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Just don't get sick : access to health care in the aftermath of welfare reform / Karen Seccombe and Kim A. Hoffman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical issues in health and medicinePublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 211 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813541457
  • 081354145X
  • 0813540909
  • 9780813540900
  • 9786611151362
  • 6611151362
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Just don't get sick.DDC classification:
  • 362.1/042509795 22
LOC classification:
  • RA395.A4 O749 2007eb
NLM classification:
  • W 76
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Summary: 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.
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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.

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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.

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