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1 online resource (ix, 211 pages) : illustrations |
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Critical issues in health and medicine |
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Critical issues in health and medicine.
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Introduction: access to health care and welfare reform -- Health status and health changes -- Insurance coverage -- Other access and barriers to health care -- Do families get the health care they need? -- Worry, planning, and coping -- Facing reality |
| Summary |
Drawing upon statistical data and in-depth interviews with over five hundred families in Oregon, Karen Seccombe and Kim Hoffman assess the ways in which welfare reform affects the well-being of adults and children who leave welfare for work. We hear of asthmatic children whose uninsured but working mothers cannot obtain the preventive medicines to keep them well, and stories of pregnant women receiving little or no prenatal care who end up in emergency rooms with life-threatening conditions. Representative of poor communities nationwide, the vivid stories recounted here illuminate the critical |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-203) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Health care reform -- Oregon
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Health insurance -- Oregon
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Health services accessibility -- Oregon
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Health services accessibility.
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Health care reform.
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Public welfare.
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Health Services Accessibility
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Health Care Reform
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Insurance, Health
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Interviews as Topic
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Social Welfare
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Socioeconomic Factors
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welfare services.
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MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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Public welfare
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Health care reform
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Health insurance
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Health services accessibility
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| SUBJECT |
Oregon https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009922 |
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Oregon
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hoffman, Kim A., 1970-
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| ISBN |
9780813541457 |
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081354145X |
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0813540909 |
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9780813540900 |
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9786611151362 |
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6611151362 |
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