Beyond Employer-Mandates: Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates among Health Care Workers [0.03%]
超越强制要求:提高医疗卫生从业人员流感疫苗接种率
Wendy E Parmet
Wendy E Parmet
Richard L Kaplan
Richard L Kaplan
The United States relies on uncompensated family caregivers to provide most of the long-term care required by older adults as they age. But such care comes at a significant financial cost to these caregivers in the form of lower lifetime ea...
Jeremy Kingston Cynamon
Jeremy Kingston Cynamon
Despite a significant amount of literature debating the efficiency of high-risk pools in health insurance, dramatically less has been written about their normative implications. The present article takes the route less traveled by setting a...
Moving Beyond Marriage: Healthcare and the Social Safety Net for Families [0.03%]
超越婚姻:面向家庭的医疗和社稷安全网
Robin Fretwell Wilson
Robin Fretwell Wilson
This article teases out the relationship between family form and the state's social safety nets around healthcare, showing the deep unfairness of measuring social safety nets by whether a couple marries. By continuing to tie healthcare bene...
What the Theatre Taught Me about Alzheimer's (or: The Giraffe in the Hallway Problem) [0.03%]
戏剧让我对阿尔茨海默病有了哪些认识(或者:走廊里的长颈鹿)
Elinor Fuchs
Elinor Fuchs
The author recounts her experience as an Alzheimer's care-giver to her mother, stressing the value of her professional background in theater.
Influenza Mandates and Religious Accommodation: Avoiding Legal Pitfalls [0.03%]
流感强制措施与宗教 accommodate:避免法律陷阱
Dorit Rubinstein Reiss,V B Dubal
Dorit Rubinstein Reiss
Influenza mandates in health care institutions are recommended by professional associations as an effective way to prevent the contraction of influenza by patients from health care workers. Health care institutions with such mandates must o...
Craig Konnoth
Craig Konnoth
Collecting and deploying poverty-related data is an important starting point for leveraging data regarding social determinants of health in precision medicine. However, we must rethink how we collect and deploy such data. Current modes of c...
The Medicalization of Poverty in the Lives of Low-Income Black Mothers and Children [0.03%]
贫困黑人母子生活中的“医疗模式”化问题
Ruby Mendenhall
Ruby Mendenhall
Scholars are beginning to use the concept medicalization of poverty to theorize how the United States spends large amounts of money on illnesses related to poverty but invests much less in preventing these illnesses and the conditions that ...
Elizabeth Weeks
Elizabeth Weeks
This article provides a broad survey of issues facing rural communities and suggests that medicalization of poverty concepts and interventions need to be tailored to those populations. Rural poverty may be both broader and deeper than in ur...
Rachel L Rothberg,Kate Stith
Rachel L Rothberg
This article seeks to document the latest danger in the opioid crisis: fentanyl and related synthetic opioids. Fifty times more potent than pure heroin, cheaper to manufacture in laboratories worldwide, and easily distributed by mail and co...