TY - BOOK AU - Seccombe,Karen AU - Hoffman,Kim A. TI - Just don't get sick: access to health care in the aftermath of welfare reform T2 - Critical issues in health and medicine SN - 9780813541457 AV - RA395.A4 O749 2007eb U1 - 362.1/042509795 22 PY - 2007/// CY - New Brunswick, N.J. PB - Rutgers University Press KW - Health care reform KW - Oregon KW - Health insurance KW - Health services accessibility KW - Public welfare KW - Health Services Accessibility KW - Health Care Reform KW - Insurance, Health KW - Interviews as Topic KW - Social Welfare KW - Socioeconomic Factors KW - Services de santé KW - Réforme KW - Accessibilité KW - Assurance-maladie KW - Aide sociale KW - welfare services KW - aat KW - MEDICAL KW - Health Risk Assessment KW - bisacsh KW - Public Health KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-203) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=217805 ER -