Author: Dayna Bowen Matthew
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479888567
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Offers an innovative plan to eliminate inequalities in American health care and save the lives they endanger Over 84,000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities: the unfair, unjust, and avoidable differences between the quality and quantity of health care provided to Americans who are members of racial and ethnic minorities and care provided to whites. Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care system—and in Just Medicine Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise from unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients. Implicit bias is the single most important determinant of health and health care disparities. Because we have missed this fact, the money we spend on training providers to become culturally competent, expanding wellness education programs and community health centers, and even expanding access to health insurance will have only a modest effect on reducing health disparities. We will continue to utterly fail in the effort to eradicate health disparities unless we enact strong, evidence-based legal remedies that accurately address implicit and unintentional forms of discrimination, to replace the weak, tepid, and largely irrelevant legal remedies currently available. Our continued failure to fashion an effective response that purges the effects of implicit bias from American health care, Matthew argues, is unjust and morally untenable. In this book, she unites medical, neuroscience, psychology, and sociology research on implicit bias and health disparities with her own expertise in civil rights and constitutional law. In a time when the health of the entire nation is at risk, it is essential to confront the issues keeping the health care system from providing equal treatment to all.
Just Medicine
Author: Dayna Bowen Matthew
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479888567
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Offers an innovative plan to eliminate inequalities in American health care and save the lives they endanger Over 84,000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities: the unfair, unjust, and avoidable differences between the quality and quantity of health care provided to Americans who are members of racial and ethnic minorities and care provided to whites. Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care system—and in Just Medicine Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise from unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients. Implicit bias is the single most important determinant of health and health care disparities. Because we have missed this fact, the money we spend on training providers to become culturally competent, expanding wellness education programs and community health centers, and even expanding access to health insurance will have only a modest effect on reducing health disparities. We will continue to utterly fail in the effort to eradicate health disparities unless we enact strong, evidence-based legal remedies that accurately address implicit and unintentional forms of discrimination, to replace the weak, tepid, and largely irrelevant legal remedies currently available. Our continued failure to fashion an effective response that purges the effects of implicit bias from American health care, Matthew argues, is unjust and morally untenable. In this book, she unites medical, neuroscience, psychology, and sociology research on implicit bias and health disparities with her own expertise in civil rights and constitutional law. In a time when the health of the entire nation is at risk, it is essential to confront the issues keeping the health care system from providing equal treatment to all.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479888567
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Offers an innovative plan to eliminate inequalities in American health care and save the lives they endanger Over 84,000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities: the unfair, unjust, and avoidable differences between the quality and quantity of health care provided to Americans who are members of racial and ethnic minorities and care provided to whites. Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care system—and in Just Medicine Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise from unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients. Implicit bias is the single most important determinant of health and health care disparities. Because we have missed this fact, the money we spend on training providers to become culturally competent, expanding wellness education programs and community health centers, and even expanding access to health insurance will have only a modest effect on reducing health disparities. We will continue to utterly fail in the effort to eradicate health disparities unless we enact strong, evidence-based legal remedies that accurately address implicit and unintentional forms of discrimination, to replace the weak, tepid, and largely irrelevant legal remedies currently available. Our continued failure to fashion an effective response that purges the effects of implicit bias from American health care, Matthew argues, is unjust and morally untenable. In this book, she unites medical, neuroscience, psychology, and sociology research on implicit bias and health disparities with her own expertise in civil rights and constitutional law. In a time when the health of the entire nation is at risk, it is essential to confront the issues keeping the health care system from providing equal treatment to all.
Just Health Care
Author: Norman Daniels
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521317948
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Norman Daniels examines the medical policies and heath care dilemmas.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521317948
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Norman Daniels examines the medical policies and heath care dilemmas.
Just Care
Author: Belinda Hopkins
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 085700087X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Restorative justice is an innovative approach to addressing conflict and bullying, as well as disruptive, challenging and criminal behaviour. A restorative approach in a care setting shifts the emphasis from managing and responding to anti-social behaviour to the building, nurturing and repairing of relationships, and encourages the young person to accept responsibility and put things right. In this photocopiable resource, Belinda Hopkins identifies the practical benefits of employing the restorative approach. In extreme cases, this can mean dealing with serious incidents effectively without recourse to the police and the criminal justice system. For day-to-day interactions the approach builds on the principles of social pedagogy and 'restorative parenting', and offers a fresh look at encouraging self-regulation through the promotion of pro-social behaviour and greater involvement of the young people themselves in making choices that address everyone's needs. Just Care is essential reading for residential care managers and staff, social workers, youth offending team managers and those with responsibility for foster care training and development.
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 085700087X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Restorative justice is an innovative approach to addressing conflict and bullying, as well as disruptive, challenging and criminal behaviour. A restorative approach in a care setting shifts the emphasis from managing and responding to anti-social behaviour to the building, nurturing and repairing of relationships, and encourages the young person to accept responsibility and put things right. In this photocopiable resource, Belinda Hopkins identifies the practical benefits of employing the restorative approach. In extreme cases, this can mean dealing with serious incidents effectively without recourse to the police and the criminal justice system. For day-to-day interactions the approach builds on the principles of social pedagogy and 'restorative parenting', and offers a fresh look at encouraging self-regulation through the promotion of pro-social behaviour and greater involvement of the young people themselves in making choices that address everyone's needs. Just Care is essential reading for residential care managers and staff, social workers, youth offending team managers and those with responsibility for foster care training and development.
Critical Care: Just the Facts
Author: Jesse B. Hall
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071509569
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
All the essentials of critical care in an instant! This concise, yet comprehensive review is the perfect tool to prepare for in-service or licensing exams, for re-certification, or for use as a clinical refresher. Its highly efficient format conveniently condenses and simplifies the most important content, for maximum yield and comprehension-an especially important benefit for facilitating bedside diagnosis in critical care medicine. FEATURES Compact review of key board-type material for specialization in critical care medicine Trusted insights from a writing team of top-name academics and clinicians from one of the country's preeminent critical care divisions Standardized, bulleted format emphasizes key points of epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical features, differential diagnosis, diagnosis, procedures and treatment, prognosis, plus references Highlights and summarizes key concepts to assure quick absorption of the material and reinforce your understanding of even the most difficult topics Logical chapter organization, arranged by system (cardiology, pulmonary system...) and illness (trauma, burns, poisoning...) to help focus your study and provide quick access to subjects
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071509569
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
All the essentials of critical care in an instant! This concise, yet comprehensive review is the perfect tool to prepare for in-service or licensing exams, for re-certification, or for use as a clinical refresher. Its highly efficient format conveniently condenses and simplifies the most important content, for maximum yield and comprehension-an especially important benefit for facilitating bedside diagnosis in critical care medicine. FEATURES Compact review of key board-type material for specialization in critical care medicine Trusted insights from a writing team of top-name academics and clinicians from one of the country's preeminent critical care divisions Standardized, bulleted format emphasizes key points of epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical features, differential diagnosis, diagnosis, procedures and treatment, prognosis, plus references Highlights and summarizes key concepts to assure quick absorption of the material and reinforce your understanding of even the most difficult topics Logical chapter organization, arranged by system (cardiology, pulmonary system...) and illness (trauma, burns, poisoning...) to help focus your study and provide quick access to subjects
It Just Ain't Fair
Author: Annette Dula
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Mainstream medical ethicists engaged in impartial ethics traditions often overlook the gross disparities in health care that divide our society along color lines. This collection challenges that oversight by bringing ethicists face to face with the plight of a particularly underserved population--African Americans. Health care professionals document disparities in health status and access to care, focusing on issues such as AIDS, homelessness, infant mortality, and distribution of doctors. They discuss distrust and suspicion of the medical community, lack of respect for cultural differences, and self-help approaches. Each chapter is followed by a commentary by a well-known medical ethicist. This anthology enhances traditional medical ethics discourse by presenting the ethical voices and perspectives of African Americans. It is an important guide to developing a culturally aware medical ethics for all ethnic groups ill-served by the nation's health care system.
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Mainstream medical ethicists engaged in impartial ethics traditions often overlook the gross disparities in health care that divide our society along color lines. This collection challenges that oversight by bringing ethicists face to face with the plight of a particularly underserved population--African Americans. Health care professionals document disparities in health status and access to care, focusing on issues such as AIDS, homelessness, infant mortality, and distribution of doctors. They discuss distrust and suspicion of the medical community, lack of respect for cultural differences, and self-help approaches. Each chapter is followed by a commentary by a well-known medical ethicist. This anthology enhances traditional medical ethics discourse by presenting the ethical voices and perspectives of African Americans. It is an important guide to developing a culturally aware medical ethics for all ethnic groups ill-served by the nation's health care system.
Just Caring
Author: Leonard M. Fleck
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195128044
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
What does it mean to be a "just" and "caring" society when we have only limited resources to meet unlimited health care needs? Do we believe that all lives are of equal value? Is human life priceless? Should a "just" and "caring" society refuse to put limits on health care spending? In Just Caring, Leonard Fleck reflects on the central moral and political challenges of health reform today. He cites the millions of Americans who go without health insurance, thousands of whom die prematurely, unable to afford the health care needed to save their lives. Fleck considers these deaths as contrary to our deepest social values, and makes a case for the necessity of health care rationing decisions. The core argument of this book is that no one has a moral right to impose rationing decisions on others if they are unwilling to impose those same rationing decisions on themselves in the same medical circumstances. Fleck argues we can make health care rationing fair, in ways that are mutually respectful, if we engage in honest rational democratic deliberation. Such civic engagement is rare in our society, but the alternative is endless destructive social controversy that is neither just nor caring.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195128044
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
What does it mean to be a "just" and "caring" society when we have only limited resources to meet unlimited health care needs? Do we believe that all lives are of equal value? Is human life priceless? Should a "just" and "caring" society refuse to put limits on health care spending? In Just Caring, Leonard Fleck reflects on the central moral and political challenges of health reform today. He cites the millions of Americans who go without health insurance, thousands of whom die prematurely, unable to afford the health care needed to save their lives. Fleck considers these deaths as contrary to our deepest social values, and makes a case for the necessity of health care rationing decisions. The core argument of this book is that no one has a moral right to impose rationing decisions on others if they are unwilling to impose those same rationing decisions on themselves in the same medical circumstances. Fleck argues we can make health care rationing fair, in ways that are mutually respectful, if we engage in honest rational democratic deliberation. Such civic engagement is rare in our society, but the alternative is endless destructive social controversy that is neither just nor caring.
Little Critter: Just Critters Who Care
Author: Mercer Mayer
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060835605
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Little Critter gives back! When Little Critter® finds out one of his neighbors is in need, he and his friends rally together and volunteer their help. They soon learn community service is rewarding . . . and fun! Who can the Critters help next? Just Critters Who Care is a simple story—perfect for emergent readers who are also learning about giving back to their community.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060835605
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Little Critter gives back! When Little Critter® finds out one of his neighbors is in need, he and his friends rally together and volunteer their help. They soon learn community service is rewarding . . . and fun! Who can the Critters help next? Just Critters Who Care is a simple story—perfect for emergent readers who are also learning about giving back to their community.
Just Love Me
Author: Jeanne L. Lee
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557532985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
A personal, candid description of the author's life experience before, approaching and during the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease, enabling readers to better understand people with dementia.
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557532985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
A personal, candid description of the author's life experience before, approaching and during the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease, enabling readers to better understand people with dementia.
Just Don't Get Sick
Author: Karen Seccombe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
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.
Body Care Just for Men
Author: Jim Long
Publisher: Storey Publishing
ISBN: 9781580171830
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The only book of its kind, BODY CARE JUST FOR MEN includes easy, make-at-home herbal formulas for everything from aftershaves and sore muscle soaks to treatments for buises, sprains, bites, and abrasions. Author Jim Long also presents natural remedies for hair troubles, libido and prostate woes, athlete's foot, body and foot odors, and common skin problems. Healthful mixes for sports drinks, cough syrup, sore throat gargle, and massage oils round out this comprehensive guide.
Publisher: Storey Publishing
ISBN: 9781580171830
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The only book of its kind, BODY CARE JUST FOR MEN includes easy, make-at-home herbal formulas for everything from aftershaves and sore muscle soaks to treatments for buises, sprains, bites, and abrasions. Author Jim Long also presents natural remedies for hair troubles, libido and prostate woes, athlete's foot, body and foot odors, and common skin problems. Healthful mixes for sports drinks, cough syrup, sore throat gargle, and massage oils round out this comprehensive guide.