Author: Thomas J. Ward (Jr.) Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190624620 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 225
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Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword / by H. Jack GeigerIntroduction -- From South Africa to Mississippi -- Community Organizing -- Delivering Health Care -- Environmental Factors -- The Farm Co-op -- Conflict and Change -- Epilogue -- Bibliography
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Publisher: ISBN: Category : Community health services Languages : en Pages : 212
Author: Bonnie Lefkowitz Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 0813539129 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 161
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The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has placed a national spotlight on the shameful state of healthcare for America's poor. In the face of this highly publicized disaster, public health experts are more concerned than ever about persistent disparities that result from income and race. This book tells the story of one groundbreaking approach to medicine that attacks the problem by focusing on the wellness of whole neighborhoods. Since their creation during the 1960s, community health centers have served the needs of the poor in the tenements of New York, the colonias of Texas, the working class neighborhoods of Boston, and the dirt farms of the South. As products of the civil rights movement, the early centers provided not only primary and preventive care, but also social and environmental services, economic development, and empowerment. Bonnie Lefkowitz-herself a veteran of community health administration-explores the program's unlikely transformation from a small and beleaguered demonstration effort to a network of close to a thousand modern health care organizations serving nearly 15 million people. In a series of personal accounts and interviews with national leaders and dozens of health care workers, patients, and activists in five communities across the United States, she shows how health centers have endured despite cynicism and inertia, the vagaries of politics, and ongoing discrimination.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Aging Publisher: ISBN: Category : Aged Languages : en Pages : 196
Author: Christine L. Savage Publisher: F.A. Davis ISBN: 0803699867 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 1040
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How do you solve population-level health problems and develop appropriate nursing interventions? This unique, problem-solving, case-based approach shows you how. You’ll encounter different case studies in every chapter—that explore concepts such as community assessments, public health policy, and surveillance. Step by step, you’ll develop the knowledge and skills you need to apply public health principles across a variety of health care settings, special populations, and scenarios.
Author: Mario J. Azevedo Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi ISBN: 1626743967 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 596
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In this multidisciplinary book, the editor and contributors provide the most accurate and most recent information on health and health care in the State of Mississippi. They explain why the state finds itself in precarious health conditions and reveal the prevailing circumstances as the state debates a path toward a comprehensive health care system for its citizens. They show who has had access to good health care in the state and celebrate the heroes who struggled to provide health care to all Mississippians, and contribute to the debate on how the health care system might be restructured, reconstructed, or adjusted to meet the needs of all people in the state, regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and national origin. The issue of health disparities and socio-economic status leads to a relevant discussion of whether health and access to quality care are a right of all people, as the United Nations has proclaimed, or the privilege of a few who have the economic resources and the political clout to purchase first-rate care. The volume offers a clear understanding of health care trends in the state since the inception of its health system during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries up to the present and the prospects of transcending the obstacles of its own creation over the past two centuries. It likewise highlights the economic challenges that Mississippi, like other states, confronts; and how wise and realistic its priorities are in meeting the needs of its diverse populations, particularly racial and ethnic minorities.
Author: United States. Community Health Service. Division of Health Care Services Publisher: ISBN: Category : Community health services Languages : en Pages : 64
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Health service programs in 28 states. Arranged alphabetically by states. Entries include city, project title, number, director, address, telephone number, grants, other federal support, and description. List of projects by type.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Publisher: ISBN: Category : Government publications Languages : en Pages : 1928
Author: Thomas J. Ward (Jr.)
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Author: Bonnie Lefkowitz
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Aging
Author: Christine L. Savage
Author: Mario J. Azevedo
Author: United States. Community Health Service. Division of Health Care Services
Author: Karen Saucier Lundy
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
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