Contents:

1. SAVE Nov 11, 2000 PM and Nov 12, 2000 for AAPHP Meetings - See Item 1
2. Preventive Medicine 2001 Miami, Florida February 22- 25 Call for abstracts due August 22nd - http://www.acpm.org/
3. Web Site- Member only passwords plus new recommended site. - See Item 3
4. APHA New online Career Mart http://www.apha.org/career/  See Item 4
5. Public Comment invited on two reports from the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS): "Toward a National Health Information Infrastructure," and "Shaping a Vision for 21st Century Health Statistics." See Item 5
6. Drugs, Sex, Rock and Roll: A Theory of Morality Politics See Item 6
7. New Healthy People 2010 publications - http://www.health.gov/healthypeople/Publications/default.htm

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Item 1 Planning is starting for our AAPHP fall meetings. In conjunction with APHA Boston, MA - The business meeting will be Sat. Nov. 11,2000, 4:30 PM to 8:30 PM. Current Hot Topics for Public Health Physicians will be Sun Nov 12 1 to 5PM See Item 1 below. If you would like to be involved with the planning email Vice President Ginny Dato to find out the times for any conference calls - vmdato@pitt.edu

Item 3 - The password for the members only section of the AAPHP web site is ID: "member" Password: "mypage". These are good for a limited time. In the future all paid members will receive their own passwords. Also Kim Buttery is adding a new link site to our site, which he recommends - http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/partners/

Item 4 -- From APHA- CareerMart Online-All Year Long
CareerMart Online is a full service career center that provides opportunities for both the job seeker and the employer. For job seekers, CareerMart online is designed to help individuals focus on career planning in the expanding field of public health. It provides an online database of job postings, as well as a forum to present resumes to employers.
CareerMart Online is the best place for employers to find the right person for their open positions. The CareerMart Online database is a fast and easy way to post your open positions, or browse through the many resumes of qualified candidates.

Item 5 This is from a CCPH (Community-Campus Partnerships for Health) email - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is soliciting oral and written testimony from the public about the issues raised in two interim reports from the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS): "Toward a National Health Information Infrastructure," and "Shaping a Vision for 21st Century health Statistics." Copies of these papers are available on the NCVHS Web site at www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/NHII2kReport.htm  and http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/Vision21stReport.htm
The first of four regional hearings on the reports will be held on July 10, 2000, at the Westin Hotel O'Hare near Chicago. Information about this hearing is available at www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/000710fr.htm   People wishing to testify in Chicago or submit written testimony should send a short text (2-3 pages) by e-mail to Patrice Upchurch at pupchurch@cdc.gov  by June 26th if possible. The dates and locations of the other three hearings are as follows: October 30, 2000 (San Francisco, California) November 20, 2000 (Boston, Massachusetts) January 11, 2001 (Washington, D.C.)
Details about the future hearings will be available later at www.ncvhs.hhs.gov
This news item (complete with links) is also available at http://bphc.hrsa.gov/news

Item 6 contributed by Joel Nitzkin
In the fall/winter issue of the Policy Studies Journal, Kenneth J. Meier published a paper entitled: Drugs, Sex, Rock and Roll: A Theory of Morality Politics (Policy Studies Journal 27:4; 681-695, 1999). In this paper, Meier presents a conceptual model of demand for sin based on the concept that there are three different subgroups in the population --"Perverts," "Vicarious Sinners" and "Proto-nerds." They differ in the ease with which public policy and taxation can dissuade them from the sin in question (tobacco, alcohol, drugs, illicit sex, etc). The proto-nerds are easily dissuaded. The perverts will participate no matter what the policy or tax. The vicarious sinners are intermediate between the two. This theoretical model, while humorous in terminology, has major implications for projecting the costs and benefits of various approaches to discouragement of sinful behavior. This paper provides a model that can be used to develop small local research projects by which public agencies considering various approaches to reduction of a specified "sin" can better estimate the likely impact of various program and policy options.