Download or read book Health Care in Frontier America written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Skid Road written by Josephine Ensign and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brother's Keeper -- Skid Road -- The Sisters -- Ark of Refuge -- Shacktown -- Threshold -- State of Emergency -- Epilogue.
Download or read book The Frontier in American Culture written by Richard White and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-10-17 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick join their inimitable talents to explore our national preoccupation with this uniquely American image. Richard White examines the two most enduring stories of the frontier, both told in Chicago in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition. One was Frederick Jackson Turner's remarkably influential lecture, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"; the other took place in William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's flamboyant extravaganza, "The Wild West." Turner recounted the peaceful settlement of an empty continent, a tale that placed Indians at the margins. Cody's story put Indians—and bloody battles—at center stage, and culminated with the Battle of the Little Bighorn, popularly known as "Custer's Last Stand." Seemingly contradictory, these two stories together reveal a complicated national identity. Patricia Limerick shows how the stories took on a life of their own in the twentieth century and were then reshaped by additional voices—those of Indians, Mexicans, African-Americans, and others, whose versions revisit the question of what it means to be an American. Generously illustrated, engagingly written, and peopled with such unforgettable characters as Sitting Bull, Captain Jack Crawford, and Annie Oakley, The Frontier in American Culture reminds us that despite the divisions and denials the western movement sparked, the image of the frontier unites us in surprising ways.
Download or read book Bleed Blister and Purge written by Volney Steele and published by Mountain Press Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the medicines and medical practices uses to treat a wide variety of illnesses and disorders on the American frontier.
Download or read book Fortress and Frontier in American Health Care written by Robert F. Graboyes and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's health care policy debate has long been framed as Left versus Right, Democrat versus Republican, federal versus state, and public versus private. This paper offers an alternative demarcation: Fortress versus Frontier. Health care is mostly in the Fortress, meaning that public policy focuses on protecting patients from risks and providers from competitors. Information technology (IT) is mostly on the Frontier, meaning that all Americans?even industry outsiders like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg?have been free to experiment and innovate with computers, telecommunications, and the Internet despite enormous risks to personal finances, privacy, safety, health, and well-being. The Fortress discourages creative destruction and disruptive innovation, and the Frontier tolerates both. Health care provision and innovation generally require official sanction; meanwhile, costs have risen. IT innovators have not needed permission to create and have thus been able to tap into serendipitous genius; the result has been plummeting costs. This paper suggests some potential policy actions to shift health care from Fortress to Frontier, and toward a goal of producing better health for more people at lower cost on a continuous basis.
Download or read book Health Care in Rural America written by United States. Congress. Pepper Commission and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural Behavioral Health Care written by B. Hudnall Stamm and published by Amer Psychological Assn. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural Behavioral Health Care discusses the needs and resources of the often overlooked individuals who live in rural and frontier areas. These areas of the country frequently lack sufficient services to meet their residents' health care needs. Federal policies, intended to offer relief to rural and frontier areas, are often developed from urban models. As a result, they may not be as effective at reducing health disparities as had been hoped. This edited volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the public and federal policy, clinical trends, and empirical literature that are relevant to the provision of behavioral health care services in rural and frontier areas. Chapter contributors are leading experts from different professional disciplines, such as family medicine, public health, psychology, nursing, and social work. The book examines the economic and social problems of rural and frontier areas, collaborative methods for service delivery, and the specific needs of special populations. It explains the unique cultural characteristics of rural areas compared with urban areas and also offers a detailed look at the differences between frontier and rural areas. The book successfull
Download or read book Health Care in Rural America written by United States. Congress. Pepper Commission and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mary Breckinridge written by Melanie Beals Goan and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1925 Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965) founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), a public health organization in eastern Kentucky providing nurses on horseback to reach families who otherwise would not receive health care. Through this public health organization, she introduced nurse-midwifery to the United States and created a highly successful, cost-effective model for rural health care delivery that has been replicated throughout the world. In this first comprehensive biography of the FNS founder, Melanie Beals Goan provides a revealing look at the challenges Breckinridge faced as she sought reform and the contradictions she embodied. Goan explores Breckinridge's perspective on gender roles, her charisma, her sense of obligation to live a life of service, her eccentricity, her religiosity, and her application of professionalized, science-based health care ideas. Highly intelligent and creative, Breckinridge also suffered from depression, was by modern standards racist, and fought progress as she aged--sometimes to the detriment of those she served. Breckinridge optimistically believed that she could change the world by providing health care to women and children. She ultimately changed just one corner of the world, but her experience continues to provide powerful lessons about the possibilities and the limitations of reform.
Download or read book Health care in rural America written by and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1990 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The frontier in American history written by Frederick Jackson Turner and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1920-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Care in Rural America written by United States. Congress. Pepper Commission and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Re living the American Frontier written by Nancy Reagin and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who owns the West? -- Buffalo Bill and Karl May : the origins of German Western fandom -- A wall runs through it : western fans in the two Germanies -- Little houses on the prairie -- "And then the American Indians came over" : fan responses to indigenous resurgence and political change -- Indians into Confederates : historical fiction fans, reenactors, and living history.
Download or read book Frontier Medicine written by David Dary and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the native populations. It’s a story filled with colorful characters, from quacks and con artists to heroic healers and ingenious medicine men, and Dary tells it with an engaging style and an eye for the telling detail. Dary also charts the evolution of American medicine from these trial-and-error roots to its contemporary high-tech, high-cost pharmaceutical and medical industry. Packed with fascinating facts about our medical past, Frontier Medicine is an engaging and illuminating history of how our modern medical system came into being.
Download or read book Which Country Has the World s Best Health Care written by Ezekiel J. Emanuel and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The preeminent doctor and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel is repeatedly asked one question: Which country has the best healthcare? He set off to find an answer. The US spends more than any other nation, nearly $4 trillion, on healthcare. Yet, for all that expense, the US is not ranked #1 -- not even close. In Which Country Has the World's Best Healthcare? Ezekiel Emanuel profiles eleven of the world's healthcare systems in pursuit of the best or at least where excellence can be found. Using a unique comparative structure, the book allows healthcare professionals, patients, and policymakers alike to know which systems perform well, and why, and which face endemic problems. From Taiwan to Germany, Australia to Switzerland, the most inventive healthcare providers tackle a global set of challenges -- in pursuit of the best healthcare in the world.
Download or read book Frontier Residents Perception of Health Care Access written by Raymond Joshua Smith and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It can be difficult to access health care due to cost, lack of insurance, and lack of available resources for Americans today. Frontier persons have even more obstacles in accessing health care due to geography, time and distance to facilities, lack of medical personal, and culture. This study's purpose was to better understand frontier residents' perceptions of access to health care. Specific aims were to (a) explore frontier residents' health care access resources, (b) investigate frontier residents' utilization of health care services, (c) search for reasons frontier residents seek health care (d) and explore the residents' overall satisfaction regarding their health care access options. A qualitative approach that included open-ended questions was used to interview a convenience sample of 11 frontier residents in a Southwestern Montana town. Participants were recruited using a snowball approach. Common themes were extracted using a "low inference" analysis style. Aday and Andersen's framework and their study of access to medical care (1975) guided the study. Results revealed most residents felt they had access to health care and all had seen a provider in the last 2 years. Residents used "local" services, the closest being 70 miles away, for minor ailments and injuries or when home remedies failed. A "by-pass" mentality of "local" services was seen for more serious events. Children were treated differently and health care was sought sooner if they became ill. Reasons for seeking care included preventative services, acute injuries, and infectious processes. Cost, weather, road conditions, gas prices, travel time, and taking time off work were mentioned as barriers in health care utilization. Insurance deductibles and costs of health services limited the type of health care residents sought. Satisfactions with health care providers were high as well as sliding scale fees of the local health centers. Cost and distance were unsatisfactory. Implications for practice include educating residents about benefits and abilities of their local resources, the need to seek care for preventative services, health promotion topics, and disease prevention. In addition, health care authorities should focus on alternative ways to bring health care to the frontier residents including telemedicine and lowering costs.
Download or read book Frontier Medicine written by David Dary and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the native populations. It’s a story filled with colorful characters, from quacks and con artists to heroic healers and ingenious medicine men, and Dary tells it with an engaging style and an eye for the telling detail. Dary also charts the evolution of American medicine from these trial-and-error roots to its contemporary high-tech, high-cost pharmaceutical and medical industry. Packed with fascinating facts about our medical past, Frontier Medicine is an engaging and illuminating history of how our modern medical system came into being.
