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1 online resource |
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Critical issues in health and medicine |
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Critical issues in health and medicine.
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Contents |
Health care as a community good -- Communities obscured : liberal theories of health care justice -- Communities constrained : a liberal communitarian view -- Community justice -- Community justice in U.S. health policy |
Summary |
U.S. health care has often been conceived as a social good, and more specifically as a national good. Communities of Health Care Justice presents an alternate model, making a powerful ethical argument for why smaller communities-bound together by culture, religion, gender, race, and place-should be regarded as critical moral actors that play key roles in defining and upholding just health policy. Furthermore, it outlines the systemic, conceptual, and structural changes required to move toward this health care justice |
Analysis |
health care, healthcare, healthcare reform, obamacare, health policy, public policy, public health, health care justice, justice, doctor, nurse, hospital, insurance, single-payer insurance, universal health care |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 17, 2017) |
Subject |
Community health services -- United States
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Public health -- United States.
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Medical care -- United States.
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Medical policy.
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Community Health Services -- ethics
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Socioeconomic Factors
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Health Policy
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Social Justice -- ethics
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Medical policy
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Community health services
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Medical care
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Public health
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SUBJECT |
United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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United States
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780813577685 |
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0813577683 |
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9780813577692 |
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0813577691 |
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9780813577692 |
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