Health Insurance and Use of Health Care Services Among Ohio Women
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Health insurance
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Health insurance
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Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 12,64 MB
Release : 2002-09-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309169054
Health Insurance is a Family Matter is the third of a series of six reports on the problems of uninsurance in the United Sates and addresses the impact on the family of not having health insurance. The book demonstrates that having one or more uninsured members in a family can have adverse consequences for everyone in the household and that the financial, physical, and emotional well-being of all members of a family may be adversely affected if any family member lacks coverage. It concludes with the finding that uninsured children have worse access to and use fewer health care services than children with insurance, including important preventive services that can have beneficial long-term effects.
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Health insurance
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Health insurance
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Page : 25 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Health insurance
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Author : Sonya Huber
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803232985
Growing up in middle-class middle America, Sonya Huber viewed health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at all. There were braces and cavities, medications and stitches, the family doctor and the local dentist. Finding herself without health insurance after college graduation, she didn't worry. It was a temporary problem. Thirteen years and twenty-three jobs later, her view of the matter was quite different. Huber's irreverent and affecting memoir of navigating the nation's health-care system brings an awful and necessary dose of reality to the political debates and propaganda surrounding health-care reform. "I look like any other upwardly mobile hipster," Huber says. "I carry a messenger bag, a few master's degrees, and a toddler raised on organic milk." What's not evident, however, is that she is a veteran of Medicaid and WIC, the federal government's supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children. In Cover Me, Huber tells a story that is at once all too familiar and rarely told: of being pushed to the edge by worry; of the adamant belief that better care was out there; of taking one mind-numbing job after another in pursuit of health insurance, only to find herself scrounging through the trash heap of our nation's health-care system for tips and tricks that might mean the difference between life and death.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309377722
Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care - it provides an explanation of a patient's health problem and informs subsequent health care decisions. The diagnostic process is a complex, collaborative activity that involves clinical reasoning and information gathering to determine a patient's health problem. According to Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, diagnostic errors-inaccurate or delayed diagnoses-persist throughout all settings of care and continue to harm an unacceptable number of patients. It is likely that most people will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime, sometimes with devastating consequences. Diagnostic errors may cause harm to patients by preventing or delaying appropriate treatment, providing unnecessary or harmful treatment, or resulting in psychological or financial repercussions. The committee concluded that improving the diagnostic process is not only possible, but also represents a moral, professional, and public health imperative. Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, a continuation of the landmark Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human (2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), finds that diagnosis-and, in particular, the occurrence of diagnostic errorsâ€"has been largely unappreciated in efforts to improve the quality and safety of health care. Without a dedicated focus on improving diagnosis, diagnostic errors will likely worsen as the delivery of health care and the diagnostic process continue to increase in complexity. Just as the diagnostic process is a collaborative activity, improving diagnosis will require collaboration and a widespread commitment to change among health care professionals, health care organizations, patients and their families, researchers, and policy makers. The recommendations of Improving Diagnosis in Health Care contribute to the growing momentum for change in this crucial area of health care quality and safety.
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Women
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Author : Barbara Mandell Altman
Publisher : Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Servic
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,50 MB
Release : 2001-10-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309076099
Roughly 40 million Americans have no health insurance, private or public, and the number has grown steadily over the past 25 years. Who are these children, women, and men, and why do they lack coverage for essential health care services? How does the system of insurance coverage in the U.S. operate, and where does it fail? The first of six Institute of Medicine reports that will examine in detail the consequences of having a large uninsured population, Coverage Matters: Insurance and Health Care, explores the myths and realities of who is uninsured, identifies social, economic, and policy factors that contribute to the situation, and describes the likelihood faced by members of various population groups of being uninsured. It serves as a guide to a broad range of issues related to the lack of insurance coverage in America and provides background data of use to policy makers and health services researchers.