PUBLIC POLICY AND PREVENTION OF AIDS AT THE STATE LEVEL

描述：这个项目的目标是确定国家的影响 针对艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行的立法政策对策。它将使用 二次数据分析，描述各州如何应对艾滋病毒 并解释它们在应对艾滋病毒方面的差异 流行病。此外，调查人员还将对国家政策进行分类 因为要么包含和控制类似于传统公众的政策 卫生对策或更现代的合作和包容战略。 政治文化、州政府素质、人口统计数据 国家，以及受影响人口和预算 我们将对能力进行分析。主要的分析性问题将 要解决的问题包括是否有其他政策战略 合作和包容是更有效的公共卫生战略 而不是传统的控制机制。

DESCRIPTION: The goal of this project is to ascertain the impact of state legislative policy responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It would use secondary data analyses to describe how states have responded to the HIV epidemic and to explain differences among them in response to the HIV epidemic.Additionally the investigators would categorize state policies as either contain and control policies similar to traditional public health responses or more modern strategies of cooperation and inclusion. Data on political culture, qualities of state government, demographics of the state, as well as those of affected populations and budgetary capabilities will be analyzed. The major analytic questions that will be addressed include whether alternative policy strategies of cooperation and inclusion are more effective public health strategies than traditional control mechanisms.