Health and Poverty

by Feit, Marvin D.; Holosko, Michael J.

• ISBN13: 9780789002280
• ISBN10: 0789002280
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

About the Editors
Contributors
Preface
Health Care in the United States: The Battle of Reform	p. 3
Medicaid: Perspectives from the States	p. 21
Primary Prevention with the Poor: Structural Conflicts Between the Health and Welfare Systems	p. 43
The Health Consequences of Economic Recessions	p. 49
Health and Poverty in Canada	p. 65
Who Bears the Burden of Uncompensated Hospital Care?	p. 91
Medical Indigency and Inner-City Hospital Care: Patient Dumping, Emergency Care, and Public Policy	p. 103
A Programmatic Approach to Improving the Health of Poor Children	p. 131
Interventions and Policies to Serve Homeless People Infected with HIV and AIDS	p. 151
Accessing an Understudied Population in Behavioral HIV/AIDS Research: Low-Income African-American Women	p. 167
Access to Primary Care Among Young African-American Children in Chicago	p. 187
High Risk Channeling to Improving Medicaid Maternal and Infant Care	p. 201
American Indian Uranium Millworkers: A Study of the Perceived Effects of Occupational Exposure	p. 223
Epilogue. Health and Poverty: Below the Bottom Line	p. 239
Index	p. 243
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