The sourcebook appears to be a nice summary work, a lot of effort.

It is missing a chapter on rural health, a major omission. Other than
addresses, rural is mentioned only 6 times and usually in relation to lower
rural reimbursement. Even health disparities got mentioned. It is getting
easier and easier to overlook those most distant.

No chapter on health as related to education either as health care costs
replace education. A major story for journalists would be replacement of
education by health costs at the state budget level (displaced as number 1)
and within school districts ($1100 per child, forcing districts to cut
teachers to pay for health). However this is it for substantive mention of
education:

"Governments too, at all levels, are concerned about their growing
expenditures for health care and the trade-offs this imposes on other,
equally important programs, such as education."

If health experts don't think that education is important in prevention of
health care costs, improved quality, and increased access, at least
important enough to include in the Sourcebook, then they are not likely to
influence journalists in the area.


NPR and Chronicle of Higher Education have run stories:

*  THIS YEAR'S NOBEL PEACE PRIZE was awarded jointly this morning to a
Bangladeshi economist and advocate of socioeconomic development, Mohammed
Yunus, and the project  that he founded, the Grameen Bank, the Norwegian
Nobel Committee announced this morning.
   --> SEE http://chronicle.com/free/2006/10/2006101309n.htm

He was told that $50 - $100 loans to poor illiterate women were a wasted
investment, obviously "they" were wrong. Not only do the women do better
economically, they improve self esteem. Many have operated local telephone
services, and now access the world and new potentials for themselves and
their children.

Robert C. Bowman, M.D.
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