Download or read book Chicago and Cook County Health Care Action Plan Executive summary written by Chicago and Cook County Health Care Summit and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicago and Cook County Health Care Action Plan written by Chicago and Cook County Health Care Summit and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicago and Cook County Health Care Action Plan Executive summary written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicago and Cook County Health Care Action Plan pt 1 Public testimony public hearings 1 5 written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicago and Cook County Health Care Action Plan written by Chicago and Cook County Health Care Summit and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mama Might Be Better Off Dead written by Laurie Kaye Abraham and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A provocative examination of our health care delivery for the poor. . . . Such an honest and candid account is essential.” —Alex Kotlowitz, national bestselling author of There Are No Children Here Mama Might Be Better Off Dead immerses readers in the lives of four generations of a poor, African-American family from North Lawndale, Chicago, who are beset with the devastating illnesses that are all too common in America’s inner-cities. Headed by Jackie Banes, who oversees the care of a diabetic grandmother, a husband on kidney dialysis, an ailing father, and three children, the Banes family contends with countless medical crises. From visits to emergency rooms and dialysis units, to trials with home care, to struggles for Medicaid eligibility, Laurie Kaye Abraham chronicles their access—or lack thereof—to medical care. Their story reveals an inadequate health care system that is further undermined by the effects of poverty. Mama Might Be Better Off Dead is an unsettling, profound look at the human face of health care in America. This new edition includes an incisive foreword by David Ansell, a physician who worked at Mt. Sinai Hospital, where much of the Banes family’s narrative unfolds. “Goes to the heart of today’s problem. Powerful . . . deeply searching.” —Washington Post “A powerful indictment of the big business of medicine.” —Los Angeles Times “Abraham . . . illuminates the problems with passion and skill.” —Kirkus Reviews “This personally observed, lucid chronicle and call for reform of our ailing health system covers all levels of responsibility in the medical establishment.” —Publishers Weekly “Clearly identifies in human and policy terms how [healthcare] programs have failed a population desperately in need of help.” —Library Journal
Download or read book Community Health Equity written by Fernando De Maio and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps more than any other American city, Chicago has been a center for the study of both urban history and economic inequity. Community Health Equity assembles a century of research to show the range of effects that Chicago’s structural socioeconomic inequalities have had on patients and medical facilities alike. The work collected here makes clear that when a city is sharply divided by power, wealth, and race, the citizens who most need high-quality health care and social services have the greatest difficulty accessing them. Achieving good health is not simply a matter of making the right choices as an individual, the research demonstrates: it’s the product of large-scale political and economic forces. Understanding these forces, and what we can do to correct them, should be critical not only to doctors but to sociologists and students of the urban environment—and no city offers more inspiring examples for action to overcome social injustice in health than Chicago.
Download or read book Racial and Ethnic Tensions in American Communities The Chicago report written by United States Commission on Civil Rights and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paying for Health Care written by Chicago Assembly and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health and Poverty written by Michael J Holosko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-12 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unequal social and health care policies in the United States continue to keep the poor disempowered in situations that not only limit their access to health care services, but also the quality of care they receive. An overview of health policies in the U.S., Health and Poverty examines where gaps in social and health care policies exist at the federal, state, and municipal levels; the impact of economic recessions on health care; and how our health policies are inextricably linked with political agendas, economic priorities, and social and cultural values. In an attempt to bridge issues of health, such as health care and administration costs, with issues of social and health policy related to poverty in America, this important book explores the need to make fundamental change to the structure of the medical and health care system. It contends that the incremental modifications our government has taken have not changed regional and economic disparity, granted equal access to services or equal quality of care, or eliminated discrimination. Providing the political and economic context for understanding health care policy issues and concerns related to the poor, Health and Poverty discusses: services and programs that achieve more humane outcomes why our cultural values present the greatest challenge toward developing competent, accessible, and affordable health care for all U.S. residents barriers to health care for the homeless population with HIV patient dumping how many African-American infants and children lack access to primary care physicians or services how the U.S. focuses on who receives medical care, rather than on how medical care is delivered and received trends in states’Medicaid programs the impact of poor working conditions on the physical and emotional health of low-income minority populations As Health and Poverty demonstrates, universal health care can only become a reality in the U.S. when reform proposals that divide the public into the “deserving” and the “undeserving” are rejected. Health care is not a privilege, reserved for the middle class and the wealthy. It is a basic human right. Social workers, policymakers, health care educators and providers, and public administrators need to read this book to find out how that right can be guaranteed to all Americans and why current legislation and health care reform proposals are inadequate for meeting the health care needs of countless men, women, and children.
Download or read book Proceedings of the Commission on the Future Structure of Veterans Health Care written by United States. Commission on the Future Structure of Veterans Health Care and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Commission on the Future Structure of Veterans Health Care written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social Medicine Reader written by Gail Henderson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To meet the needs of the rapidly changing world of health care, future physicans and health care providers will need to be trained to become wiser scientists and humanists in order to understand the social and moral as well as technological aspects of health and illness. The Social Medicine Reader is designed to meet this need. Based on more than a decade of teaching social medicine to first-year medical students at the pioneering Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina, The Social Medicine Reader defines the meaning of the social medicine perspective and offers an approach for teaching it. Looking at medicine from a variety of perspectives, this anthology features fiction, medical reports, scholarly essays, poetry, case studies, and personal narratives by patients and doctors--all of which contribute to an understanding of how medicine and medical practice is profoundly influenced by social, cultural, political, and economic forces. What happens when a person becomes a patient? How are illness and disability experienced? What causes disease? What can medicine do? What constitutes a doctor/patient relationship? What are the ethical obligations of a health care provider? These questions and many others are raised by The Social Medicine Reader, which is organized into sections that address how patients experience illness, cultural attitudes toward disease, social factors related to health problems, the socialization of physicians, the doctor/patient relationship, health care ethics and the provider's role, medical care financing, rationing, and managed care.
Download or read book Planning for Health in the Suburbs 1979 written by Suburban Cook County-DuPage County Health Systems Agency and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Care for the Poor and Uninsured written by Nellie Tate and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book focuses on the promotion, coordination, and financing of health care services for poor and uninsured people. Sharing information on strategies and programs that really work, Health Care for the Poor and Uninsured is full of much-needed guidance and encouragement for professionals struggling to provide accessible and affordable health care services to these groups. It describes techniques to promote access to health services, innovative approaches to public/private collaboration in the delivery of services, financial strategies of health maintenance organizations, and the formation of foundations to fund health care delivery. Although the studies in the book are of successful programs for pregnant women, infants, and children, groups often in the greatest need, the strategies incorporated by these programs are easily adapted to serve other populations. Some of the topics addressed in this informative guide include: effective use of nurse practitioners and midwives to provide prenatal care a description of referral systems which promotes the coordination of public and private sectors hospital financial support of state screening programs aggressive outreach programs to reach special populations factors influencing family selection of a health care provider new approaches to funding long-term care the use of outreach clinics and a coordinated referral system. Professionals interested in developing effective programs to help alleviate the nation's health care problems will find Health Care for the Poor and Uninsured a useful tool with which to start. Social workers, nurses, physicians, health care administrators, and students of these professions can make informed suggestions and decisions on strategies for delivering health care services to the poor and uninsured from this practical book.
Download or read book The Mid south Health Plan written by Chicago (Ill.). Mid-Southside Health Planning Organization and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report to Congress Review of Community Action Program in Chicago Illinois May 20 1968 written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
