Just don't get sick :: access to health care in the aftermath of welfare reform /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Seccombe, Karen, 1956-
Weitere Verfasser: Hoffman, Kim A., 1970-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007.
Schriftenreihe:Critical issues in health and medicine.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (ix, 211 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-203) and index.
ISBN:9780813541457
081354145X
0813540909
9780813540900
9786611151362
6611151362

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