shapiro, The Wolf at the Door, 49-53.

53 Graetz and Shapiro, The Wolf at the Door, 58-60.

54 Graetz and Shapiro, The Wolf at the Door, 60-63.

55 Shapiro, Lecture 25: Tough Nuts—Education and Health Insurance.

56 Graetz and Shapiro, The Wolf at the Door, 40-41.

57 Situation presented in readings and lecture of YNI Public Policy Seminar lead by Dr. Ian Shapiro.

58 National Council for the Social Studies Standards.

59 Pennsylvania Academic Standards for Civics and Government.

60 American Sociological Society National Standards for High School Sociology.

61 Crossman, “Everything You Need to Know About Functionalist Theory.”

62 Crossman, “What Is Conflict Theory?”.

63 Cole, “Social Theory and the Rich Kids of Instagram.”

64 Crossman, “What Is Symbolic Interactionism?”.

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