Author: United States. Office of Health Resources OpportunityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnic groups
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Health of the Disadvantaged Chart Book-II.
Author: United States. Office of Health Resources OpportunityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnic groups
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Health of the Disadvantaged Chart Book
Author: Tony HausnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnic groups
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Health Status of the Disadvantaged Chartbook
Author: Health Status of the Disadvantaged, Chartbook 1990
Author: Health Care Off the Books
Author: Danielle T. RaudenbushPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520305620
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Millions of low-income African Americans in the United States lack access to health care. How do they treat their health care problems? In Health Care Off the Books, Danielle T. Raudenbush provides an answer that challenges public perceptions and prior scholarly work. Informed by three and a half years of fieldwork in a public housing development, Raudenbush shows how residents who face obstacles to health care gain access to pharmaceutical drugs, medical equipment, physician reference manuals, and insurance cards by mobilizing social networks that include not only their neighbors but also local physicians. However, membership in these social networks is not universal, and some residents are forced to turn to a robust street market to obtain medicine. For others, health problems simply go untreated. Raudenbush reconceptualizes U.S. health care as a formal-informal hybrid system and explains why many residents who do have access to health services also turn to informal strategies to treat their health problems. While the practices described in the book may at times be beneficial to people’s health, they also have the potential to do serious harm. By understanding this hybrid system, we can evaluate its effects and gain new insight into the sources of social and racial disparities in health outcomes.
A Guide to Health Data Resources
Author: Ira D. SingerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health facilities
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Health of the Disadvantaged Chart Book-II.
Author: United States. Office of Health Resources OpportunityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnic groups
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Ethnicity and Health
Author: Winston A. Van HornePublisher: University of Wisconsin System, Institute on Race & Ethnicity
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Communities in Action
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309452961
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
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