Jeffrey D. Fisher, Arie Nadler, Jessica S. Little, and Tamar Saguy
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195300314
- eISBN:
- 9780199868698
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195300314.003.0020
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter examines how the provision of medical assistance across borders during times of medical emergency (i.e., the AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa) can improve relations between donor and ...
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This chapter examines how the provision of medical assistance across borders during times of medical emergency (i.e., the AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa) can improve relations between donor and recipient nations. On the basis of extant knowledge on intergroup helping and health psychology, the chapter suggests a set of conditions that will make such helping interactions a vehicle that promotes better relations and reconciliation.Less
This chapter examines how the provision of medical assistance across borders during times of medical emergency (i.e., the AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa) can improve relations between donor and recipient nations. On the basis of extant knowledge on intergroup helping and health psychology, the chapter suggests a set of conditions that will make such helping interactions a vehicle that promotes better relations and reconciliation.
Andrew W. Dobelstein
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195366891
- eISBN:
- 9780199894208
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195366891.003.0008
- Subject:
- Social Work, Social Policy
Both Medicaid and the State Child Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) are medical assistance programs. Federal funds are granted to states to help defray the costs of providing medical services to ...
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Both Medicaid and the State Child Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) are medical assistance programs. Federal funds are granted to states to help defray the costs of providing medical services to financially needy children and adults. State financial participation is required like it is in all grants in aid programs. While the Federal government insists that states provide specific services under their programs, states are free to provide more than required services. In most cases, states set conditions for eligibility for these programs. Medicaid is provided to all persons who can not afford their own medical care, and SCHIP is reserved for children; in practice, however, there is considerable overlap in the programs. Different Federal funding for these programs has produced a state-by-state patchwork pattern of health services for the poor.Less
Both Medicaid and the State Child Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) are medical assistance programs. Federal funds are granted to states to help defray the costs of providing medical services to financially needy children and adults. State financial participation is required like it is in all grants in aid programs. While the Federal government insists that states provide specific services under their programs, states are free to provide more than required services. In most cases, states set conditions for eligibility for these programs. Medicaid is provided to all persons who can not afford their own medical care, and SCHIP is reserved for children; in practice, however, there is considerable overlap in the programs. Different Federal funding for these programs has produced a state-by-state patchwork pattern of health services for the poor.
GERMANO MWABU
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199242191
- eISBN:
- 9780191697050
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199242191.003.0010
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental, Public and Welfare
Efficiency and equity have been the most controversial concerns in the health care financial system for a very long time, specifically in most low-income countries. Since there are informational and ...
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Efficiency and equity have been the most controversial concerns in the health care financial system for a very long time, specifically in most low-income countries. Since there are informational and organisational conflicts, markets that provide health services might not be possible and may not be able to address the precautionary measures and the necessary short- and long-term support. It can be inferred that health care design should consider several areas such as the assertion that the price system offers theoretical explanations for user fees in the market's health industry, the efficient use of market mechanisms, the importance of medical assistance's price elasticity of demand in the execution of user fees in developing nations, and the correlation between the funding of medical support and the economic indicators.Less
Efficiency and equity have been the most controversial concerns in the health care financial system for a very long time, specifically in most low-income countries. Since there are informational and organisational conflicts, markets that provide health services might not be possible and may not be able to address the precautionary measures and the necessary short- and long-term support. It can be inferred that health care design should consider several areas such as the assertion that the price system offers theoretical explanations for user fees in the market's health industry, the efficient use of market mechanisms, the importance of medical assistance's price elasticity of demand in the execution of user fees in developing nations, and the correlation between the funding of medical support and the economic indicators.
Ricardo Herbert Jones
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520248632
- eISBN:
- 9780520943339
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520248632.003.0011
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
This chapter describes the individual paradigm shift and the options that this shift has created for the women. This “birth model that works” is a replicable model of simplicity: a doctor, a midwife, ...
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This chapter describes the individual paradigm shift and the options that this shift has created for the women. This “birth model that works” is a replicable model of simplicity: a doctor, a midwife, and a doula attending births in a setting of the woman's choice. The chapter discusses the initiation into the humanization of childbirth that occurred in 1986 when an event in the emergency room of the hospital directed the attention toward the critical questioning of medical assistance at birth. The scars of the contemporary technocratic paradigm related to health care can be seen in the aseptic and cold manner that people these days manage birth in hospitals. It hopes to discover a key that could open the energies which were put to sleep by the imposition of rules, protocols, and prohibitions, most of them favoring institutions and the work of doctors, and not helping childbearing women.Less
This chapter describes the individual paradigm shift and the options that this shift has created for the women. This “birth model that works” is a replicable model of simplicity: a doctor, a midwife, and a doula attending births in a setting of the woman's choice. The chapter discusses the initiation into the humanization of childbirth that occurred in 1986 when an event in the emergency room of the hospital directed the attention toward the critical questioning of medical assistance at birth. The scars of the contemporary technocratic paradigm related to health care can be seen in the aseptic and cold manner that people these days manage birth in hospitals. It hopes to discover a key that could open the energies which were put to sleep by the imposition of rules, protocols, and prohibitions, most of them favoring institutions and the work of doctors, and not helping childbearing women.
Pierre Minn
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813034614
- eISBN:
- 9780813039053
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034614.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter examines the practices and discourses accompanying the provision of medical services in the Dominican Republic to Haitians. Research conducted at a border hospital in Dajabón brings into ...
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This chapter examines the practices and discourses accompanying the provision of medical services in the Dominican Republic to Haitians. Research conducted at a border hospital in Dajabón brings into light the interactions between Haitian patients seeking medical assistance and the hospital staff. This chapter also explains that the paucity of medical services administered to Haitian migrants is the direct result of anti-Haitian sentiment prevalent among the local population. Haitians are treated only if they have money to pay the hospital for non-emergency treatment as well as in emergency treatment. Haitians presenting with minor ailments are being directly refused medical treatment. However, labor was one condition which received immediate medical attention among Haitian migrants. Furthermore, this chapter talks about the hospitals lacking resources and capacity for treating sick Haitian migrants.Less
This chapter examines the practices and discourses accompanying the provision of medical services in the Dominican Republic to Haitians. Research conducted at a border hospital in Dajabón brings into light the interactions between Haitian patients seeking medical assistance and the hospital staff. This chapter also explains that the paucity of medical services administered to Haitian migrants is the direct result of anti-Haitian sentiment prevalent among the local population. Haitians are treated only if they have money to pay the hospital for non-emergency treatment as well as in emergency treatment. Haitians presenting with minor ailments are being directly refused medical treatment. However, labor was one condition which received immediate medical attention among Haitian migrants. Furthermore, this chapter talks about the hospitals lacking resources and capacity for treating sick Haitian migrants.
Anne M. Butler
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807835654
- eISBN:
- 9781469601618
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807837542_butler
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
Roman Catholic sisters first traveled to the American West as providers of social services, education, and medical assistance. This book traces the ways in which sisters challenged and reconfigured ...
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Roman Catholic sisters first traveled to the American West as providers of social services, education, and medical assistance. This book traces the ways in which sisters challenged and reconfigured contemporary ideas about women, work, religion, and the West; moreover, it demonstrates how religious life became a vehicle for increasing women's agency and power. Moving to the West introduced significant changes for these women, including public employment and thoroughly unconventional monastic lives. As nuns and sisters adjusted to new circumstances and immersed themselves in rugged environments, the author argues, the West shaped them; and through their labors and charities, the sisters in turn shaped the West. These female religious pioneers built institutions, brokered relationships between Indigenous peoples and encroaching settlers, and undertook varied occupations, often without organized funding or direct support from the church hierarchy. A comprehensive history of Roman Catholic nuns and sisters in the American West, the book reveals Catholic sisters as dynamic and creative architects of civic and religious institutions in western communities.Less
Roman Catholic sisters first traveled to the American West as providers of social services, education, and medical assistance. This book traces the ways in which sisters challenged and reconfigured contemporary ideas about women, work, religion, and the West; moreover, it demonstrates how religious life became a vehicle for increasing women's agency and power. Moving to the West introduced significant changes for these women, including public employment and thoroughly unconventional monastic lives. As nuns and sisters adjusted to new circumstances and immersed themselves in rugged environments, the author argues, the West shaped them; and through their labors and charities, the sisters in turn shaped the West. These female religious pioneers built institutions, brokered relationships between Indigenous peoples and encroaching settlers, and undertook varied occupations, often without organized funding or direct support from the church hierarchy. A comprehensive history of Roman Catholic nuns and sisters in the American West, the book reveals Catholic sisters as dynamic and creative architects of civic and religious institutions in western communities.
Robert A. Moffitt (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226533568
- eISBN:
- 9780226533575
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226533575.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare
Few United States government programs are as controversial as those designed to aid the poor. From tax credits to medical assistance, aid to needy families is surrounded by debate—on what benefits ...
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Few United States government programs are as controversial as those designed to aid the poor. From tax credits to medical assistance, aid to needy families is surrounded by debate—on what benefits should be offered, what forms they should take, and how they should be administered. The past few decades, in fact, have seen this debate lead to broad transformations of aid programs themselves, with Aid to Families with Dependent Children replaced by Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, the Earned Income Tax Credit growing from a minor program to one of the most important for low-income families, and Medicaid greatly expanding its eligibility. This volume provides an overview of how such programs actually work, offering information on the nation's nine largest “means-tested” programs—that is, those in which some test of income forms the basis for participation. For each program, contributors describe origins and goals, summarize policy histories and current rules, and discuss the recipient's characteristics as well as the different types of benefits they receive. Each chapter then provides an overview of scholarly research on each program, bringing together the results of the field's most rigorous statistical examinations. The result is a portrayal of the evolution and current state of means-tested programs, one that charts a number of shifts in emphasis—the decline of cash assistance, for instance, and the increasing emphasis on work.Less
Few United States government programs are as controversial as those designed to aid the poor. From tax credits to medical assistance, aid to needy families is surrounded by debate—on what benefits should be offered, what forms they should take, and how they should be administered. The past few decades, in fact, have seen this debate lead to broad transformations of aid programs themselves, with Aid to Families with Dependent Children replaced by Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, the Earned Income Tax Credit growing from a minor program to one of the most important for low-income families, and Medicaid greatly expanding its eligibility. This volume provides an overview of how such programs actually work, offering information on the nation's nine largest “means-tested” programs—that is, those in which some test of income forms the basis for participation. For each program, contributors describe origins and goals, summarize policy histories and current rules, and discuss the recipient's characteristics as well as the different types of benefits they receive. Each chapter then provides an overview of scholarly research on each program, bringing together the results of the field's most rigorous statistical examinations. The result is a portrayal of the evolution and current state of means-tested programs, one that charts a number of shifts in emphasis—the decline of cash assistance, for instance, and the increasing emphasis on work.
