Archive of Planning Articles & Essays

Additional archived articles can be found in older print newsletters(here) and COPN articles (here)

Health Planning

•  An Inconvenient Truth: Politics, Economics, and Ethics
•  Community Health Planning & Health Care Reform
•  Community Health Planning
•  Health Planning is Alive and Well
•  New Voices: Consumerism in Health Care
•  Massachusetts Health Professionals
•  New Health Planning for the New Millennium

Regulation

•  Is This Any Way to Do Health Planning
•  A Brief History of " Report Cards"
•  CON Trends in America: A Panorama of Change
•  Regulating in the Public Interest: The Quality of Nursing Care

Public Health

•  It Does Take a Village
•  Social Determinants of Health & Policy Development
•  The Public Health Problem of the Century
•  Civil Rights,HSAs, CON, and Public Health
•  The Vision of Public Health in the 21st Century
•  COMMUNITY: The Fourth Dimension in Public Health
•  Community Health Planning and National Public Health Performance Standards
•  It's Public Health, Stupid!
•  A Bit of History...

Health Policy

•  The Dartmouth Atlas on Roemers Law
•  What Health Care System?
•  Asking the Right Question
•  The End of the Social Contract
•  Don't Tread on Me
•  Conditions for Failure
•  An International Report Card