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Boxes 1-7
Tobacco Issues
Materials concern Roemer's legislative work toward international tobacco control and include correspondence, notes, conference
papers, World Health Organization (WHO) reports, journal articles, book reviews, studies, newsletters and clippings.
Subject files include the following:
Box 1: Addiction, the industry, advertising, developing countries, tax and price increases, cessation, costs, tar and nicotine
contents, mortality and morbidity estimates, workplace smoking laws, product liability and regulations on additives.
Regional research files are arranged alphabetically and include the following:
Box 2: Africa, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil and California.
Box 3: Canada, China, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Eastern Mediterranean, Egypt and Europe.
Box 4: Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland and India.
Box 5: Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua and Nigeria.
Box 6: Norway, Poland, Seychelles, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden and Tanzania.
Box 7: Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, U.S.S.R., Vietnam, Yugoslavia and Zambia.
Boxes 8-10
Managed Care
Materials include Roemer's articles, reports, lectures, correspondence, notes and speeches. Topics include the following:
social security, ethical issues, public and private insurance in America, financing and managed care, single payer health
care, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), Medicare, Medicaid, long-term care and children's health insurance.
Box 11-13, Box 14, Folder 1-4
National Health Insurance
Materials include correspondence, transcripts of speeches to the Women in Health Administration and the Organization for Obstetric,
Gynecologic and Neonatal Nurses (NAACOG), lesson plans for Ethical Issues in Health Care course, drafts for publications,
program and notes for International Course in Health Legislation, World Health Organization reprints on oral and mental health,
handwritten notes and Little Hoover Commission Report "To Protect and Prevent: Rebuilding California's Public Health System."
Topics include affirmative action, managed care, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), reproductive rights, legal
problems and access, State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Medicare and ethics, worker's compensation, welfare
law, Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) lawsuits, national health insurance proposals, mental health benefits, for profits
and not for profits, drug dependence, guidelines for regulatory changes in nursing education, Little Hoover Commission, alcohol
and tobacco legislative policies and healthcare of women.
Box 15, Folders 5-6, Box 14, Folders 5-13
Tobacco Correspondence
Box 14: In addition to correspondence, materials include articles on tobacco control by Judith Mackay, Peter D. Jacobson,
Kenneth E. Warner, Jeffrey Wasserman, Roemer's WHO Framework Convention for Tobacco Control, her lecture on the International
Aspects of Tobacco Control, book reviews and her discussion paper on the feasibility of a regional convention on tobacco control
with Katherine M. Gorove and Allyn L. Taylor.
Box 15: Two files of select correspondence from Roemer's WHO monograph, "Legislative Action to Combat the World Smoking Epidemic."
Box 15, Folders 1-5
International Instrument for Tobacco Control
Correspondence, resolutions and notes concerning the Forty-Eighth World Health Assembly agenda item, "An international strategy
for tobacco control," WHO framework convention on tobacco control working group reports, agendas and primers. The Framework
Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is an international legal instrument designed to circumscribe the global spread of tobacco
and tobacco products.
Box 16, Folder 1-8
California Policy Seminar
Records concerning UCLA courses taught by Roemer on the tobacco epidemic and public policy and strategies to combat it. Materials
include course evaluations, correspondence with students and colleagues, lesson plans, examinations, answer keys, copies of
presentation slides, overhead transparencies and typewritten lectures.
Box 16, Folders 9-10, Box 17, Folders 1-9
History of Tobacco Control Legislation
Roemer's typewritten Tobacco Control presentations for Public Health courses and overhead transparencies concerning the World
Health Organization's Smoking Control Strategies in Developing Countries and her annotated presentation outline, "Legislation
to Control Tobacco Use." Materials also include correspondence between Roemer and colleagues regarding the American Public
Health Association's Annual Meeting with a focus on "Controlling the Tobacco Pandemic at Home and Abroad," Roemer and Barbara
A. Berman's final monograph: "Strengthening Enactment, Enforcement and Evaluation of Tobacco Control Legislation," Roemer's
"Legislative Action to Combat the World Tobacco Epidemic: International Experience" presentation and her speech of acceptance
for the International Network of Women Against Tobacco Lifetime Achievement Award.
Box 18, Box 17, Folders 10-11
Box 19, Folders 1-7
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Notes for Hong Kong Radio and Television interview on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), WHO's "Tobacco Control
Legislation: A Beginner's Guide," FCTC papers and resolutions, copies of Roemer and Barbara Berman's presentation slides for
the WHO and Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) Meeting on Legislative Capacity Building, Rose Nathan's "Consultancy Report: CDC
Support to WHO's African Regional Office" and correspondence.
Box 19, Folder 8-10
Tobacco Papers
Transcripts of Roemer's speeches which include the following: "Tobacco Policy and Legislation," "A WHO Framework Convention
For Tobacco Control - Why, What and How," "Highlights of Recent World Legislation to Control Tobacco Use," "Political Will
and the Tobacco Epidemic," "Legal Imagination in Tobacco Control," "Fighting Threats to Legislative Advances in Tobacco Control,"
"International Action for Tobacco Control," "Overview of World Legislation to Control Tobacco Use," "Tobacco Policy: The Power
of Law," "The Role of Legislation in Controlling Smoking By Women," "Options, Strategies and Priorities For Legislation to
Control Smoking," "Legislation to Control Tobacco Use by Children and Adolescents," "Legislative Advances in Tobacco Control,"
"Tobacco Control Legislation in the Americas," "Smokers: Why Do They Start and Continue?," "Legislation for Tobacco-free Workplaces,"
"Impact of Tobacco Control Legislation on Young People," "Legislative Advances in Tobacco Control With Special Emphasis on
European Countries" and "Legislation to Combat the Tobacco Epidemic and the African Countries." Materials also include overhead
presentation transparencies and correspondence.
Box 20, Folder 1
Food and Drug Regulations
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Executive Summary, "The Regulations
Restricting the Sale and Distribution of Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco to Protect Children and Adolescents," correspondence,
HHS Fact Sheets and a Smoking Control Advocacy Resource Center (SCARC) Action Alert concerning Philip Morris' recording label
and women's concert series.
Box 20, Folders 2-9, Boxes 21-26
Abortion
Box 20: California Committee on Therapeutic Abortion (CCTA) Articles of Incorporation, Prospectus, bylaws, bulletins, pamphlets,
Board of Directors lists, sponsors lists, mailers, and correspondence including Roemer's letter to UCLA University Research
Library Department of Special Collections concerning the CCTA records donation. Roemer concludes with appreciation to the
Library staff and states, "I can only say that I believe that these materials record events that contributed to a significant
improvement in the human condition."
Materials also include a National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) conference packet from the Real Choices
Organizing Training, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) letter concerning standards
for notification of institutional, ethical or religious restrictions on delivery of care, Roemer's abstract for "Ethical Aspects
of the Claim of Personhood for the Fetus," copy of the American Public Health Association's Principles to Guide Religious/Secular
Health Industry Mergers, legal briefs concerning the right to abortion and the MergerWatch Project's draft report, "No Strings
Attached: Public Funding of Religiously-Sponsored Hospitals in the United States."
Box 21: Transcript of Roemer's presentation, "Ethical Implications of Personhood of the Fetus," Roemer and Lois Uttley's American
Public Health Association (APHA) position paper, "Creative Solutions to Preserve Consumer Choice in an Era of Religious/Secular
Health Industry Mergers," a copy of proposed APHA resolution: Improving Emergency Care for Survivors of Sexual Assault, book
review and a file on accessing emergency contraception.
Box 22: California Women's Law Center, MergerWatch and National Women's Law Center National Advisory Board Meeting materials,
Lois Uttley's emergency contraception Master's thesis and correspondence. Materials also include one file of selected remarks,
papers and statements which includes the following titles by Roemer: "Tracking Abortion Rights and Practices From the '60s,"
"Lessons Learned From the Past," "Parental Consent and Parental Notification Laws: Assault on Young Women's Lives," "Impact
of the Abortion Decision on Law and Health," "Public Health Facts About Abortion," "Remarks to Training Session of Los Angeles
NOW" and "Public Health Aspects of Abortion."
Box 23: Roemer speeches including the following titles, "Abortion: Changing Concepts and Future Implications," "Trends in
Abortion Laws: National and International," "Legal Aspects of Family Planning Services," "Public Policy and the Abortion Law,"
"Family Planning Advances in Asia's Only Catholic Country," "Sterilization and Abortion," "Abortion Laws in Different Countries,"
"Abortion Laws: Present and Future," "Abortion Laws, Maternal Health and Population Policy" and "The Physician and the Abortion
Law."
Box 24: Correspondence, book reviews, legal briefs, press releases and presentation transcripts. Roemer's transcripts include
the following: "Family Planning and Abortion: Issues and Prospects" and "Abortion and the Right of Privacy: Past, Present
and Future."
Box 25: Copies of court decisions, notes and reports on adolescent abortion and parental involvement laws, legislative and
judicial action on abortion timeline, Roemer's Family Planning and Abortion annotated lectures and course materials and a
copy of The CCTA book,
Abortion and the Unwanted Child which includes her paper, "Abortion Law Reform and Repeal: Legislative and Judicial Developments."
Box 26: Annotated clippings, legal briefs and lectures.
Boxes 27-33, Box 34, Folders 1-2
Health Legislation
Box 27: Correspondence with the WHO and the International Digest of Health Legislation (IDHL), Roemer's "Guidelines for Legislation
Affecting the Development of Human Resources for Health" and the resulting WHO report, Partially Annotated Select Bibliography
on Health Aspects of Human Rights and regional health legislation research files for Albania, Poland, Hungary and Thailand
which include notes and correspondence.
Box 28: Health legislation research file for Indonesia which includes correspondence and reports, David M. Dror and Christian
Jacquier's paper, "Micro-Insurance: Extending Health Insurance to the Excluded," Roemer's background paper for WHO Study Group,
"Strengthening Regulatory Mechanism of Nursing Training and Practice Relating to Primary Health Care," and her two reports
on national needs, legislative trends and strengthening of WHO's activities on health legislation in South East Asia with
a focus on Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Thailand and the Western Pacific Region with particular reference to Malaysia,
the Philippines and Singapore. Materials also include a copy of
Public Health Outlook which includes an interview with Ruth and Milton.
Box 29: Public Policy Statements of the American Public Health Association (APHA), a compendium of resolutions and position
papers which deal with public health issues and have been officially adopted by the Association since 1948.
Box 30: Lectures, notes and outlines for her Legal Aspects of Family Health course and the following three subject files:
Mental Illness, Long Term Care, and Regulation and Legislation.
Box 31-32: Selected manpower papers and lecture materials for the following topics: Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Regulation
of Health Personnel, Anti-Trust, Family Planning and Sterilization and Regulating Quality of Care.
Box 33: Lecture materials for introductory Public Health Law course and Law, Social Change and Health Service Policy course.
Box 34: Lecture materials for Legal Aspects of Family Health course.
Box 34, Folders 3-7, Box 35
Public Health Course 235 Reserves
Course reserve readings are organized by lecture topic and include the following areas of study:
Box 34: Role of Law: Use of Materials, Governmental Action and Individual Rights, Regulation of Facilities, Regulation of
Personnel, and Food and Drugs.
Box 35: Family Planning and Sterilization, Abortion, Anti-Trust Law, Quality of Care, Medicare and Medicaid, Mental Illness,
HIV and AIDS, Patients' Rights and Ethical and Legal Issues.